A Picnic Fluttered By

Fun wordplay about a graveyard picnic gone awry

He smiled at her
And she was as she were, and the
Prancing ditty
Dancing pretty
Swirly pleat
Pearly sweet
Flattered...

Bashful hugs
Hashful, bugs
Peeping critter
Creeping pitter-
pattered

Yellow Jay
Jello, yay!
Baby in the casket
KB in the basket
scattered! (snaps!)

A buttered fly
Fluttered by
Most tattered 
Toast mattered
SPLATTERED!

Frisky bee
Brisky free
Sappy honey
Happy, sunny
SHATTERED!

Etchy sky
Sketchy eye
Damn the ants
And the dance
(to hell)

 

Author's Note

I can only take half credit for this one. It was a collaborative undertaking with my friend Missy. Our goal was to write a poem using the "butterfly fluttered by" literary phenomenon. I think we did pretty well. If you've never done this, I recommend trying to write a few lines. It's great fun! By the way, if you know of a word for this device, please please tell me! I call it a miniature chiasmus, but I think there should be a specific name for it. If there isn't one, maybe I'll have to coin one. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this weird little piece of my life. ;)

Reviews

[chris' girlfriend]

wow this poem is so cool ^_^

[L.G. Knight]

really fun to read! you both did a great job! I loved the buttered fly fluttered by It too me a few minutes to even notice the switching of letter because i was caught up in the flunny plafulness of the poem at first then when I noticed that it drew me in even more... It was really great fun! Maybe you can enter it in my next silly rhymes contest...

~Frances~