Now, this was fun.
The prompt:
Compose a poem whose words — or at least the principal ones — all begin with the same letter. The words must be sourced from your newspaper.
The poem:
Mafia Missions
1] Monday morning :
murder multiple
male merchants.
2] model missed
moments,mercurial
moments.
3] Make major mob
movements more more…
memorable. Measure
marked moments.
4] Make members
more mortified?
more meditative?
more mournful?
5] Major measures:
marathon mastery,
meatless mornings,
meaningful marriages.
6] Mob Magazine = mystique.
7] Mob Museum.
Source area:
Datebook. San Francisco Chronicle. 5 April 2014
barbcrary
05/04/2014 at 1:16 pm
“Dose” guys are at it again! You seem to be developing a Godfather theme for the month, Margo. Whaddya think?
margo roby
05/04/2014 at 1:58 pm
Grinning. I thought of that, once I realised I was mobbing again, Barb. It’s a thought. I may have to review/redo the first poems. Hmmm.
whimsygizmo
05/04/2014 at 1:37 pm
Oh, MAN.
Marvelous. Merely MARVELOUS. I adore this one. That first stanza made me laugh out loud.🙂
Mine is only for lispless (not to be confused with listless, or lipless) readers:
http://whimsygizmo.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/seaway-shells-sunset/
margo roby
05/04/2014 at 1:54 pm
I’m laughing already, so yours better not be serious, de😉
Geo Sans
05/04/2014 at 2:03 pm
Mmm
margo roby
05/04/2014 at 2:12 pm
mmhmm
Quickly
05/04/2014 at 3:20 pm
Smart girl, to opt for a letter you can actually say three times in a sentence without watering the screen. I tried one of those total immersion alliterations with an “S”. Bad move not recognized until I tried to read it aloud.
margo roby
05/04/2014 at 5:12 pm
That, of course, was part of my plan. Really.
Carol Carlisle
05/04/2014 at 3:31 pm
Marvelous mission Margo!
margo roby
05/04/2014 at 5:13 pm
Thank you, Carol. I would alliterate that but my brain has stopped.
Carol Carlisle
05/04/2014 at 8:13 pm
I so know what you mean by the frozen brain works😉
nwian
05/04/2014 at 6:11 pm
That was fun, thanks🙂 http://confessionsinstories.blogspot.com/2014/04/speak.html
margo roby
05/04/2014 at 6:16 pm
Keep playing!
Carol Carlisle
05/04/2014 at 6:57 pm
My tongues hanging out and I’m sweating but here is my offering
http://piecesofstarlight.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/9427/
margo roby
05/04/2014 at 7:34 pm
Proud of you. On my way!
Elizabeth Evans
05/04/2014 at 8:21 pm
This is great, Margo! I love how you tied all the pieces together as a list.
margo roby
06/04/2014 at 1:12 am
I tend to forget list poems as a form but I do enjoy them.
Nancy Chen Long
05/04/2014 at 8:30 pm
Fun to read, Margo!! It reads like a poetic laundry list of things the Mafia needs to do to improve it’s ‘mission’ … “meatless mornings, meaningful marriages.’ Ha!
margo roby
06/04/2014 at 1:13 am
I have an image, Nancy, of a group of them sitting around worried about their public image and making out a list of things to do!
seingraham
05/04/2014 at 10:30 pm
mmmhmmm….where is Tony Soprano when you need him? Oops…maybe too soon?
margo roby
06/04/2014 at 1:14 am
Humour is never too soon, Sharon.
Hannah Gosselin
05/04/2014 at 11:03 pm
My, my, Margo mystified, mesmerized am I!! This is a fun one…reminds me of the tongue twister Seuess book that I read with the boys…love it!
margo roby
06/04/2014 at 1:14 am
:-D:-D:-D
sonjajohanson10
17/04/2014 at 12:17 pm
I like number four. Nice rhythm.
margo roby
17/04/2014 at 12:38 pm
I was quite fond of my Mafia by the time I got through with them.