(flawed) pirate

pirate

eat a ripe pea
a tripe pie
rip pear apart
at a pier
a rapt rite
rat trap patter
air art
tip irate pater
apt prat trip
retire

By Kim M. Russell, 9th November 2023

Image by Patrick Pahlke on Unsplash

Björn is our host for Meeting the Bar at the dVerse Poets Pub and he invites us to play with limitations in poetry.

Björn has introduced us to a poetic form (or set of rules) created by Canadian Poet Christian Bök, whose poem ‘Vowels’ was written as ‘an anagrammatic text, permuting the fixed array of letters found in the title, which means that only words that are a permutation of the letters in the title can be used in the poem, e.g. Wolves, loveless and vessels.

Our challenge is to select a title of one word that contains no more than three vowels and three consonants; find as many words as possible that use the letters in the title only; and combine them into a new poem. We should not use punctuation in the poem.

Tricky or what?

38 thoughts on “(flawed) pirate”

  4. I think it makes sense. I didn’t think of the word pirate. I had such a hard time choosing a word with only three consonants.

    “eat a ripe pea
    a tripe pie”

    Love those lines and then the abrupt ending

    “retire”

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  10. Your pirate made me laugh – a life directed towards the simple pleasures of gluttony, the hint of a privileged upbringing (who else calls their father “Pater”) and a short sharp ending – the piratic life encapsulated Kim…

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