...often inadvertently, sometimes unadvisedly, occasionally inappropriately. It happens so often that faux pas is almost a poetic form.

I'm sure you can come up with examples yourselves.

Well now you mention it Moxy - faux pas sounds a bit like a new dance step to me... one where you have to step on your partner's toes.
Perhaps that is what us poets do when we say things indadvertently, unadvisedly, inappropriately.
Then there are those who know exactly what they are saying but do so anyway, just to liven things up a bit. I'll have to put my thinking cap on and come up with a word for that...'adverse verse', 'rhyming cutlets' - helpe me out someone...

It's good to see the ghost of yourself Moxy. xx

e.e. cummings on capital punishment...
Ezra Pound on being a metric martyr;
T.S.Eliot on the advantages abandoning solar or lunar clocks and adopting a system of coffee spoons;
Percy Bysshe Shelley on having a middle name that sounds a little like you're dissing yourself/have bird 'flu every time you say it;
Carol Ann Duffy on sharing a name with a Welsh singer-songwriter who wrote Rockferry

Assonance - the use of vowel language

On a mat appear - the use of cringing rhyme (as made popular by one Dr Zeuss)

Pastiche - a crumby meatfree rendition of a Cornish delicacy

Illiteration - the writing of rubbish then labelled as poetry

Sounds Write - another word for the american spell checker many of us use...


I'm rather enjoying this. I hope I won't be accused of dumbing anything down though - or being flat packed. Perhaps we should transport ourselves to Wonderland - I think you get a free pass in there...

In consonance - the multiple blogging of germanic poetry

Pistache - a nutty, dyslexic parody

Sorry Ray - I'd have to disagree. Just looked that one up in my own special dictionary. Pistache is quote 'botched up poem written by a drunk'...

say no more...

Dissonance - the practise of maligning your fellow poets - poet laureates seem to be very skilled at this one.

Someone beat me over the head with a parenthetic bracket - this is becoming compulsive...

Cognitive Dissonance - when you think that you're being maligned by your fellow poets.

Iambic pentameter when the poet feels they are also the bic biro they write with (first person metaphorical personification) and that it may be connected with witchcraft.

Haiku a restraining order on the syllables uttered by a fish.

Sonnet, a hedgehog in a poet's garden that manages to jump over the shed with a sound not dissimilar to a speeded-up icecream van.

Clerihew, John Clare's favourite colour created by whittling a vicar.

No Ray - that would be Paranoid Cognitive Dissonance - a very nasty condition as opposed to Cognitive Dissonance which is the more common of the two

Moxy - our comments crossed. I particularly like your I am bic pentameter. It makes a nice change from Sparticus, which is becoming a bit hackneyed. Talking of which...

Hack-neyed - the expression given to the senseless butchering of one's poem by another helpful poet.