Poetic Ailments
irritable vowel syndrome
verbose intolerance
arrhythmia
pain in the assonance
acute enjambment
inflammation of the lower case
latinnittus
typographical dysfunction
fear of sonnets
halibunions
grammaroids
the irrational fear
that someone in the room
is going to recite a Robert Service poem.
The prompt from Bjorn over at dverse is “lists”, I thought I would add this one.
Funny! I’ve been afflicted with most/all of them at one time or another and sometimes all at once. Never heard of Robert Service before, and from your poem’s aversion, probably just as well.
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Clever!
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Grammeroids!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Did you make all those up? They are great. I have to agree with iidorun that grammeroids is one of the best!
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I knew there must be a reason I’m not a poet.😬
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“fear of sonnets” must be, might be sonnephobia. I really chuckled all the way through this list. Robert Service was a famous poet; wrote poems about Alaskan Gold Rush.
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Nice line for the list: “pain in the assonance”
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Hilarious word play. You kept me smiling from “irritable vowel syndrome” to “grammaroids” I love this.
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I love it! You get the prize for the poets best list!
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I spent 30 plus years as a medical transcriptionist, so some of your poem was familiar. Conversely, when I wrote to a friend of my bowling forays it always came out boweling!
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I lol’ed
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So funny… all our poetic stumble-stones set into verse… but I do think it should be spelled en-
jambment
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