Crackpot Cranial Chaos

A little piece of craziness that will, hopefully, make you smile.

Silky, slippery serpents slither slickly through stinking slime,

Flickering forked tongues tasting tangy fodder, flavours fading faintly on acrid ancient air,

As rapidly retreating rodents race recklessly round rocky runnels,

Wherein wistful, wicked werewolves whistle windy waltzes,

While working wonders with wild women,

And desperate, drunken dogs dig diabolically deep ditches,

To trap terrified terrapins in wet, white, woven withies,

Then crack canines crunching calcified carapaces for freedom from famine's fangs.

Eloquently elegiac elephants exercise exhaustingly in tiny turquoise tank tops over tangerine tutus,

While twining their trunks in time to toe-tapping tunes,

As voracious vegetarian voles vanquish vapid vixens in violent confrontations combining classic combat combustibles

With fearsome ferocious fire-power to absolutely annihilate those anarchistic, atavistic animals,

Until jaded, joking jackanapes jig through juicy, jiggling jellies to prevent posturing, puling, parasitic postulants

Harming hungry, harried housewives with hopeless, hapless husbands who appear asininely incapable of injurious intervention, When suddenly, silently, sensory storms wrack the writer's ruined, crazed, crumbling cortex,

Crushing creative complexity forever, forlorn, frantically, finally finished.

© 2018 The Iron Horseman

Author's Note

I plead temporary insanity on this one!
Well, alright, maybe it's not that temporary.

Just some fun with alliteration and assonance.

Reviews

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

This is a literary feat of skill,strength and wit my friend. “Alliteration and assonance” finally gone mad- in a very good way! The title and first line of this poem totally freaked me out-aaah “slippery serpents slither slickly”- absolutely abhorrently amoral. Technical perfection combined with Carrolinian humor and sarcasm- what could ever be better?. Absolutely love and admire this intricate poetic work. Superb write Iron Horseman- You Rock!
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[The Iron Horseman]

Wow, Annette! Thank you so much for these kind words. You rock yourself - 'absolutely abhorrently amoral' indeed! Love it!

[Nipplegrinder]

Lovely little jaunt here. Very skillfully done.

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you, NG.

[Poetic License]

Just what the doctor ordered, my dear friend! And thank you for the timely remedy! :-)

[The Iron Horseman]

Hey PL! It is great to hear from you again. Iwas wondering what had happened to you, my lovely friend. Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed my mental electrical storm! :)

[Einstein Noodle]

whew! me brain is wearily wagging with voluminous verbosity ... oh no...it seems to be catchy!! ;) what fun .. got me dictionary out for this one...so many great words you share with us! and a fine reminder of the lighter side of things ... no matter what the things may be .. and the value of assonance and alliteration ... great job sir!
E.

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you, Crispy Noodle, my friend. It is good to hear from you again! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[Onlyme]

That was a tongue twister for a little mind. But fun and very enjoyable. Nice flow to the word. Very are very talented. So glad you joined Writerscafe. I for one shall be returning for the next instalment.

[The Iron Horseman]

Lol! Thank you for the compliments, my friend. Yes, I started off playing with alliteration then went a bit crazy! I thought it was fun; I'm glad you did, too.

[Onlyme]

No thank YOU!

[Paul Bell]

That did not help my hangover one bit.
Is the poem actually a don't drink too much, poem. lol

[The Iron Horseman]

Lol! No, it's just designed to make you wonder about your sanity, and whether that last bottle might have been moonshine.

[Paul Bell]

First and last bottle.

[The Iron Horseman]

Way to go! :)

[Coyote Poetry]

Wonderful use of words. I had to read again. I liked these words. Thank you my friend for sharing the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you, my friend.

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome.

[C.E.M.]

Alliteration is my jam. This was an alphabet soup of a poem, and I slurped it up. Good work!

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you for a very original review! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[barleygirl]

The best aspect of how you’ve balanced your rambling wordplay – you give respite from a rash of bigger more complex words by using some more simple words in a row, here & there. The other thing I adore, of course, is that your lines make sense, telling a story, not just a senseless word jam. Also, a perfect number of words included in an alliterative line, then switching it up, so as not to get too monotonous on one word sound for too long. There’s more than meets the eye to these radical riffs! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[The Iron Horseman]

Thanks, Margie. I love the 'radical riffs'! :)

[sette]

i like the mixture of alliteration and oxymoron in this writing piece

[The Iron Horseman]

Thank you. Not too many people notice the oxymorons!

[sette]

you are welcome