A Difficult Abecedarian
A Poem For The Vocal Abecedian Challenge
From Walt Disney's "Song of the South" released in 1946 was "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", which won the 1947
Academy Award for Best Song and is frequently used as part of Disney's montage themes, and which has become widely used
in popular culture.
The Prompt
Write an abecedarian poem.
This is a “Difficult” Abecedarian Poem because the basic Abecedarian is a poem where every line starts with the next ascending letter “A” to “Z” but this requires that every line end with the next descending letter “Z” to “A” , so rhyme is out of the question, but it is essentially an advert for the Vocal Challenge that you can enter via the link above.
I do find it amusing that Vocal do not have "Abecedarian" on the Poetry Tags.
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Around Vocal There Is A BuzZ
Because There Is A New Challenge TodaY
Come, Write An Abecedarian Poem, Don't Be LaX
Do You Have The Mettle, Do You Know HoW?
Every Vocal Member, Come On My LuV
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Five Hundred Dollars Waiting For YoU
Give It A Go, You Can Be A PoeT
How To Do It? It's In The RuleS
I Have Written FouR
Just Get You Fingers Tapping PDQ
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Keep On Writing To Reach The ToP
Like Everyone Else, You Have A Chance ToO
Make Yours The Best And The Prize List You'll Be ON
Now Let Your Words Flow, Be A Poet Like I AM
Oh It's So Nice To Make This ReaL
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Perhaps You'll Have A ShocK
Quite What That'll Be But It Is Not A HadJ
Really, This is Quite Simple, Sip A ChaI
So I Am Nearly Finished WitH
This Abecedarian ThinG
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Up To Now, It's Not Been To StifF
Verily The Words Have Flown FreE
When The Awards Are Given This Will Have Been Binned
"X" Marks The Spot For The Treasure Seeker's ChiC
You Know I've Enjoyed This, And I Won't BluB
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah That's Me Finished AhA
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Comments (16)
Love how you took this challenge and made it trickier for yourself, and also wrote about writing an Abecedarian! “Now Let Your Words Flow, Be A Poet Like I AM” Is probably my favourite bit.
Nicely done, Mike. Love it.
Truly impressive! Thanks for raising the bar!
This great style , I especially like the encouraging message at the same time 🥰
Masterful double challenge!!!...I've been trying to just write a non-challenge poem in meter and rhyme and find that very difficult.
Amazing! I can't even gsta spark as to where to start!
Wow. What a feat. Bravo
Great job, Mike. That last line made me giggle.
Wow! Great job! A winner for sure!🎉🎉🎉
Excellent!
Bravo!!! Creatively written!!! Love it!!!💕❤️❤️
You're doing amazing work
Well done, My Friend. Well done.
Brillant!
Whoaaaa, you blew my mind! Starting with A to Z and ending with Z to A! Gosh you are so brilliant!
That was a clever trick with the alphabet. Well done.