Liposuction? No! It's a lipogram!

[alexpgp]

It’s a tough job training old dogs
to do any tricks at all, and
nothing can push you to do it,
not for spring's first blush
displaying happy philanthropy,
nor bright fall colors blazing
on distant mountaintops,
nor a glorious full moon
sailing across a sky
without a cloud in sight.
It's a drag, upon my word,
without any doubt at all.

But I'll go on with my story,
which may grow haltingly, in spurts,
and lack continuity and clarity, but finally,
though you may sniff and snort,
or laugh or sing, or chirp or buzz,
shall triumphantly swoop, with royal
hullabaloo and flimsy vocabulary
in a most loving, solicitous way,
into a ballad, of sorts... or not.

Comments

[daphnis.livejournal.com]

Words to play with and among are some of my favorite critters, and I really like what you craft when the crafting mood is upon you!

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The mood did hit!

Cheers...

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

OK, so now I know what a lipogram is. And I'm still asking, WHY?? (This is my lipogram for you. I know, not too xciting!

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Not all lipograms avoid using that symbol which is fifth in standard lists of Latin's script glyphs! But, alas... as to your inquiry:

My work was a variation on a topic by <span lipogram=off>spidielives<span lipogram=on>, but not robust in its vitals. Still, I did not with to part with it in toto.

Cordially...
(for I may not lift a glass as I am habitually wont to do in this modality!)...

P.S. Shall you and I finish this lipogrammatic chain of annotations? This sport grows dull!