tit for tat for that

tit for tat for that

petulant poetry parlays

rhymes reasoning rationale

that treads talentless turnpikes

with accelerator acclimating acute

speeding sounds surfacing

when the toll beckons belittled brains

to pay with perilously penned proclivity

steering us all into sterile stasis

stumbling sideways toward the turn

of our tumultuously tenuous tenets

spewed in garrulous gargantuan 

gambits of sinfully somnambulist   

spawned symmetry

with awkwardly awry amends

amended to amble away

quietly in quarrelsome 

quid-pro-quo.

erin-cilberto

1/18/2021

Reviews

[andrew mitchell]

Clever, clever,clever Jacob.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Sir andrew!

[barleygirl]

Your alliteration feels a bit like a steamroller, reminding me of the steamroller of alliteration himself, Bad Bunny! The amazing thing is how your poem picks up speed as it goes along, dragging our tongues thru the twisters (now I understand readers who ding me for my tongue twisters). I won't miss the tit-for-tat petulance of grievance politics one bit. Happy New Presidency! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words...oh Bad Bunny is something isn't he?
You two are really the most clever alliterators....
as well as the Ditzy Kat...

[Chris Shaw]

A masterclass in alliteration. Quid per quo, you know what I feel about that. Great write Jacob.

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Chris...appreciate your kind comments.
j.

[Dhara_Ditzy Kat]

Tit or tat! Some people never get tired of chewing the same tit over and over till it gets chewed over and off haha. Sorry for the distasteful analogy my friend but I just thought naturally of it while reading this witty poem with its super word choice. Quid pro quo seems so totally mechanical sometimes.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

ah yes, and you gave me a smile, Dhara...
thank you,
j.

[DIVYA]

The quid-pro-quo type of poetry intimidates me, probably because English is a second language for me and sometimes I feel I can't do proper justice to someone's great poetic work. I learned some delightful new words here! A very enjoyable write, dear Jacob!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

reading your poetry, DIVYA, it is impossible to tell that English is your second language...you have such a wonderful grasp of it.
j.

[DIVYA]

Thank you my friend :)

[Patricia]

That left me wanting you to start from a all the way through z second and third stanzas were brilliant, sterile stasis?! Loved that. I dislike the quid pro quo as well but that’s in all things I have come to learn

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Pat...appreciate your words,
j.

[Stella Armour]

Some wonderful alliteration my friend, petulance is not in my poetic vocabulary :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Stella...
j.