31. Tongue Twister -- Purple Prose

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The 99 Poem Challenge
Fox-Trot-9

31. Tongue Twister — Purple Prose

Perhaps purple prose practice pisses prissy people
Off over ornate, opaque, obfuscated offenses, occupying
More mindless minutes, making more mismanaged members mad.
Remember reading really rambunctious, really rigid remarks, relying
Only on overtly open, overextended, obnoxious oxymorons
Without willingly wasting what we would want wasted with one's wishes?
Looks like long lists of lexical language leaves learners long-winded.

(To be continued...)

A/N: A tongue twister poem is made up of lines that are hard to say when read aloud by using similar consonant sounds in succession; this is called alliteration. This form does not require end or internal rhyme.

Meter: Syllabic (Irregular)
Rhyme: Alliteration

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