Atlanta Paradelle from Metro Blog
People still write poetry about Atlanta. In fact they’re doing it over at MetroBlog Atlanta. Big props to Will Hindmarch who wrote what is likely the first paradelle about Atlanta.
Paradelle for Atlanta
I imagine you soaking wet in a sundress with sweat.
I imagine you soaking wet in a sundress with sweat.
You hold a pitcher of sweet tea and drip with Spanish moss.
You hold a pitcher of sweet tea and drip with Spanish moss.
I imagine you drip sweet sweat in a pitcher with dry tea.
And hold you of soaking wet moss with a Spanish sundress.
Why don’t we drink lemonade with Confederate ghosts?
Why don’t we drink lemonade with Confederate ghosts?
Shouldn’t you be shaking cocktails and hopping bars?
Shouldn’t you be shaking cocktails and hopping bars?
Why shouldn’t we be Confederate cocktails with lemonade bars?
Don’t you drink hopping and shaking ghosts?
You’re feathery pines instead of picket-fence plantations.
You’re feathery pines instead of picket-fence plantations.
You’re more about the Spanish conqueror and Coca-Cola.
You’re more about the Spanish conqueror and Coca-Cola.
The feathery fence conqueror pines more instead of you’re Spanish.
You’re Coca-Cola about picket and plantations.
Don’t you imagine you’re shaking Coca-Cola with lemonade moss?
We wet conquerors drink about plantations instead of soaking in Confederate tea.
Why you’re a sundress and the sweat of cocktails.
You and I dry a feathery pitcher with a picket fence.
Sweet pines drip with ghosts.
Be hopping with Spanish and more Spanish bars.
A Paradelle, by the way is a word puzzle inside a poem. 4 stanzas 24 lines. In the first 3, the first & third line repeats. In the last two lines of the first 3 stanzes, all the words must be used to resolve the stanza. Then in the last stanza you must use each word to resolve the whole poem. It’s one of the most recent poetic forms.
July 1st, 2005 at 10:58 am
Spanish moss… isn’t that more Savannah than Atlanta?