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Vowel Disavowal (or Aieee, Iao
and Eau)
By Joe Pivetti
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If
knackered, knickered, knockered or knuckled, it's just luck if
your knee cleared the bar. We've gnarls, gneiss, gnomes and gnus, but only one gni: Gniewino, a Pomeranian commune, still small and so far. In the past, twas said tween folks, but twixt times, twa became two, giving us ooh...but where'st the woo? A queue without u is an unusual thing, but we can chew on some qat, chime on a qing, query by qwerty, and, with aplomb, coq backwards our hat. There's hot flowing aa, the Scottish orbital ee, the long-fingered aye-aye, the extinct Hawaiian oo, and that particular tree ovine: the yew ewe. There's aardvark hunting aardwolves, eagles in aeries, hurt people screaming aieees, heartfelt aortae, and a mad cockney aunty just might mutter “’ey you you.” And, finally, here's a nice little six letter word, with all of the vowels, eunoia: The opposite of pontifical oration (with intent to annoy). |