New Thing: Challenge # 32

Challenge 32 - write a poem using only one vowel

I spent most of the week reading the dictionary, which was fun, and writing a list of words that only had an E in them. Lists are fun too :-)

And then I wrote this, vaguely depressing, poem.

She'll be better when he decrypts her key. When he, the clever nerd, wrests her deeply embedded secrets. He'll remedy the pretty, reserved, screwy Shelly. He'll shelter her, never let her self-esteem lessen. He'll bless her by the gentlest pecks. She'll be the belle, he'll be her perfect redeemer. The trysts, the reckless depths they'll enter, the energy they'll mete. Let the Helens & Henrys envy! He's her keeper.

Then he'll neglect her. She'll relentlessly pester. He'll peel her nerves. She's restlessly fester. The resplentent sweetness: shelved. When he's left, she'll cry. Her eyes red, her bed bereft, she'll bleed. She'll teeter between here & there, between empty & hell.

She regrets, she begs; yet he sneers, he rejects her. She's left defenceless. She festers, she bleeds, she reels. She's messy, deserted, rejected. She teeters between here & there, between empty & hell.

Except, she fell.

There is a minor cheat, in that I used five ampersands, but there are no instances of A, I, O or U, so I'm happy. It's not bad either. I was half expecting the result to be something comedic, something Suess-like. I quite like this.

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