‘O’ is for October
Opalescent Oarfish
An ‘o’ tautogram
octopi occupy ocular orifices
ospreys orbit oceanic organisms
orcinus orca oscillate ornamental oysters
opalescent oarfish orchestrates oafish opinions
overly-old oracles obfuscate obedience
obsessively offering others
outrageously overrated oration!
© Carolyn Hastings 2022
Talk about perfect timing! Denise Darby tagged me into her tautogram and activated an avalanche of alliteration!
I’d never heard of a tautogram — neither had Denise until she read Christine Graves’ tautogram poetry prompt.
A tautogram (Greek: tauto gramma, “same letter”) is a text in which all words start with the same letter. Historically, tautograms were mostly poetical forms. The difference between a tautogram and alliteration is that tautograms are a written, visual phenomenon, whereas alliterations are a phonetic one. Wikipedia
Christine invited writers to create a tautogram about a black cat. Er, mine isn’t about a black cat, but it is about the letter ‘o’ which makes it an overwhelmingly obvious offering for Paper Poetry’s ‘O’ is for October poetry prompt!
