The empress’ bejeweled cleft
perfect pert
defer her decent dress.
Embed her fevered bed
enters the erected steed
beseech the reckless deeds
bleed the gentle
feeds the flesh
Etches, fettered helpless femme.
See them peddle pelt —
the herdsmen jesters
repel the restless.
Lesser lepers jeweled end.

A second effort for Anna’s prompt. Now using the Oulipo technique of univocalism. I think I have stolen all Bryan’s missing ees.
ha. well you made sure there was an ‘e’ in every word…
me thinks you peddled in innuendo a bit as well…
Nice rhythm to this….and yes, I think you found all of Bryan’s e’s and then some. There seems to be theme going today for your poems. Clever and a lot of fun.
Very clever, Bjorn. Amazing how you worked an e into every word. This almost read like a tongue twister!
Ah.. the flower of weakness and the stamen of strength.. and the weary of foliage of mildew and rank…:)
loved reading this aloud… had a couple laughs with tongue twister… this is every word with e in the dictionary, right? hahaah
A perfect response to Bryan’s missing eeesss ~ Clever word play Bjorn ~
You found all Bryan’s e’s and maybe in all the land! Christian Bok’s, univocalic Eunoia took him years to write and you come up with this in an evening, very impressive!
Did I read this as the compliment to the first, and the spear wielder has to put it somewhere ?
Ha. yes to hide some innuendos among the lines.. like those secret pages you had to cut open a long time ago hmm—
so THAT’S where all my e’s went. You have restored balance to the universe 🙂
Very clever!
Interesting effect…I can pronounce the poem with only lips…
this sounds so cool aloud ~
Fabulous .. enjoyed !!!
Awesome wordsmithing. “Etches, fettered helpless femme” – very clever (picture) take on the classic damsel in distress theme, nicely tucked amongst the e’s.