Fantasy A to Z

Abstruse badgers carefully delouse
Eel-worms from grateful hippopotamuses.

Iridescent jabberer karaoke lingers monthly
Nauseating odious patrons.

Quaint retreating slimy tapeworms
Undulate various ways.

Xiphias yabbered, “Zyzzyvas!”

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Today’s NaPoWriMo poem was inspired by an archived challenge from imaginary garden with real toads. I was challenged  to create a poem only using words in order from A to Z. Within the poem I used some obscure words to cover various letters.

Image: “Neapolitan Song” by Joseph Stella

Here are the words and their definitions:

Abstruse: difficult to understand; obscure

Jabberer: to talk or utter rapidly, indistinctly, incoherently, or nonsensically

Undulate: to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion

Xiphias: genus of swordfish

Yabbered: (Austrailian) to chatter, jabber

Zyzzyvas: genus of tropical American weevil