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Zinging the zen-zone I was in
A zany request zig-zagged my way.
Princess Zinnia from the Zuider-Zee
Required a zippy line or two
To paint the zeitgeist of our times.

With the strength of a Zamboni-
With the power of a Zeus-
And an uncommon zeal I set out
To zap the doubt that slowed me.

With the flair of a Florenz Ziegfeld
And his zoftig choir of beauties,
I morphed into a zealot
Gamboling in the zephyrs
That wafted in from Zurich and Zaire,
Not to mention Zanzibar.

I felt like a Zacharias
When my zealous work went bust.
The writing turned into a zonk-
The accolades were zilch.
I felt like I’d been zippered up
Like a zebra in a zoo.

I lost my zest for going on
And slopped around in old Zoris,
Listening to zydeco’s beat
And feeling like a zit.

But then the Zodiac-
My zinging-singing sign
Came to my rescue
And I was marching off to Zion.

I was one wowie-zowie-zucchini
As I zipped across the pages
And zoomed from one idea
To an even zippier one.

So here, Sunprincess, is your verse
I’ve used up every letter zee
And gone from very bad to worse
But of this challenge, I am free.
                         ljm
After I posted "The H Words", Sun Princesschallenged me to do one using 'Z' words.  Took me a while to do it, but I only had to resort to the dictionary once.  And here it is.  Please don't give me any more letter choices to work with.  My brain is fried.
Robin Carretti Apr 2018
Ferraris fit for racing
Being iced "Gelato"
tasting Italia
No sleep for Mama Mia
Customs of loving
The Zzz Z's

Sunrisers * God bless U
Sneeze
My Wine and cheese
Don't snooze
Pancakes not to share
Syrupy so Zippy
Show someone

"U Care'
The zest of trippy

The timeshare
Calendar date
The lust stare
reminder
"Keep the Date"
Don't dream blind her
To find the biggest
spender
We R the world
compromise
Love her like nobody else
Could take her place

Be the kinder true lover
*       *       *       *       *       *
Catch up Zzz z"s
Wake up Buzz
Cop some Zzz z"z
Get off the computer
D's 4 dummies
The zest of love
is fate
Wake up from those
dreams no time 2-B
Late

All V's Validate
Victory
Valiant
Valentino
cappuccino
(Valentine days)
I Luv paydays
Vows

I Crown U
Queen B bee BBB
Holidays B bills
Oh! GGG's
Gowns zigzags
designs

Give me a sign
On her head
"Queen of the Reign"

Zest smells of lemon
The best sleep she
ever had
Never 2-B sad

Zzz z"s zoonotic
Zillion stars in
L for Love
Hypnotic H's Henry
the 8th moon hum
He went mad Mmm
*** a humdrum
Robin Bird singing slam
Wait till he proposes on the
Tenth P & Q

Bbbbb's the blues
Those y's needed more
years_
Zig Zag catch
40 winks
Frequent flyers
of jet lag drinks

Only 50_ dollars it stinks
More Zzz z"s zap a zillions
Just crash fingers do
the talking
I pad in millions
Ssss Shh stalking
Bunk bed Beatles
bopping heads
Abby Lane walking

Zonk out what a time
Apartment 4- A he
balled me out
I feel stretched to my
limit V- Visa
I'm out to sleep
Rest recovery went way
too deep with Lisa

R-4 Joy my middle name
This is not about
all letters to keep
Or the Alphabet

Not takeoff movie set
This poem
New discovery,
To be happy

Don't oversleep
_

Smiling like no other
sunset rose stem
Create your time
Lips met the sunset
Don't hide your
words with disguises

The call of duty
My Mom the lovely
"Judy"
She smiles never sleeps
My heart is tied with hers
To keep

What is the Zzz z's
Zealous
Delicious
Jealous
Love heart
Don't cut out my shape
Down to zero escape

Don't hibernate with
Zombies more hobbies
R for recuperation
We need better cooperation
Be the leader don't zonk out
The Army tank catch those
Zzz z's
Before your time is out
I was in an Alphabet mood some letters really know how to perk things up. Why don't you get your initial cup out its time for coffee
When she
drove leverage
zonk-out an
exchange rate
at window
ready open
market on
a cloudy
day trade
that sun
ripened with
humid heat
wave finally
went to
the brink
in oil
of gladness.
jeffrey conyers Apr 2016
He has never appeared in a Batman's movie.
Although it's very known, if it wasn't for the Batman show as corny as it was.
Many wouldn't love this character so.

With the zonk, wham, and bangs Adam West was the man.
Sure we aware of Michael Keaton and Christian Bale.

But none had the swag of West or Burt Ward appeal.
Or the talented actors that appeared.

Saying like to the Bat's cave.
Holy hana, Batman!
Or, just hearing ol' chap.

Cause truthfully , Boy wonder was hard to adapt too.
Especially come from another dude.
Salma Dhiya Sep 2014
We were together,
laughing until our stomach hurt.
You were throwing silly jokes
and I didn't even mind.

One year later,
we met again.
All black.
Was it a sign?
No, I don't believe in coincidence.
It must be a sign.
Black as in; deep, deeply sad.
Zonk, blank, gone.
Maybe it was really over.

Or maybe it's just me
being utterly stupid.
Believing it all happened,
when it never was.
"adorbs", "adulting", "aesthetic", "agile", "amazeballs", "analog-horror", "angery", "angy", "ARG", "awoo",
            "awooga", "baby", "babey", "bae", "baka", "bamboozle", "bandwidth", "based", "bazinga", "beanz",
            "beep", "bepis", "birb", "blep", "blessed", "blockchain", "blorbo", "blog", "blursed", "boing",
            "bonk", "boof", "boomer", "boop", "borger", "bork", "brouhaha", "bruh", "bussin", "cap",
            "cate", "catfish", "catto", "chad", "cheese-boi", "chillwave", "chimken", "choccy", "chonky", "clickbait",
            "clowncore", "conke", "contraption", "coomer", "copium", "cosplay", "cottagecore", "cowabunga", "cray-cray", "creepypasta",
            "cringe", "cursed", "danger-noodle", "dark-academia", "derp", "dingus", "discombobulate", "disrupt", "doge", "doggo",
            "doodad", "doohickey", "doomer", "doot", "dreamcore", "drip", "e-boy", "e-girl", "eeby-deeby", "emoji",
            "evangelist", "fab", "fam", "fanfic", "feels", "fire", "flabbergasted", "fleek", "floof", "fren",
            "game-changer", "ghosting", "gif", "gizmo", "glup-shitto", "gm", "goated", "goblincore", "guru", "hangry",
            "happ", "hashtag", "headcanon", "helth", "henlo", "hmm", "hodgepodge", "hodl", "hooman", "horse-plinko",
            "hullabaloo", "hungee", "influencer", "iterate", "kapow", "karen", "kawaii", "kek", "kerfuffle", "kerplunk",
            "kidcore", "kthxbye", "lambo", "lawl", "leverage", "light-academia", "liminal", "lit", "****", "lofi",
            "lol", "long-boi", "lorge", "lost-media", "mansplain", "meh", "meme", "mid", "mindshare", "mlem",
            "monkas", "mood", "moon", "******-mittens", "nani", "ngmi", "ninja", "no-cap", "noob", "nope",
            "nope-rope", "normie", "nostalgiacore", "nuggies", "nya", "obvs", "offline", "omegalul", "***", "online",
            "oof", "otaku", "OTP", "owo", "paradigm", "pepe", "pepega", "perf", "periodt", "ping",
            "pivot", "plinko", "podcast", "poggers", "pupper", "pupperino", "pwned", "rawr", "ree", "retrowave",
            "rickroll", "ridic", "rockstar", "rofl", "roflcopter", "round-boi", "ruckus", "sadd", "salty", "sammich",
            "scale", "SCP", "scrimblo", "sea-pancake", "selfie", "senpai", "ser", "shade", "shenanigans", "ship",
            "simp", "skrunkly", "sksksk", "sky-puppy", "slay", "sleepy", "smol", "smort", "snacc", "snek",
            "soft-boi", "sosig", "soyjak", "spaghet", "spam", "splat", "srsly", "stan", "startup", "stonk",
            "stonks", "stronk", "sus", "synergize", "synthwave", "tea", "tendies", "thicc", "thingamajig", "thingummy",
            "thought-leader", "tomfoolery", "toot", "totes", "trash-panda", "troll", "ugh", "unfriend", "unfollow", "unicorn",
            "uwu", "uwu-speak", "vaporwave", "vibe", "viral", "vlog", "vsco", "wagmi", "webinar", "weeb",
            "weirdcore", "welp", "wen", "werk", "whammo", "whatchamacallit", "whatevs", "whatsit", "whoosh", "widget",
            "woke", "wojak", "***", "yasss", "yeet", "yikes", "yolo", "yup", "zomg", "zonk", "zoom",

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