Al Filreis's post "alphabetic constraint"

I've been writing a serial poem recently,
which are all acrostics,
or basterized acrostics.




Al Filreis wrote about two of them today
on his always intelligent, pull-no-punches blog
AL FILREIS

Manichaean

My ideas of the prize.
A ship taken by force.
Nautical waves, nautical waves of light.
In a privateer The Manichaean.
Chilling night, steam-engine afternoons.
Here I am without you.
At moments all can spring from all.
Evil is a catch-all crime pitched
- to its own composite ends.
Again away from you by the river dock.
NIKE the Greek goddess of victory in billboard bold.


Pasternak

Piano, piano, piano,
A decrescendo.
Such desires as he knew.
Transparency of the house.
Error made him lose another
- chapter.
Right that he should leave
- the enjoyment.
Now the name of an enormous variety
- of satisfactions.
And he started forward, fell, arose
- fell again, walked.
Kursk station on a hot summer
- morning in the year 1900.