Promptly 4 and 5

A Jitty Ditty

A Jitty Ditty

Alley oop, alley way,
O’Malley held a rally down the alley one day,
Back street, crack street, frack street meet,
City jitty*, pretty gritty, Walter Mitty play,
Pity party, ditty hearty, arty farty way,
Smarty panted, Artie ranted, Marty kept the beat,
Sweet Selena you shoulda seen her,
Oh, the dreamer, none serener,
Dance diviner, nothing finer,
From the barrow sends the arrow, sparrow flies away,
Spies the evening fraught with meaning,
Leaning, keening, cleaning, screening,
though the scheming’s so demeaning,
Still the morn shall make it pay.


Line count: 14
Rhymed aabaabcccaddda
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 13 2023
Prompt: Alley.
Note: *Jitty is colloquial English in some regions, defined as the narrow passage between rows of terraced houses.