Mark Martin Poet Verse

Open Ended Poetry Contests

Please give us a topic, at least just a clue
I have no direction, don't know what to do
Do I scribe what I know, or write from the heart?
Or do I quote Shakespeare and try to sound smart?
A ballad, a sonnet, a three line haiku?
Or try to be clever, and try a senryu
Perhaps using penta, and maybe i-ambic?
Dactylic or pyrric, it's sending me manic
So next time a subject, please tell us ahead
And I'll write something different to be a blockhead

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Tim Smith October 26, 2016 at 2:26 PM haha...good one Mark...congrats

Elaine George October 26, 2016 at 2:05 PM lol! Very clever , Mark. Many congrats on your win. Elaine

Teddy Kimathi October 26, 2016 at 1:44 PM Congrats Mark, for your WIN in the contest!!! ;-)

Mark Martin October 20, 2016 at 2:18 PM Thanks for all your positive comments :-)

Skat A October 18, 2016 at 11:14 PM M*MARK, WELL DONE. SKAY

Poet Destroyer A October 18, 2016 at 9:43 PM thank you for telling us Mark with a double M. LINDA

Charmaine Chircop October 18, 2016 at 8:45 PM : )You put a smile on my face...thanks.

Darlene De Beaulieu October 18, 2016 at 6:51 PM Mark this is a different type of poem, What you said in your poem is so true. It is hard to know what to write. I never know what to write for a poetry contest. I will try again.I did enjoy it.