Nothing quite like taxpaying civilians:
tax billionaires of all of their billions.
But win ‘em a lottery?
Resolve gets quite watery:
seems the IRS wants two hundred million.
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People reportedly outraged at having to pay $200M in tax on an immediate payout of the $1.6B lottery, lol.
(This one is a bit long for a limerick. I wish there was a generic Quintilla - the English is ababb and the Sicilian is ababa, and this is of course aabba.)
Categories:
ababa, humor, irony,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Failing to get enough sleep or
getting poor-quality sleep are
resulting to health hazard; it
is known fact, it makes us unfit
to discharge daily acts with cheer.
It's voluntary let’s admit
but unintentional, can’t quit.
Sleep deprivation is seen more
in young generation; appear
to ignore outcomes a bit.
Yet, avoid action, though aware;
to work pressure they do submit;
postpone sleep and needed health care;
fail to do best, though they commit;
timely sleeping they shouldn't ignore.
~X~X~X~
The Signature Sonnet is introduced by B Chandler of Allpoetry.
It’s another invented sonnet pretender in 3 quintains(15 lines)
It is metric, written in iambic tetrameter and rhymed,
Turned on only 2 rhymes aabba bbaab ababa
Volta not specified, but not excluded.
Pasted from http://poetscollective.org/everysonnet/signature-sonnet/
Thanks to Mr Lawrence Eberhart for the resources at Poets Collective Site.
Categories:
ababa, sleep,
Form: Sonnet
So glad you decided to come with me.
I brought my camera and we'll wonder
At the vistas that we would love to see.
A lovely, cloudless day with no thunder.
I knew exactly where the best shots be.
Plodding through virescent hills and hollows,
Below so many trees that form a groove
Careful where to tread, there were some fallows
Splendid shots I took so I'm sure I'll prove
For from an oak, flew so many swallows.
My camera worked: an eagle soared high,
Surveying the artistic span below,
A rill twisting its way, blue as the sky
Flowers abounded, sweet fragrance they blew,
Tired we needed rest, food to fortify.
An inn nearby provided us with food,
Scrambled eggs, hot sausages, tea, and toast.
It had been a wonderful interlude
But my love was the happiest the most.
We went back home, in good humorous mood.
26 April 2021
io syllables per line
Scheme: ababa
Categories:
ababa, adventure, appreciation, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Beginning
By Joji Varghese Kuncheria
Four decades ago my sojourn started,
In my mid - twenties, as to be precise,
A journey of a lifetime so joyous,
By a lad daring, bold and determined,
To perceive, explore and conquer the world,
From my land of coconuts and spices,
To the horn of Africa full of bliss,
Circumspectly moving spellbound and stunned.
So it all began in warm Nazareth,
In a province of Abyssinia,
Arriving on Christmas, the twenty fifth,
An hour by bus from Addis Ababa,
On a beautiful day of the Sabbath,
Journeying through the fields of Injera.
************
Categories:
ababa, 12th grade, africa, career,
Form: Sonnet
By Izunna Okafor
Beyond the shrubs of Sahara
Lifted a munt of brainy bond
Over the Mississippi of Ethiopia
Lofted a penner with his hunky thoughts
Across the bridge of a foreign land
Hovered a book of beautiful pages
Tightly enclaved yet as an Ireland
In a skull rounded in the clime of golden edges
Off the coast of Addis Ababa
Tears rang bell aloud
Beholding a star being staggered
In a nimbus of a faraway land
A heroic pen was raptly melted
As the book of many pages shattered across the ocean
A nation's pride has become ashes
Making a wave in the hist of the deadly world
Oh! he was roasted faraway
Faraway his father land
Amidst tears in the eyes his nation
A great gem was ruefully tossed
The ashes of his fecund head
The cranes of his creative fingers
The cremains of his eagle eyes
Now pose lifeless in a foreign land
He's gone
A hero is gone
Roasted in a faraway land
Oh! He's gone forever.
© Izunna Okafor, 2019.
Categories:
ababa, africa, death, life, tribute,
Form: Elegy
THE WHOLE TOWN QUERY
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April 9, 2018 Volume VIIIII section V
Reported by
Ababa Asphirst
Ah dew chi, si? Ah she say ah via! Do cho chi, ah vo coo: del chai si ah co!liken to de new see do. a speak chi, say ah. alband do see ah say she do: aye vi dew chi ah. Best to best, love to love. de aye si, de aye si, love de amore' si pasa. Ababa, query oboe(ist)! whoompa, lumpa boom!
ah, ye si, say love? " no, Mr. Asphirst, si say uh,huh? You know,mi? love si,beso, beso Mr. Asphirst. Alucktwit he Asphirt? No mi spoke in Guboga. "Bad-Bad" Rhinecarte, si, he Asphirst. He Mr. Asseakant, You Asphirst? si! si! She Aslast? I Asphirst! You Nuna lufa, no, no, I Asphirst!
You know Asphirst, You Aseacant.heard mi bucko, you Asseacant!
she Asphirt! So, him explain, You Beso Asphirt, No,no !I Aseacaunt, Beso Asphirst!
Ababa Asphirst
The Town Query
Categories:
ababa, beach, bereavement, betrayal, culture,
Form: Chant Royal
Addis Ababa pulse,
Blue Nile passion flow
into the heart of a Mtoto midnight
Tropical forest desires,
soft Harari waves moving
at the tidal touch crescent height
Jijiga sepia legs
dancing Danakil closer to ebb dreams
Anticipated pleasure from the static electricity
Nubian swaying hips,
snowflake moans Mekelle melted
Zebra fire kiss ... burnished lips of lava intensity
Ethiopian eyes
ever ebony sparkling
Candice soul of a regal queen
Ethiopian eyes
ivory moonlight glistening
Love shared beneath a starlit covering
Ethiopian shut eyes,
solar eclipse illuminating
Cosmic soul of a celestial being
Ethiopian open eyes,
angelic attraction overwhelming
Love vowed with a silhouette veil lifting
Ethiopian eyes
reveal a forever dawn
of a love affair never ending
Categories:
ababa, culture, love, romantic, spiritual,
Form: tristich
In Kampala African queen lives
In Johannesburg African queen sleeps
In Nairobi African queen smiles
In Lagos African queen sings
In Kinshasa African queen dances
In Addis Ababa African queen debates
In Juba and Mogadishu Africa queen weeps
To Kigali and Accra African queen flies
In Churches African queen prays
In supermarkets African queen works
In airships African queen flies
In foreign lands African queen creates
Beautiful African queen wake up
The world you adore selectively cares
Do not be notorious in beauty and elegance
But lacking in self-esteem to live own life
African queen, the world harvests you dearly
Reject the trash offered and grab the grains
Categories:
ababa, africa, beauty, metaphor, song,
Form: Lyric
My
heart yearns; I'm
missing home ~
missing home...
A warm loving womb
for my heart and
soul;
For better future
life, I left and
roam.
Gem mosaic roles
ladder a top goal;
Like one live music
band we rock and
roll;
Laughter and tears
shed shadows every
dome
Changes marked
between years, I
miss to match...
My heart yearns;
I'm missing home~
missing home...
Dreams upholded
round high from
pearl deep catch
Each fiber of my
heart 'til death
attach.
(c) Olive Eloisa
2:51pm: June 30,2014
Quintain (English)
rhyme scheme: ababb
(which I chose..
:O?)
Quintain (Sicilian)
rhyme scheme: ababa
Sponsor Dr.Ram Mehta
Contest Name Hard
Choices
6th place, to God be
the greatest glory..
:)
Categories:
ababa, emotions, family, home, journey,
Form: Quintain (English)
Oh! Mother Africa!
From the East to the West, from the North to the South of
Africa is strife, killings, starvation and poverty
Brothers killing brothers
And innocent bloods are being shed every day
Arise! Mother Africa and save your child.
Give hope to the hopeless
And strength to the weak
Liberty to the oppressed
Peace to the restless and succor to the needy
From Free town in Sierra Leone
to Darfur region in the Republic of Congo.
From the Niger Delta region in Nigeria to Monrovia in Liberia
From Addis Ababa in Ethiopia to Sudan
From Luanda in Angola to Kinshasa in Zaire
From Cape Town South Africa to Nairobi Kenya
Let there be peace, love, unity and prosperity in the Land
Dear Mother Africa!
Show us the way and save Africa your beloved child in whom you are
Well pleased.
Categories:
ababa, courage, peace, mother, africa,
Form: Light Verse