I love vocabulary games, and these odd words came up in English words games, recently: Bute ( I know "Butte" but not BUTE) & "abseil," "landau," and even "Bourne" (identity?).
A poem about a simpler word, FLIERS.
When we say FLY,
Buzzing by and by
Which is it?
Plane or insect?
But when we use "Fliers"
The letters reveal secrets:
"liFe," "selF," "lies" & "Flies" again
LIFERS is best of all
In this game; Hope for us all
Categories:
abseil, 12th grade, africa, america,
Form: Didactic
My new best friend was Sammy Snail
I found him slithering in my pail
I tried to keep him without fail
But from my pail he did abseil!
Our kitchen wall he tried to scale
Dad took him out, I start to wail
my little face it turned quite pale
I really miss dear Sammy Snail
Nursery Rhyme 4 Poetry Contest
Sponsored By Eve Roper
04/10/21
Categories:
abseil, child, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The start or St.Art?.
but where?
on the corner by the neon sign?
under the clock at Waterloo when it's
striking nine?
the third eye is my guess
but I improvise and
devise ways to bolt
lightning to the floor
and
always
always want to do more.
easily distracted
I dismantle tall building
abseil from mountains
and fire on four cylinders,
the Saint paints in the
missing figurines as the
menagerie dreams on.
Categories:
abseil, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
My heart pounding
The rocks crumbling
I look back over the edge
The steep slope looming down
As horrifying images of falling pound through my head
I take a step back
Then another
And then.....
I slip
But the rope catches me
And I continue
Tempting death
As I
Abseil.
Categories:
abseil, fear,
Form: Blank verse
Leaves fall in the Fall.
Leaves flump in the Downtick.
Leaves flop in the Glide.
Leaves founder in the Comedown.
Leaves descend and drop in the Tumble.
Leaves nosedive and lurch in the Downflow.
Leaves pitch and capsize in the Forced Landing.
Leaves topple and cascade in the Gravitation.
Leaves abseil and rappel in the Descent.
Leaves coast and sideslip in the Downrush.
Leaves skid and avalanche in the Dropping.
Leaves swoop and plunge in the Coast.
Leaves settle and precipitate in the Cropper.
Leaves glissade in the Glissando.
. . . where's a rake when I need it?
Categories:
abseil, nature,
Form: Free verse
It's not her style to walk down the aisle.
Father and parson its sure to rile.
But all of the people
down under the steeple
will smile at her elegant abseil.
*Abseil - rappel down a rope
Categories:
abseil, wedding,
Form: Limerick