Steampunk bunny was not sure his outfit was fine.
He thought it was mediocre and soon began to whine.
You are more than okay, he was reassured by a bee.
No one is any more aerodynamically steampunk than me.
What do you mean? Bunny asked the flying machine.
Look at these wings, they are short, not long, wide or lean.
Technically I should not even be able to fly, steampunk bee said.
But I have been flying since birth and will do so until dead.
Categories:
aerodynamically, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
If they draw too close, I will call your name
Echo—lame
An unenviable feat despite a large crowd
Echo—proud
A brotherhood against fighting for love
Echo—shove
Because everyone seeds the same fruit
Echo—root
Each lifespan is an echo of the one before
Echo—door
They used what they learned to find a better
Echo—letter.
As it's our time to be silent, we may pray
Echo—astray.
The truth our voice carries will last forever
Echo—clever
Lengthy lyrics imply that life is a dance
ECHO—trance
Randomness is just one heartbeat away
Echo—pray.
Aerodynamically, we float alike butterflies
Echo—skies
breath along with your silent words
Echo—swords
Written: February 11, 2023
A Brian Strand Choice No 1185 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
ECHO VERSE The formula for echo verse is rather straightforward: Repeat the last syllable (or syllables) of each line. Sincere gratitude is extended to Brian Strand, who pioneered the use of this format.
Categories:
aerodynamically, analogy, appreciation, inspirational, meaningful,
Form: Other
Roller skates
Roll smooth
In circles and orbited figure eights
Gliding great with the rhythmic moves
So quick
So slow
So cool
Ice skate
Aerodynamically
On icy floors slick and wet
A ballet on a frozen slough
Beautiful blades
Upon delicate
Crystal blue
Rumbling wheels
Radioactively
Alive with pumping legs that reel
Forcing friction like a mad banshee
Athletically willed
Heart rate
Speed kills
January 15, 2020
Double Dactyl Poetry Contest
Sponsored by William Kekaula
Categories:
aerodynamically, appreciation, sports,
Form: Double Dactyl
With a golden nape, that area on the neck’s rear,
And a silent voice, excluding some chirps and stonks,
Speaking only to young, or between two or some in flight,
The golden eagle exudes those qualities that make humans right.
Flying maybe seventy-seven miles from their nest,
With wings up-turned in a V-shape for dynamics,
Which make a plane with the tail, aerodynamically set,
At a speed of one twenty mph without acoustics.
Open areas of nurturing native vegetation,
Make a home and life for development and tangle,
And mountainous rock regions find them hunting,
Bidding for rock pigeons and raven to mangle.
They devour creatures of the hair family fair and square,
And ground squirrels, grouse and pheasant they tare,
They’re not scared of deer, lamb, pigs or wild boar,
And sheep to them are a massively wide open door.
They have a dark brown body with feathers replaced annually,
Falconry is rife, and they get prestige from indigenous America,
Mentioned in the Torah, and the Old and New Testament fair,
Tolkien used it in an illustration to symbolise Bilbo Baggins air.
Categories:
aerodynamically, beautiful, beauty, bird, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Even a sparrow soars
As its tiny soul
Climbs to great heights
Have you seen it?
Wings flat against the body
Brown bullet
Aerodynamically
Slicing through the air
Covering distances
In a twinkling
That we lumbering humans
Take minutes to travel
Surely it can reach heaven
More easily than we
December 7, 2009
Categories:
aerodynamically, animals
Form: Free verse
Hippety Hoppity
Willowby Wallaby
Bound for Austral-i-a
Land he called home
Hadn’t the money so
Aerodynamically
Rode on the wing, but then
Wound up in Nome
Double Dactyl written for The Contest of New Terrains by Matt Caliri
Categories:
aerodynamically, funny
Form: Double Dactyl