Best Accentual Poems
Love’s Dilemma
Happy one minute
Sad the next
Speaks volumes
To the constant
Ebb and Tide
Of what’s called
Love’s Dilemma.
When two people
Meet and fall
Deeply in love
Passions abound
Emotions afire
Whilst they bask
In true desire.
Love’s power
Can heal
Can hurt
It’s magic
May enchant
May mesmerize
And surprise!
Love’s passion
Excites us
Teases us
Reveals us
Stirs emotions
Makes us
Feel whole.
The bargain is
It takes two
To tango
To love
To want
To have
To hold.
And always
To be bold
To love—
Unconditionally
With your mind
With your heart
With your soul!
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
June 8, 2018 (Accentual Meter)
Categories:
accentual, destiny, emotions, fate, inspirational
Form:
Free verse
Solitude
Walking alone
Often outside
In deep thought
About things of
Great importance.
I wonder aloud
Thoughts amassed
Priorities now
Solutions not clear
Seeking inspiration.
Time’s fleeting
Which is always
Tied to many
Dynamic actions
Begging resolution.
I stop now—
And look heavenward
Solutions abound
Choices are difficult
I’m staying focused.
Use my intuition
Request divine help
Do Nothing
Take your pick
Nothing’s easy.
My soul’s focus
Trust yourself—
First and foremost
God speaks silently
Do it now!
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
(January 27, 2015) (Accentual Meter)
Categories:
accentual, allegory, image, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Love Star Night
We walk in love
hand-in-hand
under the stars
star night pure.
Our love’s real
your touch warm
so inviting now
star night white.
We stop walking
embrace as one
kissing deeply
with passion
our souls now one.
We gaze skyward
see stars so bright
such radiance pure
this love star night.
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
(May 5, 2015) (Accentual Meter)
*Original Release Date in my new book: February 13, 2015.
Categories:
accentual, allegory, emotions, feelings, love,
Form:
Free verse
Turbidity
Turbidity’s
An artifice of
Being Human
One who is
So confused
So disordered
Or even one
With a Turbid
Imagination!
Being Turbid
Allows its Owner
To be or seem to be
In turmoil or
In degrees of
Real or Fake
Confusion
Making situations
Quite interesting!
This attributes
A most likely
Pejorative symbol
When intentionally
Used to obfuscate
Human interactions
Or to be just
Plain difficult or
Uncooperative!
Possessing bouts of
Seeming Turbidity
For the Poet
Can also be
That perfect
Literary Conceit
To challenge
To mystify
All readers true!
Such notions of
Verisimilitude
Or better yet
Literary Truth
Methinks would
Maketh the likes of
Keats, Eliot, Pound
Among other greats
Jumpeth all for joy!
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
January 14, 2016 (Accentual Meter)
Categories:
accentual, allegory, analogy, emotions, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Love is
Love is special
Romantic feelings
Sensual thoughts
Hope and expectations
Seize the moment!
Love is a real drug
Casting a spell
On one’s inner psyche
Bringing pleasure
Leaving a message!
Love is with you
As one sees answers
In the eyes and heart
Emotions so special
Feel our love whole!
Love is alchemy pure
Paracelsian—yes
A dramatic power
Emotion + Passion + Joy
Equals Love so pure!
Love is the reddest rose
Supreme symbol of love
Flower of pulchritude
Sends a clear message
Love signal affirmed!
Love is magical
Love is majestic
Love is divine
Love is God’s Gift
Love is God’s Love!
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
June 13, 2015 (Accentual Meter)
Categories:
accentual, allegory, emotions, feelings, i
Form:
Free verse
A Withered Rose
Our love dear
is now but a
“Withered Rose.”
And I really
don’t know if
you care—I
must suppose.
We once had a
most radiant love
full of wonder,
joy, beauty, passion.
And now it’s quite
hard to accept
the reality
that all is ruined
and all is gone.
I sleep now dear
with utter despair
in a soulless torment
that is unending
knowing our once
“Red-Rose Love”
is gone forever . . .
And in its place
I have nothing
but an image of a
“Withered Rose Memory.”
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
(April 30, 2015) (Accentual Meter)
* This poem originally appeared in my new book
with a release date of February 4, 2015
Categories:
accentual, allegory, image, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
A Spider’s View
Walking his web
At ceiling corner
Gazing downward
Watching and waiting
Patience absolute.
Growing hungry
Eyes focused
Two victims
Fly and Lady Bug
Trapped in web.
Sense of doom
Survival of fittest
Stronger species
Spider’s appetite
Sustenance waiting.
Scheme of life—
With Darwin smiling
A winner, two losers
Strongest wins
And strongest eats.
A Spider’s View
On a typical day
Each day similar
But different
Result—the same.
Fixed in place
Or hanging around—
Multi-legged
And multi-eyed—
An Acrobat Supreme!
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
(April 26, 2015) (Accentual Meter)
*Originally written for publication in my new book on February 18, 2015
Categories:
accentual, allegory, death, imagery, life,
Form:
Free verse
A play ends just, a wretched play, that I’m no more.
And you yourself, with vex, dismay, that I’m no more?
Bleeding grass, burning air, woods ashen, and you weeping,
It’s a bit too convenient, nay, that I’m no more?
The letter with the rhymeless elegy-- it’s soaked,
I hardly muse now, what you’ll say, that I’m no more!
Stranded and shifting, quite like light on water, Dew,
Reflection mine, why do you stay, when I’m no more?
-Pin Dew (02/05/2017)
Note: Experimental Ghazal- The lines are in Iambic Hexameter. Usually, English Ghazals follow Syllabic Prosody, but here I am using Accentual-Syllabic Prosody.
Categories:
accentual, death, emotions, goodbye, irony,
Form:
Ghazal
Tilting at Simplicity
William of Ockham
Harbinger of today’s
“Occam’s razor”—
His simplest solutions
Bespeak not always
Accurate conclusions.
A Simple Simon
Binary approach
Style vice logic
Solutions not always
Truest to measure
Requires real
Human variety.
Heuristic methods
Abound—of course
Tied to many
Scientific efforts
But how about
The Messy?
The Complex?
Simple rationale
On each conclusion
May be suspect
With only barest of
Variables considered.
Take your pick—but
Use your intuition
The easiest aren’t
Always most correct
Use common sense too!
When in doubt
Trust yourself
Keep objectivity
Fail not to ponder
The complex too!
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
(September 14, 2015) (Accentual Meter)
Categories:
accentual, computer, history, humanity, judgement,
Form:
Free verse
Your silken skin, trembling to the touch
A scent of sandalwood, wafts as to soar
Your pant, accentual-syllabic verse
Beat ever faster, no ration of time
Awkward moments as two become one
An everlasting symphony of fire
Quenched, after the crescendo of the night
Descending from a dream all in my mind
Categories:
accentual, dream, hope, i love
Form:
Free verse
POSITIVE THOUGHTS AND VISUALISATION
Positive thoughts and visualisation
Will undoubtedly manifest your lifes creation
What is accentual for us to flower
Is to have the knowledge of our power
To have the courage to dare, to show our flare
The faith to do, and see it through
Perception, memory, reasoning, will
Use all these wisely and you'll gain the skill
To reach for your goals
And give your spirit a lift
Use attitude, it is a great asset
Understand, we are in a new era
A change for all mankind
This gift you're receiving is the knowledge
That your life revolves around your mind
What you're thinking you will attract
Good or bad it will come right back.
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Categories:
accentual, inspirational
Form:
Rhyme
Seriously questioning my own judgement
how could I have chosen you as my soul mate;
When look back to relation find I've ignored
some obvious signs.
Probably, I was looking through lens of my
desires, fully obsessed by own passionate
feelings; Many times as soul mate fail to ask
question, " Why so numb?"
Yes, that was my fault when immersed in great joy
of passion, failing to ask very basic
thought does he feel the same passionate way as
I feel about him.
Over period, I've observed you don't feel
the urge of meeting with me, even for days
always, give evasive replies, if I ask
about long absence.
Just don't understand, how you don't feel at all
a long gap without hearing from you creates
many unwanted negative thoughts in mind
about well being.
Don't you feel I need to see you sometime; don't
know where do I stand; do you have some feeling
for me, think what’s my expectations from you
about our future?
My questions on our relationship, you just
ignore or answer with vagueness; never know
when I'll see you again; Don't think we can build
a relationship.
~X~X~X~
(Poetic Form :: Loose Sapphic)
There are variations of the Sapphic Stanza;
the Loose Sapphic form created by Marie Marshall.
The form is composed over four lines, the first three being hendecasyllabic
(a line of verse having eleven syllables) and the fourth being pentasyllabic (Having five syllables).
The focus is on syllabic meter rather than accentual giving the poet more room to explore poetical device and grammatical schema within the verse structure.
Rhyme Pattern: Unrhymed
Using ‘X’ to represent each syllable the schema of the Loose Sapphic
form can be shown as thus:
X X X X X X X X X X X
X X X X X X X X X X X
X X X X X X X X X X X
X X X X X
Pasted from http://popularpoetryforms.blogspot.com/2013/02/loose-sapphic.html
Thanks to Mr Lawrence Eberhart for the resource at Poets COLLECTIVE Site.
Categories:
accentual, relationship,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
When we first MET, you were so young and FAIR,
A hundred twenty POUNDS in your underWEAR.
We tied the KNOT, and the next thing I KNEW,
Your weight ballooned UP to 300 and TWO!
Your weight GAIN ended my infatuATION.
Lovin' YOU is like a chemical castRATION.
Several times a WEEK when your mom stops BY,
She starts in on ME, and I just want to DIE!
She gripes and NAGS, got nothin' good to SAY,
Then you and SHE just eat bon-bons all DAY.
Your family TIES only add to my frustRATION.
Lovin' YOU is like a chemical castRATION.
You decided that YOU'D take a drive in my CAR,
Just go to the STORE, it's not very FAR.
That short DRIVE ended up in a WRECK,
And my sweet RIDE was shot all to HECK!
I just wanna SHOUT IT all across the NATION:
Lovin' YOU is like a chemical castRATION!
(The form for this poem is accentual verse.)
Categories:
accentual, life
Form:
Verse
Remember how pleasant was our relation
when we were dating before our engagement;
Over four decades many family issues we
faced jointly despite our quarrel, disagreement;
Despite our faith, love, easy communication
between us an invisible distance formed; why so?
Should we not try to have those old golden days back?
Scientists believe with anger use of bad commentary
while agitated is root of destroying relationship.
Studies say the key to have a beautiful
relationship with closeness lies on one habit;
If one can seek to forestall expressing negative
emotions before others, surely happiness
in married life can increase for many more years.
~X~X~X~
The Unrhymed Sonnet is not to be confused with the
Blank Verse Sonnet which is also unrhymed but written in iambic pentameter
where the "Unrhymed Sonnet" is not written in an iambic pattern.
The elements of the Unrhymed Sonnet are:
- A quatorzain, broken or unbroken into stanzas at the poet's discretion.
- Metered, although it does not carry an iambic pattern it is written in
accentual verse with 5 stresses per line.
- Unrhymed.
- Composed with a pivot where it would appear most naturally.
Pasted from http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/forums/topic/1831-unrhymed-sonnet/
Thanks to the efforts of Judi Van Gorder for a wonderful resource at Poetry Magnum Opus.
Categories:
accentual, marriage,
Form:
Sonnet
Reminiscing past helps to remember;
thinking past events helps to remember
how simple acts brought people together;
Those past acts helped them at their crisis hours.
Timely past actions helped at crisis hours.
Heard their woes, truly tried to dry their tears.
Listening intently equips to know,
Listening attentively helps to know
issues from their perspectives somehow.
Empathizing in a sensitive way,
And yet being aware of woes wise way
will solve their misery, won't fill with dismay.
They wish someone should hear untold stories
justly before uprooting their worries.
~X~X~X~
Blues Sonnet
The defining features of the Blues Sonnet are:
• A quatorzain made up of 4 triplets and a heroic couplet.
• Oddly metric, in iambic pentameter.
This is in contrast to the usual blue stanza which is
accentual, with a more folksy rhythm.
• Rhymed, rhyme scheme AAa BBb CCc DDd ee.
• It is composed of 4 Blues Stanzas, L1 statement,
L2 incremental repetition of L1, and L3 is a climactic
parallel of the first 2 lines.
• Pivot or volta should be in the last triplet and
ends in a declamatory couplet.
Reference:: https://poetscollective.org/everysonnet/blues-sonnet/
Thanks to Mr Lawrence Eberhart for the resource at Poets COLLECTIVE Site.
Categories:
accentual, remember,
Form:
Sonnet