Best Adelaide Poems
ADELAIDE REQUIRED AID
Adelaide adored me
Ingrid ignored me
Adelaide and I made quite an odd pair
Yet Ingrid had silver silken threads instead of hair
Looking up to a cloud laden sky I prayed to heaven for Ingrid’s heavenly pleasure
Looking up to a syrupy and sunny sky I begged God that I might discover Ingrid’s buried treasure
A female fortune sealed in a locker by two silent lips and secreted between two sultry hips
But in the material that makes up time some fabric often frays while a seam sometimes rips
And even an expensive faucet drips
With assurance I assign Ingrid as an extravagant and excellent source of radiance to beheld by me
And oh to be held by her
To meld with her
As my desire swelled and I swooned to a lady attuned to and beholden to beauty
But as for Adelaide I found her ignorant and distasteful for ignoring and boring me
Whatever she chose to discuss would disgust me with distinguishable diatribes
before I forbade Adelaide from approaching me or broaching another subsequent, sequential and inconsequential subject
Adelaide adjudicated me well adjusted with an adjunct to adulation
While I grew agitated by her aggravation
Until I made Adelaide fade
And found further feminine flair in a woman with silver silken threads as her hair
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Categories:
adelaide, angst, me, me, silver,
Form:
Double Dactyl
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY-IMAGIST
A well travelled lass named Adelaide
Innovative and never staid,
Unmarried,single but no old maid-
A short life,latterly full of pain,
Her epitaph,the American cinquain.
Tribute vignette to Adelaide Crapsey,the American creator of the Cinquain form, my poetic inspiration.
re-post inspired by Brenda's contest
Categories:
adelaide, inspirational, poets,
Form:
Quintilla
Could I write,
Ten thousand words,
And say,
Just what I mean?
Is love so absurd,
That no other,
Should come clean?
Could ten thousand ways,
Any day,
Women dream?
Yet one thousand beats,
Of my heart,
For her I plead.
Know this Adelaide.
Now I wait,
Anxiously;
Let it be this day,
Your affection,
Meant to be.
Categories:
adelaide, desire, future, hope, how
Form:
Lyric
A wind rolled away down a lonely street
Like silent thunder wrenching, reaping dread,
While an ancient man drew the covers up
To thaw old bones reclined on slatted bed.
Phlegmy eyes coughed into wakefulness and
Slid slowly in their sockets to his chest
And Oh! to hear that moan of sheer defeat
When the flagon echoed his emptiness.
His stingy warmth - printed, numbered; scattered
Like yesterday's news and flew with dire mirth
To dance a cloven jubilee of death,
As old boots, so weary, kissed their mother earth.
The wind rolled away down an empty street -
A whispering dirge borne on leaf-soaked cloud
And an ancient man resting, still as night,
Lies waiting, waiting, waiting for his shroud.
Categories:
adelaide, angst, death, nostalgia, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
Born in 1915 at Birkenhead by the Port River Inlet
A son of Port Adelaide as one of the best youd get
In the days before bridges he would row
Across the river to training and games hed go
He debuted for the Magpies in 1936 at Alberton
And was the best player in that game then
Winning the 1938 Magarey Medal as the best in the league
He was one who epitomises the best of the Creed
Then in 1939 he captain coached the Magpies
To the third premiership after the ones in 1936 and 1937 as Football wise
But war clouds were gathering and he heard the bugle call then
Enlisting in second 43 Battalion in June 1940 as a warrant officer second class his country to defend
Off to North Africa he sailed with his mates
To Libya and Tobruk battlefields his life risked to fate
Then on the 3 August 1941 who took command of the 10 platoon
At the siege of Tobruk to blow a barbed wire machine gun soon
He told his men that death was near
As the Germans poured on fire across the battlefield clear
And he would lay the last Bangalore explosive torpedo
The most dangerous one to place near the machine gun hed go
Only three of the seven survived in the heavy fire
With Quinns turn the next the danger so dire
And he was hit by shrapnel in the top of the thigh
Being hit in the head again the bullets flying by
On top of this a wounded mate called out
And he took him up on his back to the trench after the shout
The machine gun was silenced in the mission success
A Military Medal was awarded to Quinn as one of the best
When his wounds healed he was promoted to lieutenant
And to the Pacific War defending Australia he was sent
And in September 1943 in New Guinea he was injured severely
In his knee arm and face which could have cost his football dearly
But he made it through those broken years
Returning to Adelaide and more football cheers
To win a second Magarey Medal in 1945 an accolade
As captain coach of Port Adelaide
So we remember this brave man
Of the battlefield and Aussie Rules oval grand
Two Magarey Medals three premierships four best and fairest medals 15 times played for South Australia and All Australian player
With a Military Medal on the battlefield a brave ANZAC soldier.
© Paul Warren Poetry
Categories:
adelaide, remember, sports, world war
Form:
Ballad
A well travelled lass named Adelaide
Innovative and never staid,
Unmarried,single but no old maid-
A short life,latterly full of pain,
Her epitaph,the American cinquain.
Tribute vignette to Adelaide Crapsey,the American creator of the Cinquain form
Categories:
adelaide, on writing and words,
Form:
Narrative
I
On day ten of 2023
I stand but upon my knee
To celebrate a rosette dawn
It's almost 5 am, heavens open:
Give us peace, wisdom, kindness
For others: we have hurt enough
Time for Ubuntu: human - being
Not human doing, doing, doing
II
LORD, we thank thee
A morning of promise in 2023
Categories:
adelaide, birth, blessing, conflict, memory,
Form:
Free verse
You're more than a story to write;
You're more than a song to sing.
I wish by day, I wish by night,
That you would be my queen.
I'm not sure how in words,
I could really write or speak.
I really thought you were,
All my very own, for me.
Categories:
adelaide, black love, confidence, for
Form:
Rhyme
repost inspired by Constance contest
A well travelled lass named Adelaide
Innovative and never staid,
Unmarried,single but no old maid-
A short life,latterly full of pain,
Her epitaph,the American cinquain.
Tribute vignette to Adelaide Crapsey,the creator of the American Cinquain form
and clerihew tribute
An American imagist Adelaide Crapsey
one day, freed me, to be me
her cinquained syllables ,I confess
awakened the poetic, I guess
Categories:
adelaide, america, april, poetry,
Form:
Verse
A well travelled lass named Adelaide
Innovative and never staid,
Unmarried,single but no old maid-
A short life,latterly full of pain,
Her epitaph,the American cinquain.
Categories:
adelaide, boyfriend, in memoriam, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
On Tuesday 19 November, 2019, at Adelaide Oval on a barmy evening
The stage is set for U2’s Joshua Tree concert appealing
Playing to 40,000 fans such a buzz
Each song played a hit in their rock show for us
A street with no name with a never ending road
And Sunday Bloody Sunday got the crowd in rock mode
Such a night among the stars
With or without you was one of my favourite musical bars
And Pride was echoing around the ground
With I still haven’t found what I’m looking for the sound
At the end they played their heart out
And the crowd had something to shout about.
© Paul Warren Poetry
Categories:
adelaide, music,
Form:
Ballad
The rain falls and quench’s the ground
As it strikes the dry dust around
For fire sets the hills ablaze and will destroy
Until nature intervenes in rainfall and heartfelt joy
The smoke above the hills leaves
As in this summer we do grieve
For what we lose to the fire
In these summer times that are quite dire
For the Australian sun blazes down so deep
Into our souls we battle hoping not for defeat
For the brave Summer warriors stand against the living flame
As in praise these fighters we do acclaim.
© Paul Warren Poetry
Categories:
adelaide, fire, summer,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
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Categories:
adelaide, 7th grade,
Form:
ABC
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Categories:
adelaide, emotions,
Form:
Ode
I
Nations thrive, connive, destruct -- the birds still instil awe, naturally
II
Heretics and falsehood abound, but cows, even pigs, in town, reassure us of survival.
NOTE: In cities& towns in South Africa, the changes since Nelson Mandela's revolution, allows mainly black farmers & persons to let livestock roam towns for leftovers, rarely herding them.. Some eat plastic bags. Two are sleeping on the sidewalk, next to our only hotel, in Kerk Street, as I write/ edit
Categories:
adelaide, africa, bible, blessing, city,
Form:
Monoku