Best Authors Poems
we write as if it is our last night
we write whether it be with lead or ink or typed
we write alone or in a crowded environment
we write come rain or sunshine
we write because we want our stories to be told
we write through every phase; it is universal
we write even if our voice is never heard
we write when we are loved and when all hope is lost
we write regardless of our social class
we write because it feels wrong to stop
we write because it helps connect us
we write because we are all writers at heart
we write until our last breath on earth
sylvia
***this concerns several books I once owned.
Some were written by Rod McKuen, others by
Richard Brautigan, others by others…***
i discovered that words are
like some decadent dessert
too small to cause harm but too big
to have a second helping
in the margins of tattered books
were scribbled lines i hoped to someday share
with someone who still had tears in her eyes
from last night’s disappointment
for years i had filled my bible margins
with illegible scribbling
some printed words i had crossed out and rewritten
but never those of rod mckuen
or the bible
today i grew older simply by watching
days roll in like a warm ocean breeze
waves taste the sand so slowly
and so it is with rod mckuen
but he was going nowhere
in his rush to cross over some
imaginary line of demarcation
i once owned many books
hundreds aligned to make room to make room
imaginary for new things to be pushed aside
i’m still yearning for a phone booth
where i can make a call for two bits
i’ll always wonder if maybe
i had called sylvia plath if she would have answered
there was no need
her answer had already preceded the question
© tolbert
~Authors And Writers~
( The Bell)
Authors
Love to write
Writers authors work hard
Glad when finish great book
Both just love to write
They work lots of hours
Final product is their most joyful
Reward
Writers
Work so hard
Go through strenuous process
Books can take long time
Lots of hours editing reviewing
Many changes are often made
Authors writers editors are a great
Team
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2016
March.04.2019
'Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.'
- Mark Twain-
~Author's Notes:
The "Bell" is a poetry style created by Dorian
Petersen Potter, aka ladydp2000, on September,18,2010.
~Co-Authors~
(Nonet)
Co-authors write together as team
Work in harmony as one too
They put many hours hard work
To come up with good book
They review their work
Several times
To make sure
Book is
Right.
~Co-Authors~
(Acrostic)
Co-authors great writing team
On time they work together
Authors love to write stories
United they share writing
Talented team of people
Happily they write great novel
On few occasions relax
Resting after very hard work
Sampling a piece of heaven.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2010
September.15.2016
~Author's Notes:
The Acrostic is a form that takes the letters in title to begin each line in poem.
This is left justified. There's no set meter to this style, rhyme is optional.
The Nonet is a poem style that begins with 9 syllables all the way to one syllable, and it can be reversible the other way around, starting with one syllable and ending with the nine syllable line.
~Authors And Writers~
(American Diamante)
Writers
Work hard
They write well
Excel in all that
They do and
Love writing
It
Authors
Love sharing
A great story
An excellent novel, poets
Enjoy writing poetry
For us
all
Poets
Write with
Heart soul mind
They put lots of feelings
And visions in
Poetry they
Pen.
Today
Take time
To read something
New, learn something nice
Books can teach
Everything to
Anyone.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2012
November.25.2016
~Author's Notes:
A " Diamante " is a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape.
~Authors And Writers~
( The Bell)
Authors
Love to write
Writers authors work hard
Glad when finish great book
Both just love to write
They work lots of hours
Final product is their most joyful
Reward
Writers
Work so hard
Go through strenuous process
Books can take long time
Lots of hours editing reviewing
Many changes are often made
Authors writers editors are a great
Team
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2016
June .05.2017
- “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain
~Author's Notes:
The "Bell" is a poetry form or style created by Dorian Petersen Potter, aka ladydp2000, on September.18.2010.
~Authors And Writers~
( The Bell)
Authors
Love to write
Writers authors work hard
Glad when finish great book
Both just love to write
They work lots of hours
Final product is their most joyful
Reward
Writers
Work so hard
Go through strenuous process
Books can take long time
Lots of hours editing reviewing
Many changes are often made
Authors writers editors are a great
Team
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2016
December.08.2016
~Author's Notes:
The "Bell" is a poetry style created by Dorian
Petersen Potter, aka ladydp2000, on September,18,2010.
Part Two
To have written is to leave but a mark
nothing stands for the proud rhyming syllables
more than his acquired business acumen
a Vaishya karmic hope
Now we stand aghast before this edifying monument
and verily wonder at some man
who may have in gusting wind and blasting brine
clung to his loincloth on the scaffolding
his knotted hair thick with the chimes of the Colamandala tide
the bells from Mahabalipuram to Chidamparam tolling in his veins
his sinewy rhyming muscles pulsing to the chiselling of reliefs
in memory of Kannaki and Matavi
and the liana apsara Manimekalai
in her forbidding expunging of her caste courtesan rôle
the lethal unmaking of an infatuated prince
Tied then to the creaking wooden framework
left by Ilango Adigal's epic-making epic
his stomach heaving
the low burning wicker lamp stinging his nostrils
in the stilled small hours
his eyes hardly following the olai leaf of his beaten memory
night after sleepless night
his merchant's paunch and eyes sagging
wife and mistresses in unrequited rut
while in tryst forlorn
one thought lingering under the tree in Bodhgaya
lamenting for the disciple's offering of trichinosis
he lets the dawn creep into his ears
with the kuyil's ironically teasing call
the fingertips charred with lampblack
till loaded cartwheels grind on the gravel of his spent dreams
It is easy for us now to quibble over him
and make much of when he may have conceived his poem
for at least in so doing he comes alive
only to be killed
revived
chided
praised
drowned in words
more than he has bequeathed us
© T. Wignesan- April 7, 1992 (from the sequence/collection: Words for a lost sub-continent). Pub. in T. Wignesan. Rama and Ravana at the Altar of Hanuman: on Tamils, Tamil Literature & Tamil Culture. Chennai: Institute of Asian Studies, 2006.
~Authors And Writers~
( The Bell)
Authors
Love to write
Writers authors work hard
Glad when finish great book
Both just love to write
They work lots of hours
Final product is their most joyful
Reward
0
Writers
Work so hard
Go through strenuous process
Books can take long time
Lots of hours editing reviewing
Many changes are often made
Authors writers editors are a great
Team
0
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2016
July.21.2016
~Author's Notes:
The "Bell" is a poetry style created by Dorian
Petersen Potter, aka ladydp2000, on September,18,2010.
~Authors And Writers~
(American Diamante)
Writers
Work hard
They write well
Excel in all that
They do and
Love writing
It
Authors
Love sharing
A great story
An excellent novel, poets
Enjoy writing poetry
For us
all
Poets
Write with
Heart mind soul
Put lots of feelings
Love visions in
Poetry they
Pen
Authors
Publish beautiful
Romantic love novels
Inspirational biographies history thrillers
Poetry books that
We all
Enjoy
Today
Take time
To read something
New, learn something nice
Books can teach
Everything to
Anyone.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2012
February.12.2016
~Authors Notes:
"The American Diamante" is a style written not in syllables, but word counting.
~Co-Authors~
(Nonet)
Co-authors write together as team
Work in harmony as one too
They put many hours hard work
To come up with good book
They review their work
Several times
To make sure
Book is
Right.
~Co-Authors~
(Acrostic)
Co-authors great writing team
On time they work together
Authors love to write stories
United they share writing
Talented team of people
Happily they write great novel
On few occasions relax
Resting after very hard work
Sampling a piece of heaven.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2010
April.23.2016
~Authors And Writers~
(American Diamante)
Writers
Work hard
They write well
Excel in all that
They do and
Love writing
It
Authors
Love sharing
A great story
An excellent novel, poets
Enjoy writing poetry
For us
all
Poets
Write with
Heart soul mind
Put lots of emotions
Feelings visions in
Poetry they
Pen
Today
Take time
To read something
New, learn something nice
Books can teach
Everything to
Anyone.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2012
September.19.2015
~Authors And Writers~
( The Bell)
Authors
Love to write
Writers authors work hard
Glad when finish great book
Both just love to write
They work lots of hours
Final product is their most joyful
Reward
Writers
Work so hard
Go through strenuous process
Books can take long time
Lots of hours editing reviewing
Many changes are often made
Authors writers editors are a great
Team
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2016
March.10.2017
- “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
- Mark Twain
~Author's Notes:
The "Bell" is a poetry style created by Dorian
Petersen Potter, aka ladydp2000, on September,18,2010.
An online site is, in no way, for the meek.
You must live in conformity, giving no cheek!
Worse, one must be a jolly gal. or smiling fellow.
Living in a pretentious world, all bubbly-mellow!
The masses loathe those, going their own way.
You must conform, or forego your right to play!
Writers must be individuals, and have their unique say.
To deny them this quality is indeed, a very tragic day.
8/15/2024
@Panagiota Romios
We lost a special guy
Worked secretly as a spy
Sean Connery was his name
Acting smooth in a manipulative game
Taking a character from literature
Making it good looking using a moving picture
Getting attention
Using the latest invention
That was not a flying car
Whose driver is still a living star
Appearance very calm
Stating many times Bond, James Bond
Like a good Scottish Brit
Displayed the powerful stiff upper lip
Shaken not stirred
Sending a message not needing to say a word
Traveling the world
Next to the latest cover girl
Some good some bad
This film fantasy was truly the cinema fad
Tonight, Sir Sean could be on the prowl
Seeking out enemies being foul
Maybe Pussy Galore
On the heavenly Casino floor
Having English Breakfast with Sir Roger Moore
Which results in both Bonds being shown the angelic door
Now talking about placing gold on the finger
Could be the record hit by the well-known singer
All artists working together
Presenting a blockbuster peaceful action pack letter
Explaining the well-groomed leading man
Waving a heroic hand
When taking the adventurous stand
Good night
My fine theatrical knight
You put up a winning fight
Giving the written vision a proud visual sight
Leaving a dreamer author eternal might