Best Basta Poems
SHOULD I WOW YOU
Should I essay to wow you I trow
That my words shall be honest I vow
No mere rhymes such as ‘How now brown cow’
But an aesthetic furrow I’ll plough
Then I’ll speak my lines if you’ll allow
As we sit in cool shade neath a bough
And you fan gentle breeze on my brow
While empyrean scene I endow
For my impudence I should kowtow
Now please pardon my lack of knowhow
If I press my attention e’en now
You’d be right to say ‘Basta! and chao!’
But I’ll try one more time anyhow
Just dream that you are in Curaçao
Or on tropical sea in a dhow
**********
And then wake up in Slough. Holy wow!
21 August 2019
Categories:
basta, humorous,
Form:
Monorhyme
Come gather one and all
As I tell you of a feast
That in this land
Could not be any finer
What is this meal called?
Give us a hint at least
What is so grand
And Heaven on earth, fair diner?
I shall tell you of this wondrous meal
That I devour with gustatory zeal
When it comes to pasta
I'll never say "Basta"
That means: Can't get enough
Of that semolina stuff
Covered with marinara
Topped with parmigiana
That is my tasty treasure
And my perfect pasta pleasure
Ravioli, Mostaccioli
With sauce: Putanesca or Bostaccioli
A pan of Baked Ziti
With a bottle of Riuniti
Rigatoni, by Ronzoni
Oh, just call it Macaroni
Ditalini, Cappellini
Twirl my fork in the Fettucini
Here comes mama with the lasagna
Everybody Mangia, Mangia!
I could easily consume it
For breakfast, lunch and dinner
It doesn't matter to me
That I'll never be any thinner
It's delightful beyond measure
This is my perfect pasta pleasure
Categories:
basta, food, funny
Form:
Rhyme
Silence is something you can step on
like dead weeds on a sunken grave....
like ancient worn paths to nowhere in particular,
except to forgotten places you've already been to.
I'm a battered button freak
in a world without goose steps.
Let us sacrifice our clothes
to appease the screaming ghosts of the Final Solution.
When you're naked everything tastes better,
the clocks tick louder,
a multitude of whispering voices sound gentler
and the raging rivers of the land flow farther.
Night time is the right time to be naked.
When the dogs of war are snoring
When the day's checker games have ceased
When the throbbing vestal virgins beg for it.
Being beaten is best when naked.
One can show off the welts and feel exhilarated.
One can feel close to God
and the cool moist dirt around you.
One can know what it is like to be digested by a spider.
One can bleed and cry
and plead for mercy to deaf ears.
Coraggio! Coraggio!
Basta! Basta!
Categories:
basta, dark, pain, time,
Form:
Blank verse
Checking the lights on the dashboard when they flash and stay red:
it's the oil that needs to be changed or the engine that requires
maintenance, and in frigid temperatures who would venture outside and get frostbites?
A car is a necessity, a commodity and besides daily pleasure, it may cost a lot indeed.
Running to the grocery store through the backdoor when milk is low,
and guests wait for a fresh coffee pot and you put on a face not so mellow,
and much worse when you forget the roast in the oven...the bird you admire,
and smoke fills your kitchen...you just dial 911 and scream, " My house in on fire! "
But the worst one that can send you into havoc...
when the mean kid down the block throws a rock
and your window shatters and the cat flees with the swiftest animal beat,
but the dog gets vicious and runs after him by exposing his sharp teeth.
Ever forgot to send your mom a Christmas or Easter card?
She'll call you the same day knowing that the Post office won't deliver,
and what her voice will sound like? Soft or harsh, or angry as a bard?
I can imagine the words she will say, " Have you forgotten something, dear? "
These are just few of them that can drive you crazy like wild kids who love to fight
and make you head spin and ache until you sit down and take a break by a lamplight,
" Ouch!" You got burned from the splashing water while draining your steamy pasta...
you complain,"It's overcooked and not al dente!" And like mother you exclaim,"Basta!"
* The word "Basta" in Italian means " It's enough "
Categories:
basta, food, funny, mother, urban,
Form:
Rhyme
quiero sentir tus caricias en esta tarde gris.
quiero sentir tu lujuria rosando mi ser.
anhelo el poder escuchar tu vos suspirando mi nombre'
tus dedos recorriendo mi cuerpo mientras la brisa me enchina la piel
Deseo hacerte saber como me siento sin el uso de palabra alguna.
una mirada profunda basta para que puedas llegar a mi corazon
y deleightarte con este gran sentimiento conocido como amor.
Categories:
basta, romance,
Form:
Free verse
No quiero otra decepción
no quiero volver a entregar mi corazón
no quiero entregar todo mi amor
solo para terminar lleno de dolor
ya no quiero seguir viviendo en temor
con miedo a entregarme en pasión
y no poder demostrar el amor por vos
y proclamarlo delante de ti y mi Dios
ya no quiero otra traición
mucho menos otra desilución
ya no quiero que sea mi imaginación
ni mi corazón quien dicte mi emoción
como Abraham cuando a su hijo entregó
un amor tan grande el lo que siento hoy
y solo quiero que sepas que aqui estoy yo
a pesar de todo aun no te guardo rencor.
Categories:
basta, loss, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Umaga, o kay gandang umaga
Punung puno ng pag-asa, isang panibagong araw sa buhay
Masarap humigop ng tsokolate o kape bago pumasok sa opisina
sa iyong paglalakad, iyong mamamasdan ang ganda ng kapaligiran
Maraming tao ang iyong nasasalubong, iba iba ang layunin para sa araw na iyon
Iisa lang naman ang aking layunin para sa araw na iyon
Ang matapos ang araw na nakapagsilbi sa bayan ng may ngiti
Bago matapos ang araw, iyong iisipin ang para sa kinabukasan
Subalit pakiramdam ko ay kulang ang araw na iyon, dahil hindi kita nakita
Ngunit umaasa akong bukas ay makikita kita sa panibagong umaga
Ilang umaga pa ba ang aking hihintayin, upang ikaw ay aking makasama
Makasama sa iba't ibang bagay, kahit anong bagay basta makasama ka lang
Marami na akong nakasama, subalit tinik sa dibdib ang sa aki'y ibinibigay
Kung kaya't nais kitang makasama, sa mga susunod na umaga
Sana'y ilang umaga na lang ay makasama na kitang ganap
Upang ang lahat ng umaga ko'y maging mas maganda, na kasing ganda mo
Categories:
basta, adventure, africa, allah, angel,
Form:
ABC
the chain on your feet you stumble
the computer you open
and here you go link in they want to give you more
basta or should I say shukran as spam not my ham of choice
Categories:
basta, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Nung una, akala ko dahil sakin, kaya hindi kana masaya.
Akala ko dahil sakin kaya ka nagbago.
Pero kaya pala.
Kaya pala unti unti kang nanlalamig, kaya pala, dahil sa kanya.
Kaya pala nagbago ka na, kaya pala, dahil sa kanya.
Kaya pala maliit na bagay, ako'y iyong inaaway, kaya pala, dahil sa kanya.
Kaya pala hindi ka na masaya, kahit anong effort ko para pangitiin ka, kaya pala! Dahil sa kanya.
Kaya naman pala.
Masakit! Sobrang sakit, pero sa kanya ka masaya, handa akong magparayara, handa kitang bitawan, basta para sa iyong kaligayahan.
Kaya pala.
Categories:
basta, betrayal, break up, cry,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Ya basta de promesas que ya no te las creo
No intentes seducirme pues ya no te deseo
No se como lograste meterme en tu juego
Pensando que me amabas puse a tus pies mi cielo.
Tiraste a la basura cada uno de mis sueños
Mientras tu me engañabas yo me presumía tu dueño,
De nada me sirvieron los TE AMO los TE QUIERO
Muy tarde me di cuenta que ame a un trozo de hielo
Y no voy a tentarme el corazón te haré sufrir...
Te vas a quedar muda de tanto de gritarme
que ya te perdone o te morirás
Y yo voy a estar sordo para no escucharte
cuando te revuelques en la soledad,
Vas a querer cambiar echar el tiempo atrás
y lloraras pidiendo otra oportunidad,
Pero no habrá clemencia por mas que me ruegues
pagaras los daños no tendré piedad
Y aunque no me lo creas No Te La Vas a Acabar...
Tiraste a la basura cada uno de mis sueños
Mientras tu me engañabas yo me presumía tu dueño
De nada me sirvieron los TE AMO los TE QUIERO
Muy tarde me di cuenta que ame a un trozo de hielo.
Y no voy a tentarme el corazón te haré sufrir...
Te vas a quedar muda de tanto de gritarme
que ya te perdone o te morirás
Y yo voy a estar sordo para no escucharte
cuando te revuelques en la soledad,
Vas a querer cambiar echar el tiempo atrás
y lloraras pidiendo otra oportunidad,
Pero no habrá clemencia por mas que me ruegues
pagaras los daños no tendré piedad,
Y aunque no me lo creas NO TE LA VAS A ACABAR...
Categories:
basta, me, me,
Form:
Lyric
Age 10 slough. Age twenty slough.
Age thirty slough.
Age forty and fifty slough
and so on.
Age sixty was a mighty shedding,
the polished scales
rattling in the very teeth of death.
Wriggling skins, some actual skins,
much metaphorical molt,
ephemeral epithelial layers of self.
Shadow buzzards;
those gormandizing birds
that exfoliate entropy,
they that aid the slip-sliding away
of all pivotal and transitional days,
they now sing my late peeling songs.
Enough. Basta!
This year my skin is stuck to word-bones
and only a starving raptor
could peck away this pelt and sheathing,
and not yet
not while I still have skin in the game.
Categories:
basta, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Engano
Só existem
duas maneiras
de ser enganada:
uma é acreditar
que basta,
aquilo que tem.
A outra maneira
de ser enganada
é recusar-se a crer
que sempre,
é preciso
fazer de tudo,
mais e mais.
Categories:
basta, business,
Form:
Free verse
Extraordinárias
Desde sempre
a humanidade sabe:
pessoas extraordinárias
prosperam sob
as mais terríveis
dificuldades.
Nem sempre é fácil
saber que você,
é extraordinária,
mas, basta ver
o quanto você faz
mais e mais.
Categories:
basta, business,
Form:
Free verse
Tempos difíceis
Nestes tempos difíceis
de quadras de ventura e de paragem,
forma-se a pessoa de contrastes,
— perfeita tradução moral da persistência!
Desperta para a vida envolvida em ações
Aprestou-se, bem cedo, para a luta.
E a natureza fê-la à sua imagem:
AH! Prova de que Viver é adaptar-se!
Em sua aprendizagem de revezes
afez-se a reagir prontamente.
E espanta a rapidez com que varia
das explosões d'e força e agilidade
aos longos intervalos de apatia.
É inconstante e instável como o tempo
que passa,
em mutações desconcertantes,
da maior opulência àos estios infindos!
Nestes tempos difíceis
Com aparências que se contrabatem,
Forma-se uma batalhadora que ostenta o porte
perenemente combalido e exausto...
perenemente audacioso e forte!
Ilusão! ,
esta aparência de cansaço
Nada é mais empolgante do que ver-se,
transmudado em segundos,
o despertar da pessoa que nasce
Nestes tempos difíceis!
Nestes tempos difíceis
Basta o aparecer de qualquer possibilidade
exigindo-lhe o desencadear
da energia latente,
a mulher – a pessoa se transfigura!
E do tipo de delicada pessoa,
reponta inesperadamente
a figura soberba de uma titã,
acobreada pelas cores da base,
do batom e da pele!
Esse é o ser humano
Nestes tempos difíceis!
Categories:
basta, business,
Form:
Free verse
Genialidade
Todas as pessoas
em qualquer época
da vida, são
pessoas geniais.
De fato,
todas pessoas,
todo o mundo é um gênio,
basta julgar cada uma
por sua capacidade
de ser humana,
e fazer
humanidades
mais e mais.
Categories:
basta, business,
Form:
Free verse