Best Blandishments Poems
O luckless maid! such beauteous
blush with modest blandishments
did'st flash to woo a Prince
o'erthrown, in madness' grasp!
Still-born, ne'er meant to flourish,
true love was the hapless prey,
Polonius lay cold, extinguish'd
by the Dane's misguided sway.
It drove thee mindless, to a frenzy,
death thy only destination,
borne by rippling river's eddy
to thy final resting place.
Categories:
blandishments, sad,
Form:
Verse
Washday at the Zoo
Peg out the elephants!
Hang up the hippos!
Let the bison and wildebeest
blow and billow in the wind!
Fluff out your flamingoes
with fabric softeners.
Stick the swans on a pre-wash
and get 'em whiter than white.
Rhinos can go in on 95
and they'll still come out
a disappointing grunge of khaki-grey.
(So much for the blandishments
of the adman).
Do tigers and zebras
on a low cycle
or the stripes will run.
Take care with gerbels,
they're liable to shrink.
Sort out yer primates
and read the labels --
howlers are different from chimps.
Oh! And watch out for snakes!
They tend to slither about
at the bottom of the laundry basket.
One emerald green one
amongst a flock of pastel doves
will cause untold havoc!
Margaret Clerici
Categories:
blandishments, funny
Form:
Free verse
Moving house
Breaking news, time- brandished
My auntie moving house
Joining the last of the dots of blandishments
Left dangling by kin far and wide
While she coasted in the east
Gonna cease to be where
Her great grandpa felled
Trees to make doors for a dwelling,
Which helplessly helped the exodus
By Tamravarni
Which is also river like her
And in movement like her intent.
8 jul 13, Freeverse
S.Jagathsimhan Nair
For Skat's Freeverse contest
Categories:
blandishments, home, moving on,
Form:
Free verse
It lies beneath the interred
spirit of a man, when
death is close at hand.
I sense it manifest within
that restive, intermittent spark
that had seemed to be no more,
now deterring my eternal rest.
But I have a selling job to do.
No longer may I tender forth
my charms and hope it is enough;
a stroll upon the evening air
builds not at all upon enlightenment.
No, I am the customer and most susceptible
to blandishments much greater than
the restive moments I may find
in play and fortune that I win.
All that is expendable
when I can revel in the healing truth,
there along the well-worn path
of thought. There is light
to challenge myself again,
and no one dares protest.
It's all I have, of course.
What feeds me is the plenitude
of fullness in the empty places
answering my call. Senses are
irrelevant. I need watch no more.
I seek instead the sea cliffs
where echoes of the lost
may catch the wind, seed the earth,
and dissipate.
There is my reward, and earth
is the richer for it.
In gratitude, I hear them still!
Their cries are flight released,
but age and death are meaningless.
The cycle is complete,
~
Categories:
blandishments, age,
Form:
Free verse
O luckless maid! such beauteous
blush with modest blandishments
did'st flash to woo a Prince
o'erthrown, in madness' grasp!
Still-born, ne'er meant to flourish,
true love was the hapless prey,
Polonius lay cold, extinguish'd
in the Dane's misguided sway.
It drove thee mindless, to a frenzy,
death thy only destination,
borne by rippling river's eddy
to thy final resting place.
Categories:
blandishments, death, tribute,
Form:
Quatrain
It’s ironic how those touting tolerance
So singularly lack the trait they tout—
Can a want of self-awareness account for it?
Appeals to reason roundly fail.
Indeed they seem inimical to logic:
They cry “Love!” and “Tolerance!”
While spewing hate and exclusion.
Can they not see their hypocrisy?
Have they no sense of the disconnect
Between their stated aims and real deeds?
The oracle said: Know thyself—
Self-awareness is the beginning of wisdom.
But the time indeed is out of joint—
They have become so self-absorbed
They no longer see each other
Except as virtual reflections,
Set pieces in a world reduced to
A kind of one-character play,
Where they are both star and cast…
And has this not a longtime been
How we define insanity?
Welcome to the Cyber Dark Ages!—
Where people sitting side by side oblivious
And heedless only communicate in tweets,
Where real human relationships have been coopted
By narcissistic digitized connections.
The divide between the actual and the virtual
Is blurred and then disintegrated, the sheer
Integrity of concepts like reality and fictiveness
Overwhelmed in a tsumami of silicon blandishments.
And this enslavement to technology is integrally
Part of the growing lack of compassion and charity
That more and more usurps our public discourse.
For the “elephant in the room” may yet turn out to be
That rough beast that slouched towards Bethlehem
To be born... here -- now-- among us.
Categories:
blandishments, change, internet, prejudice, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
If I had a week of total ease,
Nothing to do but what I please,
I know that I would have to roam
Far from the confines of my home.
At home is where the work would be,
If I didn’t find it, it would find me.
I would sign into a splendid spa
With blandishments that would overawe.
I’d soak in their floral scented tubs,
With standby masseuses to give me rubs.
When with other guests I’ve interacted,
Eaten food with the calories extracted,
We’ll retire to the den for a game of chess.
I’ll dazzle them all with my finesse.
After it’s over, this week of bliss,
I'd go back to work, which I truly miss.
For Carol Brown's contest Won no. 1 along with many others.
Categories:
blandishments, fantasy
Form:
Rhyme
O luckless maid! such beauteous
blush with modest blandishments
did'st flash to woo a Prince
o'erthrown, in madness' grasp!
Still-born, ne'er meant to flourish,
true love was the hapless prey,
Polonius lay cold, extinguish'd
in the Dane's misguided sway.
It drove thee mindless, to a frenzy,
death thy only destination,
borne by rippling river's eddy
to thy final resting place.
Categories:
blandishments, death,
Form:
Quatrain
Your blandishments
twist___twist___twist
contorting my form
abash my mind
wisp___wisp___wisp
Categories:
blandishments, confusion,
Form:
Light Verse
Former CIA Director
John Brennan scathing headlines
Washington Post op-ed sharply
published critical accusations
muted excoriation slams
Commander in Chief
volcanic blatant pathological lying
spews like lava his American
foreign policy boilerplate brazenly
bastardizes by banditry blueprint,
balefully balkanizing beautiful bracketed
booming brady bunch brand,
bests best-buy buffer braking balanced
bastion, bolstered beloved benighted
bequeathed bicameral bipartisan bliss,
Baptizing bacchanalian buffoonish bombast,
betokening bobble-headed Bumstead,
barmy bartered bride bravado, bizarrely
brash brassiness, blindsiding behavior,
beetlebrowed bonehead, bafflingly baldfaced,
bankrupting, blithely bollixing,
bombastically belittling, badmouthing,
banally blasting, banana-boat baseless,
bearish blandishments, beastly boastful
boosterism, bellicosely boorish, bug-eyed,
bighearted, bigoted blathering breeding
blunderbuss bloopers, bewildering
bloodletting bellyache blight,
brazenly being bandying bellwether,
blitzing bourgeoisie balderdash,
balking but beaming barbaric
berserk ballyhoo backbiting,
backslapping backstabbing
blacklisting bromides,
besetting basic bestowed blooming,
Bobbitizing bedeviling beneficial
bulwark bereft badinage, ballistically ballooning
betrayal birthing bedlam.
Categories:
blandishments, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Light Verse
“Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.”
“A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
“Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.”
“I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.”
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
“Many people in this country have paid the price before me and many will pay the price after me.”
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
“Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.”
“It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.”
“It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.”
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
“A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must have the economic strength to stand up to the blandishments of government officials. It must have sufficient independence from vested interests to be bold and inquiring without fear or favour. It must enjoy the protection of the constitution, so that it can protect our rights as citizens.”
https://youtu.be/wxNOoMvjeDc
Categories:
blandishments, blessing, education, meaningful, memorial
Form:
Heroic Couplet
O luckless maid! such beauteous
blush with modest blandishments
did'st flash to woo a Prince
o'erthrown, in madness' grasp!
Still-born, ne'er meant to flourish,
true love was the hapless prey,
Polonius lay cold, extinguish'd
by the Dane's misguided sway.
It drove thee mindless, to a frenzy,
death thy only destination,
borne by rippling river's eddy
to thy final resting place.
Categories:
blandishments, death,
Form:
Quatrain
O luckless maid! such beauteous
blush with modest blandishments
did'st flash to woo a Prince
o'erthrown, in madness' grasp!
Still-born, ne'er meant to flourish,
true love was the hapless prey,
Polonius lay cold, extinguish'd
by the Dane's misguided sway.
It drove thee mindless, to a frenzy,
death thy only destination,
borne by rippling river's eddy
to thy final resting place.
Categories:
blandishments, writing,
Form:
Quatrain
Males have always made it easy for me to veto
either by words or actions or both.
You started so altruistic and added a brainless flare,
I’ve never imagined one on goggles with such virility
with books and tie, making his swagger uniquely swanky.
This dissertation will prove interesting and worthy
as you plant in my isolated garden,
so many Chamomiles and exotic plants
making me forget the number of times
my emotions have been subjected to an Ambulance.
Your shawama description
blew up a vehicle from my laughter
yet flows with sincerity, grace and caliber.
You, on sweaty tight singlet
and pelvic hugging boxers, on the other hand
presents like a delicious volauvent.
Your heart speaks innocently
in a thick romantic brogue.
I’ve enjoyed the words coming out of it
which are more than mere blandishments.
I’ll hold onto them and carry your actions
like a gold-plated Candelabra.
My heart is in great amity with yours
and its acceptance, totally of its own volition
despite my ‘Yes’ being a cataclysmic event.
I’ve long signed the blank cheque
already hoping for ante-natal sessions by your own doing.
Categories:
blandishments, love, proposal, relationship, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
A pattern from our history - albeit anecdotal
Pick any evil SOB - he's probably teetotal
Hitler didn't touch the booze, and neither Torquemada
Bin Laden with a drink to choose took yak's milk - nothing harder
Pol Pot too forsook the brew, Bieber was too young
Stalin may have had a few but not your Mao Tse Tung
Donald Trump, of president's the Idiot du Jour
He may love your blandishments but not a heavy pour
Risking some hyperbole but very plainly stated
You can shove sobriety it's clearly over rated
If we're all to get engaged in evil's true demise
Don't waste your time getting enraged - here's wisdom from the wise
To rid their inhumanities, step back awhile and think
The course to alter history's to buy that man a drink
Categories:
blandishments, drink, evil, history, humor,
Form:
Ballad