Best Booked Poems
We harvested the grapes in late autumn
when ripeness of love was at its best,
but deceit in the time of maturing
changed the passion to wrath and unrest.
Acerbic vinegar replaced sweet wine
and richness of flavour ceased to be mine.
Betrayed was the pledge of a tender vine.
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Syllable count: 10-9-10-9 10-10-10
Rhyme Scheme: a b c b d d d
Novel: Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Contest: Titles of Novels
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Placed 3rd
© paul callus ~ 10 June 2016
Seduced by the selective solitudes...I pick one
I chose the 100th... amongst the sacrificial setting sun
Frost filled frozen forests...forever frowning
As my breath spreads thru the vastness...forever drowning
Tic toc tic toc...my thoughts trapped in an elliptical time
100 years of solitude... panegyrical punishment for my crime
What am I guilty of?...daring to...Love!
TITLES OF NOVELS - Poetry Contest
By nette onclaud
One Hundred Years Of Solitude ( Gabriel Marquez Garcia)
June.10.2016
My form...a mixture of alliteration, rhyme and free verse.
Rhyme scheme aabb,cc,...d
His bluest eye, oh that blue,
Like the azure sky above;
As deep as the blue ocean,
Dead eyes, fathomless.
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June 23, 2016
Poetry/Dodoitsu/Part 2- Fully Booked
Copyright Protected, ID 16-803-635-0
All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym.
Inspiration - "The Bluest Eye" Novel Title
For the contest, Part 2, Fully Booked
sponsor, Nette Onclaud
Third Place
Cuddling close, near bedside table
a blanket wrapped, cold rainy night.
Mind thrums journey, a book on navel,
playground of words, feelings delight.
As vermicules squirm, sculpted souls spark
lighting white pages, of zillion black letters.
Trailing love, smile, thrill,... adventures dark,
touch of sadness... hostile heartless haters.
Opens Alibaba's cave of jewels and gold
wafting thoughts sail on magic carpet.
World of strangers, imagination unfold
Just can't stop,... reading has started.
Wilderness of books, a grandiose treasure,
a corpus of knowledge, exciting...arcane.
Shelved floor to ceiling, a visual pleasure
drunken in syllables, an addiction insane.
Soft slow caress, of flipping through pages,
book in lap, heavy eyes.. droop to slumber.
Heavenly relation, warms solitude cages,
Bookworms, !!..why we slang?, I often wonder.
12th March 2019
Kai Michael Neumann's Bookworm Contest
Part 2 - Fully Booked
War and Peace
Praise the rights that all mankind
live together in sweet peace.
Damn the wrongs of bitter war...
choices...live or die.
Sandra M. Haight
~4th Place~
Contest: Part 2 - Fully Booked
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Judged: 06/25/2016
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
In sentient shades of silence
The heart endures from tyrants
Love lives lachrymosely long
My heart shows its prong.
June.22.2016
PART 2, FULLY BOOKED - Poetry Contest
By nette onclaud
~compose ONE dodoitsu: 7, 7, 7,5 syl count: 4 lines
*The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter ( Carson Mc Culler)
The lovely bones are buried deep
inside the cold and black hard ground,
yet near the beast she always hangs around!
Meanwhile, her loved ones worry and they weep.
A pity they can’t know the ghost of her
now daily plagues her murderer,
because her spirit would not sleep!
Written June 11, 2016 for the TITLES OF NOVELS Contest of nette onclaud
Title used is "The Lovely Bones" (Alice Sebold)
My poetry form rhymes a/b/b/a/c/c/a.
The syllable count from line one to line seven is 8/8/10/10/10/8/8.
Destruction, devastation,
murders, mayhem, anarchy,
ravages and the ruins of wars...
Lost therein is peace.
~Part 2, Fully Booked contest by nette onclaud
~Title: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy / 06/23/16
Fate intervened on this day
I overslept... missed my train.
Find out about the rail crash -
Not a soul survived.
7,7,7,5 checked with how many syllables
Book Chosen Eleven Minutes by Paolo Coehlo
Contest Part 2 Fully booked
Sponsor Nette Onclaud
06~23~16
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
desolate heart on a quest
in pursuit of love once more
seeking prey with one behest
promise of rapport
6/22/16
Part 2, Fully Booked
nette onclaud
based on the title of the book:
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
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Form:
I roam the alley of bruised dreams
The hanging lamps fade, so unkind--
My soul trapped as night blasphemes
Of farewell’s plight nailing this mind.
He’s gone far off to taint our love---
In anguish, I search heaven's dove;
Yet blackbirds howl from skies above.
Titles Of Novels, nette on claud Contest
10th June 2016
quatrain and tercet in a.a.a combined
" A Farewell To Arms"
Anorexia has taken its toll, its plain to see
Bulimia is a curse of which I wish I were free
Can’t believe that you are still in love with me
Don’t ever give up on our wedding vows, this I pray
Eating food - you always ensure I do this every day
Fighting my demons, together every step of the way
Got to jump on the scales and see how much I weigh!
My invented form is an alphabet acrostic rhyme. Rhyme scheme a,a,a,b,b,b,b
Title Chosen Eat, Pray, Love
Contest Titles of Novels Sponsored by Nette Onclaud
06~10~16
Eat Pray Love
The body, soul and heart are one
each must endure when life's begun
body eats to thrive
soul prays to revive
heart loves to survive
Eat, pray, love...body, soul, and heart;
must serve as one...not à la carte.
Sandra M. Haight
~5th Place
Contest: Titles Of Novels
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Judged: 06/14/2016
Inspired by Book Title: 'Eat, Pray, Love' by Elizabeth Gilbert
Form: Rhyme 7 lines
Syllables: 8, 8, 5, 5, 5, 8, 8
Rhyme Scheme: a a b b b c c
Her train arrived right on time
a presence lost in the crowd
love’s interminable end
Eleven minutes
6/22/2016
-Eleven Minutes (Paolo Coehlo)
submitted to – Part 2, Fully Booked – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Nette Onclaud