Best Bronzes Poems
O glorious Autumn of melancholic
Gold -
All abouts the brightly lit
Woodlands
Your wonderful artistry behold!
Tinted bronzes,
Darting between awkward firs
Of sobering Evergreen,
Loiter inside mauve havens
Splashed with palest yellows -
And dappled with many differing
Limes
Throughout this variegated Theme;
A myriad of rustling contentment,
Sweetest contrasting charms,
Complimentary...
Softly whispering leafy hues...
Hushed...most elegantly serene.
Bursting into the swelling copses
And invading between the
Dwindling fields:
Auburn, primrose and lilac views -
Abundant with seasons
Celebrations
That so magnificently infuse!
Glowering in simmering sunset,
And spluttering in misty dawn:
Afire with all the orbs oozing
Revelry,
That upon barkened furniture,
To thus gild - and resplendently
Adorn!
Now is the time
That dry tinkling leaves
Give musical resonance
To a breath exhaled from
A breeze...
Fanning the boughs roaring flames
That each out-stretched branch
does eagerly seize,
Fired from the eternal torch
That immortal Ceridwen tirelessly
Sought;
Whilst I hang upon evocative
Memories
That this arresting moment briefly
Caught.
Blazing with a consummate passion
Ignited from a poets grappling
Thoughts:
The Muses to this joyous splendour
Were summarily summoned
And brought;
But as elusive as the enchanting
Notes
From the intoxicating pipes of
Evasive Pan...
So as elusive the words of the
Unwritten verse
That so evade this singular man.
So burn! You gaily painted colours,
Within abandoned restrain,
Your dizzying carousel
A whirling kaleidoscope
Upon an artists ever changing frame.
Soft ochres and dappled browns
Mixed with vivid orange and crimson
Red...
Applied lavishly from the palette
Of Artemis
Over which the vibrant pastes
Are thinly spread.
A riot of pastel shades
All exploding forth -
With the raging power of a
Supernova
Of an immense, dazzling force!
All hail to the almighty:
From the devout to the Divine...
And all hail to the Grandeur
And Majesty -
Of his awe-inspiring design!
Categories:
bronzes, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Panes of dirty glass conceal the past
where futures were tied to land and soil.
And pa fingers a hand full of dirt
reflecting on years of pain and toil.
A rusty sun bronzes a foil star
ma hung in the window for good luck.
And a small candle awaits a match
to defend against the dark when struck.
Hunger gnaws at our empty stomachs,
everything we plant is doomed to die.
And yet, ma slips me and pa a smile,
showing us where her loyalties lie.
Looking up to a burnt almond sky,
she searches for clouds other than dust.
And scans for life in neighboring homes
long ago left to decay and rust.
Abandoning a dream lost to time,
ma loses hope and accepts defeat.
And I can see the pain in pa's eyes,
the trickling tears mocking his conceit.
California calls in shades of green,
with lush pastures and clear mountain streams.
And common sense says that we must move
far from this dust bowl of dying dreams.
(Quatrain)
9/23/2017
Categories:
bronzes, angst, anxiety, depression, emotions,
Form:
Quatrain
Stef, born in New Zealand’s fine country,
Moved to Canada aged 4 with her parents,
Where she had a boating accident aged 9,
Which amputated her right foot for her life.
She’s married to fellow Paralympian fast,
Canadian wheelchair racer Brent Lakatos,
And they both train at Loughborough Uni,
Where there’s a plethora of sports facilities.
Stef graduated from good Queens University,
In Biochemistry with honours and at times,
Is a professional speaker, a fashion model,
And lay preacher of the gospel and the way.
Before the accident Stephanie played rugby,
But afterwards she could not do this because,
Her prosthetic was at risk of detaching itself,
Mid-game and injuring near placed players.
So she went into track and field athletics,
Practised until she became sick and tired,
Which saw her make the 2008 Paralympics,
In Beijing when she won gold for the sprint.
She graced the podium often at small meets,
In Manchester and in London. Christchurch
Saw her flourish when she won two bronzes:
One for the long jump and one for the 200m.
In Swansea at the European games in 2014,
Stef took home for the T44 long jump a gold,
And in the London Paras which introduced,
So many to disability sport, she won a silver.
In Rio she won another silver, on the mark
For TeamGB. She hasn’t always represented,
Britain because when she was much younger,
She competed for Canada’s rocky territory.
Categories:
bronzes, sports, strength,
Form:
Blank verse
Sun bronzes my wings
As I flutter in the wind
Drinking the nectar of flowers
Chasing lovers
in skies bright or grim
Dancing on clouds swirly white
Softly I sing of natures right
To love all other breathing things
A God who says different
Is a serpent who sins
Categories:
bronzes, allah, art, beauty, bible,
Form:
Free verse
Ashley best describes himself as,
Cheeky, funny and also happy as,
He’s a student at South Bank Uni,
Of sports coaching in London city.
He is a very keen table tennis player,
Started playing in primary, 7th year,
And just missed out on London 2012,
But was at Rio 2016 with his helve.
2013 and Ashley won many bronzes:
Italy, Hungary and had Czech ounces;
So in 2014 Ashley won UK nationally,
In class 8-9 singles, phenomenally.
Then breakthrough: Slovenian Open.
In the team event, you’re no token,
And at the Cote d’Azur International,
Ashley won 2 bronzes medals brutal.
In 2015 he won in the team events,
Had Italian, HU, CZ and DE tents,
And in Denmark reached the quarters,
At the European Champs, garters.
In Copa, Costa Rica, in the singles,
He took silver in swift class 9 jingles,
And in Rio made the quarters, team,
With K Daybell. He’s Erbs palsy lean.
Categories:
bronzes, sports, strength,
Form:
Heroic Couplet
Sara played basketball in squad ParalympicsGB,
At Euros, at Worlds and at Commonwealth Games,
In Manchester and in Melbourne, and had TT victory,
At the Paralympics in London with her team-mate.
Her boyfriend introduced her to table tennis nifty,
And she’s a paralytic, from a virus at the age of 15,
“Meeting people in the same situation as [myself]
was a real eye-opener…it opened up my life again.“
In 2013 Sara and Jane Campbell took the gold,
In the team event class 1-3 in Bayreuth, Germany,
And then she won bronze for herself in the singles,
To ride right onto 2 bronzes in Slovenia, Slovakia.
Illness and surgery were then her disappointing lot,
But she returned in the Lignano Master Open 2016,
To win a fine silver for the team. In Rio, the quarters,
For both singles and team matches. Born 12/04/1990.
Categories:
bronzes, sports, strength,
Form:
Verse
Down they swooped, so keen,
In perfect vee formation
Bronzes, browns, a green
Two blues and, showing elation,
Lastly, at midpoint, the great golden Queen
Beloved of our tiny nation,
Their plate sized eyes awhirr
As they sought new station.
The sulphur smell
Near knocked us out
Reminiscent of the hell
Of the recent rout.
They parted ranks to let her through
She landed, claws ascreech
Then the cohhort came in two by two
Onto the hold’s deserted beech.
We stood and stared, such is their beauty
Wiry wings preening, scales a-gleaming,
Nostrils wide, flaring; we forgot our duty
Watching the huge claws, necks and tails a-steaming.
A cry was heard, we’d near forgotten
The riders perched high and tiny a-dragon back
We caught ‘em as they slid down harness rotten
From exposure to dragon-flame
And invasive. searing enemy thread
Dragonback fighting is no game
‘Twas a mercy none were dead.
Into the hot baths the riders tumbled
Soon to get out, red and scrubbed,
And all to refectory they then stumbled
And as they ate, shoulders would be rubbed.
Outside dragons noble, groomed, of all harnesses relieved
Rose as one and pointed to the prairie
Soon became small, on their way to feed
On herd-beasts fleshy and not too hairy
And so we went to the inner ring, there
To spread fresh grass for dragons’ beds
And check their water with great care
And bring pillows for their noble heads.
[Apologies to Anne McCaffrey.]
Categories:
bronzes, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Ellie became instantly popular on Twitter,
For her Rio entrance to the 50m butterfly,
Which became known affectionately as,
The “gangster entrance”, her huge jacket.
Ellie was diagnosed in November of 2012,
Just after the London Paralympic Games,
When she was inspired by Ellie Simmonds,
To get into the pool and achieve ambitions -
She was diagnosed with Perthes hip disease,
Already she had achondroplasia, dwarfism,
But this meant she has physio every day,
A tough routine which perhaps you adjust to.
Her first international senior was 2015 Berlin -
She’s only fifteen, born on 30th August 2001 -
At the Internationale Deutsche Meisterschaften,
Where she set a WR, took 1 silver, 1 bronze.
On the run-up to Rio at the Euros in Portugal,
Ellie won a silver in the 50 metres butterfly S6,
Bronzes in the 50m, 100m and 400m freestyle,
So in Rio she won gold butterfly, bronze free.
Categories:
bronzes, sports, strength, water,
Form:
Blank verse
Chris was born on 9th July in 1993,
And he fights every day in training,
At the British Judo Centre in Walsall,
A Centre of Excellence, producing.
He lost his job as a car mechanic,
Through his ocular albinism diagnosis,
But now trains with determination,
Professionally, to win the Paralympics.
Competing in the -100kg category,
Chris won three bronzes as a junior,
Then at the Scottish Open in 2014,
Won the gold; Welsh Senior, a silver.
At the Euros in Portugal in 2015,
He won bronze against a Russian,
And in Seoul, still 2015, the Worlds,
He took bronze: a Rio Paralympian.
Categories:
bronzes, strength, summer,
Form:
Rhyme
Jessica-Jane is best known for London 2012,
When she won the gold in a dramatic finish,
In the swimming 200 metres freestyle event,
In the S14 class, for intellectual disabilities.
She has autism and was born in August 1996,
She was the first S14 swimmer to win a gold.
For her performance at 2012 and charity work,
She was awarded the MBE 2013 for her efforts.
Since 2013 she’s been a Mencap ambassador,
Where she’s raised funds and much awareness,
And she’s also involved in as an ambassador for,
The Norwich City Community Sports Foundation.
In 2013 at the World Champs, Montreal, Canada,
Jessica-Jane won the gold plus a silver, a bronze,
And then in 2014 in Eindhoven in the Netherlands,
She won silver for the free, bronzes back, medley.
At the Worlds 2015, Glasgow, in the back, medley,
Jessica-Jane took two golds, and in the freestyle,
She won the silver, so in the 2016 Euros, Portugal,
Jessica-Jane won one gold free, and two silvers.
But to make it to Rio this champ needed surgery,
‘Cos there was something wrong with her throat.
She got this, and in Rio she won freestyle silver,
Individual medley silver and backstroke bronze.
Categories:
bronzes, sports, strength,
Form:
Blank verse
Laura was born with her foot at the wrong angle,
Which is the condition of Talipes, but many ops,
Corrected this, although she was left standing,
With very little ankle movement. She loves sport.
Through school she found hockey and in 2011,
Playing in the indoor squad at the Europeans,
She won, or her team won, a top silver medal,
So she still has fond memories of the game.
Indeed, Laura now competes in sprinting in T44,
And has been known to take the long jump, 4.48m,
And at the Euros in 2014 she won two bronzes,
For the 100m, 200m: she outclassed the best.
2016 and Grosseto in Italy, Laura came second,
In the 100m, and in the 200m she came third,
Such that she won a place at Rio, taking a detour,
By the World games just before in Doha 2015.
Categories:
bronzes, sports, strength,
Form:
Blank verse
Big Ben trains hard in the gym,
To prepare for his athletics games,
And, training in Coventry, hymn,
There’s a local interest in games.
“I’ve been able to train 2 to 3 times
a day, 6 days a week, I get the miles
in on the track and do the big [mines],
weights, in the gym. [I’m all smiles].
I’m making sure my body’s in the best
way possible leading into…competition
whether it’s the [Euro Champ’s chest],
the Paralympics, or just [in meet action].”
Ben wheelchair races in class T34,
And in 2015 broke the British record,
For the 100, 200, 400 and 800m door,
Born with CP, suffocated by his cord.
In his teens he took up swimming,
But found he had a chlorine allergy,
So he went into wheelchair racing,
After a British Athletics talent day.
The Euros in Swansea took place,
In 2014, and Ben collected a bronze,
For the 800m which he did deftly ace,
In a time of 1 min 56 + 11 milliseconds.
Next came another Euro, Grosseto,
Two years later. Ben scored thrice,
In the 100, 400 and 800m gusto,
To win bronzes for his thrown dice.
He did participate in the Rio Games,
Saying: “Just being able to call
yourself a Paralympian and, [dames],
being able to be in the Village [tall]
and rub shoulders with some
of the best athletes - that is
something that drives me [on]
everyday.” Coventry’s top biz.
Categories:
bronzes, body, desire, health, race,
Form:
Quatrain
Andrew came in behind Daniel Dias,
Brazil’s most popular swimming star,
Three times at Rio: 2 bronze, 1 silver,
In the 50m butterfly, IM and the back.
He’s from Glasgow, born short limbed,
On the 29th day of November in 1996,
He boasts Mearns Castle High bricks,
And began swimming at seven years.
He benefited well and very truly from,
Scottish Disability Sport competitions,
By way of meets and gala occasions,
Where he scored across the boards.
In Berlin at the Europeans in 2011,
He won bronze for the S5 200m IM,
And also won the silver butterfly pen,
To explode onto the scene with grit.
Montreal in Canada and the Worlds,
In 2013, he secured 2 silver, 1 bronze,
In the back, the IM and the free lawns,
Where he just missed on a gold ace.
In 2014, European Championships,
Which were in Eindhoven in Holland,
Andrew, victory gold thrice did land,
Plus two front crawl freestyle silvers.
2015 and Glasgow’s World contest,
And Andrew won two silver medals,
For freestyle and for the back pedals,
And also won two bronzes, fought.
Then Funchal 2016 came, Portugal,
Which sent Andrew to the Rio Paras,
Because there he won 4 gold medals,
For back, 2 for free and for butterfly.
Categories:
bronzes, sports, strength,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
~~~
When winds blow strong from out the west
And autumn leaves come swirling down
so full of colour full of zest
When winds blow strong from out the west
the burnished bronzes I like best
will vie with reds and golds and brown
When winds blow strong from out the west
And Autumn leaves come swirling down
~~~
Margaret Foster 26th September 2014
Categories:
bronzes, autumn,
Form:
Triolet
Claire was born disabled, no left forearm,
And at school hid it well under her jumpers,
But swimming let her accept, love her body,
Such that today she’s a swimming medalist.
Born in Redditch in Worcestershire county,
Which is in the north-east of fine England,
On the 21st day of May’s month in 1988,
From Leeds she has a linguistics degree.
Her biggest medal haul was London 2012
Where she won two very beauteous silvers,
One for the 100 metres breaststroke SB8,
And one for the medley. And a bronze free.
In the Athens Paralympics she won bronzes,
One for the 100m S9 back, one for the medley,
And in Beijing she took home another bronze,
For the breaststroke this time, the 100 metres.
In 2016 at the Euros in Portugal she won gold,
For the 4x100m medley relay, also two bronzes,
One for the 100m butterfly, another for breast,
Which took her to Rio 100m breaststroke silver.
Categories:
bronzes, sports, strength,
Form:
Blank verse