Best Cbc Poems
morning cbc
alert to all consumers
your program's been writ
wall street controls andt
the object is behavior
it is to be changed
without one's knowledge
through psychological names
on consumer goods
to millenials
you are right for the fodder
that feeds the machine
you get what you buy
technology addiction
it's all in the name
and you've got sore feet
walking all day with head down
the world escaped
to your private cell
or your home pad your i-pod
movie in private
your present was writ
technology has you trapped
the institution
provides walking-cells
and i-pods (latin: sore feet)
just another screen
stan sand
Categories:
cbc, abuse, age, analogy, anti
Form:
Haiku
“Tell me, what it is you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
[The Summer Day ~ Mary Oliver]
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
I plan to travel far and wide
across the mountains, oceans deep.
The roaming wind will be my guide.
The gods will watch me from above
and fruit of wisdom help me reap.
My heart will taste the joy of love.
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Poetry Contest “Tell Me”
aba, cbc rhyme, 8 syllables per line
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Placed 4th
© paul callus 4th July 2016
Categories:
cbc, life,
Form:
Rhyme
*Image of Japanese Elm Tree by CBC.
Japan Surrenders
Japan's crimson sun disrobes a dawning night rise sky,
An elm tree parasol's her coral samurais while they lie.
2022 February 22
*1st Place*
A BRIAN STRAND SHORTIE
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2022 February 23
*2nd Place*
Bite Size Poem No.37
~~Line Gauthier: Judged 2022 March 01
Categories:
cbc, color, extended metaphor, sunset,
Form:
Couplet
of vast nature be part
hear the salty sea waves rush in with froth and foam
steer the heart
stretch out on sand
merge to make sea, sand and sun home
disband
go dive
swim, walk, sleep, roam
live
of vast nature be part,
merge to make sea, sand and sun home
live
6th placement
written 05/Jan/2021
Mohan Chutani sponsor
Minichu format: Total 12 lines (4 stanzas of 3 lines each)
Rhyme scheme: Aba, cBc, dbD, ABD. 4th stanza consists of repeat of: 1st line of stanza 1, 2nd line of stanza 2, and 3rd line of stanza 3. Syllable count : Stanza 1: 6,12,3, Stanza 2: 4,8,2, Stanza 3: 2,4,1, Stanza 4: 6,8,1
Categories:
cbc, home, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
A brand new year will soon begin…new page,
one sheet of twelve to see upon the wall;
it cleanly hangs, no scribbles, signs of age.
New Year...so many days to get things done;
on a clean slate, set new plans big and small,
before the twelve fly off, each one by one.
This year, another gift of life’s delight,
again to watch all seasons come and go
and feel the surge of Spring’s renewal rite.
Perhaps to now enjoy in better ways,
the Summer sun and flowers; Autumn's glow,
then Winter wonderland of snow-filled days.
A brand new year begins so soon…new page...
This year, another gift of life’s delight.
Sandra M. Haight
~1st Place~
Contest: New Year
Sponsor: Janice Canerdy
Form: Cornish Sonnet
Judged: 01/16/2018
The rhyme scheme is aba cbc ded fef ad
Written in Iambic Pentameter
Categories:
cbc, new year, today,
Form:
Rhyme
One leaf left on tree
No undue unhappiness
Always in great spree
One leaf left on tree
All by itself in the airiness
Feels never lonely or retiree
One leaf left on tree
It spends itself as it sways
Breathing with utmost glee
Last leaf not the end ever
As its time comes, collapses
New buds sprout by the scent of water
The poem is in the form Tercet (Three lines Rhyme scheme aba, cbc,dbd, ebe). The form is not available on PS so I have posted it under rhyme.
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July 17, 2014
Theme: Renewal
Form: Tercet
Contest: The Scent of Water by Faye Gibson
**The poem is based on the real scene I saw two days back from my window.
I have taken some snaps and small video. I remembered the story The last
Leaf by O Henry and was inspired to write there and then.
*** Inspired by O Henry's short story The Last Leaf **
Categories:
cbc, hope, life,
Form:
Tercet
Summer beneath clear sky,
Squalling seagulls swoop to pilfer a bit of food
hurl up high.
Boys bask with joy
in the sun breezy playful mood.
Enjoy.
Blue sea,
honey-sand you'd
see.
Kites fly in open sky
as they run in a cheerful mood.
See!
1/12/2021
Sun And Sand Minichu Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Mohan Chutani
1. This is a New form of Rhyme named MlNICHU (proposed by Mohan Chutani)
2. Total12 lines (4 stanzas of 3 lines each)
3. Rhyme scheme: Aba, cBc, dbD, ABD.
4. 4th stanza consists of repeat of 1st line of stanza1, 2nd line of stanza 2, and 3rd line of stanza 3.
Poem should stick to a chosen theme through all stanzas. A twist can be introduced in third stanza, if required by the theme, to make it more interesting.
5. Syllable count :
Stanza 1: 6,12,3 (3 times 2,4,1)
Stanza 2: 4,8,2 ( 2 times 2,4,1)
Stanza 3: 2,4,1
Stanza 4: 6,8,1.
Categories:
cbc, beach, summer, sun,
Form:
Rhyme
Give Minichu a go,
Mohan’s new poetry format is lot of fun,
simply do!
slowly it shrinks,
as lower stanzas are written,
but links!
give start,
you will be done,
smart!
Give Minichu a go,
as lower stanzas are written,
smart!
1st placement
Written 4/october/2020
sponsor Mohan Chutani
Minichu on ‘writing Minichu or not writing Minichu’ contest
Minichu format: Total 12 lines (4 stanzas of 3 lines each) Rhyme scheme: Aba, cBc, dbD, ABD. 4th stanza consists of repeat of: 1st line of stanza 1, 2nd line of stanza 2, and 3rd line of stanza 3. Syllable count : Stanza 1: 6,12,3, Stanza 2: 4,8,2, Stanza 3: 2,4,1, Stanza 4: 6,8,1
Categories:
cbc, conflict, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
Whenever the day begins
Amidst misery
I am in the Looney bin.
If I ask for a moment
Of lucidity
I am married to torment.
Do you see my dilemma?
The insanity!
This is not my agenda.
I can’t switch from fright to fight
With this remedy
Man forged in a sleepless night.
But I do want to be seen
Avoiding crazy
Like everyman between.
Split Haiku in opposite syllables (7-5-7)
rhyme scheme- ABA CBC DBD EBE FBF
3/28/2016
Categories:
cbc, confusion, crazy, depression, emo,
Form:
Haiku
Let go of, to get to
All we see unreal, why for then confusion
Joy renew
There’s no hero
The manifest, an illusion
Zero
Thoughts stream
The conclusion
Dream
Let go of, to get to
The manifest, an illusion
Dream
27-April-2022
HMS, Rhymezone
Let's Minichu on zero Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Mohan Chutani
MlNICHU is as follows:
1. Total12 lines (4 stanzas of 3 lines each)
2. Rhyme scheme: Aba, cBc, dbD, ABD.
3. 4th stanza consists of repeat of 1st line of stanza1, 2nd line of stanza 2, and 3rd line of stanza 3.
4. Poem should stick to a chosen theme through all stanzas. A twist can be introduced in third stanza, if required by the theme, to make it more interesting.
5. Syllable count : Stanza 1: 6,12,3 Stanza 2: 4,8,2 Stanza 3: 2,4,1 Stanza 4: 6,8,1.
Categories:
cbc, dream, life, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
far from wintry England
into caressing warmth of a tropical beach
sun and sand
fun and frolick
in a lazy temperate breach
uptick
recoup
recharge, wild peach
sloop
far from wintry England
in a lazy temperate breach
sloop
4.1.2021
Note:
Format of the New form of Rhyme named MlNICHU is as follows:
1. Total12 lines (4 stanzas of 3 lines each)
2. Rhyme scheme: Aba, cBc, dbD, ABD.
3. 4th stanza consists of repeat of 1st line of stanza1, 2nd line of stanza 2, and 3rd line of stanza 3.
4. Poem should stick to a chosen theme through all stanzas. A twist can be introduced in third stanza, if required by the theme, to make it more interesting.
5. Syllable count :
Stanza 1: 6,12,3
Stanza 2: 4,8,2
Stanza 3: 2,4,1
Stanza 4: 6,8,1.
Categories:
cbc, beach, sea, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Petite five-pound Yorkie;
mother nature is full of small surprises, he's
scant dorky.
Mind of his own,
always so hungry, gnaws on his
dull bone.
Wind howls,
Tator, my whizz,
growls.
I wish my small Yorkie
could talk, instead, demands with his
growls.
4/11/2021
Poetry Contest: A Pet Minichu
Sponsored by: Mohan Chutani
6-12-3 ......4-8-2..... 2-4-1..... 6-8-1
6-12-3 ......4-8-2..... 2-4-1..... 6-8-1-
aba cbc dAd …. a,b,d third line
Minichu format: Total 12 lines (4 stanzas of 3 lines each)
Rhyme scheme: Aba, cBc, dbD, ABD.
4th stanza consists of repeat of: 1st line of stanza 1, 2nd line of stanza 2, and 3rd line of stanza
3. Syllable count : Stanza 1: 6,12,3, Stanza 2: 4,8,2, Stanza 3: 2,4,1, Stanza 4: 6,8,1
Categories:
cbc, dog,
Form:
Rhyme
Moral decay comes from man's godlessness
Like tendrils slowly choking a country.
Man's pride and arrogance, his ruthlessness
All bring about the chains of anarchy.
A blinded people turns away from God
And what is right and wrong they fail to see,
They don't know He's the Peace we should have had.
Cynhia Buhain-Baello~~~09.24.16
(Rhyme royal -poem with 7 lines in iambic pentameter
rhyme scheme could be abab/bcc or abab/cbc (a quatrain and a tercet)
or a tercet and two couplets - aba, bb, cc).
Categories:
cbc, god, inspirational, patriotic, people,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
caress me with soft love
and a lullaby it would sing a starry night
up above
fierce flame will burn
harmony of passion will light
unworn
breath kiss
by candle light
bliss
fleeting glance awakes Love
bathing in afterglow moon's light
bliss
3/5/2021
Minichu form by: Mohan Chutani
to late for the contest
1. This is a New form of Rhyme named MlNICHU (proposed by Mohan Chutani)
2. Total12 lines (4 stanzas of 3 lines each)
3. Rhyme scheme: Aba, cBc, dbD, ABD.
4. 4th stanza consists of repeat of 1st line of stanza1, 2nd line of stanza 2, and 3rd line of stanza 3.
Poem should stick to a chosen theme through all stanzas. A twist can be introduced in third stanza, if required by the theme, to make it more interesting.
5. Syllable count :
Stanza 1: 6,12,3 (3 times 2,4,1)
Stanza 2: 4,8,2 ( 2 times 2,4,1)
Stanza 3: 2,4,1
Stanza 4: 6,8,1.
Categories:
cbc, love,
Form:
Verse
Tucked among the hedge rows
in winter green of backyard glen,
the tiny maple grows.
Its leaves a golden bed
for rabbit, mouse or partridge hen,
with strands of pine straw wed.
Beauty to all who see
the silence deep on scene of night,
pureness akin to chi
Rising sharply from brush,
doves cloister in concord of flight,
at mornings's hint of blush.
Nov. 21, 2012 Charles Henderson
I have this listed as a triolet, but it is not.
My rhyme scheme is aba, cbc, ded, fef
Categories:
cbc, nature,
Form:
Triolet