Best Identically Poems
Give me an idea that I can use
and built on for the future.
Run through my mind and find something kind
overlooked to help me to endure.
Give me fables and legends of old;
all the enchanted stories.
Find something kind and run through my mind
supplanting negative memories.
Give me not only wisdom to see,
also the courage to lead.
Run through my mind and find something kind
to say to my fellow man in need.
Give me all your sorrows and the pain
that you’ve saved from your brothers.
Find something kind and run through my mind
with the hope that I can bring others.
POETIC FORM: ZaniLa Rhyme
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ZaniLa Rhyme
The following is an invented poetic form for which I have written several examples over the years. The ZaniLa Rhyme is a repeating form with an inverted refrain. It is, in essence, a syllabic form created by poet, Jan Turner. It consists of at least three 4-line stanzas; or six per the original design. It has 9 syllables per line in lines 1, 3 & 4, with the 2nd line having 7 syllables. The rhyme scheme: ab (c¹.c² –Internal Rhyme) b. The metre for L3 is: /**/ … /**/
Line three is a repeating line throughout. It contains leonine verse, divided into equal portions (syllable count), separated by a conjunction (which might remain static), resulting in the nine-syllable count. The title is derived from the first half of this line. The same line is repeated as the third line in each stanza, but the two sections of the internal rhyme are switched around in each following stanza. Thus, the line is repeated identically in each uneven numbered stanza, and the turned line, in each even number stanza. In the example, I have written it in italics and boldface for ease of reference.
Each stanza starts with the same opening words (underlined for ease of reference) but continues with a different ending which is unrhymed with any part of the stanzas—it is progressive in its statement and carries the momentum of the poem forward.
Trish n Joan
In life you sometimes do see,
A person almost identical, gee,
The funny laugh the little quirks,
One like the other smirks,
almost identically,
then one is drawn to the other,
Greenslopes hospital to die for one,
Age difference of a daughter and mother,
But strangers definetly seem to come,
One soul two people see,
Together, one set free,
Nursed by the other one,
She smiles at death and leaves,
Her alter ego grieves,
Remembers well this one,
I told the nurse that Joan had fish,
Goldfish in the swimming pool,
A loud voice in Trishs’ head,
“Said they’re Koi you bloody fool,”
a connection overruled,
Joan had the last word said,
Death aint no barrier, cool!!!
Don Johnson
Painted ladies
Platform boots
Mini skirts
Stockings, garter belts
Low slung Vs
Bubbling over with mottled mummeries
Hanging around Butcher’s Corner
On the hook
The pray orbit
Slowing down, speeding up
Slow…gone
Around a corner, back again
Red car arrives
A Tom tentatively
Extends his index finger
‘You’
Chubby whore saunters over
Too much sass
For that much ass
She leans in the car window
‘Head?’
‘Ten quid.’
He scans her lumps, ‘I’ve got five.’
‘Go on then.’
[We’ll be eating tonight]
Opening the door
Pushing the passenger seat forward
Saying
‘In the back, stay low.’
Ums and ahs; disgruntled, shamed
Hard times, little pride
Squeezing titanic thighs in-between fake leather
Beehive head pressed to the back seat
Familiar odors filling her lungs
Milk, cough drops
Shampoo, crayons
Telltale signs of little ones
Nostalgia boils
Gulping, suppressing tears
Shoving guilt from her nut
There’s work to be done, no regrets
Tires churn pebbles
Arrival at Rubber John Alley
Her office
A life
His zipper strains a loaded gun
In under five minutes
Dirty deed done
Not even time to soft boil an egg
With blind ego intact she declines a ride back
Done for the night, enough flow
Over the road
Into the park
To three little girls identically dressed
On swings, dangling legs
Ultra-white socks to their knees
Giggling
Being an identical twin means you do not have a name
For the first eighteen years of your life but keep your happy heart.
You are called “Hey, you, Twin!” or “Stone Twin!”
Except by your friends who are amazing and can tell you apart.
I could not wait to leave home, so I could wear my own stuff.
My identical twin wanted to dress identically, this was so tough.
I could not wait to get out the door and be called my own name.
I did not tell anyone I had a look-alike, who looked exactly the same.
Now we are older, and we get a kick out of dressing alike.
It takes us hours of deciding, because we can rarely agree.
I like clothes with words, a motto, or moral, or a monster on a hike.
My twin likes to wear florals, old people clothes that irritate me.
We have a twin laugh that is creepy. Our whole family rolls their eyes.
This laugh starts out loud but after a while turns silent, which is cool.
Silent laugh, our children say, not understanding or able to surmise.
That twins have a sense of humor that follows no sense or rule.
I took it all for granted. The sky, the stars, the wind,
the flowers, the grass, the trees.
I expected to see my friends every day,
it was boring, dull, humdrum, if you please.
In my mediocre mind-set, I was walking to a friends’ house,
not enjoying a breeze.
Not paying any attention to the sky, the wind,
the flowers, the grass or the trees.
When I am grabbed from behind, very hard and fast, a murderer’s plan.
I am wrenched off my feet, and thrown into a hard, cold, uncaring van.
Chloroform is placed on my face, and I think I am going to the promise land.
I am out like a light, at the mercy of a non-writing rock and roll band.
I awaken on a firm mattress in the corner of a dark and dank cage.
Hey! Long-hair yells, she is awake. Let’s make her write us a poem or a page.
I sit up and glare at the four identically dressed men whose plan in unhinged.
If they think I am writing anything for them, they should try and think again.
You are our prisoner, one tells me, in a really snotty, uppity way.
Yes, you can have food and stuff, but you are going to definitely stay
Until you write some songs for us, and they better be a hooray
Or we can get rid of you, for we are musicians, and we do not play.
They kept me for six years, when I never saw a park, dog or the sun.
Caged in a day care center with a bunch of two’s
would have been quite a bit more fun.
Wrote many songs, about a clever woman who tricked her captor
into letting her run,
But she got caught up in their drama,
this intelligent slippery songwriter of one.
For years I did not see flowers, trees, or anything I used to not see.
Beauty I used to take for granted, and not care about,
obtuse, I could be.
I did not see the stars, the sun, the snow, the moon,
or my maniacal mean cousin Lee.
Prisoner until I had written songs for them,
magic number six hundred eighty-three
Written 3-23-2019
Contest: Freedom to nothing is something
Sponsor: Deliah Ventura
When you held me, my eyes saw vision,
i quietly layed and prayed for your healing,
my heart was pounding out of my chest,
is this love mixed in with nervousness,
denying chance over and over again,
denying myself the right to happiness,
lightheaded i tried to gather my thoughts,
but as quick as they came were as quick as they were lost,
this vision of form that i vaguely could see,
matched identically to me,
and i saw myself instantly,
is this him or is this me?,
the shock froze my thoughts, my heart stood still,
i can not express in my heart what i feel,
i could not catch the words as fast as they ran,
as comfort filled my heart they didn't need to be said,
they knew no fear of a mistake,
they weren't scared of what not to say,
and in stillness as you held my hand,
peace caught my heart all over again,
Oh my God, these different ways,
Leads to your home.
I don’t know that is direct to you.
If you met me in a way,
How shall I recognise you?
What language do you speak?
There are different languages,
If I shall be unable to understand you,
Then
What shall I do?
Oh my God, identically,
There are changes and time is changing,
Seasons are growing and dying,
Their merits and de-merits,
Also has changing my features.
You came centuries ago, if I believe,
What should be your new features?
What is your colour?
If you have different colour?
Then
What shall I do?
Oh my God, it 's nice,
You are homeless,
Otherwise, a human combats for control,
And nobody cares for you.
You are a riddle for us,
That’s why we keep little patience,
The corrupt leader has fight for dishonesty,
If someone controls your home,
Then
What shall I do?
Oh my God, you cares for all,
You have equal respect and regard,
For all, worshippers and non-worshippers,
If you charged these criminals,
Nobody lefts behind to enjoy your forgiveness,
The prisoners never believe you,
They find the right method of worshipping,
They smudged for mercy,
When they ‘ll become free, never learns a lesson,
Then,
What shall I do?
Oh my God, you are my faith,
I can worship you in my mother tongue,
I can talk to you as I like,
You understand me and I understand you,
You are only a creator,
That controls this natural system,
I can enjoy my breathe,
If you stop my breathing,
Then,
What shall I do?
The town was
fissured.
It does not listen to me
that moribund heart, now.
The biome was ready
to set on fire all the smiles.
No person of god
will lead the prayers to grave.
Let the dust meet the dust
stealthly and
you win the script surreptitiously.
Beautifully done, the obscene death.
A bruise spreads
shattering the mirrors of perfect accident.
Satish Verma
Self confident
I would feel inconvenient
to be dead,
Yet relieved in freedom
from trimming toe
and finger nails
and receding hair
advancing down wrinkling neck
and softing shoulders.
Although not confident
I could grow
satisfied with fictional fame,
self-grandiosing glory,
I remain curious
how timelessly satisfying might emerge
historically famous fictions,
glories of grandly granted otherwise.
Confiding ancient secrets,
I could feel confluent
intuiting alive
resilience in freedom to survive
culture's soft-spoken rhyming terror
flirting with authenticity
of memory's patterned identity
and difference,
identically coincident.
Faith
masquerading hope,
Light
fading dual-dark air without
within
True life
camouflaging trust's pervasive love
Confident
I would feel false
to grow prematurely dead.
VISIT ZANZIBAR
where the spelendors beach found from far north to east,
as well as identically you shall encounter all over the coast,
Its cloud handsomely shining in blue light,
and it's sunshine sunning so bright exquisite,
hence it's beach looks cleaness and neat,
I really miss the word and sentences to explain it,
because it's endless beauty and excite,
hence, visit Zanzibar, you shall admit,
Ali Mohammed
msheli@excite.com
Zanzibar Islands
Tanzania
We all have two trees, growing within us.
Only one can grow fastest enough to weather the worst storms.
The master gardener plants the root ball, combines the mulch, and the top soil,
taking great care, to see the the two trees are planted identically.
Holes where placed, depth of the trace, sunlight exposure, and supportive rods, to withstand storms, are driven end and small saplings are securely tied.
One tree, the roots grow like wildflowers and cactus. Straight out, and shallow.
The other tree's roots grow straight down, and deep.
One tree's roots represent the building blocks, that attract the spirit.
They are, Kindness, empathy, forgiveness, and real love.
The other tree's roots represent, ego, prejudice, jealousy, and arrogance.
The master gardener, waters and fertilizes them the same, and monitors their growth.
When the time is right, the tallest tree is transplanted into a vessel.
The shortest one, transplanted to a greenhouse, to grow to normal height.
The trees within us, are unique and have leaves like fingerprints.
Once their height is accepted, birds seeking a place to nest, find their branches, strong and sheltered.
My home is bleak this evening because of winter.
This outing was fun, yet I hunted faithful cover.
To deter us colds and to wear around the home.
Everybody precisely grasped the cold syndrome.
Snowflakes fall quickly from the lonesome sky.
Bettor isolated influence in the warm sway,
They carefully structure a shroud high ascending.
On top of the enormous, white-encrusted sapling,
I'm accommodated before my splendidly blaring fire.
Additionally, we're glancing slyly out the cold chore.
I long for these dreadful days to instantly cease.
Also, rediscover the initial wonders to increase.
I look longingly on our all-around enriched city.
I admire how much individuals celebrate pretty.
The adornments on the monstrous tree staggering.
Plus, I admire the sparkling star standing as leading.
Isn't it a specific time for one bettor year of progress?
I believe the world will gently ease unsteadiness.
Identically, every conflict will eventually evaporate.
Winter snowfalls and magnificent rainbows may iterate.
Written: December 10, 2021
Winter Wishes Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Chantelle Anne Cooke
SITUATIONS
abandoned
in
disquiet
intrusions
happening
awareness
paused
in
isolated
waves
of
polite
whispering
unpacked
displayed
released
&
streamed
the
hassle
interrupted
by
seasoned
calm
as rehearsed
SURFACES
idealised
simplified
uninterrupted
fold
inward
identically
shaped
with
desire
the
melancholy
lament
stimulates
the
irreverent
twisted
& curled
rippled
disconnected
yet
discovered
scattered
in
silent
embrace
of the
invisible
stillness
Declarant Rights Were Apparent
Seems so obvious and already apparent,
That rights she discovered are declarant,
In her will;
Would fulfil;
Identically related having been inherent.
Jim Horn
Five seconds after I told him he was loved,
Four tears in my eyes as we both hugged.
Three years since he last held my hand,
Two people in a love, and identically brand.
One lifetime to spend in this world,
And no more loneliness for me to hoard.