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Premium Member Literally a Sonnet About a Hornet

Oh buzz off you crazy crazy hornet
Trying to land here upon my buttock,
Here I am eating my crispy cornet
Lazing naked in my garden hammock.

Tried to coax it with my berry ice cream
But alas it seems unprepared or blind,
Dancing upon an invisible beam
Homing in on me with a one track mind.

Could it be I’ve enhanced the essence air
With a gross wind to further relieve me,
Or is this a mock symphony of flair
Of a Britain’s got talent “Bumble Bee?”

His “The classical flight” winning first prize
In pain my swelling one hell of a size!

© Harry J Horsman 2015
Form: Sonnet

Try This Literally

When people have trouble to see
And say could you spell that for me
Put laughs on delay
And let their mind stray
Respond T H A and a T
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Ekphrasis Literally a Biography -Recited

EKPHRASIS LITERALLY – a biography

Alliteration,the starting place, alongside
cinquains,apace in time,crystalline
lanterne and rhyme.Inspiration drew forth
footle,broken monoku for a while short
imagist was my style.Sequenced longer
poems metamorphose within this crysallis
changing into ekphrasis.Open,and free to be,
as you see,structured prose poetry.With
cadence and pause,others hear my voice,
aural phrasis now this poet’s choice.

Listen to me recite this ekphrasis on youtube under the pen name ichcthyschiro
Form: Ekphrasis


Typos Literally

has your mind ever                                                                                                   gotten faster than your writ                                                                                           it sounding so good
© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Off the Top Off My Head -Literally

This poem came right of the top of  my head.
               So I apologize if none of my words make sense.
               Ya see I think most of the people my age are going through a really rough time.
              There's a so called big world out there, and its our identity that we have to find.
              Constantly we are molding by good, bad outside forces. So today I am country chic, tomorrow I might be a geek. Or better yet, a Jersey Shore drama queen. 
              But whatever it is, who ever I am, we are at some inward point we want to be wanted. 
              Sadly wasting our good young years for a hopeless cause.
              Only to get older more mature and wish we could go back.
              Knowing what we know now, to make things right. To not waste life.
              But I guess that's the learning process.
                I say all of that to say this. It all came of the top of my head. In literally 2 minutes. And that's it.
Form:

My Last Words Not Literally

My last words (not literally) 
By Asianae Aikey

I don’t have enough time
To say what I want to say
Too many goodbyes
Too many hugs to give
Too much pain

So much I feel on the inside
It’s clawing its way to the outside
It’s ugly and frightening
Twisting out in the dark tunnel
Hiding in the darkness
Waiting for its next victim

I have so many people I want to see
So many people I want to leave
I want to be alone
I want everyone around me
I just don’t know what I want any more
I don’t know where to go
Or who to turn to

Sometimes I wish that I wasn’t here
Sometimes I wish that someone would notice the pain that I am in
That someone would come and try to save me
Be my champion
Be my hero

Goodbye cruel world
Goodbye messed up people
But the last goodbye goes to me
(This isn’t true, it’s just a poem)


Literally Lousy

I remember when the little buggers
hit the elementary school -
the apologetic tone
of the school nurse
as she informed me by phone,
And the hate I felt
when I went to pick my daughter up
and the teacher said,
“Take her home, clean her up, and have her back in the morning.”
… and she wasn’t even dirty.

Premium Member Literally Free

This feeling is really indescribable
here having paper and pen in hand
with a mind so full of many thoughts
these my tools shows my literal stand

One's thoughts independently alone
not belonging to anyone else at all
it's awesome to think on this fact
freedom is mine so get on don't stall

So many a message within my scope
subjects aplenty that I can choose
what's most worthy to dwell upon
want to take away someone's blues

Always be open to your spirit
to be lead in ways you know not
allow yourself to be shocked
literally free can't be bought

Treasure this gift that you have
your message is in you unique
stay solely true so now be free
it'll make you strong never weak

 (quote from a famous poet

"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose." Langston Hughes)
Form: Rhyme

My Heart Was Literally Broken For the Longest Time

My heart was literally broken for the longest time

Written By Dean Masciarelli

Monday, March 29, 2010



My heart was literally broken for the longest time

And I didn’t know how I could still be living 

After all the time that I had spent alone

More or less surviving and breathing like I had been 

Because I didn’t feel alive after my heart was broken

And after the deed was all said and done

And literally set in stone with a point of no return

That’s when I had forgotten who I was as a person

Because I got lost in the confusion that I had been in 

Especially after all the hurt that I had seen from being alone

But hopefully with a few more blessings and a little more time

Something really good will happen soon

Because I am so ready to feel complete and whole again 

So that I wont have to be hurting like I had been ever again

Because I am truly ready to embrace life with someone 

Who is loving and caring and kind

Who can  love me and accept me for all that I am 

But can also be my lover and my best friend

Like I would  with them in return so that I can finally 
put this past of mine behind and truly start living again

Premium Member LITERALLY LANTERNES


A lanterne is a five line quintain verse shaped like a Japanese lantern with a syllabic pattern of one, two, three, four, one.Each line able to stand on its own, and the poem may or may not have a title which sometimes forms an integral part as a 6th line


#1
Black,
yellow,
brown, or white--
partitions skin
deep.

#2 WATER MEADOWS

rush
and sedge
hide shady
ponds--teeming
with
life

#3

by
the stream
so shallow,
weeps a willow
tree.

#4 DAYSTAR

dawn
tinges
the bleak sky--
hope enlightens
all

#5

a
sea mist
rolls inshore---
daydreams deluge
me

#6 BIRDSONG

lost
in the
soft mist of
a September
dawn

#7 EQUINOX

Rain
droped leaves,
spotted gold--
scatter in the
wind

#8 MONA LISA

Her
gaze and
smile followed
his every
step

#9

bells
tolling
on the wind--
old memories
die

#10
a
dry rock--
out of the
white water of
life

#11 HIGH RISE
Thin
spires
in the breeze---
tasselled teasels
touch

Lanterne #12

Faint
May breeze----
in the trees
ripples shaded
green
Form: Lanterne

Because It Literally Eases

M-ay
Y-our
L-ife
E-njoy
N-ice
E-xcellent

T-opic
A-new
B-ecause
I-t
L-iterally
E-ases

Topic: Birthday of Mylene M. Tabile (July 09) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

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