Best Muddlehead Poems
Weaving Forms
Abc, Abecedarian, acrostic, alliteration alexandrine
Salaam, sehraa senyru, sestina, sijo, shape, sonnet
The list of forms of writing poesy is hopelessly endless
O angels of all these poetic forms I worship thee blindly!
When didst thou all give an audience to man to school him
On these plethora of poetic forms to befuddle the muddlehead?
Never had I heard such scary terms before joining Poetry Soup
Life and poetry were much easier with no tensions no insomnia
Simply pouring out my uncontrollable thoughts and emotions
I cringe when I read of restrictions of limited lines in poetic forms
My ice-creams don't melt, autumn strolls have to to be cut short
Get mad as a hornet whether to write señorita a sonnet or sonetto
Nayda, I enjoy weaving my prosaic didactic and euphoric thoughts
Into my qasida with alliterations, imageries, allusions humorously
(FIRST
October 29, 2015
Contest: Which Is Your Favourite Form Of Poetry?
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron)
*This poem is a satiric amalgamation of many forms-sonnet, qasida, acrostic (in parts-eg, line 1&2, 3-5, 6&7-for the purpose of parody), humour....
*Qasida (weaving) is a satirical Persian form, opens with a short prelude, the nasib, which is elegiac in mood and is intended to gain the audience’s involvement
* in this parody I have used the alliteration in the first two lines as a 'nasib'
* In the last line the pun is used for weaving
*Have given 'Shape' or 'Creative Outlay' to the poem
*Have made use of many literary devices-alliteration, allusions, imageries, metaphors....
FIRST
Judged on April 5, 2016
For Casarah Nance's Favourite Poetry
June 19, 2016
For Laura Loo
First Place Only-2
The experts predict by 2050, we'll all live to over a hundred
A lot of us will say, nope, that's not for this old muddlehead
Ninety years seems quite long enough
When the money runs out and things get tough
And we all end up in a home as penniless knuckleheads
© Jack Ellison 2015
One Liners
Confusion
Confusion is rIpping apart fusion to confound a muddlehead.
Inflated Ego
Inflated Ego is an overblown gas balloon.
Battle of Sexes
Battle Of Sexes ends in the hibernation of a fused fox by a diffused vixen.
Love
In the history of love one has to walk precariously along the quick sands of hearts.
Winter
Lulled winter romances before stormy autumn wails
December 12, 2015
Contest: One Liners-6,7,8,9,10
Sponsor: Bev Smith
Vanity
Vanity thy name is woman,
Quoth not Hamlet about her domain.
The vanity of a woman no stir can hear,
Which to her heart she forever holds dear.
Truth and honesty broke many a home,
A life in deceitful bliss enriches her dome.
Ignorantly rests vanity in her mirrored den,
Eclipsed is she from her dear brethren.
With many a clattering sword has her blood been shed,
Comes not vanity out of her own muddlehead.
In the battlefield of numbered breaths,
Entombed is vanity with her many deaths.
The swooning vanity to falsehood does behold,
Shies away from the sunnier truths of life to unfold.
Uncover the clarity between truth and illusion,
That vanity may revel with newer resolution.
For unspoken truths will to embers die,
Happy vain ears in mirages lie.
The truth, vanity bethinks the devils spout,
Hence Buddha's silence before her we pout.
December16, 2015
Contest: Another Bite At The Cherry
Sponsor: Charlotte Jade Pudifoot