Best Piet Poems
Hook of Holland arrive by the ferry
Meeting our good friends Ans and Jerry
The pancake house is where we love to eat
Being our with our Dutch friends – what a treat
Zwarte Piet will be visiting soon
Children crowded into the living room
Waiting for the black hand around the door
Sweets are freely scattered on to the floor
Visiting the haunting Anne Frank museum
Makes me think of the phrase carpe diem
Walking along the stunning cobbled street
Our trip to Amsterdam is now complete
I would love to return again one day
Meet Elly Wouterse on lands far away
Submitted to Elly Wouterse’s Contest
My Ode To The Netherlands
~ Awarded 2nd place ~
15th April 2014
The poem is written from very vivid childhood memories- its been a trip down memory lane - it is also my first attempt at a sonnet
Virgin snow,
like idle perfection,
exists too short a time
for eternity to reckon.
So instead of standing still
take a step in any direction.
A left, then a right,
and a left yet again.
The prints in the snow
will tell exactly where you've been.
There's more to thee
than meets the eye
I shall warrant.
Much more akin to a canvas
lying dormant.
As eternity is reckoned:
who has time for idleness?
To let waste such un-noted potential?
A wise man once said,
"There's a lifetime in a second
and each precious second is essential!"
NOTE: I was inspired by the Danish poet, Piet Hein, inventor of the Grook form of poetry. The particular poem goes like this...
As eternity
is reckoned
there's a lifetime
in a second.
Do a Google search and check him out. You WON'T be disappointed.
Poem by: Piet Mashele
2sides
Title: she said....
She directly said, protect me
Like how wetly you get for your Bentley
Hold me so gently
For when you accept me
It will exactly be about
How you met me...
And she said let me
Let the blessed me
Empty the belly of your worries
So do not be in a hurry
To sing to how sexy I'm
Especially when you
Expect me not to be attached
To this strange feeling
That fairly kept me
On my toes
For this heart knows how to bulldoze
These shadows that are there to slow down
My heart beat
My blood knows its own flows
It allows me to grow to another direction
With total perfection
She sat and said...
Let me grow inside of you
So that when u breath for both us
You will know that I said let m be yours
So she said...
Harmony & order was his theme
Clinical lines were his scene;
Arranged in boxes and squares
He took great care-
Displaying bold colours with much flair
Composition Red,Black,Blue & Yellow Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian
Let me tell you what I know
about Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko,
two painters so rectangular and square,
you'd swear there is no life there,
till you look with a little more precision,
a little bit more care.
Piet's
early
abstraction-
did it leave him
blue ?
Piet Mondrian's Evolution c 1910/11
http://www.abcgallery.com/M/mondrian/mondrian24.html
Dutchman Piet Mondrian
an austere&reclusive man
He had no commercial success
using horizontals&verticals to excess
Piet Hein poetic artesian
cue censorship Nazi flip
Grook’s humble kumbel swordsman
Games toys superegg quip
There was something the matter with Piet
Everyone knew it
Yet no one knew what
Of course it took a genius to find out.
When Doctor pressed a stethoscope to Piet’s small chest
The room was filled with utter silence
Piet was a smart little boy
And remembered from biology class the importance of the heart
“Why, it’s the most important muscle in the body
Without it I am as good as dead!”
And Doctor agreed
So Piet went out on a mission to find a heart
(For he was much to young to die)
He saw an old man waiting for destiny to take its stand
But the old man treasured his heart above all else
And although Piet attempted to take it
He was unsuccessful in his endeavor
So Piet continued in his odyssey
He saw a weak baby struggling for life
“I’m sure he wouldn’t mind if I took his heart”
But the baby claimed his heart was anchoring him to life
It took one look at his mother’s gaze him to convince him to never give up
Piet was now impressed
“Having a heart seems to be more important than I thought”
He sat on a bench and realized sadly
If he didn’t have a heart
That must make him dead
A warm liquid began to glaze his eye
(Yes, a tear)
As that drop pooled, lining his lid
Time started to slow down
The drop began to trail down his cheek
His hand immediately touched this foreign liquid
And then time stopped all together
And in the silence of things
There was a thump.
It was soft but it was there.
Another thump.
Piet pressed his hand to his chest
It was there!
A living creature.
In the search for a heart
Piet didn’t realize it was there the whole time
It only needed some awakening.
Piet Mondrian-
symmetrical colour in parallel lines
Pure
simple
minimal-
pleasing to the
eye
Piet Mondrian's Composition no 6
Tribute to him and the de Stijl movement in art
http://www.abcgallery.com/M/mondrian/mondrian37.html
Poem by: Piet Mashele
2sides
Titled : getting the get
This is the same mindset that has to be on! for a couple of days,
If you in your head its a hustle and it hurts you to wake up with a smile then Sir pony boy the bank will settle your print outs with exactly! what you give out!
Sigh of relief is to get fired up and down
So that when they clear their throats! they know ,you were only getting the get across.
MONDRIAAN
black lines
defined
Piet's
early
abstraction-
did it leave him
blue ?
Piet Mondrian's Evolution c 1910/11
Poem by :Piet Mphahlele Mashele
2sides
Titled: Touchdown
Touch down, keep in touch
Calm down to this feeling
Call down all that you are....
For when your life its on
Count down
You can know what to write down...
Touch down on the spot
This thought has bought me
Under this jackpot feeling
Am kneeling on my kneez
Stealing this last squeezed broadcast
Weather forecast
To put all these thoughts at ease
Because those who are harassed by it
Are glassed very fast under wonder
Touchdown
Down town
Crowns are given
To those who slay better
And it boils down to how clowns
Can turn coldness nights
Into.....touch down snapshot we appeal to....
Its touchdown before sundown
Make your mark..