Best Quaternion Poems
Hush,is that a knock upon your door,
A guest,who is seeking more,
Someone,perhaps come to dine
A feast for two and then
Converse in fellowship divine
Fall has the middle wall,
In two,the veil is torn
Emnity has no call-
With Him,our cornerstone
No longer,we....forlorn
Is Hades your sheol
Quietus staging post
A chasm to separate,
Paradise from Hell
Will you await along the lake,
Resurrection's second death-
Or be a name in the Book of Life
His name on your forehead
weed covers the pond-
a crested grebe
dives for treasure
a puffed up firecrest
alights upon
our smoke tree
a dawn delicacy-
the mistlethrush's
everyday grub
out of the nest-
the fledgling hopes
mother finds a worm
All
change
evolves-
as taboos
become convention
As
art
nouveau
brings anguish,
then bewilderment
conceives a new understanding
When
a
doodle
or gesture
becomes surreal
New
forms
mix old
rhythms in
novelle images
CHAPLIN
no sound
around
LAUREL OR HARDY
old fool
so cool
ROAD FILMS
two blokes
with jokes
BONNIE+CLYDE
too snide
both died
~He Will Be With You ~
(Quaternion)
When with life you can not longer cope
He will give you love, peace, and hope.
He will help you to be very strong
When everything for you go wrong.
When you fight and struggle all in vain
He will comfort and take away your pain.
When you are at the end of your rope
He'll help you see better beyond your scope.
When your spirit is so sad and low
Before God just kneel right there and much pray.
When troubles in life just pile wide and so high
His divine love in your heart forever will just flow.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2016
May.26.2016
~Author's Notes:
The Quaternion is an English poetry form or style.
TWIST AGAIN
disc-go
move slow
CHARLESTON
kick feet
off beat
TRAD JAZZ
hop skip
jive trip
SOLO EGO
line dance
per chance
Me-
so
many
emotions
in one syllable
In
our
public
personna-
private passions glow
A
well
within-
images,
pictures in the mind
To
be
or not-
crucial
heart of the matter
FOOTLE
a verse
so terse
POETRY SLAM
lets go
words flow
VERS LIBRE
some rhyme
in mine
FREE VERSE
no stress
I guess
when
I
listen
God will speak
when God speaks
my mind
will
hear
when
the
open
door closes
light begins to glow
a new way
for me
to
go
OLD AGE
same chat
off pat
TOOTHLESS
long kiss
to miss
SHORT SIGHTED
large print
or squint
PACING MYSELF
no sap
need nap
DERIVATIVES TRADING
I bet
you sweat
BANKER'S PROMISSORY
NOTE
my gosh
what tosh
FINANCIAL TIMES
loan freeze
cash please
REPOSSESSED
no bread
in shed
snowfall in the dell-
spring blossom dies
sunshine on my face-
summer's last hurrah
the tangle of Autumn-
bonfired into smoke
candlemas evensong-
winter's requiem
FOUR SEASONS (lanterne sequence)
May
breezes
in the trees
High summer
lightens
long
Fall
tints red
Autumn's stall
Asleep,winter
acts as
dead
QUATERNION (free verse)
Ah, Spring come again, the
warmth, the rain, yellows and
green.Grass, winds, blossom
bright,showers of life aloud in
the sky
Then Summer, her
beauty displays.
All nature in
flower, eye-catchingly dressed
to attract; then mellow vistas
bedeck the view with largesse,
bountiful Fall’s into our arms
to sustain our sleep in quietness
of Winter’s cold indoor nights
For Debbie;s Metamorph contest
An
empty
widow's bench-
sorrow fills its
place
Tall
nettles-
the Dutch hoe
rusting in the
shed
There
he sits
sorrowing-
weeping over
life
His
window
on the world-
her epitaph
read
a lanterne is a half
American cinquain
shadows lengthen
chestnuts roast-
winter betides