Best Resort Poems

Spinning the Resort

By Elton Camp

For guests the resort does advertise
So it will be desirable in their eyes

Since the building is old and run down:
“Located in the historical part of town”

The heat and air don’t work very well:
“About the local climate you will tell”

Grounds are shabby...

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The Daddy Long Legs crawled into my tea.
Looked up and smiled, coyly at me.
Invited his wife and his offspring, all three.
They were having the best time, I truly could see.

So I decided to make them a big bowl of tea.
I put in sugar and lemons,...

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Once there was an intellect called smoke, the philosopher
Architect of a new republic of peace by dare
Shunting viruses by tolerance
Eliminating interferences by endurance
Bloody this domain is for gladiators...

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There is this space called my Poem Place,
Each morning I rush to settle in.
My standard routine, warmed by caffeine
gets in gear once I pick up my pen.

Picking up my pen means I begin
with my computer and my notebook. 
Microsoft Word and Rhyme Zone ready,
I open...

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Perched on the shore of Lake Victoria 
Is Speke....
Of its beauty I will speak
In any place I shall be

Granite stones chopped into bricks
Layered one upon another....glued by cement
"Monomutapalian architecture perfected" on the shore of Lake Victoria...

Of its hospitality I will tell
To all l shall meet
"Welcome"...

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We treaded beneath the harvest moon
cursing the viper beneath the hideous act
that had left a man gibbering "Ave Maria",
too frightened to predecease his age mates
he lay lifeless on his death bed
a cosy platform made of fine bamboo
and his eyes spinned as if in a hex

drum...

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Hope can be certain
Hope is not denied
        in the main-
If,all else is tried

Quatrain Form derived from George Herbert's poem Discipline 5/5/3/5...

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Professionals Resort to Advertising 

By Elton Camp

There was a day when it wasn’t thought wise
That any professional person should advertise

Solicitations were never seen
Lest the professional it demean

So unseemly it then did appear
“Come get your operation here.”

“Let me handle your trial for you.
For no other lawyer...

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SWEET RESORT
I have been on the larch
Watching you in the yacht
seeing you search
For a suitable perch
that's a sweet resort

I was never your match 
your level, high notch
difficult for me to reach
your deal,, hatch
A sweet resort indeed

My eyes on the pier
to watch your new sire
my name...

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crystal radiance 
                                    shimmering image filled in
   ...

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Imagine
a barren desert:
dry,
deprived of life,
where one would be sent
only in their worst nightmare.

This is a place 
where 
one's body and soul 
would surely die
This is a place
where 
drought
has deprived you of tears
- you no longer can cry,
the last hope for thee
is to find some water
-...

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All me life I’ve been a bushman who lived mostly in a city
with dodging cars and sleazy bars and no-one showing pity.
A city is a concrete jungle, divvied by ribbons of tar,
and everyone must watch their back or bear a mental scar.

That’s why I call...

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Join us at Riverside Casino there's a job for everyone.
Where the atmosphere is comfortable and in between work there's fun.
Nothing here gets redundant because you can transfer anytime.
You can always find something to make you feel happy and sublime.

If you are determined with hard working...

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Mountain lake resort.
Place to relax and unwind.
Day cares left behind....

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I went into town for usual errands yesterday
A nice day with everything seeming fine
I came home to news of the Red Jacket Resort on fire
It is the largest historic resort in town, nearby
The fire was huge, 20 departments from out of town responded
People jumped from...

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