Best Rhymers Poems
Nature says create and rejuvenate.
Beasts cooperate and repopulate.
Sun’s rays dominate; showers saturate!
Blooms that fascinate soon accumulate.
Bees don’t hesitate to participate
as they pollinate. Isn’t springtime great!
Written April 28, 2017
for John Hamilton's Rhymers delight-internal monorhyme-2 Contest
Near My Fireplace
I lean my face near the burning fireplace
As I embrace the warmth that gives me grace
And base my thoughts upon the human race
I keep up pace in my small comfort space
And unlace evil climbing the staircase
To chase our souls that leave a loving trace.
Jan.07.2017
Rhymers delight- internal monorhyme - Contest
Sponsored by: John Hamilton
Sleep I can’t feign. I hear the falling rain
tapping a refrain on the window pane.
My throbbing pain recedes and I obtain
relief from the migraine which had free reign
like a freight train, a cause for mental strain.
Drat the champagne! Don’t blame the quiche Lorraine.
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Contest: Rhymers Delight Internal Monorhyme
Sponsor: John Hamilton
Placed 2nd
© 7th January 2017
The smile you share
This morning so fair, I face unaware,
its cool flowing air or soft sunrise glare,
bright tangerine flair, I’ve nary a care
As since you are there, I can’t help but stare
your beauty I swear, answered my prayer,
for the smile you share, nothing can compare
1/5/17
Written for the Rhymers delight- internal monorhyme Poetry Contest
Sponsored by John Hamilton
I used the syllable counter and have 10 per line, apparently it is counting “prayer” as two syllables.
As evening hangs near, wrapped in silk cashmere
It bathes the frontier with godliness dear…
Winged robins I hear chanting psalms that steer
Moonbeams to appear like glazed lull, revere
That my doubt severe washes a cold tear;
Abating night’s fear… snuggling heaven’s cheer.
~*~
Rhymers Delight—Internal Rhymes
For John Hamilton dated 1.07.2017
Checked: www.howmanysyllables.com
You do not have to pay, to have fun play
To live in today and dance as you may
To make way for those who are in dismay
To have faith and pray for love not to stray
To choose what to say from the heart to stay
To be what you may, the gift is today
Heidi Sands
1/5/17
*Placed 7th in Contest: Rhymers Delight/Internal Rhyme
Rainbow spectrum hue teems; colour path beams
Flow among the streams; forming back, white dreams
Fantasy within seams; fey air it seems
A life with themes; verse quest forward in reams
Go forth with loud screams; sublime self-esteem
Taking sunbeams; blessing our Lord’s supreme
1/9/2016
Rhymers delight- internal monorhyme - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: John Hamilton
Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to beautiful Zurich Switzerland and the First Annual Poetry Soup Convention. Welcome poets, linguists, scribes, metrists and rhymers. Welcome poets from Canada, the UK, U.S.A., Australia and many other countries from around the world.
This convention is for all seasoned poets and young dilettantes. Our key speakers this week will be Will Shakespeare to talk about sonnets. Horace will discuss Latin odes. Homer will give a demonstration on epic poetry. Lewis Carroll will explain light poetry. And last but not least Edgar Poe will give a reading of Gothic poetry.
All poets are welcome to enter the First Annual Poetry Soup Convention Poetry Contest. The grand prize will be the title of Poet Laureate and honor on the Poetry Soup webpage. We will also be offering classes on prosody, onomatopoeia, enjambment and Lambic Pentameter. We will have booths set up in the main hall for help with grammar, syllable counting and rhyming tools.
So welcome all, enjoy all things poetic this week, make friends and have fun. One final reminder before we let you go is we are serving lunch promptly at twelve noon and we will be having Alphabet soup with sage, enjoy.
The First Annual Poetry Soup Convention Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
3/7/19
Gems Of Reality
Gems of reality are thoughtfully
expressed thru imagery of poetry
to shape so earnestly and fervently
poems that formally shine artfully
reflecting history and mystery
of one's tranquility or misery.
Sandra M. Haight
~5th Place~
Contest: Rhymers Delight- Internal Monorhyme
Sponsor: John Hamilton
Judged: 01/09/2017
If there were no poetry
Here’s what I think –
The world would flow over
With rivers of…that stuff you put
in pens and printers.
If poetry somehow
Did cease to exist
The thoughts of all rhymers
Would surely be…just floating around
in the air with no place to go.
If poems weren’t written
I haven’t a clue
About how I’d express
What I’m feeling…does anyone?
Best sung in a country music way
with a redneck attitude , Hoorahhhhhhh
This is a work of fiction, and
any resemblance to anyone or contest
is purely coincidental.
All Together Now !
Oh, a Sponsor, Has done it again
Made a contest, I can't get in
But that's fine
I'll just sit here with my rhyme
They posted a contest, with a couple of rules
That make rhymers like me, feel just like fools
But that's fine
I'll let it go one more time
chorus
I could maybe pen a sonnet
Just to get my song in
Or try to write an Ode
Just for giggles and grins
But it's true and you know it
I'll never win
What a sin
Why don't we try it again
It's all about the form,of poems today
Not about the words that they have to say
But that's fine
I'm going to stay, true to mine
chorus
I could maybe pen a sonnet
Just to get my song in
Or try to write an Ode
Just for giggles and grins
But it's true and you know it
I'll never win
What a sin
Why don't we try it again
Writers wrong readers with wiles
Please protect poetry and prose
From flagrant fraudulent fancies
Of overwritten odius odes.
A related collection of poetry
Now can be published at whim.
The author just needs lots of money,
Hubris,and perhaps a few pencils or pens.
Once the selection is published,
Layman will fawn at the elequent jewels,
Of eight words of lithe, flowery meter,
Grouped together by formal,old rules,
You and I know better,we can't be fooled.
Another anthology appears
Boldly boasting ballades
Can't construct cinquain
Ditto deconconstructing didactic
Easy efforts elevate essentially
Fabulous flippery, fun, fauxmance.
Give gifts ,gaity, glory
Hide hyperbole ,hail honesty
Ignore idiosincricy
Jubilant jeweled jots,
Krielle knowledge,
Luminates lovers learning.
Masters manage monoku
No one notices nonsense
Only ones own oratory
Presents problems personally
Quatern quixotically quizes
Rhymers,readers, royalaires.
Simples statements said softly
Translate terse tense truthfully
Unless unabridged
Villanelles vex vaguries
Written without wordiness
Yes,you yearn, yearn yonder
Zee's zero
For Deb's Challenge A A and a Mistress
Brenda Atry
Another anthology appears
Boldly boasting ballads.
Can't construct cinquain,
Ditto deconstructing didactic.
Easy efforts elevate essentially.
Fabulous frippery, fun, fauxmance.
Giving gifts ,gaiety, glory.
Hiding hyperbole ,hailing honesty.
I ignore idiosincricy.
Jubilant jeweled jots.
Krielle knowledge,
Luminates lovers learning.
Masters manage monoku.
No one notices nonsense.
Only ones own oratory,
Presents problems personally.
Quatern quixotically quizzes,
Rhymers,readers, royalaires.
State simple statements softly.
They translate terse tense truthfully.
Unless unabridged,
Villanelles vex vagueries.
Written without wordiness,
Yes,you yearn, yearn yonder, zee's zero
I was stumbling around the Poetry world when I ran into this Gem
The Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Card Contest.
I thought, what an opportunity
But then I read the rules and although
I do not know who wrote them
I must say, "COME ON" Really !
Poetry Contest Guidelines:
1: Poems can be rhyming or non-rhyming, although we find that non-rhyming poetry reads better.
Non-rhyming poems Read Better---Ha---what a crock ! Tell that to the 18th and 19th Century Poets
This it soooooooooo idiotic, It's like saying, We are having our Special Olympics and disabled and enabled can enter alike, although we find that Enabled entries usually win. ( This metaphor is not intended to diminish the abilities of those of us that have disabilities, It is intended to show how ludicrous rules can be )
Blue Mountain, WHY NOT say----"Rhymer's Need Not Apply"
I went down to Blue Mountain
I thought I'll have a-go
And may win 300 bucks
You laugh, but never know
Once there, I read the page
Where I was to apply
That's where the darnedest thing
Reach-out and caught my eye
Rhymers just weren't welcome
That's what the first rule spelled
No point in even trying
'Cause "Rhyming Don't Read Well"
Instead of feeling Blue
I counted all my blessings
Then,I bought a pair glasses
And started reading lessons
Thanks Blue Mountain
I'm "Reading Well" Now !
See you next contest
by JTCurtis (A rhymer w/readability)
The "Rhymers" guild; archaic faction,
We garner all the more detraction
Less, are we, in our attraction
More, we are, the poetic infraction
When free is verse, a form accursed-
Murders Art, fetch forth a hearse
For they coerced the Poems reverse,
And left our lines inverse- perverse!
*Title is a play off "It's Hard to be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World"