Best Variations Poems

Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - VII-IX  Continued

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

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(The pantun line varies between 8 and 12 syllables and is most commonly found in...

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Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story (Continued)

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

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(The pantun line varies between 8 and 12 syllables and is most commonly found in the  anonymous...

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Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

Check out:  www.stateless.mysite.com/Pantouns-20-Aout-2017.pdf

(The pantun line varies between 8 and 12 syllables and is most commonly found in the  anonymous quatrain...

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Variations in c note
                                       On the scales...

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Variations on the Malay Pantun : The Old Man and the Short Story - X -XII - Continued

  for Georges VOISSET, the "Master Keeper-Nurturer" of the Malay Pantun

(The pantun line varies between 8 and 12 syllables and is most commonly found in the ...

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SNOWBIRD VARIATIONS

chirping merrily
black midst an awful whiteness
fat snowbirds seeding 

once in a while
a twiggy branch comes alive
snowbird fluffing

lazy winter’s watch
overcoming tedium
suddenly – snowbirds	

a beautiful frost
flaming red against the snow
winter cardinal

the frost coated limbs
winter’s cold magical scene
blackbirds brush the sky...

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The Coming…
(Mood Variations…)

		      
The long hot summer yields to the arrival
of the cooling fall.
Despite the coming treat to survival
towering trees proudly stand firm and tall.

Sticky, sweaty, steamy nights
have now all gone;
giving way to the cool ebony breeze.

Horny frogs and crickets
no...

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1.
grass stained summer feet
dandelion seeds drifting
children spread like weeds

2.
grass stained summer feet
dandelion seeds drifting
Darwin smokes his pipe

3.
grass stained summer feet
dandelion seeds drifting
fittest put down roots

4.
grass stained summer feet
dandelion seeds drifting
butterfly physics


Brian Johnston
December 15, 2015...

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Haiku With Variations (Both Sonnet & Free Verse)

Haiku Number 2

hail rides air updrafts
raindrops crater planet's skin
your breath’s clouds, fall skies

May 12, 2016


Mother of a Winter’s Night – Shakespearian Sonnet

Her distressed sighs rise up like nascent hail,
(Tears blown to ever colder zones of sky),
Where frozen prayers...

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Haiku Variations
by Michael R. Burch

This is a poem composed of haiku-like stanzas:


Variations on the Seasons I
by Michael R. Burch

Lift up your head
dandelion,
hear spring roar!

How will you tidy your hair
this near
summer?

Leave to each still night
your lightest affliction,
dandruff.

Soon you will free yourself:
one shake
of your white mane.

Now there...

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When occasionally making eye contacts with young girls
That is often that they look away quickly, as they are shy           
When making eye contacts with middle-aged women that
Most likely is that we were forced to retreat...

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CHANGE OF AIR VARIATION

august 1st
there is a change of air
a change of sun
my autumn heart lay dreaming
of golden times to come

august 1st
is there a change of air?
i flip the calendar
breeze blows the old july page
but there’s still summer in it

august 1st
is there a change of...

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seven variations on the opening line of a senryu

“We seek the teeth to match our wounds”.
Kenneth Tynan

sometimes what we seek
is not necessarily
the final answer

sometimes what we seek
is the unfound, the profound
beyond dreams and hopes

sometimes what we seek
is the truth and nothing but
the awful sad truth

sometimes...

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As I was going to Saint Ives,
I met a man with a serious case of hives!
He asked me to scratch his back and I said, "No Way!"
I quickly doffed my hat and left there straightaway!

Jack and Jill rushed up the hill to fetch a pail...

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First version

I hope that I will seldom be
On some sinking ship that's on the sea;

A ship whose captain and whose crew
Have found much better things to do

Than stay and try to rescue me
From going down beneath the sea.

I think that it is only fair
That I...

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