Colloquial Poems - Poems about Colloquial

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Soliloquy Colloquial

When I saw this contest
I knew I had it beat
Speaking plain and simple
is really kinda sweet
Like stealing candy, from a baby
It will be a piece of cake
They won't kno...

Sonnet about sonnets

...Rhyming in iambic, counting fingers
Trying to make sense, syllables dropping,
Onto archaic form, often lingers,
Instead of language, clopping and popping,
Modern with its sublime spoken diction,
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circles and catcalls

...I’m standing in the common room, turning in circles. I’ve so many things to do, all at once, I can’t figure out which way to jump. A time management problem, I suppose, maybe I should have taken that...

Prickles the Gust

...“How-do-you-do?” the seminal leaves of Autumn wave.
“When would you like to fly away?” prickles the gust.
Maternal-oak holds on tight as one birdy takes flight.

The gust will have none of this b...

BONE BEACH

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    Striking beach sculpted by Nature 
    with massive drifting trees in cluster 
    that turned white bone-like gesture
    being continuous washed by salty sea water
    and exposed in stro...

CLERIHEW frost

...Robert Frost was at a crossroad
as his traditonal style showed
Master of the colloquial voice
rhymn so often his first choice...

Words From Home

...colloquialism to say is quite the trick
tells where your from by words that you pick
with diplomas on the wall
my friends I appall
when I go fishing down at the crick...

Sardauna of Sokoto

...The Sardauna, the prince
 Champion of the masses
 The leader of the North
 The defender of the realm
 Princely yet accessible

 The Prince Royal
 The north your realm
 Though tribe and tongue...

A Poetic Message

...You can't always hope to know what's in my mind,
but if there's something that suits you - that's fine;
don't write just for you, your readers like something,
be gracious, accept defeat, don't thi...

Tongues

...Some languages are fluently translatable
but only by how the mouth
utters and shapes them,
they are too musical to be not sung,
like Gaelic; it was my mother’s tongue
and her grandmother’s elder...

It Is a Worrying State

...It can be a good day
if you let things go their own way
and things might not be good
I must admit
sincerely that is the truth
for no heavens are aligned 
from the stars above
on their own
I w...

Trifolium Pollinated Courtesy Bombus

...Trifolium pollinated courtesy bombus

Before landscapers mow swaths
across undulating waves of clover
(the father/daughter team
usually cut grass every Tuesday)
bumblebees alight from one to an...

Love and Dandelions

...Blow-ball and Cankerwort,
words born from a common tongue.?
Lions tooth, ?
Priests Crown, ?
Moles Salad and piss-a-bed.?
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English is most practical ?
when it is rustic and colloquial.

‘Swi...

How To Spell Dandelion

...Blowball and cankerwort,
words born from a common tongue.
English is most practical
when it is rustic and colloquial.
Lions tooth, priests crown,
moles salad and pee-a-bed.

‘Swine snout’ snor...

Turning

...The mayonnaise has turned;
the ham sandwich sticks to my tongue.
The sun turned from yellow
to pewter while I ate lunch.
Dry turned to drizzle,
in town, the sky had turned slick.
Then an Englis...

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