can you work out quickly
what this script omits?
I'll drop a hint to assist you
so you don't fall to bits
your vision is focusing
upon this wordy scroll
mind working frantically
taking a mighty toll
I will not laugh at you
if you cannot fathom it
a unit of 26 is missing...
just look at what I've writ
if this conundrums solution
is simply far too obvious to you
I will bow down to your skill
and colossally high IQ!
3 Jan 2023
Lipogram poetry contest
Sponsor Emile Pinet
Categories:
colossally, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Unity and serenity, the farm had breathed,
For ages, superb it has been.
On it, Mr and Ms Farmer had lived blissfully.
Harmony, children had witnessed
Before a hyena in a mask of a farmer,
The woman viciously hosted.
To colossally splinter the farm’s sulk
For he offered tiny cents to her,
To morally slay the farm owner,
Like the Serpent withered Eden.
Poem by Mugisho N Theophile
Categories:
colossally, anxiety, betrayal, corruption, depression,
Form: Free verse
Once a nation
Supremely white as driven snow,
Singularly Christian, white and male,
Purely untarnished, and aglow,
Grandeur unparalleled in fairytale.
Hence a grievance
Punitively bold as bloody hellfire,
Potently prosecuted in seats of power,
Oppressively waged against objects of ire,
Prisms of nonwhites seeking justice in the hour.
Now a leader
Colossally void as sterilized weaponry,
Glibly sanctions white phobia and rage,
Lethally enflames this proto-fascist fancy,
As corporations provide aid to the rampage.
Thus a faction
Devoutly for leader, they stand down,
Steadfastly ready for the order to kill,
All woke-ish elitists, and enemies black and brown,
That white men reclaim their rightful place at the till.
Violence of mind
Shocks no one in America,
Where thugs are part of romantic lore.
With our ascendant authoritarian replica,
Are we ready for what washes ashore?
Published in Dissident Voice: 01/09/22
Categories:
colossally, america, anxiety, culture, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Genie’s Lamp
I’ve discovered a genie’s lamp,
Probably at least a hundred years dormant,
Wondering what’s inside,
Who knows what treasures are to hide,
Beholder should beware,
For no one will know what’ll appear,
What may be to reveal,
Could be mystic, forbidden, or surreal,
Just rub the lamp’s surface,
Explain your divine premeditated purpose,
Opening the lamp in surprise,
One, two, three wishes for you demise,
With magnificent force,
Every harbored emotions spouts out, even the worst,
This energy spreads by the genie’s hand,
Dispersing colossally around the immediate land.
Travis “Ceijaeh” Klein
Categories:
colossally, absence, anger, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
“TIME”
Time is life and necessary
It inhales in dribs and drabs
It exhales colossally-
It is gradual and progressive
It is time, he hiccups and talks
He sucks and chews
She crawls and walks
It is time she learns and drives
Time is work
And should be hold tenaciously
For it is shimmering but billowing
When fiddle while Rome burns.
Time is situational and circumstantial
For all the hustle and bustle of life
For it strides with thorns, love and merry
It sinks contemporarily and fashionably.
Time is rendezvous
But stings in a haste
It is merry in a state of trust
And it bites in betrayal
Time is death anyway
For as it beats in seconds and minutes
It magnetizes five-years to fifty-years
Until thou kiss thy mother earth
Moreover, time is everything!
Categories:
colossally, time,
Form: Free verse
Has a cold sad heart,
Winding down like a clock with its parts,
The days and years are shorter,
They would be longer if he is a courter,
Those hearts are lost in winterstorms,
Snowflakes falling into nothingness that mourn,
With trees that follow with their permanent shades,
Killing hearts slowly with branches that are blades,
Those weary souls that cry at night,
Trapped in hell by hearts that never see light,
And when that love door is opened wide,
Hearts will mingle and walk with stride,
They pet and pet love set free,
Comforting under bright hot suns colossally,
That love that stare’s in the face,
Will make men whole on this earthly place,
Pollen blowing through the air,
Unleashed by pistols fired everywhere without despair,
To depart this world with seeds left behind,
A man’s lot is love immortal and she is kind.
Categories:
colossally, lost love, love, nature,
Form: Couplet