Dactyls Poems - Poems about Dactyls

...I have invented a nonce nonsense form: the "dabble dactyl." A dabble dactyl starts out like a double dactyl, but forgets the rules and changes horses midstream. Anyone who prefers order to chaos shou......Read the rest...

...Today I feel iambic! I would say of all the meters, I like it the best. An iamb starts with some soft sound to say then ev'ry second syllable is stressed. Trochees likewise, alternate their str......Read the rest...

...Strangers but loved aged pianist's hands don't die in silence... The old pianist watches his hands ... learned ......Read the rest...

...That Salad Went Right Through Me I've always wanted to write a poem called “That Salad Went Right Through Me”. And I would wager upon its best destiny: To begin with, there is the Universal......Read the rest...

...Rabbit brags crazily; Tortoise plods lazily. Rabbit gets sleepy, see. Tortoise wins Easily. Work ethic is lacking; Rabbit gets shellacking. Relentless, forward, there. T’s out fro......Read the rest...

...Part 1 of ? Clippety, cloppety, clippety, cloppety All the king’s horses and all the king’s men mounted for battle in all of their armor; they rode off so gallantly through moors and fens. H......Read the rest...

...Poetry, throw-a-three Dactyls for you and me Six silly bulls, I see All in a field! Myrtle McWhirtley This is the life for me No silly names, I see Less junk to wield. Dactylly Practical ......Read the rest...

...Various Heresies 8 These are heretical poems with heresies about the bible, god, jesus christ and christianity. Red State Religion Rejection Slip by Michael R. Burch I’d like to believe i......Read the rest...

...Fractals. Spawn of iterating quadratic functions. Choreographers of cosmic conjunctions. Impervious to human dysfunctions. Makers of multiverses. Encoders of creations. Limited only by......Read the rest...

...Squickleby Pickleby Nicholas Nickleby loses his Father and feels quite forlorn. Ralph his tight uncle a disciplinarian mean to the marrow regards him with scorn. Nicholas, penniless unco......Read the rest...

...Covidy Covidy Donald the President Stood on the balcony Out of his mind Muttering matters most Incomprehensible Still looking beautiful Lit from behind © Gail Foster 6th October 2020......Read the rest...

...*Lurched Lousy Limbs* thick soles seducing eerie earth scrunching tracing tactic trudges cowering cornered crushes pale paths tucked gaunt gaze; gulp! mystic monster smirked nocturnal nat......Read the rest...

... La Isla del Encanto (El Poema del Linda) There was no Elizabethan Changing of eyes On the Isle of Enchantment; No sudden moment of charm or bewilderment. Rather, came a delicate ......Read the rest...

...^b^ Lux Nova (after Notre Dame) The light at Suger's St. Denis precursor for mighty Notre Dame Paints both floors in color. Transliterated from the glass of guilds Tracery and mul......Read the rest...

...I. Higgledy piggledy Roger de Coverley Fonder of hoofing it Than of romance Found himself typified Characteristically King of the Reels and the Lord of the Dance. II. Willety wall......Read the rest...