When trees awaken from their winter sleep
Their silent buds unfold and turn to green
Row upon silent row they gently lift
Bare branches, no longer in winter’s keep
Spring flowers burst from dormant bulbs unseen
A gift
Wearing her royal robe of blossomed trees
Like a mist descending, this forest queen
Blesses the forest paths with leaves adrift
Paints with an ardent brush her verdure frieze.
So swift
Entered in A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE
Contest Judged: 4/7/2022 1:12:00 AM
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
N/A
Submitted to Writing Challenge - X'd Poems Second Chance Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France
Curtal Sonnet (Short version)
A curtal Sonnet has eleven lines with a rhyme scheme of abc abc dcb dc
It has ten syllables in lines 1 through 5 and 7 through 10, however
it has only two (2) syllables in lines 6 and 11, and they rhyme with lines 3, and 8.
Categories:
dcb, allusion, art, beauty, green,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
A superstitious belief on black cats
is rebutted by my old black pet, Ming
She saved my life when I was still a kid
while seated on the grass near bamboo slats
where a small brown snake beneath was lurking
then slid.
By my side was brave Ming, facing the fight
Dad saw it… smart enough to get a lid
with stick that ended up to snake-hunting!
Then I hugged my saver Ming cheering, “Alright,
we did!”
April 3, 2022 4.51pm
Curtal Sonnet
A curtal Sonnet has eleven lines with a rhyme scheme of abc abc dcb dc
It has ten syllables in lines 1 through 5 and 7 through 10, however
it has only two (2) syllables in lines 6 and 11, and they rhyme with lines 3, and 8.
Contest Judged: 4/3/2022 2:35:00 PM
Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
Place 1
Categories:
dcb, cat,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
A grey, lonely leaf sighs holding a stem
Sobbing, and pleading to let him remain —
To stay, a day more, to see sun's next dawn.
My guru, an uncle, a beacon - gem,
My guiding star, I saw — in biting pain,
Keep on
Trying to hold his breath, feebly clinging
To my hands as dying doe to a pawn,
Pleading — yet not knowing it is as vain
As Fall's last leaf that tries farewell singing
By swan.
Syllabic count: 10 syllables from line 1-5 and from line 7 – 10 and 2 syllables on line 2 and 11.
Rhyming scheme: abc; abc; dcb, dc
*7th Place (out of 10) in the following contest (judged on Dec. Feb, 3, 2021)
Dec. 1, 2020
The Last 1 Poetry Contest
Contest Sponsor: Anthony Biaanco
*A 1st Place Win* in the following contest (judged on Nov. 21, 2020)
Nov. 5, 2020
The Speaker Poetry Contest
Contest Sponsor: Sara Kendrick
Categories:
dcb, death, farewell, nature,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
POQ
P O Q AND D C B, means 2 U I can assure,
Is piss off quick and don’t come back,
No don’t come back, no more
So you hit it over the arrrs with the bridle,
Don’t wanna catch this hoss, paw poor,
Let it suck aigs with lucky legs,
If its brains so full of straw?
Lucky legs might snap and wedge,
Up a butt-bit-bloody sore
POQ & DCB new lover needed for,
Drongo Fred who aint outa bed,
But his farts is solid bore,
In the pig trough swill we leave this dill,
Shut up Johnson , sure….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRr3kiRHvjI
Don Johnson
Lucky legs were likely to snap off and run up ya, ask yer mother for sixpence to see the jerry giraffe,
Freckles on his eyebrows and big ones on his ask.etc a saying back before 1960?
Categories:
dcb, adventure,
Form: Ballad