Double Dactyl Poems

Agedly sagedly
David F Attenborough
said we were doomed with a 
very sad face.

We dragged our knuckles round
uncomprehendingly,
wrapped him in plastic and
launched him to space.




18 Feb 2020

Double dactyl rules!
Double dactylic rhythm
8 lines; syllable count 6664 6664
Line 1 has two slightly nonsensical rhyming...Read More

Suffering psychopaths,
Hannibal's hectoring -
Pervasive persuasion -
Gullible guardians
Lulled into leaving him
Free from the mouth muzzle....Read More

But you have obligations
someone you love
or pretend to
it's much about nothing
when you're explaining
what's it for a man to do
What's up with me and you
 
Ooh aI think it's strange
You gamin on me
Playing silly games
Baby do your thang
You do alot of...Read More

But you have obligations
someone you love
or pretend to
it's much about nothing
when you're explaining
what's it for a man to do
What's up with me and you
 
Ooh aI think it's strange
You gamin on me
Playing silly games
Baby do your thang
You do alot of...Read More

He knew from his beganning
That those who within
Then rhelmn of his sound
Wouldn't understand what
He spoke as direction
To those that supported his
Efforts.
What made better and easier
Instruction
Was their willingness to know
Those who were to gain
support would learn to
Support, so that the cycle
Of...Read More

Those who appreciate
good things and great
Things, understand
Why I love you, they
Understand why I
Want you
When I desire
Or am am uninspired
I look to you
And you make
Everything thing 
Alright for me

Sheer elegance
You never skip
 A verse
Each chapter
In our love affair
Makes people
Wanna be around
They...Read More

But you have obligations
someone you love
or pretend to
it's much about nothing
when you're explaining
what's it for a man to do
What's up with me and you
 
Ooh aI think it's strange
You gamin on me
Playing silly games
Baby do your thang
You do alot of...Read More

But you have obligations
someone you love
or pretend to
it's much about nothing
when you're explaining
what's it for a man to do
What's up with me and you
 
Ooh aI think it's strange
You gamin on me
Playing silly games
Baby do your thang
You do alot of...Read More

But you have obligations
someone you love
or pretend to
it's much about nothing
when you're explaining
what's it for a man to do
What's up with me and you
 
Ooh aI think it's strange
You gamin on me
Playing silly games
Baby do your thang
You do alot of...Read More

Naughtily Natalie
Clattering Cutlery
Maddening Madeline
Hampering Harmony...Read More

Each poem has its own form
you can't Rhyme with concrete it sets up to fast
Lyric creates its own rhyme
Sonnet seems to be out of time

ABC is Acrostic in line
Bio always has something to say
And Blank verse no one can see
Alliterations...Read More

Mystery history:
Allingham's Campion,
Silly-ass supersleuth,
Fearlessly fact-finding.

Factotum gangsterman
Ugly Lugg handyman,
Whodunnit royalty
Challenging Wimseydom....Read More

October stopover,
Halloween lunar queen,
Luminous look alert, 
Phantasms paramount.

Thumpity bumpity,
Moonlight on monsters shone,
Beaming on hobgoblins
Dodging in droves tonight.







25/9/19
"Halloween Moon"
Chantelle Anne Cooke...Read More

Merrily, joyously
our gifted special child
praises the Lord through hymns*
though he can’t sing.

With sign language, he does
super-melodiously
inspiring us indeed…
what great blessing!

*Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the...Read More

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 wallety
William the Conqueror
Wanted his subjects to
Quail at his power,

Crowing to Londoners
Hyperdespotically, 
“Look, everybody, I’ve
Built me a tower!”

III. 

Rickety tickety
Wolfram...Read More

Take my hand and lead the way,
Tell me all you want to say.

Whisper softly in my ear,
All those things I want to hear.

Kiss my lips and touch my skin,
Bring out passions deep within.

Pull me close and hold me near,
take away...Read More

Ooyakah Booyakah
Dear Queen Elizabeth’s
Ninety third birthday turned
Into a rave

She did the running man
Extraordinarily
Crafting a move from her
Famed royal wave


9 December 2018


I challenged myself to write in the most random form I could find today and came across the double dactyl!...Read More

The Ancient Mariner’s Fate
 
Eternally doomed adrift
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Mariner repeats his 
Story over and over now.

A sad soul in true agony
Incomprehensible
His heart now dry as dust
To his fate he must bow.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
December 3, 2018...Read More

King Lear’s Voice
 
Nothing out of nothing
William Shakespeare
A king of true tragedy
No unconditional love.

No never and nothing
Machiavellian
His descent into madness
Dead to Heaven above.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
October 10, 2018 (Double Dactyl)...Read More

Having big heart 

Full the demand of my love life is i am right move left to right in front of gate for a wake when 
I die 

Sound flow in a beat to tell the match universal truth is...Read More

Lolita’s Conceit
 
Obsession defined
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
An accursed passion
Love’s true abomination.

Literary allusion
Tintinnabulation
Sounding moral oblivion 
God’s sure condemnation.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
August 18, 2018 (Double Dactyl)...Read More

A Russian Mystic Outré

Mystical-Strannik  
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
A charlatan to many
A prophet to some.

His hypnotic effect
Incomprehensible
His eyes uncanny
A saint to none.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
July 18, 2018 (Double Dactyl)...Read More

Mimesis Master
 
Reality’s mirror
Erich Auerbach
Manifest vision 
Literature’s reality true.

Stylistic panache
Presignification
Mingling of literary styles 
All good in reality’s view.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
April 8, 2018 (Double Dactyl)...Read More

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
Humpty's mother was very sad
To see her son in the hospital

Humpty Dumpty was slowly dying
Humpty Dumpty was Painfully frying
He said that there was only one cure
Just give me one popsicle...Read More

Fall of Man
 
Adam and Eve
John Milton
Don’t eat that fruit
Thought they could.

Tree of Knowledge
Insubordination
Downfall occurs . . .  
“Evil, be thou my good.”

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
August 13, 2017 (Double Dactyl)...Read More

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