Child In a Quiver
...Catholic education taught me all my Ps and Qs
when nuns and priests coached a child's reluctant view,
in a quandary and a quiver
to kneel up straight and perfectly perpen...
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Categories:
extolls, analogy, christian, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Where I Needed To Be
...This town extolls an exuberant atmosphere,
with festive music and folks dancing in the street.
And I'm happy you decided to bring me here,
you never fail to understand me; you're so sweet....
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Categories:
extolls, 12th grade, anxiety, beautiful,
Form: Quatrain
Trouble Loves Pandora's Box
...With breathless zeal I did the deed
In this, Pandora’s dorm-room bed,
Self-gloating how I did succeed
At wheedling such a pert coed,
A playground chum, for years I’ve known
This blithe tomboy ...
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Categories:
extolls, men, relationship, women,
Form: Quatrain
Mind's Rapport
...by Michaelw1two
The bond between, mind’s words once penned
and heart’s truth; exasperated thoughts
expressing mind’s din, or clarifying those
mixed deep within unconsciousness
and callous dream...
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Categories:
extolls, community,
Form: Free verse
Eap-Melody
...The poet extolls euphony:
with the poem sublime
in the perfect paradigm
by the resonant rhyme
of the verse,crystalline
eap(eep) is a list cinquain where L1 is a statement followed by r...
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Categories:
extolls, music, on writing and
Form: List