Mango limes and pomegranates
the world is turning tutti fruity
and I'm loving every minute of it
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Before the mainevent
A fella from Canada
The All Aisain World's
Champion hoped to
Unify his title against
the German All pro
Champ. Both men
Wrestled 45 mens
To a draw. After the
Bell the referee with
Advice from members
Of the championship
Committee, awarded
The All Asian Champion
The bout, due to the
Referees three count
At the last seconds of
The match.
But in the mainevent both represent Ives were announced
as world champions and gave a world class performance.
47:31 seconds into the bout both masked champions took
exception to being snobbed by the media and fans, and
Interfered in the bout.For ten minutes these men ruined a world class performance. Both lockerrooms cleared, and all of the interfered were escorted from ringside. The doctors found both men were able to
resume, and the match continued. Then at 55:55 of the restated match,
A man in a yellow mask with "they are me" on his tights, and
"I'm invisible on his shirt" came from under the ring. He unseen by the referee, used a chain and knocked out both grapplers. The bout ended in
A double countout!
In Fall's color extravaganza,
emerald treetops get set ablaze.
Nature harvests a gold bonanza;
at the end of Summer's shrinking days.
Emerald treetops get set ablaze,
and flames burn vermilion and cerise.
At the end of Summer's shrinking days,
green leaves morph into a golden fleece.
And flames burn vermilion and cerise,
highlighting the beauty of Autumn.
Green leaves morph into a golden fleece,
and trees get inked from top to bottom.
Highlighting the beauty of Autumn,
Nature harvests a gold bonanza.
And trees get inked from top to bottom
in Fall's color extravaganza.
EXTRAVAGANZA
paving
the way
for
the
extravagant&
intense
the bold&
distinctive
the immediate
&apparent
a way
of looking
at reality
beyond
the surface
to separate
the stable
through
the spontaneous
seeing
the
particular
a sophisticated
notion
evolves
to
articulate
a way
of seeing
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand
EXTRAVAGANZA
designed
to
illuminate
a spectacle
or
into
a
visual
metaphor
of spaces
within
experience
spectacles
of
comparable
phenomena
circle
a panorama
of of
melodramatic
rotunda
a prominent
pantomine
of instinct
preserved
an accessory
to
augment
reality
&
motivate
a
narrative
conception
in
a
perfect
tangible
tactile
replica
in
all
dimensions
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand
October is a pageant of color,
that celebrates the bounty of Summer.
Yet, Jack Frost, Autumn's gentleman caller,
opts to dance to a different drummer:
welcoming Winter as the newcomer.
Fall's a phantasmagorical season:
boasting a color extravaganza.
And Autumn's changing leaves are the reason
poets tout Nature's golden bonanza
of beauty: as a poetic stanza.
Scarlet and cerise ignite overnight:
as fairies set green canopies afire.
And although most songbirds have taken flight,
Fall offers so much beauty to admire:
Autumn colors never cease to inspire.
The air gets chilly; each breath crisp and clean:
underfoot, dry leaves make a crackling sound.
Crimson and orange leaves, shred Summer's green
into confetti that gets blown around
by brisk breezes, and scattered on the ground.
Grooms not nervous now
Brides expecting more
Fathers going broke
Mothers counting money
Frizzle frazzle day
What happened mints?
What happened cake?
What happened punch?
What happened nuts?
More more more
Everything
Bridezilla
Simple?
Lovely?
Not quite.
Wedding
I saw a little boy and two pretty girls play on the beach
He took a few back steps and caught the ball
But hit his butt on a pointed shell
And let loose his good catch
He lost out to the girls and sat brooding
They joked to help him by lightening his spirits
All of a sudden there was lightning and the girls ran to their cabin
Dragging the sulky boy as didn't buoy their spirits at all.
*boy/buoy, but/butt, lightening/lightning
March 27, 2016
Contest: Wordplay Extravaganza
Sponsor : John Hamilton
. Donkey Kong country
Entertainment for me
I love to see Kong shoot
Out of the barrel so free
Searching for Diddy, hoot
And bananas in a tree
bananas give life; Coconuts
Kill; avoid the armadillo's kill
Find Diddy increase odds
Find a secret passage fill
Up the store house with
Monkey loot. Stay up hill.
Donkey Kong Country
Ride a rhino for strength
For Gwendolyn R. contest
Shape poem
en
ter ke
y
extra
va
ganz
a
someone som
ewhere dec
ided that th
ey & they alone k
now the co
rrect way that a poem is
formed & thu
s what it is to write poetr
y to dwell in a po
etic ma
n
ner withi
n th
e realm
of
lit
era
tu
re.
thi
s nar
row-min
ded fasc
ist who wants to be
the one who draws the param
eters arou
nd wi
thin we free huma
n beings are supposed to functio
n within ne
eds to break that see on that little bub
ble that they li
ve in be
cause out he
re the rest of us defi
ne freedom
a dif
ferent way.
we will
do what
we want
when we
want in
the manner
that we
want &
if you
want to
stop us
you will
have to
kill us.
go
od
day.