In shadows deep, where moonlight creeps,
A nursery rhyming darkness, secrets it keeps.
Cradle of night, where shadows play,
Sing a lullaby of the dark, they say.
Beneath the boughs of twisted trees,
Echoes the hush, a chilling tease.
Lay the babe, in the crib of the night,
A lullaby whispered, a phantom's delight.
Stars above, in their silent rhyme,
Witness the dance of darkness, sublime.
Nursery of nightmares, in slumber's trance,
A realm of whispers, a macabre dance.
Enter the contest, where shadows rhyme,
In the realm of darkness, it's nursery time.
Give all best while blest, passing the test with God’s zest!!!
Achieve
Believe!
Create
Do great!
Excel
Fight well!
God*… trust
Hope must!
Improve
Just move!
Keep right
Love light!
March on
Now yon!
Own work
Plus perk!
Quell doubt
Reach out!
Up glory’s crest, fight pride’s pest, share blessings with the rest!!!
*Proverbs 16:20 He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good:
and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.
January 25, 2024
4th place, "DARK Nursery Rhyme A-N-D Eye Rhyme" Poetry Writing Premiere Contest; Sponsored by Hilo Poet; judged on 3/2/2024
This teacher had a bulging eye
Which always made him cry
Wiped tears for days
Face looked like a mazed
To me he always looked high
There was a girl talking in rhyme
She thought she could perform in mime
Never knew how to read
Neither play hide and seek
She was caught penning an eye rhyme.
“I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.” -Dorothy Parker
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone” -Dorothy Parker
Angels connecting
in real live
Thinking reflecting
and keeping us strive
'Say no to consensuality
that's your best quality
You've the audibility
so keep on your prosody'
Always on time
Mr/Miss/Ms/Mrs I'm...
'Shhhhhhh'
with an eye rhyme
"That heinous crime"
Jumping off the metrics
Holy sculls!
Writing isn't mathematics
Such as friendship
Do everything intensively on your trip
If you stumble in the footpath
It's just a turn on
High in raciness
No Life Span
In the wrath
I am You Sylvia Plath
Nightmares and Dreams
In your life
You were anarchical
one of a kind
my new heteronym
named Wolfed Golf
because is worth being Virginia Woolf
In my paintings: pastels oils pencils and markers Paranoia(s) converter(s)
In being a reporter
In my disorder
sometimes being dark and darker
I am you,
Mrs Dorothy Parker
Tale less rhyme
A tail rhyme I wanted to write
A perfect one without a blight
For the 'Black eyed' to see
If it turns out to be 'eye rhyme'*
Don’t consider it a big crime
It's my humble plea.
* Words spelled similarly but pronounced differently.
30/ Nov/12
For Black eyed Susan’s contest
OLD BEANS
Differences make strang bedfellows ewe listen to the mee old bean old bean
rhymes with caviar behind the bar the windows closed the lights are low no one
is bandying about the place just mee and ewe and no disgrace in love and
kisses sweeter two of them are mine one of them for ewe so sweetly planted by
the ewe on hands so roughened by the tasks of mee and used just to survive for
ewe the one eye have for ewe is Christmas wine so sweetly given and will last a
Christmas missing as eye rhyme a thought for ewe
OLD BEANS
Green Bean Old Bean Old Man
Lima Bean Young Bean Old Woman
Can beans Gone Beans Young Love
Love Beans Kiss Beans We Beans
Heart Beans Heart Beans Love
This is Christmas Poem for my Flower done.
OLD BEANS
^V^alentine ^W^ine
^V^alentine ^W^ine
ewe is mye valentine sublime she is just the wine
in my cup of dreaming time
listen unto me oh please the pleasure that ewe gave to me
the things oh yes the love unbidded…her favorite song is
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes and that is so intelligent
it seems to be the favorite thing of mine when eye have time to listen
but sometimes eye cheat and listen to the JESUS FREAK songs
oh please just listen to the time that gave to me a better heart.
Eye is now smitten and hanging on to ewe as love.
Love can be a wondrous beating of four wings
to make me hover over water
intending just to get a glimpse of my ianthe deer roe dear
listen as eye rhyme this rhythum of the wine she is my fatal cup
eye drown eye drown inside the LOVE
she brings to me now has no more where to go and fills me up.
THIS is mye love mye ^V^alentine ewe mye heart mye ^V^alentine ^W^ine.
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