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My Fencing Buddy: NEW Balliol Verse Form

A Balliol rhyme is a doggerel verse form with a distinctive meter. A quatrain, with a pair of couplets (rhyme scheme AABB), with four beats per line. Written by the poet who elaborates on their character, exploits, or predilections.

Once was a bird who had enjoyed
her timeless spend became annoyed
when my new Tom bravely demands
cat's pointed

Categories: fencing, allusion, analogy, appreciation, cat,
Form: Quatrain

My God, Thank You For Fencing Up My Way

April 23 Scripture Meditations Based on Job 19-24

Key Verse – Job 19:8 He hath fenced up my way…

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR FENCING UP MY WAY

Thank You for fencing up my way against selfish ambition
Toward Your sure direction
As You guide my decision
For me to fulfill Your assigned function.

Thank You for fencing up my way against

Categories: fencing, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

Fencing the Meadow

Someone has fenced in a portion of the meadow
Laying claim to what Mother Nature has proscribed,
Some folks bring displeasure with absurd bravado.

Is he suggesting that part of the meadow, so described,
Is forbidden for enjoyment by nature lovers like me?
Seems like this certain neighbor has over-imbibed!

Land ownership is only temporary, while nature is free
Here to be

Categories: fencing, freedom, how i feel,
Form: Terza Rima

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Open Field Feeling Badly

I am raging mad. Wishing I had hot molting killing lava to pour on that ugly human in the funny clothes who violated me yesterday. Feeling a thrill thinking of the pain he would have felt yesterday when he was poking me with his damned tools if I had been able to access my lava

Categories: fencing, anger, farm, nature,
Form: Personification

Ring Fencing Initiative

Do you feel like you are are bound up in red tape and rules?
That are strangling your initiative,
Do you feel like you are wearing a  strait jacket?
That makes bending the rules even a little, 
A danger to your wellbeing.
Do you feel lost and alone?
As you wander around the fence line,
Looking for a gate to

Categories: fencing, adventure, appreciation, best friend,
Form: Imagism

Stick Fencing

Two sticks by the oak
Trimmed and prepared for battle
On a grassy knoll

On the playing field
With one hand behind our backs
Sticks cross left to right

In the round we dance
The fields sway, trees clap their hands
We duel and laugh


(Caleb and I playing in the front yard when he was 4 years old.  Now we duel with

Categories: fencing, family, father, happiness, imagination,
Form: Haiku