Tortoise looked, couldn't see, hare disappeared.
Only him, tortoise win, hare reappeared.
the sportsmanship that
honesty competes often
eludes the cheaters
The Word of Life is joy everlasting.
In the game of life, we win, lose, and die,
patterns reasoning; be glad we're living.
Living for the trice, losers don't comply,
trifles our distractions are ankle-deep.
Count on time won't add up you'll meet Grim Reap.
Speed misjudged its breaks; odds knew--widow's mite.
Live yond your means, who are your family.
A hard worker, big spender, works in spite,
Jones styles for their smiles, save one--their envy.
Live simple, live smart unlike ducks and drakes,
odds knew--widow's mite; speed misjudged its breaks.
The hare expected to win and the tortoise knew he would lose--too much and too little of themselves, until fate intervened.
One sat under the apple tree until an apple fell on its head, and the other was on top of that tree, simply going out on a limb.
The hare expected to win and the tortoise knew he would lose--too much and too little of themselves, until fate intervened.
One sat under the apple tree until an apple fell on its head, and the other was on top of that tree, simply going out on a limb.
L-Speed misjudged its breaks; odds knew--widow's mite.-a
E-Live yond your means, who are your family.-b
T-A hard worker, big spender, works in spite,-a
T-Jones styles for their smiles save one--their envy.b
E-Live simple, live smart unlike ducks and drakes,-c
R-odds knew--widow's mite; speed misjudged its breaks.-c
B-The Word of Life is joy everlasting-a
E-In the game of life, we win, lose, and die-b
T-patterns reasoning, be glad we're living-a
T-living for the trice, losers don't comply,-b
E-trifles our distractions are ankle-deep.-c
R-Count on time won't add up you'll meet Grim Reap.-c
the sportsmanship that
honesty competes often
eludes the cheaters
Tortoise looked, couldn't see, hare disappeared.
Only him, tortoise win, hare reappeared.
Eyes closing, mind aflame.
Slipping out of darkness I saw you in the light.
Here again.
Met an old friend.
Rebuild, mend an old friendship right.
Wake. End.
Goodbye.
I’ll patch our plight.
Try.
Eyes closing, mind aflame.
Rebuild, mend an old friendship right.
Try.
The perfect Quintilla sustains
AABBA schema with no refrains,
Five lines, each with eight syllables
No excess words or weak fillables,
Briefly, its meaning it contains.
written March 14, 2022
(Eight syllables per line
checked with HMS)
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01/10/2021
Long wanders across hills
Expiring - Three of my steps were one of my Dad's
Halting will
Refuelling near
Banks brandished fennell freely had
Revered
Herb young
Stung by green glad
Tongue
Washed down with water swills
Sweaty bunch became invalid
Flung
29th July 2020
Minichu an Innocent Childhood Memory
Mohan Chutani
Traditional poetry is written in METER, wherein the words in
any given line are read/heard in syllable groups called 'feet'.
An IAMB is a foot containing one un-emphasized syllable,
followed by a second emphasized (or 'stressed') syllable.
PENTA is the Greek prefix for five. The phrase IAMBIC PENTAMETER
refers to a poetic format in which each line contains five iambic pairs (individually, ten alternating UN-STRESSED and STRESSED syllables).
The result is a distinct but pleasant pattern that might be compared
to the sound of someone (or someTHING!) walking with a slightly
uneven gait: ... step-STEP... step-STEP... step-STEP...
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An 'iamb' is a pair of syllables
that sound like zombies coming down the street;
First, one soft step and next, a step that PULLS.
(You'll know when one's around just by it's feet)
'Pentameter' is bound to stop them then -
It's found to top their footsteps off at ten!
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H Horn Format
W S
O U
N R
D E
EVENTUALLY
R O
I U
N R
G S
What you think is what
you eventually become.
James Horn.
Two To Four Horn Format
Revived,
And survived;
Remained alive.
Did come
True one day,
What I was told.
Could be,
I did see,
Was you and me.
Middle
Of trouble,
And did tremble.
Happened
Long ago,
I have been told.
Today;
Yesterday,
And tomorrow.
By now,
Would happen,
When we wanted.
Trouble,
And tragic;
Calamity.
I knew
It happened;
Had been in past.
Not now;
Tomorrow;
In the future.
Much;
Maybe more;
Propitiously.
Here are examples of poem
in Horn Two To Four format.
Jim Horn
We are leaving tomorrow to
Shades of Green at Disneyworld
for five days.
Format Of The Eclipse,
Danger of sunlight on my lips,
My eyes filled with terror, Deceit fill my heat
What goes around comes around, so that gravity may put me back on my feet
The moonlight on my hands
The stars up above, A twister filled twilight with only seductive love
Do Despise
What is it we should surmise
Those who terrorize
Do despise
May be many ties
Along with their alibis.
Terrorist does this define
Were they out of line
Sun does shine
In position so supine
Do much so they can unwind.
Have heard that the prognosis
Has been pretty precocious
Atrocious
And preposterous
End of what can add to this.
This is a Seven Fife Three Five
Seven format.
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
RiverSea Plantation
Bolivia, NC
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