Oh beauteous bird, oh regal flamingo!
How stunning is your majestic appeal
Scarlet wing coverts blazing your zeal
Dazzling persona of upside down aura
Bent bill articulating aquatic ballet art
Emulating dance of one legged stance
Ah! how your pink gentilities enchant
In crimson garb, thrilling doting hearts
October 6, 2020
In praise of the ode poetry contest
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Theme: To a flamingo
pluck the gentilities
got sined sensiblities
a quiet cacophony
rhythms at timing
resemblin' the melody
on repertoire
schwaaaa - aaaah
hear the sizzle of cymbals
the soul of her body
her sippin' hot toddy
- damn that jazz!
sheets o' music flyin'
mouth harp a cryin'
chords hit the floor diein'
to move a'wrigglin' rear
RISE UP! GET DOWN!
fade to bridge - then reappear
- now that's jazzin'
© Goode Guy 2013-04-17
I scaled the heights
and crossed the genre over
Rock and Pointillism
Springstein and Seurat
on dotted i some critic cries
aloud echo canyoned schism
to each his own
we together bemoan
separation of our malaise
individuality's good
'long as it's understood
we're all different in artful ways
the beholder can only seize
on concepts predisposed to sight
the I's of art that you appease
each concept I hold despite
my own presupposed expertise
that much art leans toward contrite
or worse, tries not to displease
some need to be artfully polite
art is what you say it is
who am i to tell you
that your idea, your creation
is not worthy of the tag of "art"
so shake my sensibilities
shock my gentilities
move the foundation of my soul
make a hole, drop it in, make it whole
© Goode Guy 2011-08-23
I'm beholdin' to you...