Gerunds Poems | Examples


Premium MemberGrammah

Put it down to a grey-haired obsession;
Participles are a vexed question.
Even though it sounds quaint,
Elegant it ain't,
Robbing gerunds of their possessions!
Categories: gerunds, age, funny,
Form: Limerick

Nemesis

superlative in wrath as one who avenges nemeses
sometimes a man out of hate is subsumed in sounds
propagating the use of onomatopoeias
stomping slapping and gerunding
the ancient and eternal anachronism
of what is now in the cocoon and now is in larva
and what is this painful scream eroding the deaf world...

this man
this insect
the rare element that rubs its stems
swirls in the air and like a plume of lead
falls too mature in this life of less.
in wrath he utters the sounds of this holocaust.
he yearns and desires the cataclysm
so if a big earthquake breaks the plates
there is a breakdown in gravity
and the shaft rebalances the glasses in the bars
and the transit of capitals,
the lines of cars naturally reborn
and it's on the oil-splattered roads
where men test the speed of their anguish
and while the sun illuminates what he doesn't even know
that man silences his anger
chewing and swallowing the gerunds once more.
Categories: gerunds, 11th grade, allegory,
Form: Free verse


Sick Words

(A linguistic experience)

Was there any argument that justified 
the existence of the word-disease?
something more was said of this 
at the beginning of the completion of the understanding
who disputed any logos establishing the new negative balance
on the influence of the word on the general condition 
of the illiterate impatient patient?
scary demon-letters! 
they run through the phrasal labyrinth 
and the fat of leftover vowels
it smears the verbal walls and there is no law 
that limits the limit of the limitless
sick phonemes accept any pain 
there is no medicine and there is no leaflet insert 
it is all unpredictability
I've been using gerunds around 
like when who doesn't know
or not knowing in all a textual body
goes astray to where they call where...
Categories: gerunds, crazy, imagination, poems,
Form: Free verse

My Gerunds Were Ghastly

I
Are you fascinated with languages
Including all swear words, and vulgarities
Some actually are as pleasant as cakes
But serious questions about LIGHTNING:
It is a gerund; the happening is the THING
Making a verb into a noun, as we do with FEEL-ing

II
Moving on from lightning and feeling -
The top of the line on offer is LOVING
As with theology, so with biology and matrimony:
The better part is in doing: "love" is nothing
But a word, if there is no actual LOVING
And what if God were LOVE in the abstract
Less loving and grace, as in the Older Covenant?
Categories: gerunds, allusion, analogy, beauty, bible,
Form: Free verse

Gerunds and Truth

I
A whirlpool is not a pool of WHIRLS;
A whirlpool is but whirlpooling

II
Do you feel a feeling?
Do you light a lightning?
Perhaps FEELING and LIGHTNING are events in themselves.
Categories: gerunds, analogy, creation, language,
Form: Prose Poetry


Premium MemberWord Play Turns Ugly

young whippersnapper brain
pours out her last idea
flicking adjectives into dirty dumpster
nouns prance off, disgusted
without elaboration or fancy descriptions

verbs take the lead, 
kicking their adverbs to the curb
your nuances no longer welcome, 
a mob mentality 
seeking satisfaction in a brick alley

prepositions begin to arrive at the front
under the discarded boxes
searching through the rubble of the day
one climbs up the filthy trash heap
jumping into a pile of overused words

word play being what it is, 
startling, laughing, loving gerunds arrive
carrying participles on their backs.
They cannot stop hitting, hurting and killing each other

Stop! Title yells. I want some kind of legacy.
I have no words to add, being mute and respectful of my elders
I am a mere homophone, 
too consternated to know these two warring factions
well enough to take sides.
Categories: gerunds, word play,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhat Is It

What is it

You expect to see
When you string along
Verbs and gerunds to be?
Do you fancy yourself 
A poet in history divine?
Do you really believe
Your verse is in time?

What is it, do you want to 
Get from
All these poems
You call them 
When really
There's none.

On a level that
Really no one else sees
You post another verse
And sit back and wait
While others dont feel.

No one gets me
Or heard me
I'm so above this
But deep down you know
You're not worth a kiss.

It's a sad, rainy day
As you write for yourself 
They're really isn't 
Anyone else.

But in your head
You can pat yourself on the back
And think i hope no one
sees I'm a hack.

But the truth is more hard
Like a mass on a tumor
Your poetry,  alas,
Is solipsistic rumor.
Categories: gerunds, poems,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberScience

I think too much about science,
Worthless lot of apes;
Spoken for so as never to speak
For themselves. 
I think too much about
Religion, 
Worthless lot of apes;
I stack tarot cards on bibles
Fishing for magical faith. 
I think too much about politics, 
Worthless lot of apes,
I grease the wrong palms,
And lobby the other industry.
I think enough about words,
To fill a bowl of verbs, and
A plate of nouns and gerunds.
Categories: gerunds, i am, science,
Form: Free verse

Running Chestnut- Syntax-Ing

is it a noun or is a verb um																		  to ing or not to ing question                																  my son to patronize a thing 																	 gerunds ung unga to ingaz                                                                                                  not beggar belong to egads 																	 																	not like cave man talk but suffix's 																runnen ans end mind affixes 																	the word things we call ing's  																	running to flow agitating																		 syntax your mind along the lang 																darling short for to be the slang 																	suffice to be or not to be 																 suspense supine a rhyme came thee
Categories: gerunds, allegory, funny, on work
Form: Free verse

A Strand of Aphoristic Brian

A Strand of Aphoristic Brian


Brian Strand has no business, “knowing he”.
Writing Ekphrasis flowing poetry                 
His poetry is hypothetical                                                   
Professor of all things theatrical                   
Perfectionist, of succinct brevity                   
An archer with an eagle’s clarity                                            
Economical adjectives spin, leaked 
As he re-cycles gerunds as we speak.


Brian Strand is a living breathing abstract waiting to self express
We love you Brian!
Categories: gerunds, satirepoetry,
Form: Grook
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