Unity brings all together
Humility keeps them forever
Humiliation sets them apart
Prosperity makes all bright
Possibilities they all ride or strive for.
No discipline
No results or success
Steady insults
Brings you regrets
If you wanna know
Please always ask questions
Not living with assumptions.
Every habit
Is a consumption
Consuming your time or money
Giving memories
When you start fading
Making you lazy, then you start acting crazy.
When you don't get the glory
It makes you shady
When you get the glory
You start glowing
If you forget your shortcomings
You become cunning
Then you think those that are holy
Are living funny, just because your value only depends on money.
Categories:
guidelines, africa, children, community, creation,
Form: Narrative
The sunniest mornings,
the most contemplative afternoons,
the most starry nights,
conveys my soul,
guides me through life...!
Categories:
guidelines, allusion, analogy, perspective,
Form: Carpe Diem
CREDO-POETRY IS AN ORAL ART AT ITS BEST WHEN RECITED
it then becomes a two-way unique one-off.experience .
TRADITIONAL LINE CAPITALISATION RHYME ..in tetrameter (ABBA).YES..
but NOT otherwise as it creates a natural pause (ie it stilts) & thus disrupts the flow
WRAP AROUND LINES are a no-no
they are not visually conducive to read digitally or otherwise!
POETIC NO NO s -acrostic,kyrielle terzanelle villanelle ,pantoum & the 'syllablics'
they can be good for a learning exercise,a bit like scales are important when learning the piano but are too contrived & mechanical IMHO for our art form
PROSE POETRY ok if visually shaped in open form style*
FORMS THAT ALWAYS RING MY BELL shape,emagi & ekphrasis ,imagist Rhyme,alliteration,clerihew,footle&hiku*(both in the singular especially)
*OPEN VERSE uses spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols relies upon 'the one breath limitation' this intuitive cadence pemits the 'reader' (reciter) to respond in an interpretative - interplay unique to the ' happening
Categories:
guidelines, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Bio
The coach on the sidelines
the foreman in the shop
Each follows certain guidelines
so his team comes out on top
Our leaders in Washinton
they have their guidelines too
They each stick a finger in the air
to gauge which way the wind just blew
Categories:
guidelines, judgement, political, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Sometimes beliefs that we held in our youth
Lose the certainty we once regarded as truth,
Then we have to decide what to keep, what to shed,
What still fits us or what is beginning to shred.
Simply clinging to all that we learned in the past,
Even though, at the time, we believed it would last,
Doesn’t factor in various ways we have changed
And the lessons from which we have gotten estranged.
Therefore, no one should judge if we pray or we don’t;
Some traditions we’ll honor but others we won’t.
All that matters is that we’ve no reason to hide
If we follow the guidelines we harbor inside.
Categories:
guidelines, change,
Form: Rhyme
Strange times mean you’ve got to think fast,
Or our COVID gains just might not last.
With six feet of space,
Put a mask on your face
When you shelter from nuclear blasts!
Categories:
guidelines, humorous,
Form: Limerick
At my funeral they will be playing Helen Reddy
“I am woman, hear me roar!” Cher’s “Gypsy’s, Tramps and Thieves”
And Adam Lambert. I love all his stuff!
I will be sitting behind my grandchildren, sending them the giggles
My besties will tell the funniest stories; there will be no crying.
People will be lying in the aisles kicking their feet in joy
As they hear how cute, clever, silly and insanely fun I am.
Flowers? Not unless they are marigolds.
They make my cousin Suzanne break out,
I would like to see her face as a big red strawberry welt one last time.
Categories:
guidelines, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
G-uidelines give good chance
I-n containing the terrible threat;
N-eatness and cleanliness
A-bate the dreaded droplet.
E-xact guidelines give good chance,
S-trict standards stop the spread;
T-he contagious coronavirus
O-f hazard will be dead.
C-ontrol the contamination,
A-pply the physical distance;
D-efeat the invisible infection,
O-nce guidelines give good chance.
Topic: Birthday of Gina Estocado (June 05)
Categories:
guidelines, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
R-estrictions
A-nd
Q-uarantine
U-ltimately
E-vade
L-ethal
D-isease
A-s
G-uidelines
S-top
I-nfection
Topic: Birthday of Raquel C. Dagsi (May 27)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Categories:
guidelines, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
D-eadly
I-nfection
A-ttacks
N-ose
N-astily
E-ndangering
B-ody
A-s
Q-uarantine
U-ses
I-ts
N-ecessary
G-uidelines
Topic: Birthday of Dianne Baquing (April 09)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Categories:
guidelines, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Guidelines for Abnormal
Started off with gatherings which were informal;
Then had started checking out what was normal;
Wanted to know,
Blow by blow,
How to establish guidelines for being abnormal.
Jim Horn
Categories:
guidelines, 1st grade, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
On the side of the winding road
They stood with wooden expression
With singe focus to keep and goad
Those that pass in rapid progression
On the side of the road’s edge
They stood holding each other’s arms
With a solemn silent pledge
To protect those passing from harms
On the side of the road they stayed
Metal warm and wood sun-bleached
As they dedicated protective prayers
As to passers-by they silently preached
And even if unnoticed by all
Those in error were protected from the fall
Protected from the plunge to doom
As the fast-lane dangers always loom
Categories:
guidelines, allegory, life, travel,
Form: Italian Sonnet
This whole time I’ve been,
Slipping away from who,
The photographs tell me is you.
And the memories led me,
Indefinitely through,
This swaying path that was all I knew.
And as the,
Inevitable nears,
I learn to disregard my fears.
And though I have,
Struggled on my way,
I’m proud to say,
That this is who I am today.
Categories:
guidelines, dedication
Form: Dramatic Verse