Villanelle of a Metal Queen (c) 2025 by Russ Dodson
I just don't know where else to start
to tell you of this love of mine
she is the beating of my heart
these feelings that I must decline
I just don't know where else to start
the memories both sweet and tart
hold feelings that I would enshrine
she is the beating of my heart
I wonder can I play that part
to make these treasures glow and shine
I just don't know where else to start
so soon again she must depart
to let her skills and soul entwine
She is the beating of my heart
She is a rockstar, and a large part
of the sound she helped refine
I just don't know where else to start
She is the beating of my heart
Categories:
hard rock, girlfriend, music,
Form: Villanelle
Old School Cool (c) 2025 by the Entangled Pair
She's hot, yes, but she's also cool
she is a gem, she is a jewel
I think she's great (and I'm no fool)
she beats those drums like she's old school
she pounds those skins, sometimes it's funny
she hits them like they owe her money
and one thing more I'll tell you honey
she's on that kit whether cloudy or sunny
She's been that way right from the start
plays from the the soul, plays from the heart
she always does more than her part
it's not just passion, it's her art
looking back I am that fool
dug in like a Missouri mule
and if this doesn't break some rule
she's not just cool - she's old school cool
word
Categories:
hard rock, cool, how i feel,
Form: Couplet
Headphones on my head
Deep Purple heavy rocking
Sleep with metal dreams
Categories:
hard rock, music,
Form: Haiku
life is full of experiences, something that you need to learn..
but there is no experience without practicals..
and no practicals without a man..
We hit the rock so hard sometimes..
We create beautiful episodes sometimes..
Each of these are different experiences..
Experiences that we must be ready to learn.
But when you fail to learn from them..
They will come again and again
Each taking different shapes..
Make you staunted and even crawl...
Until you learn to tackle and overcome.
Categories:
hard rock, inspiration, life, mystery, perspective,
Form: Light Verse
Death parodied Iron Maiden's band
with satirical mimicry,
a Twisted Sister bandstand
complete with flames and gimmickry.
As die-hard rock and rollers danced
Death parodied Iron Maiden's band,
the reaper keeping souls entranced
while maintaining the upper hand.
Beelzebub was Death's stagehand
languishing in the flames of hell,
Death parodied Iron Maiden's band
until the fallen angels fell.
His guitar screamed heavy metal
the kind of tunes parents banned,
annoying as stinging nettle
Death parodied Iron Maiden's band.
(Quatern)
01/21/2020
Distant Refrains Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May
image #1
Categories:
hard rock, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Quatern
Hay! Baby (scream/loud)
How you doin! (loud and sharp/stretch-out)
My name is Joe cool (he winks his eye (lie)
and I want too
spend a little
time, with you
Oh Yeah!
(guitar: Hard Rock Sonata)
so don't tell
yo mama
(high pitch /crowd joins in )
and don't spill-it
to all of your friends
and we,
can play
hide the one-eyed snake
in the little bitty cave
and if you
don't like
that game
maybe something
nice and sweet
we can, just sit here
and have something
to eat
and for dessert
what would you
like to slop on
I've got, just what
you want
I've got just what
you would like
a multi flavored
lolly-pop
because you been so
nice
How you doin!
Next! (a chuckle and a laugh)
My name is Joe cool
Categories:
hard rock, hip hop, humorous, lust,
Form: Lyric
dark branch of wrath
piercing my third eye
dewed petals of love
opening hard rocks
i am sailing
magnetic inter actions
engulfing infernos
roots of innocent love
growing kissing the skies
i am helpless
reincarnation is not a sin
did i see her eyes before
words not expressed
i can hear
resuscitation of emotions
she is a hard rock
sep 14 2016
8.44 pm
Categories:
hard rock, allusion,
Form: I do not know?
The rock I stand on
is hard
I lean down and put my hand on
its hardness
Once there was
a nothingness
then the tiniest speck
of somethingness
burst into
the everythingness
until at last there was
thinkingness
so I can feel
this hardness
But this hardness is really an illusion
brought about by a grand collusion
the quite improbable action
of four forces of attraction
and one more of reaction
With steel hammer this rock I could shatter
but if a creature were I of dark matter
this rock I’d not even batter
So tell pray tell me
what’s really real
I’m sure it can’t be
just what I can feel
Categories:
hard rock, nature,
Form: Free verse
I'm surfing the wind
Straight for your heart
I'm a crashing wave
Aiming for your hurt
I'm two elements
Wind and water
Against your hard rock
I'm mere vapour
Chorus
The lemons in your eyes
Are demons of bitterness
Draw deep lines of tears
Let me peel off the loniness
To see past the lies
That stiffle your laughter
Until all fear dies
I'll rain down your praises
I'm riding the high tide
The moon elevates this love
I was an unstoppable force
Until I had to be brave
I'm the prevailing wind
That could never settle
And had no direction
Until your hard rock
(Chorus)
Let's start a band..babe
It'll be legendary
A lasting bond..babe
Past the ordinary
I'll be the drummer
You the lead singer
Bring the melodrama
I'll still love you forever...yeah!
Let me rain cool breezes
Against your hard rock
Your unhappiness I despise
'Cos we're hard rock...yeah!
Categories:
hard rock, love,
Form: Lyric
Each man with his lunch box looks straight ahead
into the lens. It’s dawning, above ground.
Why think about a sweetheart still a-bed?
Each man with his lunch box looks straight ahead.
They’re going down. Lost daylight like the dead
who never rise. Their pay is pick and pound.
Each man with his lunch box looks straight ahead
into the lens. It’s dawning – above ground.
Categories:
hard rock, history
Form: Triolet