consider cumulus frost-bitten clouds
curious billows sporting fluffy shrouds
zeniths growing, burgeoning powers
forming glorious looming towers
hyperboles design brief distortions
comic sketches of monstrous proportions
colliding cotton, silvery might
enormous collections, wondrous white
cryptic constructions, icy smoke
cumulus clouds lure sky-eyeing folk
hewn works mimic stunning sculpture
structures wrought from counterculture
Categories:
hyperboles, nature,
Form: Rhyme
conjure cumulus frost-bitten clouds
curious billows sporting fluffy shrouds
zeniths growing, burgeoning powers
forming glorious looming towers
hyperboles design brief distortions
comic sketches of monstrous proportions
cotton confections silvery might
splendiferous altars vestal white
cryptic vaporized icy smoke
cumulus clouds lure sky-gazing folk
hewn works mimic stunning sculpture
structures wrought by a counterculture
collaborations of Monet and Mozart
celestial etchings artisan art
secular symphonies marked by the measure
concertos performed with style at leisure
Categories:
hyperboles, imagery, imagination, sky,
Form: Rhyme
I love to swap things with my friends.
Today I’ve got a recipe
to offer you. Please send me yours.
Let’s make some “soup” with poetry.
You must have fourteen cups of fresh
strict meter. Just one brand will do;
that’s iambic pentameter.
For spicy sonnet flavor, you
add just a pinch of all of these:
A B A B, C D C D,
E F E F. Stir well before
you add the special spice—G G.
For soup with substance, metaphors,
hyperboles, and similes
add robust taste to sonnet soup.
Add more—whichever ones you please.
Bring to a boil. Then cook on low
to medium two hours. Before
you serve it, taste. Does it taste great—
or not? Does it need something more?
April 28, 2017 entered in Brian Strand's Premier May Contest: 25-line max, any topic or form
May 19, 2022
Poetry Contest: Merger with Food
Sponsor: Natasha L. Scragg
Categories:
hyperboles, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Continuing On
What if a love poem leaned towards writing
And wanted it to be eccentric yet still exciting
Filled with love, romance and much emotion
My mind was blown away by a big explosion.
So should moving poem be so surreptitious
Full of enhancements and also expeditious
Trying to arouse your interest in poetry
And thankful mine has no mediocrity.
Are outstanding and exceptionally splendid
Which is exactly what ruthlessly was intended
Now there is another beautiful new dawn
Will write more poems while continuing on.
PS. If you care to notice, there are no "I's",
and a few ands, and no buts, or's or nor's,
or eithers either and no not any neithers,
When your exceptional ability explores.
Oh, and what anyway are hyperboles?
Categories:
hyperboles, humorous, hyperbole,
Form: Couplet
Passerby echo the frustrations of the world
Under the bridge
Tall tales of courage
Outpours from angry souls
Yet the toughest of them all still hide
Under the bridge
Grass roots & neo-souls speak words
In the form of hyperboles
Leaving actions hidden like water
Under the bridge
Categories:
hyperboles, fear, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
To feel superb,
use a verb in
hyperboles!
I teach English/Writing classes at the high school level. Am doing poetry in 3 classes right now and decided to try a new style. Than-Bauk is kind of fun once you get the hang of it. One class really got into it and we wrote 6 poems in less than 30 minutes! Love it when the muse hits!!!
Categories:
hyperboles, education, high school,
Form: Than-Bauk
It was getting dark.
The insane curve of greed was rising.
I would not draw the boundaries
between the words.
The finch was immersed
in soliloquies and light was waiting
inside the seeds.
I open my eyes
and yell at the clouds in hyperboles
becoming stranger to myself.
Who belongs here
in slit eyes ? Each flower was leaving
a blemish, for the winter.
Tell me,
who you are in the twist of reality.
A proverb is going to be taken away.
Satish Verma
Categories:
hyperboles, art
Form: I do not know?