Boost the gleam and dazzle
sibylline embers shine in the gnome jade
spangled goddess sparkle
It meshes cosmic toggles of
golden clusters
on the burning dusk of a phoenix's wings.
chorus tunes that croon kudos.
peel away.
shepherds and seraphim
translucent term chorus
with cerulean rhythm
amidst the ictus of an elfish presong.
my pulse quickens.
fresh dawn awakens
happy new year 2023
Written: January 03, 2023
YOUR CHOICE 2023 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
Tucked into the crease in Hudaibiyah
Coming out the knuckles
Treaty of womb
Religious autonomy, prerequisite
Freedom
Violas with the chunky melody
Whosoever heareth the sound
They glory in the truth
Maledom
Trumpet measures white gown
Treaty of negotiation, bodily autonomy
Femdom
Simply
unidentifiably
Perplexing.
Exemplifying
rather
crazy,
absurd,
Linguistics.
It's
fantastic
rhythm
allowing
grandiose
Ictus
lends
imbecilic
speach.
Truly
idioclly
contrived.
Experiencing
xanaphobia
paralizingly
incapacitates
any
linguist
in
defining
obligatory
comprehension.
It
obviously
undermines
spell check!
July16, 2014
Contest: Acrostic #2
Sponsor: Poet Destroyer
Dear Alliteration,
First friend, foremost;
Forgetting not,
Shy Allegory,
Dressed in Allusion;
Sweet Anaphora,
How I need thee!
How I need thee!
And Assonance;
Never deep asleep,
Nor rest Refrained,
By Caesura;
Clever Chiasmus;
Who has pause to write,
And write to pause;
Cheeky Consonance,
Agreeing;
Time needs its tick-tock,
Rocked at chimes;
How Didactic,
An Ictus,
Ellipsis,
Is that?
Clink — tinkle;
Cubes in a glass;
Bourbon mist;
Hello;
Onomatopoeia is back,
From visiting,
Palindrome,
At Lake Oxoboxo,
Madam Eve,
Our favorite,
Paradox,
Not pair a ducks,
Nor Parataxis,
She quacked not;
She waddled not;
She flew not;
End stopped;
Did not,
Run into Enjambment,
Iambic,
Pentameter,
On foot nearby;
Rhyme Royal chanting;
Prose babbling,
Out of line,
Screaming;
Vers libre!
Vers libre!
Pathos,
Pity me;
Scan not,
My prosody;
Bravo!
The coins are tossed;
O my dear friends,
In poetry,
Therein lay,
Our Eulogy,
Paradise Lost.
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