Matthews Latest Blank Key
...Matthew's latest blank key
Impossible mission, nevertheless
I take figurative aim
to craft poem without
experiencing wrathful blame
avoiding explicitly, ignominiously, specifically...
referen...
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Categories:
ignominiously, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ripples On a Blank Shore
...Everyone loves everyone
loved no one
but the one looking back
on a moonlit shore,
ignominiously,
the sure clarity of introspective
waves hurried away
like muddied thoughts
squealing downhil...
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Categories:
ignominiously, god, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Translucent Loft
...The Translucent Loft
The girls choir at St. Mary’s still sings there.
Shh, be quiet as we step inside
through these green rectangular doors,
Shh! Listen...
We can hear them up there,
in the...
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Categories:
ignominiously, religion,
Form: Free verse
Happy Rosh Hashanah and High Holiday
...WHOSE MESSIAH: Happy Rosh Hashanah
Upon a tree, He was displayed ignominiously
Arms stretched from East to West for our Shabbat Rest
Body pulled along the North-South axis
That is the ...
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Categories:
ignominiously, bible, god, holiday, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Jealous Jaded Jackals
...Jealous Jaded Jackals
Decadent darkness placed upon the setaceous shrine
For the Angels wilfully weep and ignominiously entwine
The fermented...
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Categories:
ignominiously, abuse, dark, lonely, sad,
Form: Rhyme
9 11
...9 11
Oh, the tall towers of Ilium, shining golden in the morning sun,
Are tumbled ignominiously, and a myriad
Souls are turned to dust:
And this sudden host
Of untold grief
Disappears...
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Categories:
ignominiously, america, death, history,
Form: Free verse
Traducent
...Traducent are we who speak with slivery truth
With silver fork tongues we malign the disclosure
Slanderous are we who act suasive and choose
The obduse of wealth, power, and fortune
In the over...
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Categories:
ignominiously, angst, corruption, dark, hate,
Form: I do not know?
When Three Cousins Played
...Three cousins played a “game’ of war
A map of Europe spread across the floor
No adults there to keep the score
As each of them wanted more and more
Three of four empires lay upon that map
As t...
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Categories:
ignominiously, war,
Form: Verse
Quail Army Song
...QUAIL ARMY SONG
I don’t know but I’ve been told
No quail born ever gets old
It’s plain that we gotta fight
For each and ev’ry God-given right
To be quails and not hors d’oeuvres
It’s simply wha...
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Categories:
ignominiously, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Civil War Battlefield: Cry of the Fallen
...Rigors of weary battle long abated
The haze and smoke linger; the
fallen obfuscated
Ignominiously deposited; in death's
unseemly clutches graded
Gradually emanating from the
debacles' debris...
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Categories:
ignominiously, war
Form: Monorhyme
Flying Hag
...Winding up in the hospital is something nobody would need.
We can say all you fools were the victims of greed.
Captain Culpeper thought he could get away with the money.
You saw what happened after t...
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Categories:
ignominiously, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Last Leaves
...LAST LEAVES
Shriveled and dried and near death
The leaves depart the branches and spin to the ground,
In the the vortices of the autumn chills, to be swirled
And swept into piles ignominious
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Categories:
ignominiously, people, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Athaliah
...She hailed from the kingdom in the north named Israel.
This woman must have had her beginnings in hell.
She was wicked princess of Ahab and Jezebel.
Intemperance nearly led to great Judah’s death ...
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Categories:
ignominiously, religiondeath, woman, death, Grandson,
Form: Rhyme
The Brave Man Stands - the Coward Leaves
...THE BRAVE MAN STANDS - THE COWARD LEAVES.
I stood watching the first snowflake’s battle action :
First of a horde – a first-flake trumpeter announcing
The immense white...
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Categories:
ignominiously, nature, summer, river, summer,
Form: Personification
He Leaves For the Leaves
...HE LEAVES FOR THE LEAVES
Leave work? Then I want to be dazzled by the crop
Of fall trees still in full leaf but about to drop
As if loaded with flames yellow,and russet
T...
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Categories:
ignominiously, allegory, nature, river,
Form: Couplet
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