Imitates Poems | Examples

A fan of the lens

photography is an obsession of mine
love taking snaps by design
the capturing of moments that align
my passion for chasing sunshine
and seeing how its beauty imitates the divine



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

the shady catbird

imitates over forty
others...
animals from
humans...
too frogs


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A Talented Parrot Named Jaster

    There’s this talented parrot named Jaster 
    Who imitates his ill-tempered master ~
      The master goes ballistic
      Over Jaster’s stylistics ~
    Jaster echoes him better and faster

Genius Catty

Catty is my genius cat
Who stopped chasing naughty rat
She prefers reading good books
Down at her favorite nooks.

She always wears eye glasses
To read more stories, not less
Sitting calmly in her poise
In a place far from noise.

Sometimes she crosses her legs
Don’t disturb her, I do beg
If you want to read with her
Stay and slump at one corner.

While reading, she drinks coffee
But she prefers hot green tea
So conscious of her diet
I’ll just smile and keep quiet.

Catty imitates grandma
Her ways are felines’ saga
Doing great jobs not to impress
But for wisdom and success.

POPE the QUATRAIN FORM

A 'pope' is a quatrain form of 3 lines of 8 syllables and 1 line of 4 (offset)punchline ,with a rhyming scheme of a,b,a.b and is labelled such after the English poet,Alexander Pope(1688-1744) 
His poem Solitude in which he imitates Abraham Crawley and for which he was indebted to Horace is the inspiration for this form.
My version can be a single quatrain or double or a sequence of stanzas as in Pope's example.

Sad is the heart so full of care
Of tomorrow's what will,will be,
Upon his sleeve,all life does wear,
                    For all to see

& Here is as a clerihew tribute

Young Alexander Pope
became a poet of some note
In his garden he made a grotto
where ' a mind to light up' was his motto

In Admiration of Emily Dickinson

I know I cannot be the only one
who reads Emily D. just for fun!

Quotes her feathery Hope poem
Understands it's ok not to roam

Not thinking her a fuddy-duddy
But rather, a true bosom buddy

Wished to taste her gingerbread
Wants to meet when we're dead

Considers her a kindred spirit :)
Imitates her style (or-- near it)!

Tell Yourself the Truth

Jealousy and envy differs;

 

Jealousy is mild;

Envy is wild.

 

Jealousy may not be seen;

Envy is a sin.

 

Jealousy progresses;

Envy regresses.

 

Jealousy is suppressive;

Envy is expressive.

 

Jealousy admires;

Envy conspires.



Jealousy imitates;

Envy eliminates.

 

Jealousy wishes to heal;

Envy wishes to kill.

This Is Winter

white fluff on branches imitates coldness of the wind
bridge is slick, icy, treacherous, lying in wait.
one lone lamplight tries to add warmth, to no avail.
This is winter.



                                     frosted landscape
                                 glittering ice covered bridge 
                                        i see treachery

There Is No Plagiarism

There is no plagiarism
      no one copies
      nobody's soul...
      at most imitates
      the verses, imitate
      the voice, the style...

The Life and the River Meeting

life imitates,
the river imitates
life...
life is all
movement,
the river is turbulent,
sometimes life
is backwater,
the river sometimes
stops...
life hides
your feelings
in the depths
of the spirit,
the river its secrets
in the depths
from your bed...
Life and the river,
always follow
in front of...
pioneering
borders,
bypassing
obstacles,
seeking out
horizons.
just stop forward
in blue infinity:
The river, the blue of the sea,
life the blue sky...!

If Your Expresie Becomes a Rapper He Could Be Dt Rump

So lets start with the big ones Donald Trump
A c**t from every angle
Putin a prick
Boris a pudding eating itself
God and Devil
take the middle digit eternally
cia kgb nasa society
F**k you all respectfully
Rappers are just reading poems fast in a funny accent
What happen when you put 52, 310 tons of metal in water?
It sinks titanically yeah seen that one coming
Lets split the atom what could go wrong
Shadows wear the wall
Never again should be our call
Back to my rant
Hope Karma Fate universe and its multi-gates
ever iota of every piece of every piece
A Scottish  you has none that can imitates

Cradled In My Arc

KATAUTA:

Her:        eyes brown, like choc’late,
              swooning like the stars unglued —
              yours mad as the moon

Him:        pistachio eyes —
               the gaze of a soulful cat
               sea swept in zephyr

Her:         swallowed by the pond —
               our shadow imitates moves
               of tender years

Him:        silk like a spotlight,
               the moon pouring forth its milk —
               you invite my thirst

Her:          sway of tropical
                palms, your cradled in my arc —
                hammock’s impression

Him:         blow kiss from purple
                lips, the pitons like your breasts
                and the valley split

Together:  laughing and weeping
                present immortality —
                generosity christened


12/14/2020

Some Cultures Are Better Than Others, Part Ii

...Even in our own subcultures
this pattern most people can see,
look at the endless dysfunction
that curses our inner cities.
A culture than has accepted
a lack of fathers in their lives,
a culture that thinks real success
is betrayal, they’re ‘acting white.’
With music that glamorizes
thugs who murder to get their dope,
is that the culture you’d embrace?
Is that what will give our kids hope?

Now if they have some good ideas
it is quite smart to learn from that,
but some stray ideas are much different
then embracing all that is bad.
You judge culture by its results,
the west brought freedom, prosperity,
so much that Asia imitates it,
and now grows more and more wealthy.
Why take after the dysfunction,
failed cultures make nothing of note,
some cultures are better than others,
and the west is better than most.

Let’s be real, it’s not even close.

My Choice Pope Quatrain

pope-ONE DAY AT A TIME
Sad is the heart so full of care
Of tomorrow's what will,will be,
Upon his sleeve,all life does wear,
                    For all to see

Cast down,choking with eyes that blear
No words can comfort or make free,
Thought frozen in yesterday's fear,
                   That none can see.  

inspired by Mt 6:25-34

A 'pope' is a quatrain form of 3 lines of 8 syllables and 1 line of 4 (offset)with a rhyming scheme of a,b,a.b and is labelled such after the English poet,Alexander Pope(1688-1744) 
His poem Solitude in which he imitates Abraham Crawley and for which he was indebted to Horace is the inspiration for this form.
My version can be a single quatrain or double or a sequence of stanzas as in Pope's example.

Pope the Form

Cast down,choking with eyes that blear
No words can comfort or make free,
Thought frozen in yesterday's fear,
                   That none can see.  

inspired by Mt 6:25-34

A 'pope' is a quatrain form of 3 lines of 8 syllables and 1 line of 4 (offset)with a rhyming 
scheme of a,b,a.b and is labelled such after the English poet,Alexander Pope(1688-1744) 
His poem Solitude in which he imitates 
Abraham Crawley and for which he was indebted to Horace is the inspiration for this form.
My version can be a single quatrain or double or a sequence of stanzas

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