R-eap
O-r
V-ictory,
E-ither
L-ets
Y-ou
N-icely
C-hase
R-eward
U-nder
Z-enith
©bfa051325
Monocrostic (Birthday of Rovelyn G. Cruz)
Merely indicates that there is a possibility,
Assuming the answer has room for sway.
Yes or no denotes there will be no flexibility.
Big decisions to be made; choices to weigh.
Either response will be given, come what may
Tak oor grund from beneath oor hurdies
Burn oor birches aside the lough,
Besmirch hard fecht fur freedom,
Dictating oor days tae come,
No from the pint o a gun,
Fae laws an promises broken.
Lees an lees spout forth like watter
Lives expended as if they dinnae matter,
Feel the Jacobite spirit again,
Ready tae fecht like scotsmen again,
Like warrior poets risen from the glen,
Fae the mists o the past remember,
Oor freedom wis wun sending Edward hame,
Yon wis the past a new war begun noo,
No wi claymores ,targes an guns,
This time its ideals an Eton buffers,
Those who wid sell oor birthrights
Tae mak us slaves an servile peasants,
Using stealth ,treachery an unco ither weys
Rogues they be crooks ,cheats and thieves
Seeming beyond reproach wi things hidden
Frae us puir mortals aye they wull dae us doon,
Sic a time as this tae fecht fur whit is oors
Naw mair begging fur aa few scraps
Fae a table fu wi guid things ,
Scraps urny fur us we ur free loons
Burthit free an deeing we wull be free,
Ur ye ready tae rise yince agin?
Andrew P mcintyre 14/09/2020
Either like, delicate and light,
Tenuous as a starry night.
Heightened particles trick the eye,
Etching colored waves in the sky.
Ribbons of lights dance in the air,
Ethereal, beyond compare.
Aurora Borealis, a
Laudable spectacle per say.
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Lambeg Drum Marimba Nagara
Oboe Piccolo Qilaut
Recorder
Saxophone Trumpet
Ukelele
Violin Whistle Xylophone Yotar
Zither
CONDUCTOR
SECOND PLACE WINNER
Written May 19, 2022
For “Abcdarian” Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Caren Krutsinger
“Gaun an bile yer heid” he bawled oot,
As he stood in the middle o the cobbled street.
Tae nae yin in particular.
Did he vent his anger.
Fu as a whaulk he staggered and swayed
Wan pin rooted tae the graun,
Ither yin moved like a dervish,
Gaun naewhaur fast.
He should of been hame
Wi his wifie and weans
But naw he insisted
Wi a wee refreshment wi his pals.
Jist a hauf an a hauf an a wee blether
Pittin the world tae rights.
But man the craik was brill that nicht
Whit a pity it ended in a fecht.
Nothing though like the fecht
He wid huv when at home.
His wifie stood livid at the door
Tears a dripping ontae the floor
Weans moaning and bawling
Nae dinner again old mans supping fu.
Setterday nicht in Glasga toon
Lying sprawled an fu unner the moon,
©Andrew P McIntyre 2015-05-28.
TIGHT WAD
Yer cannie, as cannie be.
Nae sloutch, or frivolous, spend-thrift, ye.
Whose coin, to feered to leave the purse,
-in-case it’s ye’sd tae quench the thirst.
O, the ither, who just stood ye one.
Now sitting empty as a drouthy burn,
as he waits on you to stand your turn.
He taps his glass, he looks at you,
A bead of sweat runs doon your broo.
There’s nae way oot o this one noo.
Ye steady yer-sel, ye are resigned.
Then an idea springs tae mind.
You dig deep, you rummage roond.
The ither hopes its coin you’ve foond.
But you pull oot your watch instead,
his face is thunder yours turns red.
But not of shame, but by reprieve,
for the precious coin that’s now been
saved--to see the light of a-nither day,
as you prepare to go your way.
Jings is that the time, you will exclaim.
It’s time that you were getting hame.
And as you leave to go on your way,
I’ll catch you next time you will say,
As you pat you’re purse, well hidden away,
Your coinage safe for a-nither day.
A poem by john scott
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S-olo third person
H-as a feminine gender,
E-ither girl or lass.
Form: Haikustic
J-ust see the break of day,
O-n the fourth of May;
Y-our birthday has come, as the dusk fades away.
G-aze at the break of day,
O-nce you rise from your slumber;
N-ight chill has vanished,
Z-enith warms the weather.
A-fter the night is gone,
L-ight brightens the gray;
E-ither eye won't turn blind,
S-ee the break of day.
K-eep
R-apturous
E-motion
I-nside
N-icely
D-enying
E-ither
L-onely
D-epressed
I-mage
O-r
N-atural
E-arth's
D-aily
A-nguish
Topic: Birthday of Kreindel Dioneda (February 21)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
S-eeing the moon up high
H-as made one amazed;
A-musing view of shelter,
R-oom in a far away place.
M-oon has a safe room,
I-n seventeenth October;
N-either eye shall cry a tear,
E-ither of them shall soundly slumber.
A-t the moon far away,
L-et the room be found;
C-omfort and pure peace
A-re kept from noisy sound.
N-ighttime stars around
T-winkle through the ray;
A-im to fly and get inside,
R-oom at the moon far
A-way.
E-agerly
L-ook
A-t
I-mpressive
Z-enith
A-nd
D-o
E-ither
L-ong
R-un
O-r
S-hort
A-scent
R-emaining
I-n
O-ptimism
Topic: Birthday of Elaiza Del Rosario (February 04)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
H-oly
E-xpression's
N-otable
R-ighteousness
Y-ields
W-isdom
A-s
D-ivine
S-tatement
W-ith
O-pen
R-eal
T-ruth
H-as
L-ines
O-f
N-oble
G-oal
F-inding
E-ither
L-ost
L-ife
O-r
W-orld
Topic: Birthday of Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
L-et
E-ither
O-ne
N-ewness
O-r
R-efreshing
A-tmosphere
M-ake
A-nother
C-oolness
A-fter
M-idnight
Topic: Birthday of Leonora Macam (November 27)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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