Kenning Poems - Poems about Kenning

Strong-think v wrong-think'

...You can't hold it both ways,  In meaning.' You
Are either direct.' Or  directionless..And thus
In a mess.' No less-en-ing, yet less kenning will ensue.' Though
You deny..Its more obvious..Showing ...

A Meadow For Autumn

...A meadow for Autumn

Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
 
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me 
lichen kenning myself 
as Rip Van Winkle 
except being repurposed
as  oldest li...

The Epoch, the Epopee, the Eternity

...When a precedent-busting pandemic is palling around the world 
when its concomitant panic and pain freak out
it is your fine figures that are unflinchingly unfurled
e'en as proctective gears barel...

Tower Falls

...A Kenning

Her books
She loved;
She had
A ton.

Her book
Stack had,
Hundred 
And one.

In fact,
Tower
She’d built,
With books.

But she’d
Ignored
One big,
Mail rule.

...

What Can We Do

...What does it take to shut down the dialers					 
who feed on our ears and our patience?
O What does it take? 
How can we shut down the pleas for support,
the electric voices that bother our phone...

Burning Light

... Burning light
In night;
Calls moths
To cloths.

Moon glows
Moth woes;
Bugs alight
With delight.

Bugs fly
Light shine;
In dark
Pine park.

Creek rolls
Water flows;
Dragon...

Tornado On An Early Autumn Evening

...This is actually a form called: Kenning but, there wasn't a form listed for it.
 I just wanted to try one; hope it's decent.

  Swirling, twirling,
Windy-curling’s;
Rounding bark,
Af...

Rogues Gallery Counts Trumpeting Don As Prized Ace

...a limning rush of sinister 
     fiery angry flames bent avast
analogous copse, 
     where every limb bough, bore full 

     roaring furnace hot blast
spewing weighty incendiary volcanic 
  ...

An Almighty God

...A creator-Father
A provider
A nurturer---An Almighty God


04/01/18
written by James Edward Lee ©2018


FORM:Kenning Poem Example...

Thumb Sucker 2

...THUMB SUCKER 2
one digit
placed tween 
the teeth
A front tongue
A calming.......thumb sucker?





FORM: Kenning Poem Example
04/01/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018...

Thumb Sucker 1

...a seeker discredit-er
a "immature weakling" 
weenie weenier -political thumb sucker



FORM:  Kenning Poem Example

04/01/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018...

What Is It

...Northerly _ Breeze
Hollow_ Bamboo
Sings_ Sways
Dances_ Rocks
Zephyr_ Plays
Winter_ Tunes 

           Put these together;
                           And a bamboo wind chime hums ....

The Night

...Pastiche of divine bliss,
The fluted sister of evening,
sits on her bridal bed
With troupe of twinklers,
Cheeks aurora Borealis.

Night, my sweet love
Kiss this noctivagant;
Wandering bereft ...

But For

...Though east is east and west is west, 
each corner lawyers will infest,
and one thing they’ll deploy with zest:
notorious, the “but for” test.

You want to be the one who smirks,
once having st...

Tarry Falls- a Fairy Tall An Irish Thing

...The twenty-first son born with a brat his caul                                                and three sevens in Gaelic knot once apon a fairy tall                 ...

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