Long Apostrophes Poems

C'est bientôt l’aube – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “The Dawn is at Hand” by T. Wignesan

(Note : In this poem - the title poem of her second collection - Oodgeroo has come full circle, la...

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water weeps wildly
whilst washing away your
jesting foolery.
I saw the sun annihilated
	Against backdrops of liturgy
Lethargic activity that earns
	It’s title as the Earth’s endearing child
Against backdrops of monogamy,
Pedestrian thinking,
	Accelerated usage,
Lapping up mentalities from bowls of pulled poultry,
Doing...

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1am: The clock strikes like bolts of lightning as my brain rapidly

fires neurons creating a torturous play field in my tired mind.

Pangs of loneliness hit me like a full speed train.

My bed feels emptier than...

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The Headless Greenlandic Horseman
A Meditation in 6 parts.

Avalanche
I.

The sky is starry
The night is scary
I'm very afraid
of the living dead;

On a mission; or Fugitives in the city
II.

The headless Greenlandic horseman
speaks Kalaallisut very well indeed,
plus Dansk and...

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Poetry is tangerine and other potent or poisonous colors.
It is the breath you feel at the nape of your neck and
the strong caress of flesh on flesh, defying death.
It is most certainly Spring with petal...

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Buttered Fields
 
It was early when she was tickled awake
as light eased under the eaves
to trickle through a sigh of curtains,
to whisper across the bedroom floor,
to nudgingly nestle beside her…..and beam!
 
Outside the sun had...

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A FRONT DOOR DU JOUR

It might be because I disobeyed a regiment of  rules
Or is may have been my following the folly of fools
It could be the “always looking back” life which I’ve led
So...

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Somewhere between
vowels and consonants
you disappeared

Although I looked for you
beneath apostrophes
semicolons and quotation marks,

Really
"where are you love" I groaned 
"I'm here, expecting you" I moaned

Commas and fullstops did I leave behind
dash-bridges I hopped over
and question marks...

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My dreary life shunned, a chance to escape;
atop glacial peak, glorious vision.
Oasis amongst the frigid landscape;
found sanctuary, almost Elysian.

Colorful fish dart, despite intrusion,
in clear blue water of idyllic lake.
Grand oaks' enclosure heightens seclusion,
if this be...

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Possessive pronouns get around, these greedy words grab all
though thy words will be just thine, wherever they may fall.

But whether yours, or theirs, or ours, or mine, or hers, or his
be careful with apostrophes or...

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I am below a zero, a zero
I am a dash, a quiet hero
Mellowness and meekness is what I seek and I am proud
Humility, love, desire, benevolence, bravery and confidence is what I beseech
I am but...

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Look at society White or Black-
Capitalist, Communist or feudal;
take your pen and scribble this poem
I am telling you this 1st, January, 2018

Human society is a textbook.
It has title and chapters within
All have opening sentences,
but some...

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I sing Shahana Bahar, a malody of delight.
It echoed aloud, Marwa, music of sadness-filled plight
I laugh aloud and I hear it back as a scary scream
My gleam of glee turns into hallucinatory dream

Each false virtue...

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   Coat stand tree commingling clan protects
   Quilted caterpillar sticks linen to spine
   Pine foliage erect points to its apex
   Before its born, spire spreads star shine

...

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Capitalization and punctuation are automatic to me.
It is what I was taught years ago, and I cannot break the habit.
Haiku is difficult for others insist on no apostrophes or caps.
It is difficult to unlearn what...

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Possessive pronouns get around these greedy words grab all
though thy words will be just thine, wherever they may fall.
But whether yours, or theirs, or ours, or mine, or hers, or his
be careful with apostrophes or...

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Don’t do the rhyme if you ain’t got the time.
Nothing is worse than a half-finished verse.
If you want to complete her, you’ll need a good meter.
(‘Tis said that the bard brought the girls to the...

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I have a box with forgotten words
And punctuation seldom used
In this box are synonyms
And grammar I’ve abused

There are commas there and colons too
Apostrophes spilling out the top
But the one thing there that I’ve got most
Are...

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It should have said St John’s - with that apostrophe!
So many omit the little mark.
How could they, when its presence or absence
gives us one meaning or the other?

A tenant within these apartments
who is a mysterious...

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“Why would you write a poem about me?”
“Oh, I wrote more than just one poem about you”
“Why would you write more than just one poem about me?”
It was exactly then, when she felt her fingers...

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NOTE: Soup titles are supposed to allow for apostrophes and yet I cannot get my correct title to post, so I display the title here first above the poem:

Puppy's First Happy Christmas

At
Christmas,
our puppy
followed us to
the...

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A semi-colon connects two thoughts together
An exclamation mark screams out its cause
You don’t have to wait until the end to breathe
a comma can give you a pause

A question mark begs for an answer
Quotations usually mean...

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letters, numbers, dashes, commas, apostrophes
How can somebody ask you for ID How can you Mark you are not an authority and even an authority as to graduate,
You Mark You create Facebook for better and worse,
Like...

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Why 
do I 
            write 
                this way
did I
hear...

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Before you put your writing out
For other folks to read,
There’s one small tidbit of advice
You really ought to heed.

Just double-check your spelling
And use grammar-check as well,
For glaring errors will distract
And possibly, repel.

Some typos may just...

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