Long Dactyls Poems
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Dabble Dactyls
I have invented a nonce nonsense form: the "dabble dactyl." A dabble dactyl starts out like a double dactyl, but forgets the rules and changes horses midstream. Anyone who prefers order to chaos should give...
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Categories:
dactyls, giggle, hilarious, humor, humorous, joy, light, nonsense,
Form:
Double Dactyl
Various Heresies 8
Various Heresies 8
These are heretical poems with heresies about the bible, god, jesus christ and christianity.
Red State Religion Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
I’d like to believe in your LORD
but I really can’t risk it
when his...
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Categories:
dactyls, christian, christmas, death, earth, god, heaven, jesus,
Form:
Rhyme
La Isla Del Encanto
La Isla del Encanto
(El Poema del Linda)
There was no Elizabethan
Changing of eyes
On the Isle of Enchantment;
No sudden moment of charm or bewilderment.
Rather, came a delicate awakening
Like soft dawn rising over groves
Redolent of...
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Categories:
dactyls, love,
Form:
Free verse
Recipe: Poulet Roti French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal - 6
RECIPE: “Poulet Roti” French Style - Ballade Le Chant Royal 6
(NOTE: This French “ballade” is being composed on permutations of the number ONE repeated twice, I.e., 11. Eleven syllables to the line in iamb or...
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Categories:
dactyls, bullying, discrimination, father son, french, islamic, jewish,
Form:
Ballade
Iambic Pentameter
Today I’d like to talk to you about how meter plays a part in
how we write a poem and sometimes in how we speak
The above lines, which are not at all poetic, are written in...
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Categories:
dactyls, language, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Fragments of Fractals
Fractals.
Spawn of iterating quadratic functions.
Choreographers of cosmic conjunctions.
Impervious to human dysfunctions.
Makers of multiverses. Encoders of creations.
Limited only by imaginations.
Recursive. Coercive. Immensely immersive.
Purveyors of poetic creative cursive.
With formative...
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Categories:
dactyls, nature, poetry, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Lux Nova
^b^
Lux Nova
(after Notre Dame)
The light at Suger's
St. Denis
precursor for mighty Notre Dame
Paints both floors in color.
Transliterated from the glass of guilds
Tracery and mullions
Adumbrate
A story in late winter's light
Perhaps enough, barely enough
Enough of an...
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Categories:
dactyls, beautiful, humanity,
Form:
Blank verse
Denizens: Prologue - 1
Part 1 of ?
Clippety, cloppety, clippety, cloppety
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
mounted for battle in all of their armor; they
rode off so gallantly through moors and fens.
How could they possibly know what...
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Categories:
dactyls, adventure, death, mystery,
Form:
Quatrain
Zephyr Oxidation
Written, March 24, 2025
For Contest, Your Choice E sponsor, Brian Strand
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hands aegis
sculpting lullabies
cradling
...
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Categories:
dactyls, analogy, courage,
Form:
Other
Just Sear and Eat
A prehistoric dragon, with a taste for Pterodactyl;
felt a major hunger pain while penning a few dactyls.
Dropping hammer and chisel, he flew off for his hunt;
it wasn’t long at all when, he spied...
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Categories:
dactyls, animal, fun, funny, humor, humorous, imagination, myth,
Form:
Rhyme
Three Double-Dactyls
I.
Higgledy piggledy
Roger de Coverley
Fonder of hoofing it
Than of romance
Found himself typified
Characteristically
King of the Reels and the
Lord of the Dance.
II.
Willety wallety
William the Conqueror
Wanted his subjects to
Quail at his power,
Crowing to Londoners
Hyperdespotically,
“Look, everybody, I’ve
Built...
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Categories:
dactyls, dance, history, humorous, nonsense, poetry, word play,
Form:
Double Dactyl
Would You Like To Meter
Today I feel iambic! I would say
of all the meters, I like it the best.
An iamb starts with some soft sound to say
then ev'ry second syllable is stressed.
Trochees likewise, alternate their stresses;
even-numbered syllables are muted....
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Categories:
dactyls, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
That Salad Went Right Through Me
That Salad Went Right Through Me
I've always wanted to write a poem called
“That Salad Went Right Through Me”.
And I would wager upon its best destiny:
To begin with, there is the Universal Theme--
For who has not...
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Categories:
dactyls, assonance, poetry, writing,
Form:
Free verse
The Hands of the Eld Pianist Player
Strangers but loved
aged pianist's hands
...
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Categories:
dactyls, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation, tribute,
Form:
Light Verse
Dickensian Dactyl
Squickleby Pickleby
Nicholas Nickleby
loses his Father and
feels quite forlorn.
Ralph his tight uncle a
disciplinarian
mean to the marrow
regards him with scorn.
Nicholas, penniless
uncompromisingly
works as a master where
boys take the flack.
Nickleby fears for the
safety of orphans there
rescues a cripple...
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Categories:
dactyls, literature,
Form:
Double Dactyl
Lurched Lousy Limbs
*Lurched Lousy Limbs*
thick soles seducing
eerie earth scrunching
tracing tactic trudges
cowering cornered crushes
pale paths tucked
gaunt gaze; gulp!
mystic monster smirked
nocturnal nature athirst
felon fondling first
then a twist
lurched lousy limbs
dactyls callous covering
goblin moved monster
dragging dainty disaster.
...
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Categories:
dactyls, horror,
Form:
Sonnet
Thank You, Ms Guzzi
Thank you dear / Debbie for / pointing out / my mistakes!
Now I can / see where I’ve / been getting / out of step.
“Statuesque” / was one of / my early / efforts and...
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Categories:
dactyls, dedication, on writing and words,
Form:
Couplet