Long Kempt Poems

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Premium Member Sights and Whispers Unite

Within my breast  a  promise  of  earth   splendor  

 Jovial  sapphire   lake  sheer  blackness cliffs


Kempt,  sights  amid  whispers  Spirit  renders 

 Lithe   shadows  of  spike  pines  manifest  quiffs


 Meek   pink  aurora  waning   like  a  thief  

Neighboring   Big  Dippers  pouring  , springs  scars 


Operatic skies speckled  stars relief  

 Picturesque  Moon rises  as   well   as  Mars 


Quelled  waft   and   sounds  blows  through  the hours of  night  

 Reflective   flow  of  spring   beside  banks  ends 


 Sacred  of God's  earth   splendor   faintly   light  

 Thrilling   sublime  sights  and  whispers  descends


Unhurried choices amongst no worries

 Venturesome challenges though tangled  miles 


 Whimsical splendor  rich untold journeys  

 Xanthous uniform through seasonal smiles




9/12/2016
Note; Crater Lake National Park’s Oregon
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member This Old Brush

This old brush would once brush cleanly
This old brush once smoothed my hair
This old brush once snagged a single strand
When I was kempt and fair
This old brush began to clog up
With the hair that it had pulled
This old brush was like a fur ball
Can my barnet be refuelled 

Ain’t gonna need this brush no longer
Ain’t gonna need this brush no more
Ain’t got time to rub those creams in
Nor to tap the surgeon’s door
This old brush served through my youthful days
But now lives in a drawer
If this old brush could be bigger
I could use it on the floor

This old brush outlived its uses
This old brush redundant now
This old comb is all I need now
This old brush must take a bow
This old comb ain’t working proper 
Like that old brush always did
There’s a dumb old tufty bit
Of which my comb will not get rid

Ain’t gonna brush this hair no longer
Ain’t gonna sweep it to one side
Cos I’ve got this centre parting
It’s about four inches wide
Ain’t got time to rub those creams in
Nor to tap the surgeon’s door
Ain’t gonna need this brush no longer
Ain’t gonna need this brush no more
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Flappable, Gruntled, and Plussed

I'm new to this language; it baffles me so!
   With so many mysteries I wish to know:
Why doesn't 'resolve' mean 'to solve it again'?
   And why are 'wise guys' not the same as 'wise men'?
Why doesn't 'extraneous' mean 'once was traneous'?
   Why's 'miscellaneous' not NOT cellaneous?
Enigmas that seem to me very unmappable,
   Unflappable me has become simply flappable.

"You're incorrigible", my friend Mike said to me,
   I said, "Corrigible I'll endeavor to be."
One museum we saw had a fossil exhibit
   I asked, "Every bone was at one time a hibit?"
"I don't care for inquisitive people", said Mike.
   So I asked, "What's a quisitive person look like?"
He looked at me plussed with a look of disgust,
   now I hope I can change it to gust and nonplussed.

"Disgruntled employees", my boss said, distressed,
   "are a pain in the neck!" I thought, "gruntled is best!"
He scolds my appearance: "Your hair is unkempt",
   so I'm bringing a comb to make sure it stays kempt.
"Avoid work mishaps, and do not act unruly".
   "Yes sir, boss. I'll only make ruly haps, truly"
He tells me, "Just try not to look so disheveled."
   My note to self: make it my goal to look sheveled.

"Intrepid Improvements" the work poster says
   "Avoid trepid provements" is my New Year's res.
"Such reckless abandon" someone said to me
   so from now on, more reckful I'm hoping to be.
I've tried to appear nonchalant and undaunted,
   I'm daunted that I'm more chalant than I wanted.
This poem I'll write in indelible ink -
   …much better than delible ink, don't you think?
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

She Opened a Gate

  Sponsor : Constance Le France 
submitted : 6/7/25
Placed : Third
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lovingly she opened a tungsten gate to his Heart quantum lasers sharp, her ordained healing art
penetrated a gossamer of silver spider-webs
drew slightly aback to allow patu marplesi to ebb

ghostly armoured soldiers wandered within
from Constantinople fields to Berlin yields spin
filling spirant space with unearthly eerie sound
mighty rainbow light had much to gently unbound 

grave were crested captains and kempt kings
strategically planned to destroy men with rings
ages of teary traumas they marched to destroy 
humanity’s bounties, dear heavenly bows of joy

godforsaken armies toyed with swords
guns, grenades, rifles until nuclear bomb boards
angelic realms sang in fear, egos refused to hear 
dismal throughout these ages of little heart cheer

grief-stricken mothers could not calm
wilful warlords of wasteful weathering charm
programmed to flex muscle in massacre ways
mind had to practice  Arts of Dark in many bays

groaning has to end so instructed Divine Light
time to unloop cycles wretched, rampant might
clear Heart Spaces with conscious awareness 
melt gates of tungsten or gold, nothing careless  


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Form: Couplet

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