Long Participles Poems

I met a proper woman in a proper pub on a Monday in Peoria. It was noon, time for lunch, and we were sitting stool to stool over very large burgers at a long mahogany...

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[A few years ago, I wrote this poem “On Writing Poetry” for creative writing students. I hesitated to put it on Poetry Soup, but I did some revisions and decided to share it with you....

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"Give me words, thousands of words,
I offer my kingdom for words, for I wish a
poem to write.
Not any poem but a masterpiece of a poem!" The aspiring
Poet shouted, and then in a lower voice added:

"Give...

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"Give me words,
Thousands of words,
I offer my kingdom for words
For
A poem I wish to write
Not any poem
But
A masterpiece of a poem!" The aspiring poet shouted, and
then in a lower voice added:


"Give me:
Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs,
Determiners,...

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Her Cheekbones, smooth as  pebbles 
Grasped tightly in his sexed up hand, sweating indelicately
Resembling that night the thoughts between the sheets were conceived
Weighing like soaked white carpets
Beneath flea market stands
She Is Beautiful, she is...

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Soundlessly ricochet to and fro
hither and yon
roundly bobbing within squarely donned
talking heads of psycho killers,
one pyromaniac burning 
down the crowded house
sparking magnificent conflagration
towering inferno emulating

caterwauling, kickstarting, ululating
(think) stray cats on a hot tin roof
nsync with...

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a skinny, dreamy-eyed boy in a suburban Jesuit school 
showed up in your English class...to learn a bit of class.

you taught me Milton, introduced me to Stevenson,
made this boy make sense out of words 
directly...

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In English classes my skull would be reeling with a myriad of perplexities,
Struggling to cope with English Composition and its multitudinous complexities!
I could never understand (and never will) the mysteries of verbs and pronouns,
Or dangling...

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In English classes my skull would be reelin' with a myriad of perplexities,
Strugglin' to cope with English Composition with its multitudinous complexities!
I could never comprehend (and never will) the mysteries of verbs and pronouns,
Or danglin'...

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March into her reformative room of wisdom 
Where knowledge catapults to the threshold of your mind
Where Shakespeare and short stories in spoken English
Gives vibrant vocabulary over volumes of time 

Her colorful classroom accommodates all levels
While...

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I rise from the bed, make coffee, 
drink the obligatory first cup, sending 
me racing to the "salle de bain" to begin
a day of eliminating the negative, 
accentuating the positive, as Bing Crosby 
instructed in...

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Poems Are Transparent

Poets said it is apparent my poems are transparent
As an intellectual quality seeming to be inherent
In each poem of mine being written by me
What should I do to make poems much better be?

Could...

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I was punctured by punctuations
The words you wielded with such disdain
A ravenous revolutionary
Pitilessly piercing deep into my vein

I pretended such positivity 
Holding happy forward as my shield
Your attack so precise and persistent 
cold and calculated...

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young whippersnapper brain
pours out her last idea
flicking adjectives into dirty dumpster
nouns prance off, disgusted
without elaboration or fancy descriptions

verbs take the lead, 
kicking their adverbs to the curb
your nuances no longer welcome, 
a mob mentality 
seeking...

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******************** "Word Nerds" (like me)... ************
**************Please Have Fun & Read VERY Closely:)*********** 


Now and again
a word
sneakily obscure
approaches the fog in me 
screams its name suddenly 

Apropos adverbs appear
clearly 
startling 
perplexing 
precarious adjectives 
slick little nouns...

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Quickly close the door on your past participles and advance your dead bolt on the here and now, lie your present lifemat for the doormat benefit of others that seek your presence unannounced unfolded and...

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"Sung In"



We are notes 
on the tongue 
of God 

Each of us words
in a never ending 
sentence

Music is math
God breathes us in 
out of Time

We are but droplets
past and present
participles

wet behind the ears
unable to hear...

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---------------------- "Word Nerds" (like me)...
************Please Have Fun & Read VERY Closely:)***********


now and again
a word 
sneakily obscure
approaches the fog in me
screams its name 
suddenly 
apropos adverbs appear
clearly 
startling 
perplexing 
precarious adjectives
slick little nouns
caught hiding 
beyond babbling...

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Debates over rhyming centuries old
A contentious issue so passions fueled
Strong opinions expressed for and against
Rhyming customs; protests they’re a must
Flagrant disregard for the hallowed rules
An abomination, for sure a crime,
Cries for poetic justice!  What...

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many would venture that
it's side-to-side
that counts on the counting line
but i maintain, if you please
that farther up, it's the vertices

though i grant that each side
has it's tilt, if never to ends
that each totter is built
the...

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Sweet song of summer is over,
Did you end your verse?
Did you leave participles dangling
for better or for worse?

The mete of man is production
in one form or another.
If you spend all your time wrangling
in contentious bother,

when...

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Second row to the board!

These words could not just be ignored
     I’m thinking but a vintage few
          Would even start to have...

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Skipping is binary,
one, nought, one, nought, one.
Clip clop.
Tick tock.
One foot up, skip.
Next foot up, skip.

Hop, step and jump,
'tis hopscotch time.
Heart in love, skips a beat.
Electrons skip in quantum rings,
dangling their participles.

Skipping off-beat in music 
it's...

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Every time something breaks
like the pipe in the wall
we heard gushing

this morning
my wife wants to call
a repairman because 

I can’t fix anything
except split infinitives
and dangling participles

and I usually agree 
but this time 
I mention the...

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