Long Talbot Poems

Old blabber mouth gets on my wick
His attitude makes me quite sick
He plays to the crowd 
Is brash and so loud 
My husband thinks he's an idiot!

Inspired by Stevie Wonder Song on the Radio today...

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He arrived wearing pink skinny jeans
They were scruffy and ripped at the seams
He looked like a wiener
I will not be meaner
But he’s sure not the man of my dreams

2/07/18

A square peg into a round slot
A...

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A SHOUT OUT FOR PEACE

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A - All play
B - Ball, make that
C - Call, a shout out for world peace!
S - Stall, procrastinate not, let's all play ball, make that...

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AT ONE WITH NATURE

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The sun shines, brightly lights my day. My garden verdant many hues of green. Greater speedwell, resilient, blooms no matter the season. Late spring, early summer it explodes. Late Jack Frost, it...

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Before we look at iambic meter you must understand syllables, how they are used to break down words into separate sounds, an example, 'un/der/stand; a  three syllable word. The latter, (word), is a single...

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A magic wand in the right hand creates, inadvertently,
the jewels of the night in untold millions,
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*                   *...

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I'd Love To Meet You Both
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The topics you have mentioned all relevant, still to this day.
It's like I know your husband, for I too, know just what to say!
You didn't mention world pollution, especially microplastic
Are...

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LAST WORD, rules:

‘LAST WORD’ poetry, another new form invented by me, (Mick Talbot), unless you know different, feedback, please
Format:
[1] 5 lined stanza’s, as many as you like. The fifth line of each the refrain, and...

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this is an enclosed rhyme
these next two sentences
enclosed as in parenthesis
with the first and fourth line

The rhyming sequence must conform to A,B.B.A, any other format then it is not an enclosed rhyme in the true...

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DEFORESTATION
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Topical Tree Poetry
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Deforestation rife!
From copse to woodlands
And trees on their own suffer the knife!
Deforestation rife!
Rainforest to jungles,
Arboretums to parklands suffering strife
Deforestation rife!
There is suffering unseen.
To all macro, micro, wildlife.
Deforestation rife!
The whole world pays,
yes you, if...

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Me. What beauty catches one's eye?
Echo. May I?
Me. Please do elaborate my friend.
Echo. My friend?
Me. The beauty all around us,  all life.
Echo. All life?
Me. From unseen with the naked eye!
Echo. Naked eye?
Me. A microscope...

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Bright blue sky, a cloudless summer day
As an artist I note the blue, is it turning grey
In the distance I see a hint...

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Mrs. Lightfoot had taught music at Talbot Elementary School for years.
A couple of her pupils excelled in music but most became engineers.
She sat at her desk to muse upon the past after another trying day,
Recalling...

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DUST DEVILS
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Topical Tree Poetry
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the African plains
once lush... verdant... living
dust devils now reign
[[[]]]
in the jungle
the sightly found a living
all the jungles... gone...
[[[]]]
dust devils thriving
anhydrous ere the dew drops
beetles salvation
[[[]]]
nature provides
many niches...  dew drops... life
the early...

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RHYMING WAVE POETRY

The Rhyming Wave is a poetry form created by Katharine L. Sparrow, American writer and poet.
 It's format; 2 or more quatrains plus an ending couplet. Lines 1 through 3 are iambic tetrameter...

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I catch myself roaming around our cottage by the bay this July--- the glare of sun toasting shells along the coast. My mind wanders on until nets are hauled by fishermen of our town, arms...

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I wish my Fairy friend was here, right at this moment. Pow! She’s here, with friends, begging, I write this, their comment. Tis Fairy day, beware some spells but enjoy our magic. First, our condolences...

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REFLECTION
I have often found respite on woodland walks. I listen, look, take every image as a point of view. On reflection, I think you do too. Often smells tell tales of what has been, flowers...

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Having never studied poetry, but composed and wrote it most of my adult life, in the Army, commissions for lovesick, homesick mates. In civvy street, mainly for my wife, the odd commission for enstranged lovers,...

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did you know?
 
if

radio waves were seen... 
that is all we would see

did you know?
 
if

ants' could reason
they would rule planet earth

did you know?
 
that

plastic pollution is the
last nail in our coffin

did you know?
 
that

the...

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FANTASY LAND
 A
VIOLTTE POEM
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a land of few hippies',
where live elves' and pixies;
matriarchal fairies,
Irish drummers

where happy and laughter
and joy ever after
fun end to a chapter,
love their summers!

humans come to visit,
all so much fun isn'it
left leaving some...

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Therein lies the problem, we inadvertently do control the weather, climate warming via pollution, and clouds can be made to rain. Fauna and flora decimated, extinctions, ten plus a day. A lot of mammals threatened,...

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Summer is here - how I love this time of year!  My garden’s filled with sweet scented wallflowers and pretty pansies. Vibrant butterflies are flitting from flower to flower and bees are busy buzzing,...

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is this what we all seek
to be one with nature
well I offer you this peek
this  a contrived feature
what it shows nature meek
fauna, flora. many a creature
a love for all life a tet a tet
with...

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