Long Than Poems

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Premium Member Mountain -Fountain

MOUNTAIN- FOUNTAIN 

                 Mountain static
               
                 Free fountain falls.

                    Hill to maintain.   .

                                                                                                                           
                        Frolic fountain:
                                                                                                                        
                          Dynamic flow.
                                                                                                                                    
                             Nice majestic.



   12/09/20
                                                                     Second place

  ' Bauk-Than or Than Bauk' Contest by charles messina
Form: Than-Bauk


Premium Member San Francisco's Union Square

The following scenario occurred via the guest sharing with me 
when I was managing the front desk at a hotel in San Francisco, 
fronting Union Square. I found his morals promising and conform 
to a highly acceptable standard of right and wrong. The ambiance 
at the time was understandably festive, and he occasioned me the 
day after bearing a pleasant decency.  A pricey hotel and a priceless
moment in my lifetime.


 ~*~    ~*~
A man deplanes
Key Biscayne's flight
take pains planning.

City center
car renter or
enter BART train.
 ~*~    ~*~
Opts for mincab
as confab airs
quick grab sightsee.

San Francisco
cross the Golden
Gate overwhelm.
 ~*~    ~*~
Mark Hopkins suite
exec beat and
retreat a bit.

Up and at 'um
took humdrum hence
therefrom outside
  ~*~    ~*~
Two souls passing,
eyes lashing while
dashing connects.

Man out in town,
Lauren brown suit
and down-brim cap.
  ~*~    ~*~
Her nuanced face,
garbed black lace that
draped mace hides well.

The schemed conversed,
his bad nursed, hers
rehearsed ensue.
  ~*~    ~*~
He treats a fine
place to wine and
to dine, ere show!

Ceremony
Christmas Tree Lights
City main square.
  ~*~    ~*~
Union Square drinks,
glasses clinks, the
man sinks, blacks out.

Wakes--finds--back--the
Photo...huh?...reads,
I'm...wha?...Steve!--(SMILES).
  ~*~    ~*~
Form: Than-Bauk

Premium Member Bauk For More

a double-wide?
someone lied: an
inside jokester

what in the hell?
rotten smell in
this shell, yokester

seems that some blow's
on your nose and
it shows, cokester

cat in a tree
cries a plea, comes
to me: coaxed her

fork and the spoon
off too soon, home
by noon: broke stir

chim chim cher-ee
you'll agree I'm
lucky bloke, sir

wanting a plum
uses thumb to
get some, pokes her

poor old man frog
too much grog, fell
off log, croaked, sir

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In my world, 'jokester' and 'cokester'
rhyme with 'jokester' and are two syllables.

Maybe this one's a bit more interesting?
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Than-Bauk

Premium Member Than Bauk Variation

      
      It has short TAIL
               Me to TELL now.
                  the TALE of pet.

                                   Alert at NIGHT
                                   Its eye SIGHT keen
                                       and HEIGHT two feet.
      
                                                                      I call it JACK,
                                                                      almost BLACK skin.
                                                                               On BACK , white spots.

   At morn , I JOG,
     my pet  DOG runs
              BullDOG : Species .
                                                        
                              My pet and HENCE
                                         VigiLANCE done.
                                    Strong SENSE of smell.

                                                                    My only PET
                                                                    Stays at GATE and 
                                                                              at LATE  night too.
Form: Than-Bauk

Premium Member Ladies From Shanghai: COMPLETE

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A rare good sou-L
            at Mote-L Six 
         who smel-Led different.
                                                                      Then she tell m-E
                                                                                 somebo-Dy took
                                                                                        her P-ink wallet.
 dropped her O-ff            
someplace d-Owntown
            I kn-Ow about.
                                                                      Next I had s-Ort
                                                                              self-ctr-Olled and
                                                                                    my O-h fresh bills.
Gave same addres-S
             like the la-St cab
                      ride S-aid. Same spot.
                                                                       Story she h-Ad
                                                                             was a b-Ag like
                                                                                purse A-nd not hers.
When we avrr-Ived
       I'm surpr-Ised, that's
          her, sm-Iling there.
                                                                              Lady beh-Ind
                                                                             said out s-Ide Where'd,
                                                                                    you f-Ind it! Well?
I had to lo-Ok,
   say, I kn-Ow her,
    We're fr-Om Shanghai. (Ladies say to cabbie)
Form: Than-Bauk


Premium Member Split Wide Open

Banana split:
I admit that
I quit fighting.

Where to begin?
A split, when shared:
most inviting.

Scoops number three
by decree; less
will be DQ’d.

They use soft creams
’nilla streams, all,
which seems quite rude. 

First chocolate:
that’s a great start;
Why wait for more?

Then strawberry:
likely me, but
now free to soar.

Vanilla bean:
no machine, please!
So clean and nice.

Whipping cream plan:
one long can spraaaay.
Oh man, or twice!

Cherry on top,
time to drop all
and stop hopin’

      ~~

Last bite must tide;
one more, I’d be 
split wide open.

————-


for the This Or That, Vol 12 Poetry Contest
sponsored by Edward Ibeh
written on 06/11/2022


DQ is 'disqualified' and also Dairy Queen

Than-Bauk is a 3 line 'climbing rhyme': four syllables per line, with the rhyme on the fourth syllable of the first line, the third syllable of the second line, and the second syllable of the third line.
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Than-Bauk

Premium Member Love, be not proud

Humbly allowed
myself proud-- of
endowed graces

my will is free
pray for me, for
holy, pure mind

purity's crown
makes some frown, but
i'm down with it

my heart agrees
with Kolbe's, that
we please her heart

Immaculate,
sorrows split, if
admit to sins

humbling my pride
don't just hide, from
God's side of Love

friends are okay
unless they-- lead
astray my soul




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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 
(1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
Form: Than-Bauk

Premium Member Gaping Hole - Bt

Blue soul whispers 
nightmare toll on 
ice cold pier stroll

Date created and submitted : 3rd January 2031

  Contest : Bauk Than  - Than Bauk

Sponsor : Charles Messina 

NB This is a story of grief and loss.
Sensible language is a requirement for this contest.
My submission has been verified by Poetry Soup Grammar Checker and Syllable Counter.

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Syllables Per Line:	4 4 4
Total # Syllables:	12


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Form: Than-Bauk

Premium Member Crumbling Cookie COMPLETE

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  A special-Ty
license pla-Te had
  been sen-T to him.

He was ve-Ry
       pleased with I-t when
                        the sh-Ipment came.

                                                                          At the airpor-T
                                                                             used credi-T card
                                                                                 buy firs-T class seat.

Went to first clas-S
      lounge for drink-S of
                                their Hou-Se Champagne.

Onboard the P-lane
     it was sh-Aking
                a B-it scary.

  Nice aeria-L
    shows centra-L parts
                           home-Land of mines.

                                                                           Puerto Ric-O
                                                                                I am h-Ome at
                                                                                    last, O-h I'm blest.

San Juan is stil-L
                          so a-Live like
                             mobi-Le peppers.

   Arecib-O
Radar N-Oted
 cause f-Or its size.
  
Ponce is -A
         nice sort-A place
                             at -Our south point.
Form: Than-Bauk

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