Long Writing style Poems

What ever is fast and cheap you say...
You are so funny -
this is not a fast thing - 
to do a video montage of 5 minutes 
may take me a lifetime
as I move from inspiration...

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There was movement right across the land as the word had passed around,
Poetry Soup had set the challenge for us here.
Only poems that are positive, uplift our thoughts be found
To include it in their anthology...

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A few also rented words by David Archuletta:
"A Writing style technique that hides with an evasiveness, while still long steeped in confusion." 

The above Copyrighted and Trademarked sentence shouts of compound meaning. Both of which,...

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I Asked Myself A Rhetorical Question...

Asper daily expounding fostering
     inchoate manifesting mod
     er writ writing quality,
     solitary scrimmage tackling
    ...

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Below is a quote written by one of my favorite authors Rod McKuen. He has been one of my greatest inspirations and his book "Listen To The Warm" changed my writing style. I wrote essays...

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I draw daydreams devoid of grammar.
Jumble memories with synonyms.
Cook laughter with adjectives.
Flirt with rhymings.
Drool over oxymorons.

My masterpiece is not just another
crushed paper.
Or left stale at the back of a 
hotel bill.
Or a long text message
killed...

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My vocabulary might be a little bent and dented but its mostly twisted, 
a self-made dictionary with a little dark thought and white light in life and craziness itself mixed in it,
 I get up...

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RESPONSE TO RUMI

Tell the Friend I’m coming, with a wine sack and a thirst.
Been too long in solitude, got a sickness in my bones.

Pray? Where was Shams when my need was so great?
“Suffer the pain…it’s...

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Belleville Boys

- by Bob Atkinson

walk the streets of
our old town

thoughts of fame not
unfounded

tell us if our
hearts conform

with success to be
adorned

here on those
sidewalks laid for
us

by streets of
asphalt drawn from
dust

lights which shine
for us at night

below the stars...

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When I was a small child,
my life was filled with grief, sadness, and tragedy;
and in time my thoughts and words turned inward,
and I became fascinated with nature.
There were times I was found talking to flowers...

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University was intimidating at sixteen,
But I decided to take the plunge, and  join anyway,
A passionate bookworm me, fond of reading and writing
Prepared to leap in an ocean of knowledge!

First few days were exciting, joyful, but...

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I gulp a flame of desire
At the sight of your ecclesiastical attire
Being proxy for a pacifier
That elicits a comfort for my quagmire

Your smile, your smile 
A sun in a darkened profile
A moon that illuminates the...

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Words Inspire - 
They create imagery
Words flow on the paper
Is there a dactyl?
Coming together into a chorus
Freedom of ideas grow 
Time after time
Free thoughts  flow
A poetic rhyme
Seeking to enlighten words
Can then thou create
Inspired by...

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Eating Clams

Should I go to my grave doing latest rave?
Or be a nice guy and myself do behave
And if writing poems is what it will be
They will be given to Poetry Soup for free.

Recently, returned...

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Our community builders make all this worthwhile .
The poetry , prose and each new writing style
Encouraging compliments ; offering praise 
Will guide writers home , thro' life's lonely maze .
We've got Sharon and Sandra ,...

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Any Poetess knows her writing style.
She knows her swagger.
Her arrogance is in her words.
She struts even when she is not being vulgar.
She is a Poetry Diva.

Visionary
A Dreamer
True Reformer
Excellent 
Diva of Poetry

Her mind is preoccupied to...

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 Written for the contest "Poe in the style of Plath" sponsored by Tom Woody 

 I am a weakling against supremely star-studded skies
Where stolen streams of light are not enough for it to uprise
My...

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Fertile Fields
By Migdalia Torres

A cobbled stone made of red brick, which 
I picked up and placed on a solid white 
rock pressed against Venus whose tales of 
Fertile Fields were just not true 

The myths...

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Roses are red Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet and so are you.
Your intelligent wording is unique
I write with you as your Psyduck
I'm a nerd with perfect words and so are you. 
your nerdy book awaits...

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Golden Shovel

I do not think that I shall be,
the first or last, therefore will not
hesitate to find out what the
prize would be for coming in first.
But then I shall always stand by
my fellow writers, and...

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here be en emimy of tombstone jack
his eminy tried to shoot em back
but ole jack made em see the light
he done it fastr en he done it right
jack showd em the errer to his ways
he...

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 i havent written in a while. 
perhaps i might of lost my style. 
theres one way to get it back
continue writing a bunch of crap.

 all i need is time
time to myself
time think 
time...

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Word pictures form, word visions come;
Ripe with sheer oomph, ripe with new ooze;
Indulge bold norms, indulge pure sums;
Touch works to groom, touch wakes from snooze;
Impact designs, impact defines;
Note bust and boom, note flash and juice;
Glimpse...

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A poet
               par excellence.
                 ...

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Andrea D?...No brainer:
Dandy
Andie

Or in her younger, wilder days she may have been:
Randy
Andie?
(Just kidding! Just kid...Ouch!)

I have no choice but to categorize several poems by my mentor as:
Guzzi's
Doozies
(Now don't YOU start on me Deb!)

Ms. Macmillan's writing...

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