Long Xylophones Poems

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Premium Member Springtime Villanelle

Rays of golden sun, at orange dawn, I enjoy...!
I wake up, hearing chirps of birds at four O’ clock;
At fifties! Yet, I feel, as though a little boy...!

The earth and the heavens celebrate springtime-joy, 
Timely changes in weather never my glee block;
Rays of golden sun, at orange dawn, I enjoy...!

Newborn baby animals race around in cloy,
In ponds around, bullfrogs in chorus gaily croak;
At fifties! Yet, I feel, as though a little boy...!

Breeze, as though touch me not, feels me and fades in coy,
Within feelings, like salsa, to xylophones, rock;
Rays of golden sun, at orange dawn, I enjoy...!

Seed drowsing, spring up and shoot up fresh green savoy,
Migratory birds to their homelands fly in flock;
At fifties! Yet, I feel, as though, a little boy...!

Sunshine! Shower! Wedding of foxes! Dogs convoy!
Ducks and geese and swans and swamps display their catwalk;
Rays of golden sun, at orange dawn, I enjoy...!
At fifties! Yet, I feel, as though a little boy...!


15 April 2022
Springtime Villanelle Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Sotto Poet


Premium Member Christmas

As snows gently coat the land
Breezes softly brush it into peaks.
Candles glitter and flutter in windows
Deep shadows flicker in their light.
Enchanting dazzling gems sparkling
Frosty branches dress the clearing
Garnishing the white landscape
Hark! hear the sleigh bells tinkering
It's Santa delivering the presents
Jolly Ho-Ho's ring out as he passes
Kicking the reindeer speed onwards
Leaving a sparkling trail behind them
Maples trees majestically line the path
Nightingale's sweet tones ring out
Over the snowy valley echoing  
Partridges plump and fat basting
Quail are turning on the spit
Roast potatoes crisp and golden brown
Simmering vegetables steaming
Toasted marshmallows all gooey
Utterly delicious as they melt on tongue
Victoriously the bells peel out
With great Joy announcing the birth 
Xylophones cheerfully join in
Yearning hearts beating in tandem
Zeal fully they meet and mingle

Premium Member Oh Captcha Squares

Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
What are these objects in your frames?
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
Why must they gotta be the same?

    Cars and busses, traffic lights
    Bicycles and motor bikes
    Crosswalks, signs, and steps and stairs
    Fire hydrants everywhere        

    Boats, planes and parking meters 
    Tickets, fines, misdemeanors
    Why are you so fond of these?
    Why are palms the only trees? 

Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
The pictures trapped inside of there
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
Depict a world so bleak and bare

   Arid, bland, unaesthetic
   Barren, drab, unpoetic
   Sterile, cold, antiseptic
   Unconcerned, apathetic 
   
   Somber, sad, and desolate 
   Woeful, bland, pedestrian
   Weary, grim, dreary, hopeless
   Grainy, gray, out of focus 
 

It doesn’t need to be this way…

Many things could fill your squares
Why not fill these things in there?

   Tambourines and castanets 
   Bass trombones and clarinets
   English horns and piccolos
   Harpsichords and xylophones

   Fiddles high and Irish whistles
   Jingle bells and finger cymbals
   5-string banjos, mandolins
   Saxophones, accordions

   Desmond Tutu and Mandela
   Cassius Clay, Cinderella
   Charlemagne and Genghis Kahn
   George and Ringo, Paul, and John 

   Twain and Edgar Allan Poe
   Wayne and Brando and Monroe
   Ida Wells, Frida Kahlo
   Steinem, Parks, and Ferraro

   River Thames and stormy seas
   Winter wrens and bumble bees
   Cyprus, ash, oak, fir, and pine
   Sassafras, willow, and lime

   Daffodils and magnolias
   Marigolds and begonias
   Cabbage, beets, and potatoes
   Carrots, beans, and tomatoes

Oh Captcha Squares, Oh Captcha Squares
If your pictures must remain
Oh Captcha Squares, Oh Captcha Squares
How aboutcha change the frames?

   Captcha circles, captcha suns
   All the captcha olygons
   Wiggly captcha twiggly lines
   Twisty captcha twiny vines 
  
   Captcha diamonds, captcha hearts
   Captcha clovers, moons, and stars
   Captcha ribbons, Captcha lace
   Captcha colored string bouquets

Oh Captcha Squares, Oh Captcha Squares
We understand you're here to stay.
Oh Captcha Squares, Oh Captcha Squares
Just be more creative, OK?
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Thanksgiving

THANKSGIVING

Butterbees glazing
Wing’d gobblings

Horn of plenty
Our honeyland

Mannah-maestro conducting
Xylophones with silver spoons

Misting maids of ‘mooners
Golden streams of Gilead

Move to Everest
Not that cold

Idaho mountains and valleys
Of beaten snow

Iceberg quakes
Gravyboat overflows

Yellow teeth
Nothing more than gobs

Those kernelly cobs
Piled the highest

Waiting for the final
Black and white whistleblow

Mothers, daughters, aunts can swipe
the sweat from brows and knees

“Pass the taters please”
Now they can’t wait

Touchdown of seats
Plenty to feed

Buzzing of the Autumn game
Pies pack in pounds in overtime

American apple, pecan, Washington 
cherry, rhubarb, Atlanta peach

Pulling silly strings on pants
Enhance the week’s fun run

8/27/2021
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Alphabet On Display

Abominable Aborigine
Boycotted Baltimore’s Bakery
Canady Canola’s Cannery
Decoded deceitful debauchery

Endless energetic energy
Forwarded farmyard frolicking for a fee
Geographically greeting in Germany
Hardcopy happiness hee hee hee

Ignoring ignorance illegally
Juicy juggling juggernauts
Kettledrums, Kenya and Kentucky
Livening up our literacy
Maniac madness in a manatee

Nightingale nips so nervously
October’s ocelot obviously….
Paralyzes Petunia Parkway’s parenthesis
Quaking quail quickly qualifies me

Relaying relative radioactivity
Scapegoats and scarecrows so scantily
Treat Tajikistan twice tactfully
Undermining Ukraine’s utter ukulele

Vaporizing various vanities
Wicked Washington warrants wisely
X-rays xylophones ‘xtra-instantly
Yellow jackets yield young yearly
Zippy Zeus’s zesty zoology zings with zeal between you and me.


On Christmas Day

Among all those holidays,
Best thing happen this year.
Christmas truly outshines!
Daydreams turn to reality.
Endearing lights around the city
Give spirit on Christmas Day.
Happy moments are made
Inside the minds of young and old ones.
Joyful carols in the atmosphere,
Kindness rages in their hearts.
Looking at those winged lanterns,
Marveling at night sky,
Nail the fireworks as they pass by.
Only Christmas makes this bang!
People spread love in the morning air,
Quite touching to see teary smiles.
Roll down the snowball and build memories.
Sing with the waft till new morning shines.
Tender kisses speak happiness,
Uniting everyone as one.
Vibrant feeling is almost everywhere,
Wishing Christmas is everyday.
Xylophones may sing with the cold breeze,
Yet what really matters in this season,
Zeal to define the spirit of Christmas.

Made Famine

I sit watching the news  
with tea in hand.  
Surplus food. And I despair.  
Man-made hunger: ribs like xylophones, crushed.  
Reaching for food, they are fed bullets.  
A child, just looking for bread.  
Warnings that neither warn nor miss.  
A kilo of flour costs a life.  
Doctors die—from hunger, or from trying to feed it.  
Humanity: misplaced.  
This is what grief has carved into the world.  
Overcrowded. Airless. No refuge.  
Aid centres that don’t aid.  
The dead don’t get labelled.  
Food rots at the border while the world watches.  
Months of meals sit still.  
A ceasefire whispers.  
A spine: a skeleton curled like a fetus.  
Mother made family made famine.  
Hate is inherited, spoon-fed to children with dust and grief.  
And I sip my tea.  
It tastes like shame.  
But hunger is louder—  
and one voice raised  
might ignite others.
war

Made Famine

I sit watching the news
with tea in hand.

Surplus food.
And I despair.

Man-made hunger:
ribs like xylophones, crushed.

Reaching for food,
they are fed bullets.

A child, just looking for bread.
Warnings that neither warn nor miss.

A kilo of flour costs a life.

Doctors die—
from hunger,
or from trying to feed it.

Humanity: misplaced.

This is what grief
has carved into the world.

Overcrowded.
Airless.
No refuge.

Aid centres that don’t aid.
The dead don’t get labelled.

Food rots at the border
while the world watches.
Months of meals sit still.

A ceasefire whispers.

A spine:
a skeleton curled like a fetus.

Mother made family made famine.

Hate is inherited,
spoon-fed to children
with dust and grief.

And I sip my tea.
It tastes like shame.

But hunger is louder—
and one voice raised
might ignite others.
war

Premium Member Love and Lunacy

LOVE AND LUNACY

As the universe streams moonbeam vibrations;

Beyond brave blue skies dreams are tossed about.

Clouds linger to infiltrate the threatening calm

Dangerous moons practice divination while waxing or waning

Exuding more or less power,effecting evil attitudes of moods.

Fondness withers as an under-watered rose.

Guises itself as sanity, instability rolls her childish eyes.

How such contempt shown as civility is more than cruel to me.

I often wonder why dreams get tossed about near spring.

January, February,seems to balance a tolerated gloom.


Keeps the quiet calm in March, until the waxing the new alluring moon.

Lunacy and love lurks in minds, as cosmic scales weigh-in gravity's pull

March introduced the full moon preparing for the for the Solar eclipse Of April.

Now that adoration has given birth to love, and it's shackles we praise the love.

Of the shackles - lets speak of the shackles that comes with the snares of loves traps.

Promises of forever gagging in the throats of unkempt dedications.

Quicksand, quickening underfoot, love suffocating instincts of Sanity.

Realities of loves lunacy, hoping we could bottle up the good times and save them.

Saving the good times for the bad times testing the power of the mind.

Testing loves abilities under the new lunar moon..hysterical levels of confusion

Universal melodies soothes the carnal mind, bonds together gods and goddesses of love.

Venus vibrations penetrating, piercing arrows, into zones of over zealous lust.

Wanton lust parading as Love causing mental confusion.

Xor gate of your natural instincts and logic wrestle, married now are love and lunacy.

Yet for just a taste of desire, or a semblance of love from you would complete me.

Walking lunatic I am, forever dancing, to the edges of this fanatical world.

Xylophones flowing universal drumbeats keeps me dancing cautiously past the loopholes.

Grandchildren Last Line of Defence

Abnormal reactions,
Big stuff ups,
Countless mistakes,
Deliberate interference.

Everyday occurrences,
Foolish moves,
Give false hope,
Hear the anguish.

Injustice on the rise,
Judges on the take,
Known by those who have lost the use of their tongue.

Love seeds now uncommon,
Money in the hands of the few,
No relief in sight,
Only a few still in the fight.

Possibilities for grandchildren to,
Quietly tip the balance,
Right messages uplifted essential,
Should they reject fake news.

Temperature extremes,
Unlikely all will survive,
Very little shade,
Where trees no longer exist.

Xylophones silent,
Yachts languishing in unsafe harbours, 
Zebras no longer crossing.

Apples not falling far from the tree,
Big decisions needed from little people.

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