Naming Poems

Naming of Nothing

Nothing
cannot be named
but the naming
of something
may seem
good enough~~~

Naming First Born

A young couple next door just had a new girl,
They looked at me for ideas so I gave it a whirl.
Since she’s a gem,
I’d name her Kim,
Both quickly replied that our Gem will be Pearl.

naming game

They all died
The lying died
Inside of her mind
I travel
Peeled rays of sunlight
A distant eclipse
The whale had
Executed it’s reasons
Casketing denial
Of flight
Thundering clap
Of freedom
Dismembermenting
And shear
Outfleshing law
And principle
To the news of breaching
She hid in forfeits plans

Filling your time
Plan
Plans against you explore
Laughter
The cosmic guess
None of witch
And only design
Never
Today perhaps a chore
Fast of hinge
Consequence of entry
Always the return of cold
Mysterious

Naming Names

Bluebird, Lilac, Little Dove 
Nicknames for someone beloved
She knows of whom I speak about
She knows it's her, without a doubt

And I'll admit indeed it is
That someday too I plan for this
Her name tattooed within a vine
Her name displayed in grand design

On Naming Plants and Animals

A Commentary on

"A Note on the [Patriarchal-Colonizing] Treatment
of Plant Names"
by Robin Wall Kimmerer, p. 385
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS:
INDIGENOUS WISDOM,
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE,
AND THE [SACRED] TEACHINGS
OF PLANTS

I too often accept
with nary a LeftBrain dominant thought
that our verbalized labels
for individual EgoPersons
are RoyallyCAPITALIZED.

To write
"Marvin Appletree"
would be to strip my tree
of His/Her sacred status
as an EarthTribe indigenous
child of MotherEartha

Just-us another tree
of unvoiced organic

Naming Cats

Much serious thought should be given
to the naming of them,
for would we call a Byzantine Emperor
Tiddles, Blackie or Patches,
would we name an Egyptian Pharaoh,
Ginger, Tiger, Tom, or Peanut?

Cat’s are royalty, no less noble
than the Great Charlemagne -
and they know it,
thus it is most essential
that we get the little buggers neutered.


~~~~~~~~~
a nod to T.S. Eliot

Naming Names

If you hailed from South Dakota,
And someone asked you, "Where you from?"
You wouldn’t simply say, “Uh, Dakota.”
And if you grew up in the hills of West Virginia,
You’d never be inclined to just reply, “Oh, I’m from Virginia.”
But if your mind is going to Carolina,
And you knew James Taylor’s home address,
It doesn’t matter whether North or

Naming Tunes

The sing-song chatter of small birds
frame a window of light.
My kettle is coughing; soon its shrill whistle
will startle me, even though I know exactly
when it will erupt.
Bears have been sighted in Ohio.
Elsewhere, the plague has been seen
crossing rivers on a jet ski.
The birds sing something from ‘The Magic Flute.’
or Bohemian Rhapsody – hard to tell.
Far

Vignette Naming Claiming

Often a parent cannot know
What seeds of anguish they do sow
When a name on offspring they bestow
Teased by army pals whilst abroad
Oscar ,became Claude !
This soldier, painter ,who changed his name,
Later found world-wide fame;
So if you find an Oscar Monet, today
Keep it safe,don't throw it away !
Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2009

Naming Baby

The name of a baby is an important decision 
Easy to pronounce or a lifetime of derision ?
Let us take for example Mr and Mrs Power 
Decided the name of their son in about a hour 

Max Power was born and a footballer he became
Suppose he would have to be with that name 
Then of

The Naming Man

In his school years
he was good at naming things.
Trees, minerals, the anatomy of rabbits,
butterflies and all things
he saw or imagined he saw.

Later…much later,
He realized he knew nothing of anything
that walked the earth or grew upon it
or flew above it.

Later still, his internal organs
began to name him. Bushes and flowers
named him as he walked by.
Birds called

Family Naming Trend

Don’t be melodramatic, Mama Witch said.
Don’t want to take curmudgeon with you to bed.
Little Witch smelled honeysuckle of her Uncle Ted.
It came incrementally as beddy bye book was read.

You’re the kingpin of your life, said her cousin Zed.
She loved it when these spirits came into her head.
Next morning Mama Witch asked “Ready for a moped?”
Why

Relegating the Naming Rights

Looking for a new name 
Thackray was playing the game 
Ready to survive 
Being alive 
In the high profile section 
Worthy to have fame protection 
To stay there another year 
A point needed to stay clear 
Out of relegation hanging with the right dear 
Off to see Old Trafford 
Information to be gathered 
A magical

Naming Crows

Call it cold rock crow when it just sits there  
amidst untouchable brambles and mocks-
Call it blind crow when it pecks out its own eyes
becoming numb to injustice and violence-
Call it plug crow when it covers the ears to a plea
Call it humble crow when for God it takes a knee-
Call it Jim crow

Nomenclature

No one fairly knows what a "thing" is, not before "education"
Attributes ... Names begin "THING-ing" for us, the indoctrination 
Moses means "pull out, draw" as Pharaoh's daughter did
Even Avram was changed to Abraham, Jacob to "Isra El" by God
Some naming is needed. But for God, human SHUTDOWN would be the rule! 


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