Love like this is once in a lifetime
More beautiful than the sweetest kiss
Whispering grace in nature’s soft rhyme
Love this strong is meant for hearts and souls
Sweetest kiss, gentle grace, His embrace
Raining over those His love controls
Love brought alive, kindness, stirring
His embrace, light – eternal beauty
His wonders alive and recurring
Love that breathes music through dazzling songs
Eternal beauty, rhythms vibrating
Singing through the winds, where bliss belongs
Love abides inside those who believe
Rhythms vibrating, inspiring strong faith
Growing close to Him will not deceive
Strong faith comes to life inside disciples
Who sincerely trust in their bibles
TAKE A CHANCE ON A CHANSO Poetry Contest
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April 15, 2023
Chanso: 5 verses plus 1 envoi
9 syllable lines, tercet, lines 1& 3 rhyme in each verse
End word or words from line 2 of each verse,
begin first line of verse 2 in next stanza.
*near rhyme disciples/bibles
Poet Wilfred Owen won an MC
dying in France to make it free
Creator of 'near-rhyme'
helping verse in English 'chime'
The spine of a hedgehog,
The horn of a stag,
The teeth of an eel,
The dearth of a seal.
Inside us all, the killer whale,
Searching, fishing its bale;
Settling, cradling the loser,
In a bold, deluded red blazer.
Packing the great white,
Into cheeks’ thatched might,
Squid freezes the past time,
For one more near rhyme.
Avoiding the fiery apex,
Large seals call and flex,
Because our first thought,
Is the other I bought.
Dominique Webb
It’s often used in lyrics
Since the music cuts some slack
But each time I get to hear it,
I am taken some aback.
For to me, who is a purist,
It’s a point in fact that I’m
Quite a stickler who objects to
Any near- or almost-rhyme.
Sometimes laziness explains it,
Or the closeness of a word
To a rhyming one makes writers
Think a real rhyme will be heard.
Often there is nothing fitting
With the word the poet chose.
Finding others to replace it
Is a job each stickler knows.
There are many who will argue
Even Shakespeare sometimes fudged
Though that knowledge doesn’t faze me;
My beliefs will not be budged.
Two souls brought up in distinct surroundings
with many perspectives about life, decide
to come together to form outstanding
relationship for their lives with nothing to hide.
Building a relationship isn't easy
arguments and disagreements sometimes crazy;
it's told that arguing can be uneasy
but relationship never should be so heavy.
Studies say, spouses complaining to each
other most and grumble about least important
things end up having more lasting outreach
better relationships and also supporting
So arguing on simple issuess assists
to build a relationship better, work as gifts.
~x~x~
Whimsical Sonnet
This Sonnet form was introduced in a contest on Allpoetry by Numi_Earl_Grey.
Lines alternate between iambic pentameter and iambic hexameter.
So that's lines of ten and twelve syllables,
Rhyme scheme is ABAB CCCC DEDE FF' where F' is a near rhyme to F.
Pasted from http://poetscollective.org/everysonnet/whimsical-sonnet/
Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Lawrence Eberhart for a wonderful resource at Poets COLLECTIVE site.
Out west we say ky-OAT-ee"
as it rhymes with po -et-ry
near rhyme is enough
for those with edges rough
it’s good enough for us
please join the evening chorus.
I was born with a baby karma,
and even as a child I knew about drama;
I see karma like putting cash in the bank,
for when insults are flung and soul has sank.
Well, my karma grew to teach me to just walk away,
and that in time those people will pay;
and to never give in to hate- the whisper,
karma is like my protective sister.
Be good and do good to elevate life,
I believe how people treat me belongs to them;
I move on even when their words stab me like a knife,
I just remind myself that I am- God's gem.
And with all my odd and weird- I love me;
I just wait . . for karma will find a way (do you agree?)
____________________________
April 25, 2018
Poetry/Rhyme/my "KARMA"
Copyright Protected, ID 18-1016-843-01
All Rights Reserved. Written Under Pseudonym.
Written for the contest, Karma
sponsor, Line Gauthier
First Place
Rhyme Pattern: aabbccdd ababcc
(perfect and near rhyme)
A ballade I will now begin
Why do this form I now try
Surely no contest will I win
I can see already I will cry
Rarely am I a sensitive guy
Oh what will I possibly gain
Yet again asking myself why
From this form I’ll REFRAIN
Haha I used a humorous spin
Leaving my ego to again sigh
But soon my rhymes will thin
A rhyming dictionary I do spy
Before rhyming I could say my
Surely the ballade I now stain
I got this down the first lie
From this form I’ll REFRAIN
Lol once again my ego grins
I have a smile from eye to eye
Another twist, and not the end
A near rhyme was my last reply
The form I broke, but won’t buy
For a ballade, I cannot even train
If it meant my life, surely I’d die
From this form I’ll REFRAIN
A difficult form, I cannot deny
But soon I will hit the exit lane
That ego still smiling feeling sly
From this form I’ll REFRAIN
The lesson here, don't write a ballade in 10 minutes unless you're a professional. A professional clown that is lol. I tried to stay metrically consistent, but I'm American, we don't use metric unless it's convenient, in poetry it's never convenient always forced lol.
Lines composed in dejection
of embarrassing rejection
have a tendency to be
even duller than the seeds
of Stalin’s rise to power,
and more ruthlessly taxing,
and on the psyche vexing,
than the whole of the Holodomor.