Pleating Poems | Examples


List of Member Poems

Its Walking Gaze

the man who from the waist down his human body forms a cricket-like appearance ethereal was in his esoteric knowledge his draping cloak. waving in the white voids winds of change. the pleating cloak opens the doors returning the crystalized boats gone from Bermuda as its eyes see all that is and potentially could. out of it with the comatose human tongues tied in flames. it comes to the bleeding queen, the shrimp that folds rainbows, the door within the cow's mouth, the beast's bladder. it is yugash he is hungry but also comes with open limbs.

Pleating the Coms

Finch trembles in a golden spray
Grading the ant
Oh door less oak squeals
Never platitudes
suit you like a T
Cradles inflected tease and ones
King of the row boat
The S so lowly
Infectious scars legally
mellow in my marshes
Sea is loud
As the sun arose

The Scotland

The beauty of this nation is enhanced by the Unicorn,
Captivating kilts are here made and worn!
Encyclopedia Britannica was born here,
You cannot find King penguin Nils Olav elsewhere!
The invention of modern kilt was done here by Thomas Rawlinson,
Beautiful tartan cloth is used for it and admirable pleating is done .
Golf's birthplace is Scotland,
It shares the border of the south with England.
Scotland's Knap of Howar is a historical tourist attraction,
Must visit the place once for its amazing tradition!


Premium Member Origami Crane Garland

Moments of meditative serenity
Crimping pleating floral white hybrid washi

Shaping and triangulating dainty folds
Stringing vertex wings of freedom symmetry

Garland of classic crane origami
Wishing long happy peaceful life



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Beach

The horizon cuts straight, long, hard
silently declining less than a degree

like toys across a cartoon’s one frame stillness
a small yacht rocks like a child’s boat
a helicopter putters, a small jet silently
bellies over the sea thundering suddenly
against a graded blue sky
children flying a kite
a plummeting twisting tied bird in its death throes
falling from the warm seemingly red-speckled blue 
broken only by a smudge of grey cloud

curling white-tipped waves swirl against rocks
a lonely Zen-meditative crab in their shade

the sand, ridged, striated, pockmarked
small holes left as bubbling miniature blowholes
fine lines webbed around 
sand rippled like the sea, waved and cleansed 
a poetic transgression? – Neptune’s impost?
the soap-sud foam his in-coming joyful jouissance 
the thin receding water a pin-spot bridal veil
and a bridal train, its white scalloped lace edge
pleating, folding, hiding under the next wave
in rippling curving line-patterns

Poetry!

Poetry is life's sonnets

Sung in tunes of the beating heart

Through pleating words of wisdom

Into a lace of pearls

Every kind of poetry

May be romantic; idealistic; realistic

Thus;

Pinches the inner senses

and kindles the spirituality

In every soul

In one way or other

Ultimately!

Krishna Baalu

krishna Baalu


A Maypole Dance

Boys opted to dance as the groups were selected,
A boy paired off with a girl formed a group,
The pole fifteen to eighteen feet affair,
With ten different colored tough ribbons.

The post stood centered within a big round,   
Colorful strips barely touched the ground,
Along with other pairs we formed a circle;
Each pair picking to hold them in their arms:

The music began to play and we walked,
Watching pair in front keeping steady pace,
Each step kept drawing us near to the pole;
Music stopped; restarting us to reverse.

Next we wove around pairs in meshed styling,
Ribbons pleating over the shinning pole,
Evening sun shone with the rainbow shaft;
Boys never returned to this silly craft.



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