Short Alternating Poems

Alternating, adjusting accuracy.
Allowing, accepting alarms.
Announcing, albeit alluding to
Actions, of arrivals arriving....

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riding artificial waves – he exploits her alternating moods 


 For Monoku Contest sponsored by Silent One.
 Placed 2nd...

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Anacreon the  greek born circa 580 BC
loved to pen erotic  poetry
alternating long&short in syllabic metric
lyrically untranslatable from the ionic...

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calligraphic
  cycles
in
phased
   personage
gestures
  within
     a trance
emptiness
  calm
   austere
alternating
   nervousness
in
  dynamic
     reactions
...

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Alternating Major and minor
Sitting
Being cloud-tossed
Emotionally abused
Heart-struck!
I will myself never ending amused
Deeply    purposely used
How that poet knew    how well
That Ravel...

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Conscious/sub conscious thought operating, alternating subtly

Channels from which you express, create, exist, connect, hide, embrace

Power for something from nothing and also nothing from something...

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I'm looking
No I'm not
Decided on the lover's knot
Eventully alternating
Can't stop being
Indecive alot
Since I'm always caught
In my running

Very soon I
End the same
Never sticking
Even I
See the game
So quickly changing...

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Experience overrules prescription of form

when euphony carries off a poem beyond the norm


 a poulter's measure is a couplet form p(couplets of 12 syllables,alternating with 14,often used for serious statements or for burlesque.

Brian Strand 2011...

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I had taken a seat along the sequences of curiosity
When suddenly my mistress dawned
Her eyes alternating in succession
With the pattern that were mine

“Hello” was the word that ejected from her lips
Firecrackers had begun ascending
History was being sculpted before us...

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They turned out for the ball
decked out in their finest
   gowns of green
sleeves frilly lace-trimmed
weaving and waving their charms
   to a gentle breeze
alternating from deep, rich tones
to a sun-splashed yellow
topped off by lush garlands
   wreathed offerings...

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How fickle are the humors of the heart,
capricious and of alternating hue,
a masked chameleon of cunning art;
transmuting colours often hid from view.

11.10.20


An excerpt from my poem ' Colours of the heart'

Rithimus Divisa Poetry Contest
sponsored by Gregory Barden...

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MMMM...

Swirls of alternating colors- brown and... light brown.
A spice that men would kill for a mere five-hundred years ago 
combined with a sugary dough and frosting, baked into a sticky, spicy, SENSATIONAL
delight. 

Praise the Great Spirt in his wisdom for blessing us with Cinnamon Buns!...

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Look to me I will comfort thee.Eyes speak,as I touch your cheek.Forever my love,child gift
from above.Greatness you will be,the best part of me.Child to adult,know I watch you
dear.Your alternating look becomes so clear.Now until the end of time I cherish these
moments that you have always been mine....

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Alternative facts make sense to Luella
Embellishing and alternating truth is her forte’
Her career of choice was readily determined
Politics jumped to the forefront
It might possibly be her only choice
White House Press secretary 
or Ambassador to a foreign country?
That is what she is pondering now....

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Our children see others lie with impunity

Simply blow out the light, darkness perverts civility






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1/4/2020

F F I series 55 p m couplet
Brian Strand, sponsor

Poetry form: Poulter's Measure Couplet - Couplets of 12 syllables alternating with 14 syllables, often used for serious statements....

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the face I see is furrowed fields
as if dug deeply by the plow of
life penetrating into the soul
as seeds are planted to become
crops of experience alternating 
with joy and sorrow as the years 
passed by with health and pain 
of drought and floods which are 
ingrained upon the facade of the
man of furrowed fields...

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poetry
à deux
for fun
you and me

I hold the pen
and write
a first word
you go next
say a word
any word
or phrase
any phrase
whatever comes
to your mind

we’ll go on
alternating
until we’re all done
then I’ll finesse it
and call the poem ours
a sweet collaboration



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on March 2, 2019...

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Serenaded silence
Under blushing sun
Swinging hands holding
Flowering love
Fledgling fingers 
Jousting to arrhythmic beats
Summer soliloquies
Too shy to fluently speak
Sweet somethings
Whispered in ticklish ears
Swirling sentiments
Searching to endear
Grown-up glances
Alternating until one
Longing lips converging
Under blushing sun...

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Kings may come, kings may go, 
I go on forever. 
Letters in a constant flow, 
Recording each endeavour. 
On the walls and in the halls 
You may find that I vex, 

Waxing tall or shrinking small 
And alternating sex. 
Seas I ford, I go abroad 

Heeding my vocation, 
Evading eyes and compromise, 
Resourceful, I claim all disguise, 
Even bilocation!...

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The bed covers grew longer and longer.
As the continuous thread was fed, 
from the spindle to the spools unwinding and rewinding, 
from spool to spool twisting and weaving its threads, 
through the eyes of the needles, 
and into stitches of rows that zigged zagged,
In alternating colors of yellows, blues, and reds, 
with prints of daffodils across the covered beds....

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Oh sleep,ye silent 
stealing of all conscious
that slips thru our minds
to capture dreams
to bring forth inconsistencies
a blur of schemes
that my wakeful mind
has no thought of
oh!ye steal our rest
and plunge our deepest
thoughts into mind
alternating images
to take our sleep
and leave us as tho
we have run a marathon
ye rambling,rumbling,tumbling
bits of logic
where nothing exist........

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Small Space

Space is tight in the small garden
Planted on the small terrace
Along the side careless
Climbing beans
Easily grow

Space is limited in sections small
Plants in pots along the rail
Alternating seating well
Carrots seeded
Earthen stow

Space is reduced for entertaining
Partial am I to fresh produce
Alterations seem obtuse
Cuisine freshness
Efforts show  


Written for Members Contest : Space on 2/27/13...

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The clumps are placed atop the grate
And fire is lit below.
Soon steam will form in empty space.
The process seems too slow.
While tender morsels slowly roast
The beer and coke flows free.
Camaraderie is displaced,
when open shells you see. 

common ballad
alternating between Iambic Tetrameter and Iambic Trimeter
only line 2 and 4 have to Rhyme in each 4 lines.

© Oct 10 Charles Henderson
For Brian's "up to 10 lines" contest...

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If i were King my Crown would reign
Of the purest gold from the Sun
Inlaid with precious gems and a cross of platinum

Blue sapphires and emeralds of green
Red rubies and diamonds galore
Topaz of orange and enormous pearls adore

With the softest velvet underneath for the head of the King
Alternating points of Lions and eagles
Silver fleur-de-lys arch so regal

My Crown would inspire songs to sing
If I were King
If I were King...

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Reason bare of structure like a storm
Ovulating in an angry sea
Stir sedition and juxtaposes its norm
Ego-wise against a season's glee
Latent turbulence primed with insecurity
Drizzled from a tempestuous sun
Altar of a sadist's alternating history

Gulp your blustering track to the mark
Rendered as God's boundary
Exert not your vain effort to spark
Excitement of lightening in the air
Never more your rage shall cloy my heart with fear....

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