Short Amateur Poems

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Premium Member ANOTHER ROAD TRIP PHILOSOPHY

As we near the end of our road trip
a blessing from an old amateur wordsmith:
No road is ever too long 
if you have someone to share it with
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Cesspool

The POTUS, "Napoleon Bonaspur",
has once again created quite a stir.
The Lincoln Reflecting Pool
looks just like a big cesspool
and that makes him look like an amateur.
© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Chicago Is Like a Box of Alcoholics- a Gumperick

Chicago's like a box of alcoholics
You always know what you're gonna git
gang bangers and amateur rappers
pick pockets and sidewalk crappers
trolls guzzling homebrew under a bridge
Form: Limerick

Premium Member corpulent pink frog hops by

a corpulent pink frog hopped past chasing a fly
they were soon joined by a pink and yellow butterfly
Not now! Said Sir Chucky, an amateur magician.
I am trying to learn a trick shown to me by an electrician.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member From Bad To Verse

Jan doesn't write iambic pentameter So please don't condescend and mock her We have different styles I bring laughter and smiles Please remember Jan is just an amateur! 30th April 2015
Form: Limerick


Premium Member The Ayatollah Flies Solo

  
	  Don’t feel sorry for the Ayatollah
	  Just ‘cos that old man has to fly solo

             Yes, he’s got to make a buck
             But he is not out of luck 

          They say he’s a fine amateur bowler
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Vignette-Not Many People Know This

NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW THAT
So little evidence remains
Of Vermeer's ups+downs+pains-
Happily,his art,his epitaph
reveals all,to the attentive viewer
amateur or connoisseur !

See my vermeer cartoons 
@www.vermeersgirls.blogspot.com

Friends

Can you tell that I am down bad?
Is it so painfully obvious that I like you?
Sure, I text you everyday,
and I ask you enough questions to make the press seem amateur,
and yeah I keep trying to hang out,
but that's what friends do, right?
friends. 
Just friends.

The Amateur

P oet, I'm afraid your words are too small.
O range is a word that won't rhyme at all.
E nd with a full stop, and a coma there.
T he verse you put down is practically bare.
R emember to spell check, find all your mistakes.
Y et this is not all writing poetry takes.
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Exoplanet Council Pow-Wow

The exoplanet council's having a pow-wow
  Where are those amateur astronomers now

We've lost track of their telescopes
  Have all those earthlings given up hope

Optimistic that our lifeforms will soon be discovered
  Guess we'll have to wait 'til folks down there recover
Form: Couplet

Outdoor Decor Limerick

There once was an entrepreneur
An Irish born rank amateur
He made garden chairs
Outdoor tables I swear
His name was Paddy O'Furniture



Written 14th March 2017

Entry to "luck of the Irish limerick" contest

Notes: happy St Patrick's day to all my fellow Irish men and women
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Complete Write-Off

Amateur writers, they languish in bookshelves,
their mediocre musings dull, tawdry, and lacklustre,
garish fare inviting foot press dust bin or giant skip,
infused with cliché-ridden dumbstruck cant so trite,
I “CANT” grasp why such writers are that brazen,
“Amateur Writer” is not the word!

Premium Member Vignete-Food For Thought

A progidy in her early teens
When this Flemish lass burst on the scene
A stylish breakfast piece
an epulaeryu in paint-
a gifted amateur she ain't

Tribute to the Clara Peeters 1594-1657
Specialist with breakfast pieces eg Table with pie,game & olives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Peeters
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member The Debit Card

amateur inventors are responsible...
they brought about near everything...
education is now an industry and
the media is about stamping out minds
to fit a modern consumer world
where-in the only privacy left
is under an all out attack...
brought about by the greedy...
how much cash in your pocket?
© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

The Amateur

In a perpetual state of curiosity,
I am the lover—the amator,
consumed by the pursuit,
never arriving as the station's master.

Reshaped by the objects of affection—
endlessly revealing itself
with fresh eyes.

To be possessed by a god.

I am the midwife of ideas,
so come sit with me
and be courted every day.

AN ARTIST'S ODYSSEY


An amateur with art in her veins,  
A portrait and palette to design dreams and pains.

Serendipitous ideas flood the gates,  
An obsession mushrooms as fate curates. 

Rekindling old fondness, 
Crafting nuance with skillfulness. 

From canvas to clinic, the journey unfolds, 
Exploring dermal maps with a finesse untold.
© Jeta Buch  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Chop Sticks Food For Thought

For an amateur it's quite difficult 
to eat a bowl of rice with a set of chop sticks
and nearly imposable to eat a bowl of rice
with only one chop stick.
I guess the difference between the possible and
the impossible depends on how hungry you are
to achieve a positive outcome rather than a negative.

Lets all eat!
thought for food
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Calamari In the Mist

Listen to poem:
Curious to test the fallacious claim
that you could eviscerate calamari squid
in the vortex of a blender,
the amateur chef took the plunge
to bewilder and tantalize friends.
He added a whole squid to the bowl of a blender
and selected the lowest speed.
It looked good a first,
but then the mix blushed scarlet -
Calamari in the Mist.

Premium Member Pretty In Pink

Fancy feast
In my best china dish
How she loves to be finicky
Wearing nothing but
Her pretty pink rhinestone collar
As she tiptoes across the room
Slinky and sleek
With a regal air
Ignoring silly bipeds
Life is grand
Prancing around
She owns the place



Published in The Amateur Poets Magazine, Spring 2020

AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Creating

Creating

If I create with a needle,
You are whispering in my ear,
“Punch here and close again,
Even and neatly, my dear.”

Without You I cannot bake a cake;
For all those You guided before,
Soil tilled, flour milled 
Hands and hands galore.

And when I create something 
Whether of beauty or amateur,
You created the joy it gives me,
Thank you, my God!

You I adore!
Form: Rhyme

Ugly Laugh

Spare me your bitter laughter

Lacking any sense

Spare me your useless banter

Just give me some space

Hiding your incompetence

behind a mask of humour

You're not a good person, darling

for us there's no future

Stop acting so arrogant, I hate it

but it actually makes me sad

Stop giving me that ugly laugh, I hate it

but your jokes aren't actually so bad

Premium Member The Olympic Spirit

    A long time ago, grandpa told me
       amateur athletes crossed oceans and paid the fees 

    Every four years a noble spirit arose
       emblazoned on a torch, fiery and free 

    A spirit clear, shining bright and true
       the Olympic spirit, one that cut through

    The claptrap of power, regulation and rules
       crossing the finish line in brotherhood
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Amateur Haircut

Sometimes just a trim; others, a drastic clip;
around-the-world trip with one mighty snip.
	
Children and scissors together, tempt fate;
by the time you check, it's already too late.

Like closing hen-house doors after the chicks are out;
no need to whimper, get angry or shout.

She's taken the scissors, achieved a slam dunk;
whacked her dog-ears off, leaving two stubby chunks.
© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Professional Amateur

I'm real good at excuses,
And syntax abuses,
But my ultimate excuse,
I'm an amateur, what's the use?

What do I know from this stuff?
I ain't no diamond in the rough,
I just put down words that come to me,
From someone or place that I can't see

So blame them if it sucks,
Or makes you laugh with yucks,
The only poems that come from me,
Are those that create a sense of ecstacy.
© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Burlesque

Premium Member Just Be

Black, white

wrong, right

straight, gay

night, day

meek, freak

open, sneak

Would it be easier without labels?

Could we just say I am that I am

Who I am because I am...God's child!

Rich, poor

faithful, whore

corrupt, pure

professional, amateur

mom, dad

good, bad

strong, weak

homely, street

Could we learn just to be?

and not hurt anybody?
Form: Rhyme

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