Short Batten Poems
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A confirmed landlubber is my friend Pete
At water sports my friend Pete can't compete
Once he tried on some skis
Almost drowned in the sea
Going rafting? ~ Batten down Pete's aisle seat
Categories:
batten, friend, silly, sports, water,
Form:
Limerick
Batten down hatches
as hurricane season is
with us once again.
The alphabet will
roll out names like Katrina
fraught with memories
even for west coast
voyeurs in awe of weather
we never have felt.
Categories:
batten, seasons
Form:
Haiku
fluttering lashes soon part
cheek touching toward heaven
through their weave the stars appear
pin pricks on black batten night
Contest: Hammock in the Sky - Tanaga
Poet: Debbie Guzzi
Date: 9/5/12
*Cheeky /saucy, audacious, bold.
Categories:
batten, imagination,
Form:
Verse
Radar plays out Space Invaders;
Yellow, red: they swarm our base.
Thunder booming like a cannon;
Batten hatches, just in case.
Rain is falling at the moment;
We need at least an hour more.
Drop the shields, lower defenses;
Come on in, clouds - time to score!
Categories:
batten, rain, storm,
Form:
Rhyme
As howling winds whip up the sea,
and foamy waves crash on the beach.
Autumn storms begin to speak
The summer sun is out of reach.
There’s lashing rain and darkened skies
It’s time to sit by the fireside
With shorter days and longer nights
Batten the hatches and prepare to hide!
Categories:
batten, sea, seasons, weather, wind,
Form:
Rhyme
The best trip of all
The gentle sounds
The ultimate peace
Safe from the ground
I'm a masterpiece
Muted beats
Slow waves of satin
Entirely complete
Clothed in cotton batten
Nothing to fear
Utter serenity
I exist here
Where I am meant to be
This blissful room
Is my mothers womb
Categories:
batten, baby, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Life is full of fun;
But without batten
Of values beacon
Life will be just a hun.
If you want in life won
Approx values bidden –
Not money, values one
Can lead to success done.
Difference between bison
And you is not a billion
But values based action.
It sets your steps begun
From beast to a good human.
Categories:
batten, philosophy,
Form:
Monorhyme
Blizzard is coming
Hailstorm is drumming
How we longed to be wetter.
We’ve been in a drought
We prayed the calm out
Now comes turbulent weather.
Batten the hatches
Prepare the caches
White rage threatens our safety.
Will eating snow bursts
Appease our mad thirst?
Freezing adds to the crazy.
Categories:
batten, metaphor, political, symbolism,
Form:
Limerick
Let me tell you a tale
Of a wild ride on the tail
Of a whale
So through the water he splashes
Hither and fro he dashes
Batten down the hatches
I never thought Id ride a whale anywhere
Its fun up in the air
But terrible under the water down there
So up and down I go
For how long I don't know
I just hope he doesn't blow
Categories:
batten, animal, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
The dust dappled panes of window
glass shiver,
in their winter finery of frost crystals.
Elaborate patterns form,
lace-like in their elegance;
cloaking the everyday remnants
of drearier days.
And, as the morning sun rises higher
in the cotton batten sky,
the finery transmutes, tears form;
streaking the dirty face of dawn.
Categories:
batten, nature
Form:
Free verse
spirit hunter,
you stalk the shadow moon
neck straining to uncoil upon diaphanous night
what whisper have you heard
above the creak of batten board
the shiver of a window pane
arched and graceful is your silhouette
cat eyed guardian
moonlight prowler
paw prancer
settle the unsettled ones from
fear and in insubstantial light
protect with tooth
and claw your Mother’s
night
Categories:
batten, health, love, pets,
Form:
Free verse
- Underway
Batten down hatches,
Engine order telegraph...
Clangs full steam ahead.
- Crossing The Bar
Gray sky’s foreboding,
Waves crashing over the bow...
The steal womb shudders.
- Making Way
The days grow longer,
As gulls climb on the fresh breeze...
Betwixt and between.
- Arrival
Red, right, returning,
Tugs hasten our arrival...
Heaving lines are thrown.
...(fall, winter, spring, summer)
Categories:
batten, adventure, nature, sea
Form:
Haiku
Hurricane Matthew is lurking like a message from the Devil.
It is sinister and daunting, putting millions in peril.
The forces of nature are giving us an ominous hello,
Putting on an enormous and frightening show.
This is a sobering reminder of our fragile mortality.
We pray that disaster won’t be a sad reality.
You have to respect the size of this monster storm.
Batten down the hatches, and watch it perform!
Categories:
batten, natural disasters,
Form:
Rhyme
A frayed nail loneliness hovers there
up in the cobalt evening's heaven,
screaming
Curved like a cat's claw it scrapes the sky
down, down, night's batten clouds hover, cover,
screaming
Some sounds bring only silence, stoke the fear
of loneliness within this clay shell,
screaming
No one's here so who can really hear, tell,
of the pain the hang nail moon relates
screaming
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Categories:
batten, lonely, longing,
Form:
Verse
Categories:
batten, analogy, appreciation, dream,
Form:
Rhyme
Batten down the hatches –
A storm is on its way.
Don’t know when it’s comin’
Or how long it’s gonna stay.
Every market’s crowded –
People gathering supplies.
No one wants to be caught short
Or taken by surprise.
Plans are being canceled,
Dates all rearranged –
Phones and laptops busy as
New info is exchanged.
We’re ready for the tempest –
We’ve got flashlights, candles, matches.
I’m prepared to do some battening,
But what the hell are hatches?
Categories:
batten, life, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
An effervescent ever-pheasant's
odyssey really ought to see
my grain's migraine
and Lem 'n Ma rang pie
Of course, no bull's noble
as Maple's may pull
and gopher's go-fer
dozen 't batten I
Camel-flesh is camouflaged
yet a manatee's not a man 'o tea
though a miss is a miss
a baby is a bay bee
Enclosing in closing, Ion I must say
(that) while bee gone is begone
(still) Hi and high need hie
but a by is a buy is a bye
Categories:
batten, goodbye, humorous, word play,
Form:
Rhyme