Short Bounding Poems

What We'Re Made Of

Of rubber is youth made
     bounding over life's traps laid
 
   Age gives way to silly putty
     try to stretch ~ no elasticity

A Bounding Sea-

A bounding sea
A hue in  the breeze
Calmly
Turbulence

8/8/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021

Activity of Life

L-ife's
A-ctivity
B-rings
O-verflowing
R-esult

D-uring
A-bounding
Y-ield

Topic: Labor Day (May 01) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Tigers

Brightness

Flashing
Clashing
Hurting my eyes.
Glaring
Flaring
A chaotic surprise.
Pounding 
Bounding
Bursting with vigor
Dancing
Prancing
Getting bigger and bigger.

Refulgent Coolness

E-arly 
M-orn
M-ightily
A-bates

M-ist
A-s
R-efulgent
C-oolness
I-s
A-bounding

Topic: Birthday of Emma Marcia (November 30) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Untamed

shoreless bounding main
          veiled magic in such splendor
               laughing at its yoke


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Uncanny Annie

Our Golden Annie can smell bread 
From the other end of the house it spreads
“Uncanny Annie”
Star of our family
Comes bounding in she's got pretty good treads

Once Radiance Is Abounding

A-nother
R-ay's
N-ew
E-arly
L-ight

V-ividly
I-llumines
L-ife
O-nce
R-adiance
I-s
A-bounding

Topic: Birthday of Arnel Viloria (September 25)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Dog Tales

My flipping,flopping, bounding dog,
Excitedly jumped over a fallen log,
He should have looked before he leapt
Landing in a creek with his misstep,
Now he's dog paddling past a frog.

New Glint

A-nother
N-ew
G-lint
E-ndorses
L-ight 
I-n
C-ool
A-pparent

M-orn
A-s 
R-adiant
C-larity
I-s
A-bounding

Topic: Birthday of Angelica Marcia (August 21) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

As Radiant Coolness Is Abounding

I-f 
G-low 
N-icely 
A-ppears 
C-larity 
I-solates 
O-bscure 

G-ray 
A-s 
R-adiant 
C-oolness 
I-s 
A-bounding 

Topic: Birthday of Ignacio Garcia, Jr (October 26) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Abounding Love

N-ote
O-f
N-oble
O-ccasion
N-icely
G-ives

&

M-essage
A-bout
R-egards
I-mplementing
A-bounding
L-ove
Y-ou
N-eed

Topic: Anniversary of Nonong & Marialyn (March 29) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

High Illumination

G-low 
I-s 
N-icely 
A-bounding 

W-ith 
H-igh 
I-llumination 
T-wenty-sixth 
A-ugust 
C-reating 
R-adiant 
E-ffulgence 

Topic: Birthday of Gina A. Whitacre (August 26) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Another Natural Newness

S-ee
H-ow
A-nother
N-atural
N-ewness

A-nd
N-ice
G-low
E-ndorse
L-ovely

M-orn
A-s
R-adiant
C-oolness
I-s
A-bounding

Topic: Birthday of Shann Angel Marcia (September 08)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

The Social Stage

There on society’s 
stage of
social standards
stiffly stands 
a man timid
and tense.
With his mind lying  
in a world
that had never 
made sense .
Bounding him under 
the brittle 
bones of a 
broken system.

Moving Ahead

potholed  ,  boulder   strewn 
winding   path   up   steep  inclines
unwavering   goal 

water  cascades  down 
wearing  ,  skirting  , bounding rocks
I  will   make  my  way 

~07 Jul 2016~

Abounding Sweetness

R-egards
A-pply
Y-early
N-atal
A-crostic
L-etting
Y-our
N-ame

B-ring
A-bounding
S-weetness
A-s
B-irthday
I-s
C-elebrated
A-nnually

Topic: Birthday of Raynalyn Basabica (March 24) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Queen of the Savannah

Sleek beauty
Silently bounding
On velvet padded paws
Gold against the setting sun
In a shimmer of heat


A jeep out of nowhere
Men with rifles
Take aim in the haze
There lies the lifeless body 
Of Queen of the Savannah

Relieving Your Loneliness

C-oolness
H-as
A-bated
R-ain
R-elieving
Y-our

L-oneliness
Y-ou
N-icely
N-egate
E-very

M-orning
A-s
R-adiant
C-larity
I-s
A-bounding

Topic: Birthday of Charry Lynne D. Marcia (October 04)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

Blinded Squirrel Leaps From Tree To Tree

hillside shiny sun 
as a little squirrel skips on 
bounding leaps on trees

leaning and running
jumps from limb to limb
squirrels sunblind eyes


Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020
4/21/20

Diametric

In the tidy confines
of a cluttered mind
rests the timid notion
that lines taunt human

flaws foreign to the
forces nature conjures
in graceful arcs and
orbits, waves of ripe

marrow rippling with
stippled energies
ever-coursing from
all bounding cells.

Nature's Beauty

Bugs become beautiful butterflies,
basking bashfully beside blooming buttercups.
Breezes blow butterflies...bounding, bouncing, balancing
Butterflies bathe, belt bloom's beverage, buzz breathlessly 
beyond blue blossoms.
Butterflies' beauty blazes brightly!

Nightfighter

Akerman spun to the left, then right,
His fighter spewing fire into the flight.
Headlong the bounding dash he flew
Face to face with bomber and her crew.
Out of control with blasted plastic, steel
The bomber fell, no chutes aglow
Against the phosphoresent night.

Asea

Affable windswept seas,
     Awaken distant dreams
     Affirming lost desires.
     Agog with passion's will,
     Awaiting windward hope.
     Away on bounding crests,
     Alive to trim such sails.


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