Short Coined Poems

Six people's coined as one nation.
Brought their cultures to this land,
From across the seas they came...

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When I think of the young, poetic pup
who coined the phrase, 'pucker-up'
  I wonder if he merely ucked her fup...

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I coined a phrase   
the other day
but didn’t have enough 
change left over
to buy a cheap pen
and write it down...

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Love is overrated
Coined by this heart accelerated
Today exhilarated, tomorrow sorrow filtered
Emotions exuberant 
Loneliness exonerated 
Time extinguished
Togetherness envisioned
Oh what splendor
This love dreamed...

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Hestival this word structure, is copyrighted
To Joe maverick poetry  at and from poetry soup
And in all other applications, world wide.'
I also have coined the descriptive 
( pulp diction ) claiming copyright  today 24 8th 2022 )...

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The last time i checked
I had 40 problems
I don't care about my 
Problems though 
What i care about 
Is the fact that 
The solution to my problems
Lies miles away
A place
Where money is coined
That's the power of money
My problems flee
I'm free!...

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Oh, you don't like the things I have to say, well okay, just go ahead and kiss my grits!

Alabama native Polly Holliday portrayed Flo, a sassy waitress on the TV show "Alice," in the late 1970s. She coined the phrase "Kiss my grits!" ~Wikipedia...

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I’m hesitantly ecstatic,
And devoutly Republicratic,
A conservative eclectic,
And a pragmatic romantic.

I scoff at reality,
I’m a collection of coined morality,
I’m a gracious curmudgeon,
And everyone’s conundrum,
Does this make me gregariously timid?
Or just consistently inconstant?...

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My artistic temperament 
between great madness and art
is a creative necessity
Of emotional highs and lows.

My pen is mightier than the sword
And so I release my great madness of my muse.



'The pen is mightier than the sword' was coined in 1839 by Edward Bulwer-Lyton for the play, Conspiracy....

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Their clueless inane fangs of reed 
Strive to bite what's made of steel; 
Deriding the stronger sinew of virtue
They cling onto feeble foibles untrue.

To headache more reasonable head
Is the very principal aim they're bred...
These pithy bothersome numbskulls 
Coined with dimmest grasp that lulls. 
...

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t-rump the puppet...
divisive...idiotic...
bellowing t-rumpet...

hitler coined a phrase...
t-rump uses it..."fake news"...
history repeats...

don't fall for the ...
the blustering from the pit...
his crap...his  up...

the bigger picture...
choose health care...peace...and kindness
not nationalists...

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Coined Up
Maybe we will all be dead in 6 months
Due to being jabbed up with the vac
Which was to stop the CCP Virus
But it backfired due to the mushrooms
Which are a toxin and kill in many ways
Only the rabid anti vaccers will live
In a kaos driven world of lunatix
Do you want to exist then and there?
Toss a coin get a jab wait and see...

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Rudolph's name is really Adolf
But was coined for he was thought rude
Assumed to be full of himself
As leader of the reindeer brood

His red nose stayed up in the air
That part of the story is right
But he only kept it that way
To see around the blinding light

About that "rude olf" moniker
He would always spread the word
To please only call him Adolf
Ironically that was preferred!...

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By accident I saw a note
Which had a word I'd never seen.
"Biaccidentally," she wrote.
It caught my eye; what did it mean?

A combination, it appeared 
Of two expressions, I could tell -
"By accident" and what I feared 
Was "accidentally" as well.

A clever hybrid, two words joined,
Creating something new and fresh.
However, not all words get coined
For they'd be better not to mesh....

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Paradise of beautiful thoughts via heart
Ornamented with pure and serene art
Enlightening postings on varied themes
Teaching various paradigms supreme!
Intellectual writers love to spend days
Creations of delight coined in selfless ways 
Sharing of common passion gets rear    
Offers new chance to entrants in its sphere
Umbrella for world wide authors in one group
Long live the heaven with name Poetry Soup!...

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Speckles of dusts sparkled through soul
Numbed from dreams that held cost
Rumbles awaiting to carry forth whole
Staying awake to what was lost

Arrays of light washing clean
Inside true dome of frayed cloud
Forms of life scurrying around scene
Whispers of words shushed aloud

Gust of wind fading through vapour
Spurned from coined harsh reality 
Fighting away for a place secure
Evading feelings of numbed clarity...

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Here lies a grave,
a conglomerate headstone
without a name.
weeds and cobwebs 
wrapped tight around the heartless edge.
Caretaker rides his rusty deer
pretending he's a nascar stud
waking the dead and stirring mud.
He take's his lunch beneath a tree,
eating twinkies with green fingertips...
For his love he'll steal a wreath,
and place it gently on her grave.
That bears a scar called, 'long forgotten"
A grave he's coined"no name"....

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A seaman who lived near Albuquerque
Decided he would salvage a turkey
Hung out at a fowl farm
Not meaning to do harm
But was arrested for being a “lurkey.” 

SECOND PLACE WINNER
Written November 13, 2022
submitted to "A Fun Holiday Limerick" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Tania Kitchin

[11-11-6-6-11 syllables checked by PS syllable counter
The rhymes checked by Rhymezone.com but "lurkey" is
a coined word.]...

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Diamonds are forever is the phrase so coined
So are the memories we have created and both joined

You the perfect gem I have longed for so deep
I find myself unconditionally willing to just watch you sleep 

As long as I can place my hand near your faceted heart
My loving touch you can remember even when we are apart

You are the most beautiful cut of my human existence 
Everything of me is for your happiness persistence....

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It's a term coined
for the times

propelled by actions
ceremoniously indulged

whimsically by the populace.
It's growing daily,

masses in tune
bubbling to surface

rife with rebellion.
Senseless conventions

imposed by the machine,
discrepancies enlightened

with blinding rays
of rationality

superimposed upon circumstances.
Keeping up the fight

against all odds
baffling to mindfulness

as they scramble to react
to tides of mistrust....

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rivers,rivers stream my mind
spring forth images,to find

rivers,rivers tribute sing
brooks,babbling,bubbling bring

rivers,rivers scenes of strife
healing waters of life

rivers,rivers follow me
ebbing,slowly to the sea

rivers,rivers carry me
into realms of poetry

This poem was the inspiration for my latest contest.

Willam James coined the title phrase as he thought 
every definite image of the mind is steeped in the'free'
water flow around it....

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A World of Window Pain

dedicated to, Ingrid Showalter Swift, friend, fellow soup poet, 
who has coined the title and given rise to my poem.


Oh so sad
Eyes cast down
Window dressing
Of my frown.
  
Oh I’m an artist 
A designer of woe
Angst conceived to
Garner a glow

Thick is the gravy of my sorrow.   
Don’t be lured onto my ladle
Sometimes I just need to
Rock my cradle. 

© August 1, 2002
Kathryn McL. Collins


P.S.
Out of the cobwebs
I come dear Ingrid....

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Speaking of oppressive orange,
where do we find it?

Is it in the Orange Revolution
in Ukraine,
when there were political wrangles?

Is it in a sour orange juice that a two
year-old child is forced to take,
to get vitamin c?

Is it in a wall painted orange in a house,
while one of the couples wanted white?

Is it in the mid-day sun that burns
our backs and heads in summer?

Or, is it in the dictionary,
where words are coined every day?



Theme  #Oppressive Orange...

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First there was silence’s unspoken belief
                    
An ocean of primordial nurture
                                       
Bright light blinded the meaning

'Let there be darkness shrouded in search'


The Universe an uncalled-for experiment
                    
If one believes in a hand on the tiller
		                        
Coined from faith in a material world

Eons later she admits that doom is the prophet


And humanity a failed test of trial and error...

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Other violence this world
There human flames ceased
Sick swan six
With circles some melancholy
Doctor failure some

Different universe copy soul
Wrapped little body respect
About shoulders stopped arms
Flash doubles wife

Early patient
Stopped her crown
Simple modern
Loop provided effect
While hate challenge simple.

[This was my first attempt at the "cut-up technique", a surrealist technique coined by many early surrealists, including William S. Burroughs, an obvious influence on my work.]...

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