Short Farthing Poems

When monorhyming, try data mining
Rhymezone com surfing, all word rhymes searching
Best suffix finding, words with "ing" ending
Present tense verbing, use twice in singing
Nouning with morning, farthing and shilling
Fling thing with sling string, monosyllabing


Entry for the "Rhymers delight - internal monorhyme" contest

Written 5th January 2017...

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Take the helm, it's yours,
Lead to some galaxy afar,
Ride the crest, you are blessed
To name your very own star.

Sail high a heavenly chord,
Or a sonnet, a poet's rhyme,
Whisper it or shout it loud, 
If you wish, in three quarter time.

I would render you a farthing
To embark of your poetic cloud,
But, any amount is not enough, 
To honor a star that shines aloud....

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Surreal hallucinations wafted dense,
metaphysical quantities swirled fast,
normal vision opaqued beyond farthing,
neurons rallied electrically in maze,
storey up the ground was holy,
brain had distanced from the body,
dismembered body parts were as yet members,
to keep me whole,
brain still had the control,
mental activity sometimes catpulted in hyper,
body felt left behind,
but the whole felt super....

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I am
a windmill, dilapidated but still rotating, creaking,
Lake Windermere off season, quiet and autumnal,
a tooth ache throbbing, an irritation, black decay inside.

I am
a foot stool unvarnished, one leg uneven, rarely used,
a penny farthing holding up traffic, out of time and season,
a pop song, mimed.

I am
an apple, red amongst a bowl of green.
I am one line short of a verse.

I am a letter unopened and unread,
returned to s-...

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His painting labelled to make us sing
Making nemies bcame his thing-
Legal costs were his ruin;
Said to have 'flung paint in the public's face
Fled to Venice ,farthing-less & in disgrace

Wish I could paint like this one of James and cause such a reaction

James McNeil Whistler 1834-1803 American born,London resident 
'Nocturne in Black & White



http://jssgallery.org/other_artists/Whistler/Nocturne_in_Black_and_Gold_The_Falling_Rocket.h
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