Short Literati Poems

A literati once told me
    the difference between a peasant
      and a pheasant is only 'H'

  I replied, the difference between
    symbols and cymbals is known only
      by 'a' literati 'ess,' you 'c'
  ~ as I crashed those cymbals in front of he...

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Ricardo wrote poetry with much flair
the literati later,were to declare
'Twenty Love Poems & A song of Despair'
And his 'Residence on Earth'
a Nobel prize to reflect their worth.

Inspired by Raul's photo contest

Pablo Neruda(Nefttali Ricardo Reyes y Basulato) diplomat/poet of the Chilean left...

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I can't type anymore
  My fingers are sore
from typing too many poems

So I'm buying a boat
  I pedal, it floats
My fingers in lotion I'll stow 'em

Who wants to be tired
  Caffeine keeps me wired
Tell the literati that I will show 'em

How to escape
  sans Houdini-black cape
With a DIY cruise on the ocean...

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My thanks to my fans and fannies on Soup

    You're appreciated by this old poop

         For gracious comments so kind

             Verse to stimulate the mind

                  You are a first rate literati group

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved (9 Jan 2012)

Placed No. 2 in Carol Brown's "What I Love Most About Poetry Soup" Contest
January 2012...

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Listen to the forest in the depth of one’s mind 
and craft arresting soundscapes from within.
Gaze into a spectral morning 
dazzling  anew and 
watch those scales 
that slither from one’s eyes. 
Utter silken threads that pulse 
each vein  with choral church bells  
ascending  thru a literati conduit.
Wallow in the cascade of an oceanic
 blue and cherish 
every vital sea green moment....

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Listen to the forest in the depth
of one’s mind and craft
arresting soundscapes
from within.
Gaze into a spectral morning
dazzling  anew and watch
those scales that slither
from one’s eyes,
Utter silken threads that pulse each vein 
with choral church bells  ascending
 thru a literati conduit.
Wallow in the cascade of an oceanic blue
and cherish every vital sea green moment

Posted : 30th March 2022...

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We all desire to be poets
we were born to write wanting this
be the Poe that we find so strange
be Emile with her enchantment
Being Brecht in definitive elucubrations
Being romantic realistic as Rousseau
or even internet literati,
 minor court drama writers from our districts...
Well-known, consecrated poets
award winners...
We discovered that we are simple, mortal... not all dreams
take place...
But don't be discouraged
  life is not just here and in this world...!...

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