Short Metric Poems

i write metric verse    therefore iamb....

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Fifth of November
One quarter from age eighty
Memories intact…
Sorry to those in metric
Twenty five percent to go

 © Harry J Horsman 2022...

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Anacreon the  greek born circa 580 BC
loved to pen erotic  poetry
alternating long&short in syllabic metric
lyrically untranslatable from the ionic...

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GIVE AN INCH 
"i gave her an inch, but; she had gone all metric and took a meter"

Indiana Shaw...

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Pilfered a verse from a tricky muse
Each stanza with riddles he did infuse
Perplexed, I shuffled each line 
Fusing the metric spine  
Confused, my remaining wits did loose...

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Don’t ever bare your soul,
Conceal your psyche’s role
Behind your metaphors and metric lines.
And don’t undress your heart,
Disguise the tragic part
It plays inside your poetry’s designs....

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It is the same as 2.54 inches.
It is part of the metric system,
Which is also called a SI unit.
This type of measure is more accurate,
Than the English or U.S. customary.
Scientists use SI units or metrics system,
Unvoluntary....

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she said
country

i said
say it again

she said
come to me

i realized i
was in a different

country so
this place used

metric and i
only had inches

so it seemed
that 2.54 looked

better then the 
1 i had before...

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duped to go
metric excepting
this but forgetting

what once was
sacred has evaded
even jaded thinking

that you think this is
but it isn't geometry
so please pass me

that three
no it's not
in eights

going metric
you made
a mistake...

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In four and sixty syllables
He strains to squeeze some thoughts profound
Into unyielding manacles
Of 8x8 form, tightly-bound.
He seeks to hand-pick words that sound
Unforced by metric obstacles
That sing and sensibly expound -
In short, do verbal miracles!...

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Mingle with me, in a misty, mimosa moment.

Make my metric mistakes so minuscule.

Maximize my poetic meaningfulness .

Minimize my meaninglessness.

Of my most memorable moments, let me pen.

Memories with members, with momentous souls.

Poetic mathematics, Misty Angel, is my goal!

                           


                    3-19-2022...

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Converting within the SI units,
Or metric system,
Is not a tough task.
How do you begin?
There are 2 ways,
That I know,
Dimensional analysis,
By using the powers of ten,
Or moving the decimal by,
Using this acronym,
KHDDCM-
King Henry Died Don't Call Me,
Or King Henry Died Drinking Chocolate Milk.
Which one do you use?
Use the one that is easier to you....

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Why can't I write a poem
    'bout every shade of color
   kaleidoscope sunsets and brilliant blooms 
     Why's my imagery so much duller ... 

  Why can't I write a poem 
    'bout steamy love affairs
  where breathless paramours explore
    locales no eagle dares ...

  Why can't I write a poem
    in metric symmetry
  Well, I know why ~ If I did that
    I'd lose my identity...

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It's like a wheel turning in my mind
It's nothing some kind of metric slide
My sanity is lost so why do I care
If I only could grow out my hair
But now- I wish that I could leave
But now- I wish that I could see
The Light!!!

'Cause I just wanna go
out tonight (with you)
And I just wanna find a kind
of person just like you 
I Love! Like nothing from above
and tonight (with you)

With you....

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(A Dedication To All Poets Everywhere)
In the perusal of other Poet's,
Poems and Prose in metric lyric script's
and their celestial writ's,

Which thaw's the Heart of Winter's Cause
to come cascading down with heavenly poise
with noetic phrase's, warm applause,

Some oft' time blending with free verse glee
that makes morose reflections flee
To feast refreshed again, on Summer's spreading spree....

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The French call it "dix" - the Romans used X
The number of lords that are leaping Xmas
The total of fingers and thumbs on both hands
The base used for metric - both metres and grams
Count hydrogen atoms in compound butane
Downing Street doorstep, our PM's domain
Legs on a lobster and all decapods
Commandments and plagues that were given by God
The number of toes on the end of our feet
The lines in this poem - that makes it all neat...

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Drive and drive but you can't get away
But what if the distance needed a break?

You travel and travel but it stays in place
Covering the world but can not move at pace

It wishes it could write or learn in normal life
have a family of Millimeters and go on Union strike

It wishes of love and the ability to breath
but it's only a unit of measurement you see

for it cannot be anything much more
then a unit of math and metric lore......

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Poetrysoup Footles

1. Poem Taking a Vacation

          Footle
          Tootle

2. Poison Pen Poet

         Stinker
         Inker

3. Long Poison Pen Poem

        Septic 
        Epic

4. On Suffering Writers Block

       Lamebrain
      Quatrain

5. On Finishing a Heavy Going Poem

      Complete
      Concrete

6. Short Asian Religion Poem

     Hindu
     Haiku 

7. A Poem Written in Europe

     Metric 
     Lyric...

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Rhythm’s a trick of deft poets,
     who know the pulses of their feet
give lines their tempo. And so it’s
     like a poem’s pulsating heartbeat;
it’s hypnotic (and you know it’s
     metric),—so drink in its potent beat!

When one hears a song’s rich measure
     (the crests and troughs of its music,
the ebb and flow of its leisure),
     it tunes like a score symphonic, 
an orchestra of paced pleasure  
     with a sound and style that’s epic!...

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Sunbeams serenade my window pane
Imploring restful notes to disdain

Abridging curtain the bright melody doth strain
My top sheet covers the harmonious chain

Gilded streams strike heartier refrain
But dissonant chords cloud my brain

A glistening symphony of metric lines retrains
The cerebral rhythms course through my veins

A chorus of light waves entrancing crescendo maintains 
From ingratiating pageant my body no longer abstains




Stephen Parker
August 14, 2012...

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Pity the fool who lives by numbers 
He counts his sheep while the sagacious slumbers 
Imagines triangles equal or obtuse 
Then numbers his thoughts by hypotenuse. 

He dreams of trig and long division 
Then stimulates his mind with a rhombus prism 
Wet duvets caused by a linear quantify 
He counts his orgasms by using pi. 

Correlation coefficients make him smile 
Exercises measured by the metric mile 
A career built on a quadratic path 
An idiotic devotion to anus numbing math....

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