Short Mot Poems

L-ove
A-lways
M-akes
A-ffection
R-ema in

C-reating
O-ne
L-ikeable
E-mot ion

Topic: Poet (Lamar Cole) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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El's mot

nouveau

*prouns -the name of his artform -a station for changing trains from architecture to art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Lissitsky...

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Zip Zap Zoop Zup
  You can dine; I will sup

Hip Hap Hoop Hop
  You like jazz; I'll take be-bop

Rik Rak Ruk Rok
  You're a poet; I'm a jock

Git Gat Gut Got
  Eat Poetry Soup, a real bon mot!...

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When we drink, we get drunk. 
When we get drunk, we fall 
Asleep. When we fall a—
sleep, we commit no sin—
When we commit no sin,
we go to heaven. So—



Adapted from a bon mot of
George Bernard Shaw
6x6 square, math/poetry...

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Ever tried saying something famous backward
Backward famous something saying tried ever, plastered
Now that's downright silly
Silly downright that's now, my fillies
You're mot naking sense, have you lost the password...

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&

j’adore l'esperluette
il est visuellement intéressant ---
épices du texte et attire
davantage l'attention flagrante
avec les mots autour de lui que
le mot "et" être répété
encore et
encore et
encore et
encore et
encore et
encore et
encore....

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Meeting you in the court of dawn,
Yes! We played and cried on life’s lawn.

Mutating dreams to reality the task at noon,
Ordering my trembling steps to the moon
Tearing our fate at dusk
Hands of death task
Earth you depart mot my path
Resquicat in pace and in my heart...

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That language she spoke,
              that word she said ...
               What he said overflowed
              emotions in my soul ...
               But today when I remember
               fills me with pain ...
               Le mot, parole amour ...
               word love ...!...

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Summer has slammed its last car door
Its a final goodbye year
your ailing cat and dog have both passed on
You've sold your campervan
strange it broke  the day after sale
You've promised not to get another pet
The clocked in hours tickle to a close
Your car needs a MOT
The long stretch between home and servicing...

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lifted

my words just barely dried
a poem appears in Spring
draws breath from a widow
close at hand, open to new 
worlds across the land.
gently are these bon mot 
teased into the silken air
escape capture on white 
sheets fly to the magnolia
in full bloom.  birdlike they preen,
cavort as do all new things in Spring....

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Marriage is not a boat
rowing gently down the stream

It is a family car
that for years and years 
surprisingly passed the MOT

The mechanic looks worried
asks carefully about
the possible possibility
of a new model

But you shake no
see you next year
we still like our ride
we do not care
about an extra rattle now and then

Fill her up with super plus
because we still have a long way to go...

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Elephantine
Slow motion measures
out of time
in pace
Great go-between
grows notions
in lines 
and space
Eglantine
embows fragrant pleasure
springtime's
embrace
Mezzanine
bon mot for half measure
lying low
in place
Intervene
plover distraction
displeasure
paradigm
about face
Serene
glow sensate pleasure
time felt
with grace


Written 16 May 2020
posted 19 July 2020

''Eglantine'' - a wild rose....

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I got one chance to 
live my life. I got one 
chance to go through 
one tough fight. I got 
one chance to be a 
leader or a king Like 
Muhammad Ali was in 
the boxing ring. How 
am I going to do that? 
I'm not gone be no 
gangster nor dope 
fiend I'm gone win my 
championsjip ring. I'm 
mot gone fill ashame 
because I'm gone be in 
the world hall of fame. 
I got one chance to 
live my life and I'm 
gone live it right 
because I got one 
chance to live my life....

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