Short Novelist Poems

David Herbrt Lawrence
novelist poet sans pretence
Multi talebted &prolific
lasting legacy in th erotic...

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Novelist Charles Kingsley
into the children's novel was he
Though a true romantic
verse also made him tick...

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Poet John Barrington Wain
as a novelist soon found fame 
Also a freelance journalist
&with poetry did persist...

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Novelist Thoma Hardy
also poetized with simplicity
Acclaimed for a narrative sweep
unlike his novels dark&deep...

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Flora Thompson nee Timms
a novelist/poet for her sins
To up a pen to record Lark Rise
with observations fact..no lies...

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Poet David Lawrence
'Chatterleys Lover' once caused offence
Known best as a novelist
his poetry should not be dismissed...

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all-around good egg
proud Waffle House novelist ...
hatching scrambled plots





11/20/2022

Poetry form: Senryu

Mark Toney © 2022

Graphic design by Mark Toney using CanvaPro...

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Social critic and novelist Charles Dickens -
The plot of his every book so interestingly thickens!
Not only the creator of Scrooge was he;
He revived the Christmas spirit for you and for me....

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Tomatos,medium green
 bacon drippings,lean
cornmeal,coated on both sides
Seasoned with pepper
Alabama fried,
Whistle stop
Mean !


Acknowledgements to, in  this tribute to novelist Fannie Flagg...

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Full time poet,
part time novelist

Full time storyteller,
part time bard

The difference greater
than words will imply

Hemispheric divergence
—the why and the how

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Are you a failed novelist 
        or a succesful poet?
Let the winds of time
      redeem you
let your body
      move with the 
wind
       according to the solar 
calender
            you are about 
to reach 
              new heights...

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?I was born a dreamer day and night
Pens and papers- my partners in crime
Touch not my accomplices or you will die

Solitude is my outer space
An inch of a letter is my piece
An inch of a word is my peace
Put me back to earth and you'll see me in distress...

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Dilemma

I’m living two lives
and that is my dilemma
I’ve one life to live.
            ***

Note:
   Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was a famous Irish poet, novelist, and playwright who was arrested for ‘gross indecency’ on April 6, 1895, and was convicted of ‘sodomy,’ for which he served two years hard labour (1895-1897) at Newgate Prison in London, England....

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<                       Artist Brushstroke Creating Decembers Elite Frost
                         God Handed Imagery Justication Keeping Longevity
                         Making Novelist Opt Painting Quest Really Strong
                         Taking Utmost Vigrous Wealthy Xanthochroi
                         Yearning Zest





Entry For
Yasmin Khan's
Snow ABC Contest
G.L. All...

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After school Ali wrote outside in her favorite perch
Inside the protective branches of her favorite oak
Stories, songs, riddles, jokes, they flowed here
She was prolific her mother told others later.

At the time she was too shy to share her work.
No one saw it until years later, and this suited her.
She became a novelist, but remained humble
Remembering her favorite perch with pure love...

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Once for whom the bell tolls did exist
the playwright and the war journalist.
  Oscar was Wilde it’s true
  but Hemingway sure knew
the importance of being Ernest!

                     ~~~



Both men had huge egos. Ernest Hemingway
was a war correspondent and novelist who 
wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Oscar Wilde
was an Irish playwright and poet who wrote 
The Importance of Being Earnest....

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An old-fashioned modern Jew
  He was brilliant, unique
Weaving the strands of tradition
  Into best-selling novels sleek 

A Navy man, aboard a WW2 mine-sweep
  Mr. Wouk loved letters, his country, and
Talmudic wisdom, from which his works drew deep


   
 Herman Wouk, the prolific novelist and
 lifelong student of the Talmud, has 
 passed on to his Maker today, at the
 tender age of 103.  May he rest in peace......

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Terse language scored to the bone 
with naught leftover, 
truth suffusing every word 
without a shred of platitude. 
She faced her challenges with fortitude, 
hope and loss a perfect blending, 
straight to the heart she spoke her mind, 
no careless gesture or equivocation.  

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Author Notes



...for Carson McCullers, author of 'The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.'...

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There was a great English novelist I truly admired since my vibrant youth,
and his name was Charles Dickens; and his classics I read and revered.
He wrote many memorable novels, and one of them, filled with truth,  
was: "A CHRISTMAS CAROL", which he splendidly narrated...
as those London's bells tolled above a foggy, busy Avenue. 


Entered in Brian Strand's contest A Literary Love Affair                             

Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci...

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The frowning light of my desk lamp, the voice
of hell dissolved in strongest alcohol,
my drunk and naked shadow on the wall…
The printed wiki photo of James Joyce, 
who died of stomach ulcer, shakes his head,
seeing I drink Laphroaig from the inkwell.
It is all right for you, James, you may well 
speak of addictive practices: you’re dead,
you’ve been a famous novelist but I
yet have to be a famous and to die.

Life Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Ironic Zink...

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Not a student of Poetry,
  more a student of life

The words fell  before me,
  stepping-stones of delight

Not a student of Verse,
  but of musings inspired

My days withdrew inward,
  the years stoked and fired

Not a student of prose,
  but its lover the same

As words strung together,
  and called out my name

Not a Poet or Novelist,
  but a writer for sure

Verbal stepchild unnamed
  —asking for nothing more

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)...

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