Short Wallace Poems

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Premium Member Clerihew Stevens

Wallace Stevens 1879-1955
with imagist-poetics once did strive
Enigma in his 'Valley Candle'
helped his poetybegin to sell
Form: Clerihew


Premium Member CLERIHEW stevens

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Wallace Stevens so enigmatic
whimsical fanciful& symbolic
His Valley Candle*blew&blew
the interpretation is up to you
art
Form: Clerihew

Premium Member Imagist Mvp Stevens

Wallace Stevens 1879-1955

with imagist-poetics once did strive
Enigma in his 'Valley Candle'
helped his poetry to sell well
Form: Imagism

Premium Member Emagi Wallace Liberty Bell

William Ross Wallace'LIBERTY BELL'

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Form: Shape

Premium Member Clerihew Stevens

Businessman poet Wallace Stevens
very creative with a poetic pen
A contemporary metaphysical wit
as 'Valley Candle' enigmatically  does sit
Form: Clerihew


Flippin' Nora

North West England gripped
Wallace, Gromit full of quips
on everyone's lips
Netflix chiefs ask Who's Nora...
why was this poor woman flipped?
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Charles Darwin Limerick

For five years the illustrious and regal
Charles Darwin, sailed on the Beagle.
A surveying ship,
Notebooks all a’rip,
Soon in battle with Wallace, so legal.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Emagi Stevens Ice Cream

Wallace Stevens ' EMPEROR OF ICE CREAM'

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Form: Shape

Natal Speech

W-riter
A-uthors
L-iterary
L-ine
A-s
C-omposer
E-mploys

S-plendid
T-heme's
E-xcellent
V-erse
E-xpressing
N-atal
S-peech

Topic: Birthday of poet Wallace Stevens (October 02) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery, So Don'T Sue Me, Wallace Stevens

I know what a poem
looks like.

I know how to make
my prose look like verse.

A little tuck here,
an indent there,

et voila! It’s verse! 
or worse ...

a pale imitation of seem.
(can I have some ice cream?)
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Put 'Em All on Mount Rushmore

     Abraham Lincoln:  “With malice toward none, with charity for all.” 
       
     George Wallace:    “Callous toward all, with charity to none.”

     Alexandra Cortez:  “Braless toward all, nothing for no one.”
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Nascar's Lowered the Confederate Flag

~ NASCAR's Lowered the Confederate Flag ~


Until Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd's tragic deaths
Bubba Wallace was just a black NASCAR race-car driver

But watching their gruesome videos ignited a spark in him
  ~ Now Bubba's the driver of NASCAR's race change car

For Wallace

Rolling, heavy, grey-green clouds,
Overhead, in a circular motion
Tornado, forming upwards; fear
Your last thoughts, must have been terror
Your last emotion, uncontrolled fear
Train roaring in the sky
Wind, loudly blowing, pushing against life
I cover my ears and weep
Form: Elegy

Premium Member C Plus Literacy

C+ literacy



                                       a name we can't say

                                             she remains

                                       too much to handle








MagiCicada13



 *Inspired by 100 Natural Laws
   By Sophia Wallace
Form: Senryu

Eighth Wonder-King Kong

Once there were two writer friends Wallace and Cooper.
Into novelization of the original King Kong film, no souper.
“Edgar Wallace didn't write any of Kong, not one bloody word...
I'd promised him credit and so I gave it to him” Cooper’s word
Bloody, informal discussions do worth acknowledgement Cooper!
Form: Limerick

Ellsworth Wallace Haynes

This poem has been removed for publishing on Amazon in WW II in Poetry: Veterans Stories in Poetry, including my late father's who was a Spitfire pilot in the Nigeria Squadron. As it says at the end, "For free speech".

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/WW-II-Poetry-Veterans-Stories-ebook/dp/B07DGLF33G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528537495&sr=8-1&keywords=Rhoda+Monihan
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member I compose my poems like Wallace Stevens

I compose my poems like Wallace Stevens by walking the streets of my town. But unlike the esteemed Wallace Stevens, I don't have to memorize or write my poems down. I just turn on my cellphone's recorder, then slowly whisper my word into it. But instead of composing gems, like Wallace Stevens, I tend to produce just a drivel of shhhhh~it.
© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member pigeons in the evening

That

is not known

cannot be known

but pigeons may

appear and may seem

in the evening

as dancing and

not separate from that 

which is not known~





And, in the isolation of the sky,

At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make

Ambiguous undulations as they sink,

Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

~Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning

Trials of Trance

Wallace Stevens was the greatest
man I never knew.
Juggled both Hunting Tigers
and hanging nouns.

Wonder about his demeanor
walking about the courtroom
with even heeled shoes,
focusing on the even keeled beat.

A dozen orbits and 
twice that in satellites
quivering to witness twisted truths,
be they that or not.

Phrased.
Articulated. 
Blatently controlling the room,
his stage.

Out of the Mouths of Babes

(In Memory Of the late Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls)

About My leaving here, it was all a
dream
A living nightmare, or, so it would
seem
With Me coming to falter on the 
balancing beam
After coaxing on Stardom, gently
down the stream
Just cause Somebody felt a need to
blow off steamd
But, like I said, it was just All a dream
That is, until I heard My dear Mother
scream
(RIP Biggie Smalls)
Form: Ode

Premium Member Poets Cannot Hide

Wallace Stevens said: 
"Poetry is not personal."
He tried never to divulge
anything about himself
in his poems.

So he said.
But the work is
self-revelatory: veiled confessions,
repeated choices -- water, sea motion,
weather, the sky -- introspective isolation --
those silences and descriptive phrases
that communicate and characterize.

Human, no one -- 
especially not poets --
can really hide.

The Colours Have It

A water colour cloud of blue obscures the scene below,
where pastel bodies testify to a subtle change of hue.
Through gun smoke mist the flags display no different colour shade,
as all across the battlefield the trumpets blue notes fade.
The cerulean sky attires herself with cloak of slate blue tone,
and azure tears of helplessness fall on true blue bleaching bones.

The colours have It Competition
David Wallace
Form: Rhyme

A Bag Full

Bowls 'n' bags 'n' 
branches 'n' trees
Orchards 'n' lives 'n'
meanings and needs

Taste the sweet meat of
Prunus avium - Bing,
Sweetheart, Rainier, Tulare
the tart, the sweet 
the redness - a treat

A bowl, a bag, 
by hand-to-mouth
to suck - to chew 
to rave - to espouse

© Goode Guy 2013-11-18

ekphrastic for 2013-11-24 at 
the Charles Taylor Art Museum of 
watercolor "A Bag Full" by Gemma B. Wallace
© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Ekphrasis

Epitaph For the Hero--Wallace

Here I lay my soul to rest
in life I fought to pass the test
In the end I failed you not
but your love was for another and cheaply bought
so many wrongs i righted with my sword
its edge dulled upon your word
my shield broke when you tore my heart
but i stayed and played my part
no armor or buckler made so strong
could ever right your unfaithful wrong
of that i lay here as proof
a fallen fool under love's deceiving hoof
© John Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member Wallace, Wally, Cleaver and Eddie Haskell

Wallace “Wally” Cleaver
handsome, well-liked high achiever,
befriended Eddie, so unlike him.
Golly!* Wally wasn’t given to whim!

Eddie Haskell
was a neat, slick, conniving rascal.
With his flattery and pseudo-smiles,
he spiced up the show with his wiles. 

Leave It to Beaver

*Wally and other characters use expressions like “Gee whiz,” “Gosh,” and “Golly.”

September 29, 2021
entered in the Clerihew 2 Contest     Placed 1st
Sponsor: Joseph May
Form: Clerihew

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