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Premium Member Shallow Walter
Was he too shallow to swim in deep water?...

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Categories: walter, 10th grade,
Form: Monoku



Rip Walter
RIP, Steely Dan;
a permanent part of my
personal playlist....

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© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: walter, goodbye, music, sad,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
In the cold refused to squat
He lived on a boat
That refused to float.

19/05/14...

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Categories: walter, humor,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Shirlaw
Scot Walter Shirlaw
made engravings by the score
With lines carefully drawn
nature studies at dawn...

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Categories: walter, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Landor
Walter Savage Landor
knew well the poetic score
expelled as a Jacobin
political verse then was  sin...

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Categories: walter, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew



Visionns
my father's bo0k by name visions was about s. african poetry in 1948. his name was charles walter coulson....

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Categories: walter, celebration, fathers day,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Clerihew De La Mare
Walter de la Mare
wrote poetry sans a care
With  pension from the Civil List
simplicity made his popularity persist...

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Categories: walter, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite,
Waxed erudite.
For fifty-six years he reported the news,
Trusted and revered for his truthful views....

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Categories: walter, celebrity, integrity,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Deverell
Walter Howell Deverell
knew his Shakespeare so well
Loved to paint ' en plein air'
with 'kin' as models in all 'weather'...

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Categories: walter, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Sickert
Walter Richard Sickert
with down-to-earth & in the dirt
Unobtrusive obervations was his call
of cheap interiors &music hall...

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Categories: walter, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Clerihew Ralegh
Versatile Walter Ralegh
was a poet surprisingly
Whilst on the way to claiming Viginia
maybe occupied himself with hiku&tanka...

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Categories: walter, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member CLERIHEW ecphrasis XXIX
American artist Walter Crane
with 'White Horses'* once found fame
Seeing  equine surfing the wave
action allegory' he oft did crave...

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Categories: walter, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Clerihew Sickert
Walter Richard Sickert
on the edge of Impressionism did skirt
He loved the intimacy of the music hall
always his first port of call...

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Categories: walter, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh :  
 by James Edward Lee Sr.

Sir Walter Raleigh
Smoked cigars  wrapped
in onion-skins
dated ballerina
Virginia Slims


11/22/17...

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Categories: walter, cute love, destiny, funny love,
Form: Clerihew
Why Trump Left Walter Reed
So Trump checked in to Walter Reed
And asked them for a cure for greed
They said, "Crystal Meth -
Or you could choose death -
But Fort Knox is where we keep seed!"...

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Categories: walter, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Unheard
whispered rumours of the true things


drown in  shallows of ego's hubbub

NOTE
The philosopher Walter Benjamin's comment on Kafka's writin was the inspiration for this 
poem...

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Categories: walter, life, people, political
Form: Crystalline
Rightfully Elated
W-ords
A-re
L-ovingly
T-old
E-xpressing
R-eal

D-evotion
E-ven

L-ife
A-nd

M-ind
A-re
R-ighfully
E-lated

Topic: Poet (Walter de la Mare)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Categories: walter, poets,
Form: Acrostic
To Poets
To Poets -- By Walter savege Landor[1775-1864]
My children!Speak ill of one another; 
I do not ask you not to hate; 
Cadets must envy every elder brother,
The little poet must the great....

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Categories: walter, poets,
Form: Free verse
Pooh
“Pooh”


Winnie’s squeezed sigh was rather prehensile
butt Oh bother! was the scoop by Walter Winchell
bears do do do in the woods
but the buzz to bee understood
is it’s trees that make number two pencils...

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Categories: walter, color,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dr Walter Frieze
Dr. Walter Frieze Here, arrogant Dr. Walter Frieze Who in idle boast, cured every disease; From illness, could never go blue Lies cold, felled by common flu! Sept. 16, 2018
...

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Categories: walter, death, pride,
Form: Epitaph
Walter Brennan
A splendid actor was the late Walter Brennan. There were so many movies and television shows he was in. One of his characters I would particularly enjoy: That was when he played grandpa Amos McCoy.
...

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Categories: walter, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
The Mojo Within--Blues Poem 13
The Blues fills my memory,
all emptiness gone

Its Harp laying claim,
my soul to belong

Little Walter cries out
‘that same old somethin’ again

Jimmy Reed to remind us
—of the mojo within

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2019)...

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Categories: walter, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Accents and Stress
reading to ourselves

never speaking verse aloud

do we miss the point


Note: I was reminded of this aspect of poetry when my wife recently recited one of her 
favourite poems to me from her school days by Walter De La Mare 'Off the Ground'....

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Categories: walter, on writing and words
Form: Senryu
Remarkable Writer
W-ords
A-re
L-etting
T-he
E-xcellent
R-emarkable

W-riter
I-mplement
L-ovely
L-ines
I-n
A-crostic
M-use

S-o
A-wesome
F-orm
A-dvances
R-ighteousness

Topic: Birthday of Poet Walter William Safar (June 08) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Categories: walter, birthday, poets,
Form: Acrostic
Bryan Cranston
Bryan Lee Cranston, as everyone knows,
Portrays Walter White in crime drama shows;
As vibrant as a conch-shell,
Enchants all by-action-spell;
His fine flawless voice like fluent flood flows…



01 April 2022 
On A Lim Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May...

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Categories: walter, character, hero,
Form: Limerick

Book: Shattered Sighs