once aboard the desert submarine
anchored by the golden sundial
outlandish and phosphorescent
we crossed the greatness
of many drowned landscapes
fluxes of algae and shrewish freesias
cloistering up
dans le château à la lune
where the ragman’s lantern announces
the arrival of the fearful butter knight
he’s tattered and salted
the endangered specimen
straight from the cabinet of Walter Potter
the missing piece of a lifeless diorama
the granite giant of bronze ages
walking at the speed of light
he’s an itinerant vendor
and with his grand dexterity
he’ll get us before we
summon the witnesses
his crime forgotten
his crime simply victimless
once aboard the desert submarine
we’re outlandish and phosphorescent
and we’ll have our moon Halloween
and honeymoon of adolescence
Categories:
shrewish, imagery, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Woman
Vain, visceral,
Temptress, shrewish, fickle,
beguiling, bewitching, winsome
Woos man.
~Contset: A Brian Strand, 4 or 5 line Poetry - Cinquain.
~05/26/17
~ Cinquain Express Train contest by John Anderson.
Categories:
shrewish, woman,
Form: Cinquain
Cecil the Magician knew a heap of tricks,
But, alas, couldn't get himself out of this fix!
Carl was laid to rest for his eternal snooze,
Brought about by guzzling too much booze!
Pete was a rock-hard liberal Democrat.
Lord, be merciful and forgive him for that!
'Twas well-known that Cletus was such a crooked politician,
That he had to be screwed in the ground by the mortician!
Buster was shot while fencing his plunder.
Now he lies a-moldering six feet under!
Clarice was an avid tea party conservative Republican.
Democrats need her vote - Lord, convert her if you can!
Fred met his doom when his plane malfunctioned.
To make matters worse his parachute disfunctioned!
Here reposes the mortal shell of Marty McCall,
Who met his doom in a barroom brawl!
Bob sank without a trace and things looked grim.
He tried to tell them that he couldn't swim!
At last he found peace when he suddenly died,
But now his shrewish wife dwells by his side!
The doc warned him about all that cholesterol.
Too much meat and taters brought about his fall!
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) 2015 All Rights Reserved
Categories:
shrewish, humorous,
Form: Couplet
elegantly dressed
her black hair in a tight bun
above her proud head
like a coiled up rattlesnake
flared hood and ready to strike
"Tanka 3" contest by Andrea Dietrich
Categories:
shrewish, allegory,
Form: Tanka
The Ravens had a fight this morning.
She threw him out of the house.
Not sure what she was yelling at him
But I think she called him a louse.
So outside the nest he went
And found a branch outside the door
And there he sat and sat and sat,
Guarding the nest and more.
No matter what has started the row
It's obvious to my eye
That he's a protective father
Who chose to stay, not fly.
So now her shrewish voice has stopped
Harping at her poor mate.
I feel sorry for those babes in the nest
If to listen to her is their fate.
The Ravens had a fight this morning.
She threw him out of the nest.
In a few months they will have moved on,
I guess that's for the best.
Categories:
shrewish, animals
Form: Rhyme
From poverty to superrich,
A Prima Donna - some say witch -
But what a voice that lady had.
Oh, she was Tosca, driven mad,
And she was Norma, Butterfly,
And many more who loved, to die.
She died alone, a broken heart:
Maria Callas lived for art.
(witch wasn't the word I originally wrote, but it wasn't permitted - witch in this
context means shrewish woman).
Categories:
shrewish, art
Form: Rhyme
A shrewish March wind horangs the night
like a carousing husband
tossing stray sticks down alleys.
Dicey bits of street refuse
fight with the upward thrust
of crocus and daffodil
spearing the bosom of frost heaves.
The world seems torn with indecision.
scratching and clawing at the overcast night.
Battalions of crisply dead brown leaves
surge toward gutters
clogging the escape routes
of winter's troops and the rain.
Soon, Spring will rip new life
from the dripping jaws of Winter
Categories:
shrewish, introspection, nature
Form: Free verse