But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
could never get a date with Stevie Nicks.
ICE agents are detectives (yes, they’re dicks!)
They murder citizens to get their kicks:
their bedroom windows shuttered-up with bricks.
Don’t even get me started on Hope Hicks!
Enough, ye noble folk, of politics.
Vacation thoughts – the River of the Styx,
which brings forgetfulness, among my picks –
to let my worries lie, submerged, deep six.
Bacchus confronts us in a shady place, A tangled grove, and he, astride a cask. Gross limbs and belly, small besotted face, And lips pursed to the uptilted flask. A buxom dryad, white against his tan, Attends him (sturdy spirit o' the trees) ; As free a woman she as he a man, But gracious-limbed enough to please. Sportive, she smoothes his unambrosial hair, And binds a ruddy vine about his brows; A filet fit for marry-makers, where the wild and tendrilled berry grows. But stay, dryad, what need hath Bacchus' head of leafy trimmings ? Twist a leaf or two and wreathe his hardy nudity instead~ Garland him largely, Dryad, do !
Independence gave me everything-
Green forest, crystal rivers, silent
Mountain, refreshment nature
Independence gave me enthrallment
Touch of the flying birds, sportive
Cattle, dreamy moonlit night and
The golden rising sun with a realistic day
Independence gave me my mother tongue,
Brave worthy honorable flag and nation,
With nationality it gives political sovereignty,
Religion expansion, social inter-relation and
Economic development
Independence gave everything that it to give
By taking away everything that to take away;
Independence didn't take away the sorrow in
the mind of the independent man and it can't
O misery of life! who is your true buyer?
March 20, 2023
©Mahtab Bangalee/BD
I have a pet, a smart little dachshund
Whenever I go out, he follows me always
Watching him wag his tail is fun
Mischievous he is, his antics amaze
Raven black is his shining skin,
With drooping ears hanging down.
My sportive little friend is a joy to own.
With his funny pranks my days drown.
When I take him out, he runs and rolls
Truly a bouncing ball of energy
His waggish tricks brighten my days
Between him and me is a rare synergy
With his bark, he scares all rodents away
As the stray cat comes in, he is brutally at war
With his paws he enjoys prodding the dying rat
When he is around, life is never a bore
From office, even if I come back late
He will be there to greet me, wagging his tail
He climbs over, licking me from foot to crown
In spontaneity of affection, he does not fail
Indeed he is my prized possession
In our house, he is allowed to roam free
His eyes speak a strange language of love
Bringing into our lives so much of glee
March.16.2023
~Placed Second~
Beloved Pet’s Poetry Contest
Sponsor- BJ. Legros Kelley
If a beauty speaks in poetic word
Then my language is look like
The west sky rainbow
If a beauty floats in poetic stream
Then my note book is look like
The horizon of Emerald Ocean
If a beauty lives in poetic sight
Then my sovereign ink is look like
The childlike yellow leaves of spring
If a beauty enjoys the poetic sleep
Then my sportive dream is look like
The Sun bath on Copacabana beach
If a beauty hugs the poetic tears
Then my blue veiled pain is look like
The verse of Phenomenal Woman
If a beauty comes to the poetic loneliness
Then my abandoned abode is look like
The full moon night of nuptial journey
If a beauty becomes a sagacious poet
Then I’m there is a collaborating duet
© Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
February 11, 2023
Lofty lush green trees
bearing bright berries
Enthrall energy balls monkeys
that traverse through the air
to reveal ripened fruits matter
to thrushes, which then flutter
and sing songs to share the info
with the sportive flying squirrels.
Deer drinking water in the river
overhears the overwhelming happy news
and confides it to the cows that always chew
Everyone then ecstatically eats berries
unitedly as they abide by ubuntu
and so they live happily and making us live
April 18 2021
For the contest In the forest of my dreams sponsored by Mystic rose
I am too small than this universe
But the thinking is biggest than anything
I am not the poem or poetic utterance
I am not the art or the artistic canvas
I am too small
I’m walking on the lanes of the universe
Field after fields, season after seasons
I meet many strangers
Seeing, somewhere staring and passing
In the motherly care of different languages
I am a mute alien!
Like the flying birds, running calves, sportive puppies and kittens
Strangers coming by the course of time and passing
Once I asked one of them-
Where are you coming from? Where are you going?
No reply I got from the stranger and ask again-
who are you? What are your roots and summit of life?
No answer I got without beautiful smiling
Oh! Estranged I was there and felt a rejoinder -
Smiling is an answer of the stranger!
I permit in me
no need to find out the root of coming and going of any mankind
on this earth, everyone is a stranger and just needs good manners!
-24.11.2020 Chattogram
The stages of life is seven,
Enjoy much as being in heaven;
Take things sportive,
And be a great motive!
Life in the womb of darkness,
Is the first success of sparkness;
Every dark night..
Tells us life needs little fight.
If things go wrong,stay strong;
Don't take rest unless you build your own nest,
If you can't reach mountain,
Atleast swim in little fountain!
Accept what you gain,
And throw away your pain;
Break your freakness
And win your weakness.
Failures may give pressure,
But rewards you with treasure,
Only if you move with pleasure,
Take it easy, and rule the world crazy!!
In the sportive abode of emotion-
The heaven-
an alluring fairytale garden,
by hearing this word happiest pleasure comes
in the belief of every breath!
The hell-
a terrible fictional place,
by hearing this word acute anguish comes
in the silent tour of every vein!
If you want heaven by killing people
it is only your prayer;
In your this whimsical oblation
whether God has any consent or not
I do not know!
By which believing stamina you are powerful,
think that the belief is a very divine meditation,
think that the belief is a very true oracle from God,
are these beliefs really true, I do not know!
And with the so-called truth of you
If you kill people in the name of God
Then I'll name your truth- Terrorism!
-April 24,2019, Chattogram
My gentle sphere, fitted more, still.... I spared
Spattered words of heart, yet! Not purloin
Bit by bit are words of him, slowly cared
His circumspect steps I look, always in cocoon
Be like a Mickey not to add to your meek
Being sportive and an erect stamen, could you be?
Hand creativity and thinking, would you keen?
Pals and swarms indeed, are there to feed
Classy swell of your cheek, glassy bite is seen
Shy! Hands rub on his chin, even without no need.
I know a hush-hush, your finger up to scratch the head,
A cool gentle sphere you are, that's the world I learn.
I am not stunning silent as mountain stone
Not standing I am as the latent source of salty tears
"You’re going away"- knowing this
in this adieu moment
I’m reminiscing in the grove of sportive mind you-
You were mine,
You are mine,
You will be mine forever
-April 28, 2019, Chattogram
Opened door and window
My dissected chest on the top floor of the building
I philandered with moonlit just once
The Dim light was over there for a while
Vague all around the sleeping town
I laid in paralyzed body and enthralled-
With my drunkard eyeball,
with your departure to rampart for another
Fatigue all speeches of farewell were bleeder
All mounds of happiness were there
Twin thoughts of love were together
Our neighbors were there and there were-
Our night parking seat, greenly straw
Varieties trees, owls, whistle of night guards
Some drunkards passerby, barking dogs
Lonely night singers song; some jazz music sounds
Some quarrelsome housewives quarrel with householders
And some habituated householders quarrel with housewives
quiet pool and sportive fishes
The lamppost, the dim light- red, green, yellow
The street beggar, the homeless family
All were there on the way of your departure
But with your departure to rampart for another
Fatigue all speeches of farewell were bleeder
- December 2012 Chattogram
Many eyes on me
Twinkling with harmless, invisible attraction.
Effervescent eyes
Giving off bubbles of desire.
These eyes, some with almond shape,
With a light shade blend under brow for highlight,
Are sportive in how they look at me.
An ogle from oriental eyes,
Having a light bright shadow colour on the inner half,
They elicit randy retorts
That gives me jolts from the language their bodies speak.
I can’t stop staring at these many eyes
Like a million starry nights
Flickering and sparkling like
Gems of uncommon iridescence,
At my front and at my back,
Up and down.
All these eyes, these many prominent eyes
That have flat-pasted colour under their brows,
Their surveillance is tinged with ebullience,
It makes me remarkable things do all times.
I can’t keep my eyes closed because
They make my eyes respond, doing
Several interesting things. Hooded eyes
Give me fluttering squints
With bright colour like frost from
Their eyelids extending to the contour region.
These eyes that are many
Meaning many things, round eyes as well,
With light shade and a deeper tone,
Eying me wondrously-
Many sumptuous eyes on me.
Ha Ha Ha - Cartoon- funny
Giggle - Valley Girl- Preppy
LOL - Texting- Hilarious
Snicker- Your worst enemy- Flippant
Snort- Pig- Belly laugh
Chuckle- Manley Man- Sportive
Howl- To much alcohol- Cracked up
Hew Haw- Country Girl- Tickled
Teehee- Sophisticated Women- Amusing
Ho Ho Ho- Santa Clause- Jolly
Horselaugh- Mr. Ed- Smirk
Hoot- Best Buddy- Grin
Died Laughing- Bills are due- Breathlessness
Guffaw- Mother-in-law died- Just kidding
No matter how we laugh or what we laugh at
it's good for the soul.
4/19/2015 Contest sponsored by: Thomas Martin 'Humorous Poetry'
T Reams 1st Place
all gazing there up,
't was time to drop.
the cloud shift'd beautifully.
excit'd by the show,
our boys did ignore
the lazy lark wittingly.
while larks larked festive,
Ben waxed real sportive,
n'saw no trees shaking nearby.
a vulture schemed wise,
afloat their reverse,
the Choco won a goodbye.
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