Oh ye pomp which circumstances robe
that thy ignorance treasures ye in tribe
Naked her submissive body wishehes
Pregnancy from me
Yes in all languages si as all can si
Come back to Suuerrentjo
The sweet oranges sing
Tentback the visitor the
Campback of loveliness
___________________________
I planned the suppers of autumn,winter and spring
I planned the breakfasts were
the morning eaters sing
I planned the lunches 365 or 366
Put me in your consideration
Put me in your mix
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I am a doctor’s daughter: You go girl!
I am my mother’s (supervising psychiatric social worker) child: You’ve got this !
I am mission oriented: Fried tofu and rice.
Breakfast of champions!
To write a mad song takes
so very little time:
just jot some words
not too absurd
and make sure that some rhyme.
The first line stands alone;
the next rhymes with the last.
Then you can do
the middle two;
I tell you, it’s a blast!
The meter’s all iambs;
the lengths all six and four.
It’s nice and neat,
so short and sweet;
you’ll soon come back for more.
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A Mad Song Stanza: 6x:6a:4b:4b:6a, using iambs
There once was a restaurant in Guam.
You don't want to bring your mom.
There was a goat
In a fur coat.
And weird things were going on.
The goat was up on the stage.
He was amazing given his age.
There were lots of questions.
A few suggestions.
Then he got back in his cage.
The cage was down on the floor.
It was locked the night before.
We heard the goat
Scream from his throat.
When they took him back to the store.
Like a thief
Rich words come
Wise, warm, rhymes
Nouns and verbs
Verse still, light
Quaint hues, blue
In silent
Odes, the truth
Rains down hope
Tricube Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Sara Kendrick
January 24, 2023
I'm often called upon to write a verse
for someone's birthday or a funeral,
four or eight lines,
rhyme scheme of ABAB or ABBA.
But here are no rhyming line ends -
those small, same-sound four-footer ones
or those that have five feet or even more,
oh more, more beats than that, yes more than that, oh more than that.
Yes, no rhymes, except at times
within lines, yes, as you can guess.
Great fun, even for burials or cremations.
(March 2022)
WALKING
a dreary walk by the beach
a violent exercise
sand between the toes
uncomfortable
AGE
never too old to love
life begins at sixty
a string of white hair
old age begins to show
KISS
dance of the tongues
a prelude
to a sexual adventure
France devalued
DEFICIENCY
the mind thirst for knowledge
As the heart hunger for love
in my barren body
there is only famine
MONSTROSITY
The failure of a life
Hoping for happiness which in itself is a monstrosity
And those who desire it are severely reprimanded
The truth of it all, felicity is strife!
Let's Go Write a Poem
**To be sung to the tune of "Let's Go Fly a Kite" From the Mary Poppins movie.
With a dictionary for words and ideas
you can jot your ideas on paper
With your fingers to the keyboard
You're a poet set in motion
With your rhymes holding true,
to the verse of your poem!
Ab, ba, ab!
Let's go write a poem
Up to the poetic right
Let's go write a poem and set it rhyming!
Down through the stanzas
right where the lines are brazed
Oh, let's go write a poem.
When you put your words in motion
And you give your pen devotion
You can write with the best poets
Over phrases and nouns
to the tune of your poem
Ab, ba, ab!
Let's go write a poem
Up to the poetic right
Let's go write a poem and set it rhyming!
Down through the stanzas
right where the lines are brazed
Oh, let's go write a poem.
Written for the contest: To the tune of musicals
Sponsored by: Natasha L Scragg
a period
that points
to something
a parenthesis
that expands
into a void
an ellipsis
that includes
the infinite
Happy birthday, dear Leslie Ann,
The writers are truly aware;
The stanzas that the poets scan
Show the rhyming scheme and meter.
Topic: Birthday of Leslie Ann Pacaonces (March 18)
*First stanza below is not mine, but the other two are meant to be
added to it along with other stanzas (if our stanzas get chosen by the sponsor)
*Woven are these pages in poetic verse,
With bare threads of our deepest feelings,
You will find laughter, tears and remorse,
and words of wisdom, prayer and healings.
Sorrows drip from our pens so poignantly.
Elegantly too our joys are expressed.
We can even imagine things we cannot see.
With imagery, our loveliest thoughts are dressed.
We write for we must, and our words pouring out
can never be stopped, for as our words surge -
like rivers to the ocean we flow; without doubt,
we are one and the same as together we merge.
April 27, 2020
for Krish Radhakrishna's Poetry Anthology add your stanzas Poetry Contest
Many live lies
others only reality,
for some lives in pieces
for others only halves ...
II
Friendship i a precious gift
it's poetry in a bigger tone
with love then it's super
upmost and superior ...
III
What an unreal world
promises, fantasies
How do you speak so badly?
almost only hypocrisy ...
IV
We all have the goals
we all must comply,
my goal is to be a poet
dreamers goal is to fly
pieces of my heart, like m&m’s tossed up in the air.
cracked shells in stanzas, chocolate covered hands.
tears melt, ice cubes shatter, scatter-brain affair.
exhaustion of merry-go-round emotions, blurring of wonderland.
i sort m&m’s into rainbow strands, fingerprint hues.
search for golden words to place in picture frames.
cognitive digits, creatively divide poetic stanzas - reds to blues.
1/28/2017
SEVEN FOR CHAOS AND ORDER CONTEST/NETTE ONCLAUD
Bonanzas of Stanzas
?Should both of us have
Some bonanzas of stanzas
Or have been eating
Bananas while experiencing
Many more Sana Ana's?.
Say that without biting your tongue.
Jim Jubilant Horn
Master classes were held in East Sussex
and the Sussex girl played tune
with ease to her master.
She played the grand piano all the day
and the master hummed along,
time barely noticing.
People thought they were having an affair,
as nobody else took part
in the lessons grandly.
9/11/2015
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