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BYLINY the form

...BYLINY: a nostalgia form'that which happened '

ADOLESCENT SCENES

during the Forties
       I was just a lad
growing up
   was not so bad
Summer evenings
          lengthened long
clambere...

Categories: stickleback, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Bio

Word Bank 2: Animal Names

...Word Bank 2: animal names

This time the theme is picking an animal mythical or real and try to rhyme with a person's name. E.g. Doug the slug/pug or Daniel the spaniel

Sandra/Amanda the Panda, ...

Categories: stickleback, animal, boy, community, girl,
Form: Rhyme

Byliny the Form

...ADOLESCENT SCENES

during the Forties
       I was just a lad
growing up
   was not so bad
Summer evenings
          lengthened long
clambered trees  
      with birds in full song
across n...

Categories: stickleback, nostalgia,
Form: Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Autumnal Days

...Grey clouds dispersing above the Lough,
Grey geese skeining to winter fields for from arctic chill,
Rainbow colours reflected in water still and deep,
Chill and cold in the depths along with bream...

Categories: stickleback, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, earth,
Form: Free verse

Stickleback, Stickleback

...Stickleback, stickleback, where might you be
Please could you go find my mummy for me
Into your waters it’s said that she walked
Daddy says sorry that he never talked 

Stickleback, stickleback,...

Categories: stickleback, absence, mother, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Those Were the Days

...during the Forties
       I was just a lad
growing up
   was not so bad
Summer evenings
          lengthened long
clambered trees  
      with birds in full song
across nearby fields 
      ...

Categories: stickleback, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Stickleback

...Stickleback


The stickleback had survived chilly
Spring and well into warm, moist
Summer.
His three spines keeping him safe
From even the glutton sabre toothed
Pike.
A chance in a million  ...

Categories: stickleback, fish, river,
Form: Free verse

A Sestina - My Secret River

... MY SECRET RIVER
~~~~~~~~~~

Its source some distance from its end, highlands.
A little trickle meanders a mile.
Pure, full of many forms of life, no fish!
Now babbles over rocky ground...

Categories: stickleback, nature, rap, river,
Form: Sestina

Watery Nonsense

...One time a stickleback
Asked a tadpole what’s the craic
He replied there’s nothin’ doing
It’s just the water I was viewing

So he slurped a glass of gin
And let the stickleback begin
To swim u...

Categories: stickleback, children, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

Pip Pip Hurray

...Sending the tending to an unfriended ending,
 yet somehow suspending from rending a newly offending recommending.
Logotype monotype linotype,
overripe stereotype,
 teletyped an unripe heliotype. ...

Categories: stickleback,
Form: Verse