Cigarette-stenched couch,
How he lays there with a slouch.
His blue-striped sweater
So warm and comfortable,
Any weather, good or bad.
Categories:
striped, boyfriend, clothes, crush, weather,
Form: Tanka
Is a striped cat a better contortionist than a blotted cat?
I have no idea, so decide to compare the two groups.
One problem. All of the blotted cats have run away.
They heard about the experiment and feared measuring up.
I guess you win, I tell the striped cats who stayed with me.
The smallest striped cat stops eating Kibble to look up.
The others keep eating, not caring about me or my research.
The next time I do research, I will use dogs.
At least they would sniff my crotch and sit on my lap.
Categories:
striped, cat,
Form: Free verse
Striped small headed cat name of Mr. Tee
He does not have any idea how it came to be
But his body is huge, and his head is small
He is fluffy, but looks enormously tall
I am out of kilter, he says, with a wheeze
Hoping his litter mates will not torment or tease.
We love you striped small head! The runt promptly said.
Besides you are not half as ugly as our bro, Mr. Ed.
Categories:
striped, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
I'm a striped cat who wears striped socks.
All of my food is in a striped box.
I use striped soap to make striped suds.
Even my bathrobe is striped. So is my rug. All of my flowers are striped in my garden. Even the ladybug who plays in the rain shower. My striped socks hang on my striped tree while the striped honey bees laugh at me. My best friend the striped bear love milk and cookies in his striped chair. Goodnight striped moon. Goodnight striped stars. And hello sweet striped dreams.
Categories:
striped, adventure, childhood, children, cute,
Form: Rhyme
The art displayed by nature is a gift-
sometimes not noticed in a passing glance.
To pause, look, and admire creates a shift
as we observe this artwork- not by chance.
Yes, nature paints with its creative tools,
those grand designs on species of the wild.
It never deviates from patterned rules-
like how a Zebra's fancy coat is styled.
Amazing how those stripes, concentered-placed
around the neck extend into its mane.
The inkblot images continue, traced;
the balance of true symmetry, sustain.
The diamond shape of stripes upon its face
and those that meet precisely, strait or flared,
reveal that God steers nature's brush with grace;
how else could such perfection be declared?
December 4, 2021
Contest: You Select Again
Sponsor: Brian Strand
Categories:
striped, appreciation, nature,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The striped Tom from the land of the river
Was hired by Channel Ten; the rule was, he’d better deliver.
In fog and sun, in heat that others could not abide.
That Tom came out, he did not hide.
He did the reporting of news every day.
He did not quiver, quake, or sway.
His fans were felines frisky and proud.
He’s on TV! They would purr real loud.
The beauty shop soon turned all their TVs on Ten,
For he was a cute Tom, virile, and loved by all of them.
In dreary weather, or the light of a very late moon.
Old Tom Cat would have those felines in a giant big swoon.
He was such a cock of the walk, so to speak
He was notoriously handsome, and he made felines squeak
He was all of that, and maybe even a bit more.
Until he returned home at night, at his mother’s front door.
Categories:
striped, cat, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Soaking up the sun's rays this morning, loving my flowers in oranges and pinks, I look up as a striped butterfly glides around two bushes, and swirls around my chair, pirouetting prettily. She is not fearful in the least, possibly believing me to be a statue. A bird makes a chirp sound; only one which seems odd. The sky is as blue as it can be. An unusual beeping sound comes toward me rapidly from my right. It is my cat, Shark. Has he possibly learned at new sound that sounds like a beep to lure cardinals to their death? It is definitely a beep.
striped butterfly glides
an unknown bird chirps
crazy beep from cat
Categories:
striped, cat, summer,
Form: Haibun
striped lily starlettes -
orange-sun piques from its core,
past purple bruises.
brightness of each petal tip
like pomp's fluorescent stage lights.
Categories:
striped, flower,
Form: Tanka
Zebras and tigers and lemurs’ long tails
Have stripes both distinctive and cool,
As well as some convicts in old-fashioned jails
Who wear black and white stripes as a rule.
The American flag and a barbershop pole
Both have candy-candy stripes white and red,
While some p.j.’s and blankets and sheets have the goal
To add stripes that will jazz up your bed.
Lots of clothing is striped – shirts and sweaters and socks
In all colors, both vibrant and plain,
For in nature or otherwise, stripiness rocks –
Sporting some, much attention you’ll gain.
Categories:
striped, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
A waddling wafer in striped pyjamas
A feathered goblin often chews a tail from a sweet scented twig but a pixie can eat over two hundred caramelised pebbles in one single bite and swallow. Swallows passing in the colourful air are simply at ease with gyrocopters which are heavily dominant in a sky. But dominance is neither a dominoe eating a dark dart, a fog covering a dog, a wide angled view of a elephant and neither is it a carton of orange juice playing on a carpet with a semi baked piece of straw. A single crater of cartons can cataclysmically preform aerodynamics in a wind tunnel but not in a breeze block. Breeze blocks are central to a knock knock knock and a knock knock knock on a clock clock clock is best played on a banjo by a dock. Tick tock will be jealous so leave it at the house to tock away the minutes and hours with a tap tap tap. Tabletop horse today then? Wow. It is often amazing to watch the galloping ones as they glide over the serviettes', plates, cups and cutlery. With no bridle or bridleways' upon the furniture gleam. See no bearded spoon today then? No. Good. Z botanically Z at 29 pieces of dried banana in a bowl laughing at the 11 grapes in long gowns. X
Categories:
striped, art,
Form: I do not know?
hunting of tigers,
should be banned,
they also have have the right,
to live in this world,
they can also fight,
their life is not in our hand.
global treasure ,rare and precious,
now tigers wil be more cautious,
if we will will stop killing them,
they will be gracious.
tigers are decreasing day by day,
we should save them ,as i say
Categories:
striped, animal,
Form: Light Verse
Floating on a river of fire
sitting in a cooking vessel
you were invoking the rain god.
Your hollow words had holiness
of unmeaning.
The sky opens the third eye.
Are you going to offer your
tongue to a footwear
of a proxy blood ?
As a hymn to goddess of wealth,
sugar is thrown out of window
and yellow rice dances before a mirror.
And here I bleed silently
for the shooting star*
who could not conceive.
*A kind of primrose whose purple flowere have
backward curving petals hanging down. The
flowers move skyward on slender stems
turning their face upward after fertilization.
Satish Verma
Categories:
striped, art,
Form: ABC