Super Souper 9-16-24
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Super Souper
Super Soupers wrangle rhymes
into verses quite sublime
Taming wild-eyed metaphors
into iambic strophes galore
Lassoing doggy ironies
with clever lines, entendre ease
Galloping alliterations
corralled by personifications
Silencing cacophony
with gentle mooing euphony
Bucking wild imagery
herded into symmetry
Stampeding loco thin illusions
bulldogged into chutes of allusions
Bad hoss herds of assonance
saddled for a dressage dance
Bucking broncos hyperbole
Juxtaposed by analogy
Anaphoras on loco weed
settle into quatrain reads
Super Soupers let words rip
in rodeos of craftmanship.
silence&
broken phrasing
overlapped
mechanical
s o u n d s ,
hunting for a home:
arbitrary
stanzas
strophes
hushed
&muted
anaphora
in
conversation
....with
myself
Inflections...
pauses....
silence.
The unwritten gaps...
the unsaid words..
with
graduated musical
phrases..
as strophes of
inspiration,berthed &
cadenced in our ear.
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We know despite regrets
that under bricks of stones
beneath the sea of red
(there) the daughters and the sons
have put theirs heads
for meaning of an forsaken strophes
We know the depth
of tangled words
from toes to head
we’ll flow an our cause
to gird it all around the neck
And sing upon...
That our world
on gardless sleep
is only a fragile thought
of the Atlantis cover deep
We know...
we’ll go asleep
among the falling stars
on reefs of dreams
under the heavy prism
of bended skies
When pond of dark
absorbs the light
of blinded town
and haze’d souls
There... yet
from morn to dusk
every ardor will fall apart
by pillory of scarlet dawn
A Short Strophe?
I wish to make my
strophes short
as I deliver
my main thought
I aim to jest
I aim to pleaz
hope I don't cause
too many zzzz's!
McCuen Copyright October 2008
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