Nihilism,
write thirteen beautiful lines,
the longest one in the merriam-webster
Cosmos and cosmic,
Lunar eclipse and Aurora Borealis,
milky way and the interstellar
Synecdoche,
you and I are no good
to linger longer with the charm in an alternative essay
The round trip home
is often the loneliest deadly, a painstaking pain, humble
to tone down a possessive aimless, of little or no mayhem, subtle
mascara, eloquence and dropping gets a lot of sounds for the sounding clay
and I drop the course
Underneath the moonlit night, they gather even for the balcony light and sing
those impeccable songs, one after another
What is a good read line for a mystic moon?
a mundane, a seamstress or your song! Soaring high at midnight to fly along the moon!
Keep this simple, you are giggling beside you, and you are fixing the econo cap too, a croon!
This is late, and thus long!
Scorpion
In the piles of wood,
a lizard was nipped by the
tail with a stinger.
Eagle
A pair of wide wings
flapping in the air swooped down
upon a serpent.
Alligator
Fangs in the river
quietly waits for a prey,
attacking the duck.
fuddle, chuckle, cuddle, fumble, subtle-supple-couple, snuggle.
1. Always aspiring to authentic answers
2. Belief begins, only to end
3. Calls the crow, 'never, to'
4. Drifting like October leaves
5. Falling upwards, death is alive
6. Gargling, bleating, cawing birth
7. Haul the young into the hall
8. Jaded cribs reluctantly nurse
9. Lemon-sour hope gently sweetened
10. May's pastel caress heals yesterday's recall
11. Once, seasons ... now regrown faith
12. Promises to breach, ideas to rebuild
13. Returning the world not unreal, the
14. White Witch of Amherst guiding through
15. Young hearts revive again.
for A Litany of Poetry Devices contest
1. alliteration 2. internal rhyme 3. allusion 4. simile 5. oxymoron 6. onomatopoeia 7. homphone 8. personification 9. metaphor 10. assonance 11. ellipsis 12. antithesis 13. litote 14. metonymy 15. synecdoche
also written in ABC form.
‘Is love not bitter’? I repeat once again,
‘Think with your brain ’it can make you insane.
Rejection pierces my heart like a sharp sword,
Makes me move faster and slower than old ford.
Pain grips my heart with hand of stainless steel ,
Love poisoned my mind which makes me sick still.
Feel flared and foolish for being taken for ride,
My soul rides beside the dead bride with pride.
As my faith in love vanished into deep sea ,
I want to be free and sting like a bee.
Which makes some heads and legs not to comprehend,
This has brought “more joy, less excitement” my friend .
I’ve vowed not to fall in love…anymore,
but some still believe in it and its glamour.
Line/devices :
1.aphorism 2.pleonasm 3. Simile 4. Oxymoron 5. Personification 6.Metaphor 7.Allitration 8.Internal rhyme 9.inversion 10.pun 11.Synecdoche 12.Paradox 13.Ellipsis 14.Enjambment
8-17-2018
Contest: A Litany of poetic devices
When my words rhyme
Oh how I love the crime
Such forgivable murder
Of words changing order
Tis not only sequence
For you have to make sense
Read between the lines
'Cause that's where the secret lies
Measure not the length
But comprehend the depth
Sometimes brevity
Outweighs vocabulary
Compare by simile
To show what it's like
Or use metaphor simply
As it directly imply
If synecdoche takes part from whole
Metonomy replaces it all
It uses symbol
For things compatible
Words rumble and jumble
As if to personify
Like humans palpable
Worth to exemplify
Don't misinterpret irony
Filled with incongruity
Discern the ambiguity
To reveal its mystery
- 25th of November, 2017
THIRST
As *time flips a second step,
a *tree dehydrated weeps
for resuscitation sting
tired but standing still
Long ago its *branches dressed
with **emerald-feathered tips
And ***sweet scattered **scarlet hearts
luring hungry mouths.
but that was long time ago
when earth was packed with angels.
Now, the whole ground where it stands
A cracking sick land
Its leafless ***bare branches bend
Its trunk a ****weakening spine
Its roots exposed to sun's glare
tortured, waiting death.
NOTES:
*personification = “time flips a second step”; “tree weeps”; “branches dressed”
**synecdoche = “emerald feather tips”, scarlet hearts(referring to leaves and fruits)
***alliteration = “bare branches bend”, sweet scattered scarlet
****metaphor = the trunk linked to “a weakening spine"
(c)Olive Eloisa
8:20 am
October 02, 2014
*Niafalls, the****** Antiope of Canada,
Amazonian, but not breast less,
***Snowy bosom like virginal gems,
Swelling lips moderately full,
Savoury odor felt all around,
****Crystalline throat striking the eyes.
Meandering, churning, darting, dashing,
Transformed from **blonde to brunette.
Here alluring, benign, attenuated,
There **corpulent, colossal, capering,
Practicing calisthenics all the time.
Raquel Welch in***** ‘One Million Years B.C.’
****Wily Cleopatra, the Scythian of Ordzhonikidze,
****Carnal Marilyn, matured Helen of Troy,
Venus in Aries, Mars in Pisces.
**Broad bellied, middle-aged, deep,
Now **bulging belle of Detroit,
Encircling the wooing Windsor,
Yet the Blithe spirit of Pelee Island.
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***I have used: Personification, Alliteration, Hyperbole, simile, metaphor and synecdoche :
* Personification and Portmanteaus ** Alliteration *** Metaphor ****Simile
***** Hyperbole ******Antiope
Some of the phrases are Alliteration as well as simile and metaphor.
September 14, 2014
Dr. Ram Mehta
Form: Free Verse
Second Place Win
Designed by Device : Debbie Guzzi
Dragons Color & Design
No *boots on the ground for these old fellows flying
Air force and Navy can’t hunt them down
Dragons fly upside down, backwards and into tomorrow
Swing on pendulums to swallow time
In other realms they *weigh a billion tons if they weigh an ounce
There is a chance they don’t exist at all
It’s not my fault
At least not here and now so what’s the bother
I hear red *wings and things, you cannot fathom
Along with golden eggs cracked and then devoured
Are offered to the dragons at breakfast on the clouds
After dawn inspired dragon songs by pretty girls are sung
Rumor has it, all of this is wrong
It is only children’s drawings with paints on paper
This brings imagining to a screeching halt
As school bells ring to wake us and the dragons
Again, it’s not my fault
1.) * “boots” meaning soldiers- synecdoche
2.) * “weigh a billion tons"- hyperbole
3.) * “wings and things”- internal rhyme
Created on 9/08/14 for Designed by Device – Poetry Contest
The only one of my kind
The undisputed champion
I'm the one you need find
If you're not gazing for presumption
I'm the megaphone of my world
The gateway to success
The daredevil of love
The pioneer of my Highness
The panoramic view of paradise
Exalted the beauty of black
A paradigm of high class
Dominate like a spark
I am the synecdoche of mighty
The metaphor of wonder
The personification of Christianity
And simile of thunder
I am BEAUTIFUL
I am Kenechukwu Nwadiogbu A.K.A Kbillion
You comment on my poem; I on yours.
"Your rhyme, meter and wit are exquisite,"
I say. You reply, "Yours I revisit
on the net; love how your irony gores."
Now, seated in the bar our chat is light
for hours on synecdoche and stuff'll
spice up a poem and maybe ruffle
feathers. Suddenly, it's time for, "Good night."
And then it dawns on me, the irony,
that our poetry is not what our talk
is all about. Apt metaphors might walk
me through this, but I stumble on blindly.
"I've lots more to say," I say. You reply,
"Okay then; your room or mine." I sigh.
*I've not personally met a Poetry Soup 'commentator,' but I can dream.
Entered in Brian Strand's contest, 'Any Top Twenty Poem', February 6, 2012.
I am the Antiope of Canada,
Amazonian, but not breast less,
Snowy bosom like virginal gems,
Swelling lips moderately full,
Savoury odor felt all around,
Crystalline throat striking the eyes.
Meandering, churning, darting, dashing,
Transformed from blonde to brunette.
Here alluring, benign, attenuated,
There corpulent, colossal, capering,
Practicing calisthenics all the time.
Raquel Welch in ‘One Million Years B.C.’
Wily Cleopatra, the Scythian of Ordzhonikidze,
Carnal Marilyn, matured Helen of Troy,
Venus in Aries, Mars in Pisces.
Broad bellied, middle-aged, deep,
Now bulging belle of Detroit,
Encircling the wooing Windsor,
Yet the Blithe spirit of Pelee Island.
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March 15, 2014
Dr. Ram Mehta
Form: Free Verse
Eighth Place Win
Contest What Am I by PD
I have used: Personification,Alliteration, Hyperbole, simile, metaphor and synecdoche :