The Cheese of Euripides
...Tingling of tongue sent Euripides
Questing a tastier kind of cheese.
"I found cheddar magical,"
Said this poet tragical,
"Sailing the southern antipodes.”...
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Categories:
tragical, food, history, humor, poets,
Form: Limerick
Tragical
...His lover died
upon a cold, stone tomb floor,
poison on her lips.
How could this happen?
Shakespear miss-translated an
old Italian tale.
A fairy tale commits suicide.
Alternative versions ...
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Categories:
tragical, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Magical Nights
...What joy, what passion, what thunderous light
What splendor, what beauty, what wondrous sight
Those lucky few on this magical night
While others suffer a tragical plight...
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Categories:
tragical, night,
Form: Rhyme
A Pigtionary of Piggies
...There are piggies of The Woods,
there are piggies of The Sea.
Not all piggies are equal;
this is clear to me.
There are piggies who sing -
and they make a lot of noise.
There are piggies - st...
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Categories:
tragical, animal, art, books, character,
Form: Rhyme
Albert's Avengers
...Albert G Walpole, proud legionnaire
Clerk to the council for all of his days
Lived with his mother in Hartington D'Arcy
Nice little end terrace, quite set in his ways
But one Sunday evening,...
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Categories:
tragical, adventure, conflict, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Light Verse
A Tragical Tale
...She has a fever.
I leave her dozing fitfully on the veranda.
Halfway to the woods there is a farm gate
where she will often squat
and piss.
The grass is brown, but still thrives,
strangely adap...
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Categories:
tragical, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Raven's Pain
...a flightless bird too sore to soar,
for i’m a raven wearing pain-
fear begins a tragical war,
whispers from sated stars remain
i kept secrets until you died,
for you are the one i ...
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Categories:
tragical, anxiety, metaphor, sorrow,
Form: Quatern
Platinum Gold
...So tell me was your soul weaved from platinum gold, liquified hot, bold mold when cold.
Tell me was your soul seamed with blindfold string, piece by piece so effortlessly, spiritually free
Oh bab...
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Categories:
tragical, beauty, crush, love, relationship,
Form: Verse
Magical Mystical Hypnotic Me
...Magical mystical hypnotic me
Tragical tristical erotic whee
Exotic purpuric robotic see?
Magical mystical hypnotic me
Unfortunately I get these Seuss rhymes of blue,
Making up words faster tha...
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Categories:
tragical, fun,
Form: Rhyme
A Letter On the Desktop
...Alone with my thoughts pensive up on the rooftop
I am finally unequivocally at peace with it all
You’ll find a letter on the desktop
It’s all been said we need to finally move on
Deep down we bot...
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Categories:
tragical, break up, change, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Rant With a Slant
...I challenge you to a rhetorical
to prove me wrong else be unconventional
‘bout a problem that’s gone systematical
everyone’s so radical and cynical
once burnt all swear to now be rational
pe...
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Categories:
tragical, culture, freedom, grief, love
Form: Monorhyme
Loneliness
...LONELINESS
Loneliness is tragical
It kills faster than bullet
And subdue like an elephant.
Loneliness fears no one
It comes when we are alone
It is a room that is so quiet.
Loneliness bear...
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Categories:
tragical, addiction, inspirational,
Form: Light Verse
A Soulful Cry of Anguish Against Fate
...A Soulful Cry of Anguish against Fate
(“The Tale of the Lonely Ghost”, a film (2013) by ANUP SINGH - who collaborated on the screenplay as well, an Indian, a Sikh born in Dar-es-Salaam but sett...
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Categories:
tragical, death, first love, grief,
Form: Elegy
Instrumental
...Instrumental
Can't help but dance
Tantric romance
Beautiful and magical
But havin no lyrics is tragical
5515...
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Categories:
tragical, love,
Form: Haiku
Acrostic Poem of Jesus Christ
...LUX IN DOMINO
I am...
Jailed in the pain of this tragical bait
Each day, all day, as if death can't wait!
Suppressing my breath, my soul impaired
Unto this darkness, I'm alone uncared
S...
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Categories:
tragical, jesus,
Form: Acrostic
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