With her nose in a thesaurus daily
she accumulated a vocabulary
bachelors found extraordinary.
The result was unsurprisingly typical:
Not one date and not one proposal.
(Ladies, be of few words and cautious,
no man wants to bed with a thesaurus.)
Categories:
unsurprisingly, humor,
Form: Light Verse
High-brow met low-brow
Arrogance was predictable
unsurprisingly ineluctable
~ thoroughly unelectable
Categories:
unsurprisingly, confusion, language, political,
Form: Political Verse
~ Not a contest entry, unsurprisingly... ~
Captain Woodough
He coulda won ~
Shoulda, 'Buddha!' *
_____________________________
* In my 8th-grade class, circa 1963,
'Buddha!' was slang for 'buddy.'
Categories:
unsurprisingly, success, word play,
Form: Than-Bauk
ESSENTIALS
visual language
with
explicit
traces
of experience
eschews
categorisation
limited
only
by number
of the
little
&
defunct
freedoms
of a subliminal
kind
so strangely
familiar
something
of
an icon
in perspective
in
manifested
in
perhaps
unsurprisingly
rare
& privileged
light
&echoes
more focused
with the same
passion
& obsession
with imitation
with
& imagination
beauty &rhythm
confronting
experience
with
innocence
transcending
potential
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Copyright © Brian Strand
Categories:
unsurprisingly, poetry,
Form: Other
roe roe roe your boat we got a leak ~ right to choose looks really bleak
very unfairly terribly scary ~ wades back the hanger technique
New World Order Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
Monoku how many syllables 17x2
Unsurprisingly an N/A of denial #what’s new#
03/05/22
Categories:
unsurprisingly, abortion, perspective, women,
Form: Monoku
An impish doppelganger, Bea
liked nothing more than to run free
strange feelings she shook
turned around to look.
It unsurprisingly was she!
Categories:
unsurprisingly, cute, fun, giggle, humor,
Form: Limerick
You Left Us Today
by Bob Moore © 2018
You left us today
and quietly walked away
there was no more to say
you left us today
In the void you left behind
each deep within their own mind
had memories holding sway
you left us today
But we know you are not gone
and your memory still lives on
you are with us when we pray
you left us today
Now we are here, and left behind
but unsurprisingly we find
that deep within our hearts you’ll stay
and never really go away
Categories:
unsurprisingly, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Some may think they’re an aficionado
but do they hold a poetry degree
They sit on their high horse with bravado
it’s from there that they cast judgement on me
I have seen some dish out trophy places
which unsurprisingly go to their friends
Such blatant favoritism disgraces
and deters others picking up their pens
Not all of the sponsors are impartial
sadly some can’t write the forms that they set
They judge poems and not a court martial
so will I enter their contests – you bet!
I consider John’s a discerning judge …
Will I get first place if he’s bribed with fudge?
A somewhat tongue in cheek poem for
JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE Poetry Contest
Sponsored by John Lawless
05/04/21
Categories:
unsurprisingly, humorous, judgement, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Having left the company
of surprisingly easy difficulties,
I had dismayed at the fools,
eased through the shallows
and been thoughtfully left behind.
Having done with the fools
and the shallows
and the thoughtful leaving behind,
I returned to the company
of unsurprisingly difficult faces
in a place I knew to look.
I reconciled to the judges.
They would not reconcile to me.
This is the truth of kin,
I at once told myself,
but some kin are better pleased,
thank God one of them
was better pleased,
and thank God - God forgive me ! -
the last was not there at all !
I hurriedly turned to leave
(one out of three would do).
Did I return to the shallows
or vanish into the deep ?
16th August 2020
Categories:
unsurprisingly, family, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
An ingenious man from Blackheath
Who rode his luck from up and beneath
Once had been a boy scout
Never once left home without
But when he checked found a hole in the sheath
He though had prepared for bad luck
Velvet sheets beckoned a tuck
Retrieved some bicycle lube
While he sat on the tube
Pouched his wet lips for a repair suck
Because of sensual addiction
And to enjoy coming friction
Chose from puncture repair kit
To mend the small condom split
Afraid of his lover’s eviction
To circumvent premature detection
Not to eschew passionate affection
He put the patch on the inside
Small draw back for delight
No chance now for any defection
But when crescendo’s climax had ceased
And his virile manhood had eased
Emery powdered paper
Had turned into a scraper
Unsurprisingly he was not too pleased
20th May 2020
Categories:
unsurprisingly, passion,
Form: Limerick
"i carry your heart with me( i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere I go you go..."
e.e. cummings
Unsurprisingly, she's the apple
of her parents' eyes. The depth
of their love for her as deep
as the deepest ocean.
She gets an unfettered amount
of attention from Mom and Dad;
smothered with hugs and kisses
morning, noon and night.
She gets almost all she wants, and
she's treated like the rarest of gems
For she's all they have and will...
ever have. She's a "miracle baby"
Writing Challenge, November - Some Kind Of Love - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Dear Heart - Wishiikobe Ode
Date written and submitted: 11/13/2019
Categories:
unsurprisingly, child, love, parents,
Form: Free verse
She was a lego queen.
A future engineer.
Building stealthily and smartly,
a quick minded girl.
Six-years-old, and swore her
parents would not buy her legos
because she is a girl.
I watched her build a house,
intelligently and quickly, smartly.
She is the only child I have seen
out of hundreds of children, builders
aged 8 and 9 even, who figured out
how to add the windows which I had been
told by many other children did not fit.
I reached for the phone after she
left, to call her mother, and ask if I might
buy her legos. The phone was disconnected,
not unexpected, just unsurprisingly still sad.
Categories:
unsurprisingly, child,
Form: Free verse
Maria Bartiromo
had once consorted by jet with a certain Major-domo
now more Botox is needed
unsurprisingly he's past caring, having already succeeded.
Categories:
unsurprisingly, baby,
Form: Clerihew
The one that got away
A girl who turned heads anywhere
Oh how I wish she would stay
As all could see we were the perfect pair
Sadly though she left without chase
And I could only watch perfection go
Mourning to see her flawless face
Combined with her natural glow
Reality struck me down like a hurricane
My perfect girl had up and gone
Feeling like a weak link of a chain
A game of chess a helpless pawn
Yet I still tried to keep in touch
With hope things would turn around
But sometimes you can do too much
Just keep your feet planted on the ground
Unsurprisingly the turn around did not prevail
My great white buffalo was gone for good
I became a sailboat with no wind to sail
And I prepared myself the best I could
Although life moves on I never will
So hopefully I'll see her again one day
For now though there's room to fill
Because she was the one that got away
Categories:
unsurprisingly, absence, break up, girlfriend,
Form: Rhyme