JD Vance will certainly get skewered
For he came off as naïve, untutored
Boosted the military
Promoted prosperity
Such naivete can get him murdered
Categories:
untutored, innocence, military, money, murder,
Form: Limerick
Urban jungle roosters,
born-again scarecrow,
to untutored city eyes,
tawny pipit stonewall nester,
jet black Inca dove bereft,
of dovetail on a croque monsieur,
idle bone grub crawl,
mother hen to sandy brown,
and velvet bill gazer,
from an nearby creak,
recent rural migrant now,
a tree house side kick,
chickadee a late date sitter,
on this air flock beaky natter,
or tweet between the ice float,
edgy grey day species wield,
their sprightly ruffled feathers,
as an orthopaedic surgeon,
and their spatula when scraping,
rancid bark off windmill elm trees,
gastric bugle trenchermen ahoy,
while ogling a fellow common redpoll,
oh these tummy rumble diners,
will zoom in on every gourmet,
tangled wire mesh feeder station.
round and round they’ll fly,
on zesty mission beetroot,
a cock-eyed scavenger‘s delight,
are they siblings of a noble order?
white tale mountain bluebirds swopping,
habitat for granite boundary habit,
off key off discordant choirboys,
six sided snow bird chorus,
ear splitter for tardy wakening,
they cheep religiously as if,
their only valid creed was,
window squinting prayer meets
Categories:
untutored, art, beautiful, beauty, environment,
Form: Ekphrasis
A trilobite born in a pond
thought that he would evolve
But untutored was he in DNA
gene puzzles he just couldn't solve
Two million years or three went by
his fossil embedded in clay
Just think if he'd known about DNA
He'd be on your fish plate today
Categories:
untutored, fish, food, future, giggle,
Form: Rhyme
On this Day
On this day,
the lonesome vine broke,
A cargo ejected at nature's will,
blood shatters from the womb
another life from Life brought forth.
On this day,
umbilical cord severed
the conception ripened
A body clothed in innocence
untainted from the womb of Nature
on this day.
The mind in obscurity wonders
The passage from unknown to the world
untutored, unlearned unweaned.
what's the mission here ?
On this day
A servant of time,
A product of Prayer
sustained through unceasing plea.
Live said He, Live,
From this day
ecstasy transforms into realities.
from the first cry,
the breath, garnished looks and smiles.
to uncensored path from dissipating paean.
And this day,
the whole earth waits for the manifestation,
Who, what, where, and when?
A fire brand Ready to burn.
Thou quickening power of the spirit of Life,
set the fire ablaze.
Categories:
untutored, baby, birth, birthday, blessing,
Form: Free verse
The leaves of Alder now are taking on
Fragility of finely woven lace
As Nature bids the sun: ‘Not yet be gone!
‘But stay awhile!’ though he moves on apace
The trees perceive the signs as they foretell
With fading of the light, increasing chill
The portents of the changes they know well
And answer by transforming with a will
Should we not take example from the trees
When change shall come to pass beyond our sway
Adapt, protect and thus the travail ease
With life’s resource what could we not allay!
Untutored prophets tell impending dooms
That pass bare-seen; undaunted life resumes
Categories:
untutored, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Erewhile took hoisted oath crushed cod,
'pon Cecilia 'n' cramped Cynthia's nod.
T' his lusty lover he'd rehearsed
pored pledges gored b' lanky love's lurch.
Damp dell 'n forg'ry hewn dark deceit,
'n which sassy smirk 's draped - smothered spree.
Furred fabrics ergo "f cloning sewn
torn was b' bounty blitzkrieg b' time thrown;
"Trade thy love with me. I'll borrow",
thrived oft - offshoot "f th' ticker's sorrow.
But untutored mind 'n deceit lagged
"s her words smarter than visage nagged.
Anon did wielded wits 'witch him,
'n' anon sent he her 'way raging.
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Note:
a) of damp dishonesty
b) Written apace with Middle English lexis:
i) Erewhile - long ago
ii) Cod - a man
iii) Cynthia - moon
iv) dell - young woman
v) ergo - then
vi) oft - often
vii) visage - face
viii) Anon¹ - immediately
ix) Anon² - At once
c) The following are used with no syllabic consequences:
i) 'pon - upon
ii) 'n' - and
iii) t' - to
iv) b' - by
v) 'n - in
vi) 's - is
vii) "f - of
viii) b' - by
ix) oft - often
x) th' - the
xi) "s - as
xii) 'witch - bewitch
xiii) 'way - away.
Categories:
untutored, love,
Form: Sonnet
The wily thorn that signifies the rose
abides; some hapless fool will come along
untutored in the art of willful pose
to grasp, and sustain a sharp reminder!
His gift bestowed and modestly attended,
there stirs a trembling only she may know
whose pledge is true and joyfully intended,
first semblance of a passion soon to grow.
How powerful beauty's lure can be!
it supersedes, and pricks the heart to bleed,
and captured in its snare they're led
on rapture's path, where'er that path may lead.
Categories:
untutored, love,
Form: Quatrain
I do not, amongst the dregs of my cups,
Consider you worthy to be the theme
For my untutored scribblings.
There, Madame, there: I put you
In your place, amongst the detritus
Of my life, the forgotten effigies of life,
As she should be lived.
Yet, you do not acquiesce to my intentions,
And re-emerge into my consciousness
To disturb and argue for attention and
Writings.
I am weak, and accede to your importuning
With versification to placate your demands,
To show my love.
Categories:
untutored, love,
Form: Sonnet
The wily thorn that signifies the rose
abides; some hapless fool will come along
untutored in the art of willful pose
to grasp, and sustain a sharp reminder.
His gift bestowed and modestly attended,
there stirs a trembling only she may know
whose pledge is true and joyfully intended,
first semblance of a passion soon to grow.
How powerful such beauty's lure can be!
it supersedes, and pricks the heart to bleed,
and captured in its snare they're led
to rapture's path, where'er that path may lead!
Categories:
untutored, love,
Form: Quatrain
he wily thorn that signifies the rose abides,
some hapless fool will come along,
untutored in the art of willful pose
to grasp it, and sustain a sharp reminder.
His gift bestowed and modestly attended,
there stirs a trembling only she may know
whose pledge is true and joyfully intended,
first semblance of a passion soon to grow.
How powerful such beauty's lure can be,
it supersedes and pricks the heart to bleed,
and captured in its snare they're led
on rapture's path, where'er that path may lead!
Categories:
untutored, love,
Form: Quatrain
...a sonnet for R.S. Thomas
A shaft of straw lodged loosely 'twixt his teeth,
a shifty glance from here to everywhere,
he toils the livelong day 'tween farm and heath,
a sullen youth with wild and shaggy hair.
The elements have pulverized his face,
a body lean and hungry from the plow,
in silence, with a slow and steady pace,
he struggles hard with sweat upon his brow.
Untutored still, yet he can read the sky,
the circle of a buzzard high and free,
more welcome to his sharp and seasoned eye
than any book or harsh calligraphy.
Today I had him pause to shake my hand,
a gesture he and I both understand.
Categories:
untutored, dedication, writing,
Form: Sonnet
The wily thorn that signifies the rose
abides; some hapless fool will come along
untutored in the art of willful pose
to grasp, and sustain a sharp reminder!
His gift bestowed and modestly attended,
there stirs a trembling only she may know
whose pledge is true and joyfully intended,
first semblance of a passion soon to grow.
How powerful such beauty's lure can be!
it supersedes, and pricks the heart to bleed,
and captured in its snare they're led
to rapture's path, where'er that path may lead.
Categories:
untutored, love,
Form: Quatrain
...a sonnet for R.S. Thomas
A shaft of straw lodged loosely 'twixt his teeth,
a shifty glance from here to everywhere,
he toils the livelong day 'tween farm and heath,
a sullen youth with wild and shaggy hair.
The elements have pulverized his face,
a body lean and hungry from the plow,
in silence, with a slow and steady pace,
he struggles hard with sweat upon his brow.
Untutored still, yet he can read the sky,
the circle of a buzzard high and free,
more welcome to his sharp and seasoned eye
than any book or harsh calligraphy.
Today I had him pause to shake my hand,
a gesture he and I both understand.
Categories:
untutored, nature,
Form: Sonnet
The wily thorn that signifies the rose
abides; some hapless fool will come along
untutored in the art of willful pose
to grasp, and sustain a sharp reminder!
His gift bestowed and modestly attended,
there stirs a trembling only she may know
whose pledge is true and joyfully intended,
first semblance of a passion soon to grow.
How powerful such beauty's lure can be!
it supersedes, and pricks the heart to bleed,
and captured in its snare they're led
to rapture's path, where'er that path may lead.
Categories:
untutored, love,
Form: Quatrain
As Long as I can see, I'll wear my sins to the sea; That is where I will be so long as you breath.
You can meet me by the shore, Where the untutored youth vaunt stylishly like babylon whore's; Where sinning is normal and we are accepted in the false forgeries of this world for our love is just embers burning, here is where my love shall stay, beautiful as a summers day.
Categories:
untutored, betrayal, desire, heart, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
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