Relentless beast
Cancer, a relentless beast, shadows creep,
Day or night, it strikes, no sleep.
A force so dark, yet we rise above,
With fire in our hearts and boundless love.
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Categories:
variation, angst, cancer, conflict, grief,
Form: Light Verse
Categories:
variation, dog, drug, pets,
Form: Than-Bauk
Than-Bauk variation
Here are a few more Than-Bauk, where I have used a particular letter-sound instead of a rhyme on the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd syllables (lines 1,2,3) I find this to be a fun alternative to the limited rhyme version. Hope you enjoy. Let me know which ones you like.
careful blue sea
calm the sail breeze
why spoil
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Categories:
variation, autumn, beauty, death, political,
Form: Than-Bauk
Broken Monoku a Variation
BROKEN MONOKU
at ease on my bookshelf-
yesteryear's leisured hours
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Categories:
variation, poetry, word play,
Form: Monoku
Fifer a Quintain Variation
PAINTING
so,so easy to do
when we know not..
oh so difficile
when we
do!
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Categories:
variation, art,
Form: Didactic
Omambala In February
Present since antiquity
Sustaining humanity
Participating in the dance
The seasonal variation
Tired and weak after the annual labour
As if the water is abandoning it's track
Allowing traders erect shops on her path
Awaiting the rains to replenish the volume
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Categories:
variation, february, nature, sea, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Grandfather Clock - Variation On a Triolet
Grandfather Clock
(A Variation on a Triolet)
When I was young, not four foot tall,
My Grandpa’s clock I remember well
Stood and chimed, alone in the hall,
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Categories:
variation, 4th grade, grandfather, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Monoku a Broken Variation
in the midst of death-
lichens come to life
NOTE
A one line haiku known as a monoku (was the original form of haiku,written
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Categories:
variation, poetry, word play,
Form: Monoku
Dim Hex a Variation
Fascination held
in passion's grip
may kindle
one-track
mind's
Captivation held
in ardour's grasp
will secrete
selfless
love.
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Categories:
variation, poetry, word play,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Variation On 'Giving To'
An important truth of compassion therapy
endorses co-investment,
cooperatively sharing from a back-and-forth healthy heart,
to receive a wealthier, more resonant, mind,
soul,
improved by NonZero-Sum win/win inspirations
more strongly than Zero-Sum win/lose aspirations.
To improvise on a Giving To
Ruth Bebermeyer melody,
I always feel less given to
when you won't take from me--
When you don't understand the joy I feel
when heard by peaceful
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Categories:
variation, earth, health, inspirational love,
Form: Political Verse
Relax :: the Variation of the Espinela
Why we can't afford to relax?
Ways to feel ease just forgotten;
stress felt to do what's important,
can't think to lag behind perhaps.
'Work hard' thought for kids, to advance
taught since childhood, now why you blame
them, they've grown up learned only fame
can bring success; life asks to stay
smart, if wants to win, to display
victory is needed, no shame
to
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Categories:
variation, time,
Form: Verse
A Sonnet Variation For Greta
This run of good days is going to end
bad times are coming just around the bend
cash in your chips, there ain’t no tomorrow
future holds only worry and sorrow.
Armageddon of our own creation
as we burn in pyres of self-cremation
caught in words of convenient denial
grasp not the flash of the truthteller’s smile.
Yet from the rubble,
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Categories:
variation, future,
Form: Sonnet
The Path Less Traveled - Variation of a Frost Poem
Two loves had I, a careless youth
And sorry I could not love them both.
One I loved more, which is the truth.
The fair one, beautiful yet uncouth.
The other dared not swear her troth.
I chose the younger, as just as fair,
And as such perhaps I was to blame
For a mystery she would not share.
Though as for
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Categories:
variation, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Variation On a Door's Theme Untitled
Variation on a Door's theme
I forge the night
forget the day
Ask your heart
If I love ok
A dead format,
do we subscribe
just a game of
sociocide
No free love
thy bounty gone
in terms of time
all is deep undone
I hide knee-deep
in a tiny shell,
A moment's talk
a tale will tell
Your bait and switch
says steal away
take a number
suffocate
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Categories:
variation, allusion, america, angst, best
Form: Lyric
Variation of An Explanation
Variation of An Explanation
What we would see was another invitation;
Each time Trump does offer an explanation
We soon should see,
Some story will be;
Was either a viable lie or existing variation.
Jim Horn
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Categories:
variation, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
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