Variation Poems - Poems about Variation

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.

Than Bauk Variation

      
      It has short TAIL
               Me to TELL now.
                  the TALE of pet.

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

Broken Monoku a Variation

BROKEN MONOKU

at ease on my bookshelf-
                                     yesteryear's leisured hours

Fifer a Quintain Variation

PAINTING
so,so easy to do
when we know not..
oh so difficile
when we 
do!

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

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,
   

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

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.

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

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

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,

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

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

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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