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Premium Member Beyond Wonderland - Kuhlmann Sonnet

Spaceward: genesis, obedience, fathomless: universe.
In Cerulean: lambent, sullen, discernible: Close ignite.
With harmony: hypaethral, skyward, aether: womb hiccups 
Whelm time: serenade, stardust, drizzles: diamond dust,
Overall trends: extinguish, slumber, wonder: celestial hymn,
By extolling: Argyle, twinkle, soothing:  miraculous rule

Alabaster Gypsum: portholes, peering, ogling: rain glints
Rubicund Jocund: ventral, sheqalim, vivid: lured stars 
Exalt air: Blistering, bleeding, molting: Corolla collide
Orotund Moire: Kaleidoscopic, sentient, dusk: carnal life 
Grab fistful: Dripping, purple, precipitation: Sunburnt sky
Dodging Venus: Flytrap, ill-wishers, pyramids: Shift astern.


This variation on sonnet XL1 to illustrate what Kuhlmann intended .
kuhlmann  is a verse poem of two phrases interspered with three related monosyllabic stem- words(nouns,adjectives )with an integral title.The label and form is derived from the baroque poet Quirinus Kuhlmann's 50 sonnet 
form Love-kiss XLI

Poem inspired by the sonnet penned by Brian Stand

My Love Diary

I saw her standing under a palm tree beside the beach,
I wish I could tell her how I felt,
But I decided to remain silent like the ocean.
She was like a trophy, I yearned to hold her,
A medallion I wanted to win her heart.
From ventral view to aerial view her beauty stood out.
The breeze blew her hair and she tucked it neatly behind her ears.
If my words will not meet the threshold of my desire for her, then I will change my name to action for action speaks louder than words.

Their Greater Sin - Pet Hate

THEIR GREATER SIN

They call one who speaks for Liberty a Fascist
They claim man made end of world as a proven tenet
And to them ‘free’ means imprimatur to ravish
Expressed with many a ‘You know’ ‘It’s like’ and ‘Ennit!’

They proclaim themselves as ‘liberal’ though they favour
The hard politics of socialism central
With a strong taste of Marx in its flavour
That just gives me an affliction in the ventral

Of dark villainy I now seek to accuse
And reserve a special torment to confer
Not for all the sins above from which I bruise
Nor self righteousness they constantly aver

It is the painful wounds for which there is no bandage 
Their cruel destructive treatment of the English Language


The Gigantic Tree

Such a gigantic tree.
Heads made of three.
Branches swinging free.
Birds set-off and flee.
Such beauty as a lee.
Don't try to be me.
Neither he.
Cast of termite and bee.
Thou fruits resemble thee.
Reproduces abundantly like she.
The ventral view is a key.
The clouds displays like the sea.
Just get to see.
Roots can be found in a wide dig.
Such wonderful and deep.
showing fancy lifestyles of teens.
Such a great a leader just like a reed.
Such doom can only be seen by a beam.
This is a nice steam.
Keep it up to your kin.
Just as you will do to your king.

Rat Trap Rap, Part 2 of 2

There, parked in rows
like overused commas
or German prose
or mothballed bombers

lay ranks of rats
as if on drill,
but quite as dead
as vaudeville.

Someone had slit
each ventral hide
and pulled it back
to peek inside.

And there they lay,
flat on their backs,
guts on display,
paws pinned by tacks.

Ashamed, they were,
like party-crashers,
with gaping fur,
like little flashers.

Those organs, packed
so coral-fine,
would soon be hacked
by Class B-9.

Unseeing eyes 
stared at the ceiling,
but woke in me
a fellow-feeling.

We’re all the same.
We want to live.
Why dish out blame?
Why bring a sieve,

sort sheep from goats,
grandly decide 
who lives and dies?
To my distress,
those little guys
with upturned throats
and parted coats
were nothing less
than crucified.

Premium Member My Kiss

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The soft of her ventral 
            flesh
        not supple
          but soft

        malleable
      only because

 she was lenient with

         my kiss


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