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Macabiloquent Mastery

...As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heav...

Categories: versified, dark,
Form: Free verse

Clerihew Betjeman

...Poet Laureate John Betjeman
a versified-bio fan
In 'Summoned by Bell'
his lyrical story did tell...

Categories: versified, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew

Happy Birthday, Jennifer

...
Note:
Jennifer, I hope your birthday (28 August) was sweet and special, dear friend. You have given so much to Poetry Soup and the poets therein. Written lovingly in emulation of your inimitab...

Categories: versified, birthday, heaven,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Chant Royal

...Life flashes by in a moment of time.
Late twilight’s rose fades, the sweet songbirds leave.
Though we strive to remain in reasoned rhyme
All living will die, the joyful will grieve.
What vision c...

Categories: versified, allusion, death, inspiration, life,
Form: Chant Royal

Plights Fought Tomorrow Known

...PLIGHTS FOUGHT TOMORROW KNOWN
WRITTEN FOR DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. HOLIDAY 2016 (Versified!)

As days transpires, better we focus.
As life transgress, better our voice...

Categories: versified, appreciation, change, conflict, culture,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Butterfly Reverie

...Is it a butterfly out in the blue,
poised in its daintily delicate flight—
nebula N G C six three oh two—
offering rhymers a poem to write?

In our galaxy, that is the Way Milky,
with structure...

Categories: versified, dream, fantasy, imagery, imagination,
Form: Ekphrasis

Born On the Goldhawk Road One

...I was born at the tail end of the Goldhawk Road
Which runs through Shepherds Bush 
Like an artery, 
And in the mid 1960s,
Served as one of the great centres 
Of the London Mod movement, 
But I ...

Categories: versified, culture, england, history, london,
Form: Free verse

The Woodville Hall Soul Boys

...Soon after I'd paid
My sixty
Or seventy pence,
I found myself
In what I thought
Was a miniature London.
I saw girls
In chandelier earrings,
In stiletto heels,
Wearing evening
Dresses,
Whic...

Categories: versified, dance, england, fashion, youth,
Form: Free verse

What I Want

...What I want to write
Is still an odd mystery
The more I write words
The more I have quarry

With every new verse
I feel I will be satisfied
But the thirst increases
As thoughts are versified ...

Categories: versified, confusion, crazy, imagery, philosophy,
Form: Lyric

Remembering Occasions, Special People

...Today, as I languish in intense intellection,
Recalling the former assigned to my course.
Questioning why this versified collection,
But knowing they arrived by a vital force.

Each imparted ent...

Categories: versified, people,
Form: Lyric

In A4

...In 
A4 
sits my world,

like
brave souls,
enjoying

clue-
less life: 
its rugged

...glimpses and sensations; 

oh,
let me 
be here, not 

for 
awhile, 
but, till I
 
last, 
da...

Categories: versified, art, imagination, life, people,
Form: Lyric

I Wake Up Early, Like the Other Old People Do

...Through the beauty of words, 
an unsuspecting poet unleashed his passion, 
instilling it into my brain.

His in un-familiar form, written flawlessly, so sweet they say.

Oh, do not hungry nor t...

Categories: versified, life, on writing and
Form: Free verse

Wicked Cahoots

...When he made
his first personal appearance
in the dirty alley
on someone else's rusty bike,
screaming along
in a cloud of dust
it rendered us all
speechless and motionless.
But I was amazed
...

Categories: versified, childhood, children, london, memory,
Form: Free verse