Verve Poems | Examples

Balmore Eruv Verve!

Balmore Eruv Verve!

Once there was a Rabbi Yonah,
Whose Shabbos Eruv made you wonder,
Does Yonah’s art belong in the Louvre?
Does our gratitude behoove yah?
This Detroit Tiger slams a Homah!

For Yonah is Balmore’s donor,
Mesiras Nefesh, never a groaner,
Keeping Jews in the groove,
It only goes to prove,
Huh? Giving generously makes one an owner!

Verve

Oh, the 1990's,
songs by Seattle grunge,
and boy band's romanticism.
Daughter was a cheerleader beauty,
blonde effervescence.
Petite strength,
with her smile of enthusiasm,
tossed up in adolescent flight..
Friday night varsity football games,
roaring bonfire for the Homecoming
in October's night of a crisp chill.

High school boyfriend faded into
nostalgia's mist of memories.
Twenty-four years have passed,
a Mom in her forties,
my grandchildren her joy.
Two decades of life's rewards,
some sorrow.
Alma mater moments-
those times are reborn,
verve. ~

Celebrations

remember the delight,
reflected in wild hearts, eager and excited,
by moonlight

soul gently kissed,
by roaring fires of joy, lighted
heart’s mist

observe
hopes invited,
verve

remember the delight,
by roaring fires of joy, lighted
verve

Verve of My Nerve

History, forgotten element of man`s life
Adage of forgiving and forgetting
Messing and proceeding on the solemn assembly
Expunging and blotting life-long terribly
but carefully committed and covered-up tracks.
If at all the inanimate had ears and eyes
We would all be at ransom for our lives
If mistakes could be made up and rounded
up to significance of our lives
humanity would erode to miniature
weeping and shrilling at thoughtless and
careless indulgence
Swoon and sulking thoughts convergence
would lead to no hope
Thanks to nimble of days
For with each that passes, history is made
A shun to excavate stone age 
Quite momentous to delve in space age.

Montgomery La Verve

Once lived a Montgomery La Verve
He met his end on a winding curve
He was driving too fast,
With his hand in his lap
The rumor was that he was a perv.

Written March 17, 2022
[His epitaph simply reads:
Montgomery La Verve (1950-1995)]

Verve Or Favor

Be optimistic rather than fatalistic.
Don't squander and be elated hedonistic.

Retain moving; only the obdurate survive.
Hand jives your way to contrive.

Slump or solidity must be omitted. 
Wear awe mood when having moved. 

Don't be shy in taking elitism.
Self-reliance is a wedge of realism.

With Verve and Charm

~ A Tribute to Carolyn Devonshire ~

              I think of life
                your eyes I see
              Brightly gleaming
                gentle and free

              You delighted us
                with verve and charm
              And took great pains
                to do no harm...

              Taken from earth
                you gently flew
              Beyond Eternity
                to Life renewed

Pluck and Verve

when on one's mettle
beware the backlash spring, from
backbiter take downs

Rose To Her Verve and Wit

R-ose to her verve and wit, 
U-ntiring viewers watched; 
B-eauty and brains they witnessed, 
Y-es, life's lesson was catched.

A-mount of skill was big, 
N-ot few or small in volume; 
N-either slight nor puny, her knowledge was in bloom.

Z-eal to rise to the occasion, 
U-sing her own cleverness; 
L-arge size of intelligence
U-nfolded her huge success.
E-veryone was awed by her, 
T-enth October friends did greet; 
A-udience in the big event rose to her verve and wit.

Fighting Chilblains

Come now, you days so dreary,
with thoughts mundane and weary.
Both windy rain and bitter cold,
find comfort in blains and days of old.

To sit and sigh and wonder why
this if and when the eyes are dry
and the coals no longer lit are pale
in the wake of stormy frozen gale.

Until the frost is no longer on the glass
neither inside, outside in stormy blast.
And the Spring thaw comes in strident strain
to greet us with warmth and smiles again.

It lays a comfort blanket on us in haste as
we smile inside ourselves...what a waste!!!
While sitting we muse upon our fate....
Glad it rests not in the hands of a potentate

My thought for tonight, anno dominie Jan 23, 2019
Charles Grady Henderson

Loyalty

Once more to the breach...
Once more to the wall
Once more to the never, never land
that soon will consume us all.

Hail to the Queen
Hail to the King
and goodbye to those who may fall.
To the rest: Scale the height of the wall.

God is our source of strength and verve
He will guide us each step of the way
so scale the pillars, the posts and sills
Victory is in our grasp, let it stay.

Charles G. Henderson
Jan 14, 2019

Curb the Herb With Verve

Curb The Herb With Verve

Instead of controlling and then try and curb
California has named Marijuana as State Herb;
When there went;
Became impotent;
Smoking and use of are each correct verb.

James Horn

Vital For Verve of Jack Ellison

Vital for Verve of Jack Ellison

His vivacious signs had been vital
Then he went to a wild music recital
That for him was especially designed 
Having his limited memory in mind
And as usual forgot song and its title.
Jim Horn

Verve

Live what you see:
Dare to just be
Poise in beauty


Love what you do:
Deed springs from you
String voice anew


Poise claims a space:
Look to firm trace
Work with fond face


Choice sparks a trend:
Ink your clear plans
Walk what you scan


Stay wild and free:
Sense heart's story
Tint what can be


Play where you stay:
Laugh lots each day
Wit knows the way


Be calm and clear:
Style happy here
Frame poise that steers


Come to know heart:
Live your soul's art
Dare to fund start


Time and space swirl:
Watch cast that hurls
Pace this grand world




Leon Enriquez
09 October 2014
Singapore

Impending Verve

On misty waters
Beholding sharp brilliant force
I wait the coming







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