#form poems on Hello Poetry

Falling Awake Oct 2024

It seems I don't know quite how to respond,
To the pain present, within and beyond,
So, my subconscious defaults to the lead,
With habitual patterns, I proceed…
Reliant on instincts and emotions,
These primal pathways take me through motions,
Now I’m acting rash, values misaligned,
Hurting loved ones in this stressed frame of mind,
All because I’m unable to pacify,
My cortex, drenched in stimuli.

#mental #illness #coping #rhyme #free #form #bipolar #selfinquiry #reflection

MetaVerse Sep 2024

Clerihew

Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Invented an eminently
Humorous verse form
Which is also a terse form.

#humor #clerihew #verse #lightverse #poetry #bentley #form #compact #succinctness

MetaVerse Sep 2024

the fall

the fall
     ing leaf
is all
the fall;
i call
     my grief
the fall
     ing leaf

#triolet #fall #autumn #leaf #fixed #verse #form #grief #sorrow #sadness

MetaVerse Sep 2024

alphabet soup

q                                                      h                                    r

t                                           x
                                                                                                                  p

                                            a

z                                                   y


i love u
        c                                                                                     j
                                       m
w

                       d                                                                        n
                       b

          k

                                  f

                           s                                                            g

#love #alphabet #free #freedom #space #poetry #explosion #form #formlessness

MetaVerse Aug 2024

Ballade

We're fishes in the internet
Caught in the catch of net the day.
The smartest smartphones place a bet
That some night soon you'll meet a gray.
A U.F.O. (or, as they say
In England Land, a yoofo) flies
From where sweet baby scarecrows play
And eye the stars with googly eyes.

While sweating drops of acid sweat,
A cyborg prays away the gay.
A covid sneeze that's extra wet
Is heading thine iambic way.
Tuberculariaceae......
Is the password!  You win the prize!!
Ride on a rocket to Mars, crochet,
And eye the stars with googly eyes.

If you should dance a minuet,
Throw in a twerk for Claude Monet.
I fly around a jumbo jet
While crying, "Climate change!  Obey!!"
Unqualified I fly (hooray!)
A plane that fails hardwarewise.
Olympic athletes play croquet
And eye the stars with googly eyes.

Enjoy a ride in Santa's sleigh
Before you make your reindeer pies.
Shake thou the darling buds of May,
And eye the stars with googly eyes.

#poetry #ballade #fixed #verse #form #shakespeare #tradition #cyber #tech #technology

MetaVerse Aug 2024

A Triolet

A triolet
     's a pirouette
In a ballet
A triolet
(Or should I say
     A triolette?)
A triolet
     's a pirouette.

#poetry #fixed #verse #form #dance #move #ballet #pirouette #pronunciation

MetaVerse Aug 2024

Love Bugs

Stink bugs
Multiply like
Love bugs.

#haiku #poetry #verse #technique #fracturing #broken #form #nature #japanese

Mark Wanless Jun 2024

haiku 24/6/25a

creation in form
is infinite creation
in mind infinite

#haiku #creation #form #mind

Psych-o-rangE Jun 2024

A Chosen One

He pulls a sword from a rock
And the crowd cheered
And he was worthy
And he will bring war

To those who are unworthy
.
And he will graze their fields
.
And he will burn their temples
.
He will reveal his true form, eating all the children of those who are not worthy
.

What our One was meant to do

#sword #death #war #temple #demon #children #true #form #burn #one

BLD Apr 2024

Siberian fir.

I envisioned these days so often,
fearful of the independence soon to come.
Repression has surpassed to grant this favor
of forgetful remembrance –
or perhaps my memory you’ve stripped as well.

Loneliness stalks even the proudest of prey,
probing the crevices stashed deep away
to betray the very promises endemic to your core.

Now do I savor the silence I once abhorred.

I lie and I listen to the serenity all around,
obscurities of the day whispering from my walls
as an auburn Cardinal serenades from outside.

The moon beckons me near, apologetic murmurs
of her needless façade from the past –
a revered box fan underwhelms the silence
and disperses my diffused Siberian fir,
crips notes of pine and aromatic wintergreen
to soothe the comfort of my nightly routine.

Now do I know myself more than ever before.

#nature #trees #silence #lonely #thinking #rumination #form