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"pentameter" poems
Choosing a series a words for a ditty, Those we first pluck a few at a time. For readers it will, at first, seem so pretty When they detect that rhythm and rhyme. But soon, I suggest, it becomes such a chore, When words strung together do pose An oft-trodden pattern or insipid score That bounces and sings as it goes. The message conveyed in this rigid frame, Is lesser I fear than than when we escape From words chosen for just ending the same Or some fortuitous fit to that shape. So I tend to lean towards using blank form, For verses I build by the letter, And chose the words that I feel will conform To that which my heart says are better.
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Aug 18, 2013
Aug 18, 2013 at 11:31 AM UTC
Sarcastic Pentameter
I cannot write a sonnet; it's too hard To put such barriers around my brain And thus I find my efforts often marred Although I rephrase again and again I cannot write a sonnet though I try Through day and night; through winter, into spring And even though I have no reason why A ten-syllable line my thoughts won't bring But now I wonder just what is so great About this iambic pentameter? And am almost resigned that it's my fate That from the sonnet form I should defer Yet, having spent so long in search of one 'Twould be a shame if it should not be done
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May 12, 2010
May 12, 2010 at 5:46 AM UTC
In Pursuit of The Sonnet
(explicit) **** my soul         with poetry            scream out my gracious name              slay me with words                that peel my layers                 and simultaneously                                    drive me                                            insane finger me slowly, hotly with just the right rhythm and rhyme     push me past my                  tender limits                        into tongues of syntax,                                                       sublime alliterate my senses    (in swift stac                     c-at                            o) until my mind is but blank verse     mess up my stressed               and unstressed syllables in unsung language, versed I will speak to you in vowels (the only sound        I will be able to make) as you stroke    my iambic pentameter              in the heat of frothed-up                                                      ache we are this heroic couplet, you see         even if the meaning seems veiled            no need for simile or metaphor                as I feel your chest rise                               in deep inhale we are a natural paradox        so many ironies abound          discordant harmony is our synaesthesia      in visible darkness found and I love this delicious enjambment as your aura invisibly slips                                into mine our lines have no beginning,                                  no end     as we undo           the boundaries                       of time
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Oct 3, 2017
Oct 3, 2017 at 5:18 PM UTC
poetry slammed
(explicit) **** my soul         with poetry            scream out my gracious name              slay me with words                that peel my layers                 and simultaneously                                    drive me                                            insane finger me slowly, hotly with just the right rhythm and rhyme     push me past my                  tender limits                        into tongues of syntax,                                                       sublime alliterate my senses    (in swift stac                     c-at                            o) until my mind is but blank verse     mess up my stressed               and unstressed syllables in unsung language, versed I will speak to you in vowels (the only sound        I will be able to make) as you stroke    my iambic pentameter              in the heat of frothed-up                                                      ache we are this heroic couplet, you see         even if the meaning seems veiled            no need for simile or metaphor                as I feel your chest rise                               in deep inhale we are a natural paradox        so many ironies abound          discordant harmony is our synaesthesia      in visible darkness found and I love this delicious enjambment as your aura invisibly slips                                into mine our lines have no beginning,                                  no end     as we undo           the boundaries                       of time
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I'm the best, there ever was Can't get with me, at da club Other poets, need to respect My reputation, I'll protect I got a 9, pen in my hand Write your name, in the sand To me, you can't never stand I ain't afraid, to let out a curse Write you in, an ugly verse I'm da best, you da worst You can't, stay with my meter I spit sick, iambic pentameter I'm da truth you da cheater You rhyme like Armstrong rides You have to dope, ya got no rhymes You da Cheech I'm da Chong I write, you smoke da **** You da burger, I'm da veal I earn likes, you freakin still You got da, cheesy *** rhymes Droppin' words, like love & sublime I put the free, in free verse You all about, Nonsense Verse I drop a sonnet, makes his head Shake I'm the Chaucer, you da fake I'm a Lyric, you the Lune You can't quit writen', too crazy soon Your stuff is dirt, mines the moon You want a challenge, get in the ring I'll make you cry but your mama sing You'all poets, you got to know You da fluff, I'm da show I'm the king of the poets, HELLO
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Jan 20, 2013
Jan 20, 2013 at 7:22 PM UTC
Gangsta Poet
With generosity of time and care He teaches her about the things he knows. Such as a couplet is a rhyming pair And how a sonnet ought to be composed. Pentameter iambic is the key With accents, syllables and scansion too. It seems a huge and baffling mystery But bit by bit he gives a hint. A clue. “It helps to tap your fingers on the desk To count the syllables and hear the beat. For some this seems bizarre and quite grotesque But listen hard and count along. It’s sweet!”           A teacher true who cares for flawless rhyme           I thank you friend for giving me your time.
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Jan 18, 2011
Jan 18, 2011 at 7:15 AM UTC
Ode to A Teacher
Not snowy seraphs of heaven above Nor lustrous gems by heaven's stonking wall, Shall outshine the eternal mark of love Thou blazoned upon the skin of my soul. Though midst my wake and dreaming hours I know, Heaven's meanest pier is of burnished gold, And celestial shores chatoyant than snow, But all not as bright as the mark I hold. For when fickle time in layers of life Shalt shroud me, and away I must then run To meet the judge of souls, lest lasting grief Were my soul's fate, I mean to burn and burn,    The fragrance of thy love could still linger    Freshly upon my soul's fading ember. *#Decasyllabic #Iambic pentameter #Quatrains #Couplet #Shakespearean sonnet*   Kikodinho Edward Alexandros, Jumeirah, Dubai, 14th.Jan.2018.
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Jan 13, 2018
Jan 13, 2018 at 3:22 PM UTC
Not Snowy Seraphs Of Heaven Above (Sonnet 0013)
this is for the Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons for the Hopeless Stargazer who immortalized his Subject with one hundred and eight sets of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter for ***** tight clad teenage boys who envied frisky fleas, struggling to make holy ungodly passions with cheap arguments and metaphysical pick up lines for Disillusioned City Dwellers, who, wandering lonely as clouds, stopped to quietly reflect upon wind-beaten moss-covered crags, and heard God’s whisper thunder from petals and blades of grass this is for the Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons for Bespectacled Slave Drivers who submersed idle minds in anthologies,  forcing them to **** neon yellow on dreams deferred and rivers;  slicing and dicing Grecian urns with red ball point pens; bruising and battering, in blue ball point, roads not taken; scalding supermarkets in California with pyroclastic flows of graphite   for those pushing to tear apart lines and letters, reconstructing ,deconstructing, agonizing, imaginizing, bullshitting, and brooding on to crisp white sheets in times new roman twelve point font for the Monsters and Lollipops that exist in the millimeters between a skull and a brain this is for the Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons slumbering beneath Restless Leaves Under the Moon
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Nov 29, 2012
Nov 29, 2012 at 10:39 AM UTC
Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons
She may be our metronome mother But when was rhythm first discovered? Did ancient nomads hear it in the sounds of walking? Did they like how it sounded over them talking? Did they view the melody As a felony? And start to sway their hips To the crack of whips? Maybe that wasn't good enough Maybe we needed more stuff So we started crossing swords To create more violent chords That interested us more Violence has a catchy hook That can't be found in a book But started with a ***** look Until our brain begins to cook And we learn to love the beat As the harmony depletes We take concert seats At a darkness feast There's an iambic pentameter In the middle eastern theater That sounds all too familiar The troubling treble Of mothers screaming While superpowers meddle And innocence is leaving The reaper is reaping To a situation heating Empathy fleeting Fascist seating Rhythm beating Our soundproof homes Create acoustic cones That our cries can't escape Taking the container's shape Filling our mind Until we're blind And only see political teams Instead of childhood dreams We fall into a rhythm Based on deadly decisions With lethal precision Like surgical incisions That don't make us healthy But support the wealthy Who whistle a different tune That will **** us all soon And as the world crumbles Their bellies still rumble Creating a disruptive bass Their music we must face With an impossible grace Or else we'll be replaced I hear instruments of percussion Causing concussions Deflecting discussions Making us harmfully dance So we'll have a fair chance Which seems wrong at first glance But it's actually a pragmatic trance Provided by Mister Rhythm Who carries misery with him
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Apr 12, 2018
Apr 12, 2018 at 12:22 PM UTC
Rhythm
She may be our metronome mother But when was rhythm first discovered? Did ancient nomads hear it in the sounds of walking? Did they like how it sounded over them talking? Did they view the melody As a felony? And start to sway their hips To the crack of whips? Maybe that wasn't good enough Maybe we needed more stuff So we started crossing swords To create more violent chords That interested us more Violence has a catchy hook That can't be found in a book But started with a ***** look Until our brain begins to cook And we learn to love the beat As the harmony depletes We take concert seats At a darkness feast There's an iambic pentameter In the middle eastern theater That sounds all too familiar The troubling treble Of mothers screaming While superpowers meddle And innocence is leaving The reaper is reaping To a situation heating Empathy fleeting Fascist seating Rhythm beating Our soundproof homes Create acoustic cones That our cries can't escape Taking the container's shape Filling our mind Until we're blind And only see political teams Instead of childhood dreams We fall into a rhythm Based on deadly decisions With lethal precision Like surgical incisions That don't make us healthy But support the wealthy Who whistle a different tune That will **** us all soon And as the world crumbles Their bellies still rumble Creating a disruptive bass Their music we must face With an impossible grace Or else we'll be replaced I hear instruments of percussion Causing concussions Deflecting discussions Making us harmfully dance So we'll have a fair chance Which seems wrong at first glance But it's actually a pragmatic trance Provided by Mister Rhythm Who carries misery with him
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First, you have get to an email address and then fashion a sculpture out of daisies and moonbeams as a wedding present for your love; practice your poetry because it will come in handy when tongue tied; pentameter is a pocket ace and the game is cutthroat so you’re gonna wanna have some ready; calisthenics are required as is having the right politics but dissimilar guacamole preferences are usually alright for awhile; be sure to develop a tolerance for sand between your toes; learn to frolic, but never skip; don’t buy a boat because nobody has time for a sweater cape enthusiast and drowning is very unromantic; Grow roses and cook eggs every way you can but ever respect the bacon; Practice looking longingly; Toss your hair and brush your teeth; **** your socks but carefully maintain just enough flaws to seem endearing and then forget all this because the only time you chose to fall is suicide and it’s kind of like a bridge jump, so it’s time to just lie back and enjoy the dopamine rush while it lasts; you’ve roped a unicorn, the fleeting chemistry of your synapses will thank or blame you later.
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 1:21 PM UTC
How to fall in love
The Breakfast Fairies (a humorous treatise) Summoned for to break the fast of sleep-and-dreams that can no longer last, As the clock to noon draws nigh, I happily paddle off to the cabinet Where the cereals that I CHOSE, Since I am now a grownup, faithfully await, calm and in repose. The refrigerator, in nearby proximity, sources a Stony-field yogurt,, A yogurt that I CHOSE, light and sweet with processed fruit, due to the miracle of Aspartame. Distracted, back to the kitchen for Some multi-grain slices to hail and toast, Which I prefer dry (no butter) and ready for anointing with oils of Strawberry jelly. To the table return ready to sound The horn of plenty, When I see the **** Breakfast Fairies have struck yet again! Cousins first to those that reside in nearby dishwasher* The nefarious fairies guard my health tho nobody asked them too! My Crispix, with its malty sweetness, And the ***** aftertaste of sprayed-on "enriched vitamins," has been smothered neath layers of Granola, with cranberries and nuts, Contaminated with a hint of cinnamon. My processed yogurt, vanished, without a trace, replaced by their bacterial cousins from Thrace, which is in Greece, who, tho white, taste like plain yogurt sourpusses, Even when littered with blueberries, Nothing can replace the taste of my Artificial Sweetener! Dry toast has been sheeted and shined neath A tribute of fattening butter, rationalized by a commonality, "Everything is better with butter..." The last indignity is that my coffee, Not the light brown I cherish When kissed by whole milk, Now muddled and muddied by skim milk, so named, Cause they skim off all the taste. Because they are fairies, With fluttering wings, Hasty retreat they beat, But I know where they hide. The next time it be for the morning meal, I will eat it in bed, far from their kitchen hiding places, And celebrate my heroics with original Frosted Flakes and milk, And extra sugar just for spite! The bedroom fairies, living under the pillow, Emerge to beg in iambic pentameter, Won't get nary a bite, Until they they return the poems they stole From my midnight dreams.
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Jun 1, 2013
Jun 1, 2013 at 12:08 PM UTC
The Breakfast Fairies (a humorous treatise)
The Breakfast Fairies (a humorous treatise) Summoned for to break the fast of sleep-and-dreams that can no longer last, As the clock to noon draws nigh, I happily paddle off to the cabinet Where the cereals that I CHOSE, Since I am now a grownup, faithfully await, calm and in repose. The refrigerator, in nearby proximity, sources a Stony-field yogurt,, A yogurt that I CHOSE, light and sweet with processed fruit, due to the miracle of Aspartame. Distracted, back to the kitchen for Some multi-grain slices to hail and toast, Which I prefer dry (no butter) and ready for anointing with oils of Strawberry jelly. To the table return ready to sound The horn of plenty, When I see the **** Breakfast Fairies have struck yet again! Cousins first to those that reside in nearby dishwasher* The nefarious fairies guard my health tho nobody asked them too! My Crispix, with its malty sweetness, And the ***** aftertaste of sprayed-on "enriched vitamins," has been smothered neath layers of Granola, with cranberries and nuts, Contaminated with a hint of cinnamon. My processed yogurt, vanished, without a trace, replaced by their bacterial cousins from Thrace, which is in Greece, who, tho white, taste like plain yogurt sourpusses, Even when littered with blueberries, Nothing can replace the taste of my Artificial Sweetener! Dry toast has been sheeted and shined neath A tribute of fattening butter, rationalized by a commonality, "Everything is better with butter..." The last indignity is that my coffee, Not the light brown I cherish When kissed by whole milk, Now muddled and muddied by skim milk, so named, Cause they skim off all the taste. Because they are fairies, With fluttering wings, Hasty retreat they beat, But I know where they hide. The next time it be for the morning meal, I will eat it in bed, far from their kitchen hiding places, And celebrate my heroics with original Frosted Flakes and milk, And extra sugar just for spite! The bedroom fairies, living under the pillow, Emerge to beg in iambic pentameter, Won't get nary a bite, Until they they return the poems they stole From my midnight dreams.
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The couplet's first in writing villanelles; if you desire your work to be its best, a singleness in purpose always tells. Of course, the open has the hook that sells, your reader is seduced to read the rest. The couplet's first in writing villanelles. Your second line resides in writer's hell, the rhyme-rich ending word must meet the test and singleness in purpose always tells. Pentameter iambic works just swell, but matters not, as many will attest. The couplet's first in writing villanelles. Last stanza rolls around, the poet's well is nearly dry, their muse under duress; a singleness in purpose always tells. The final lines! Relax, and sit a spell, enjoy the glow of formal poem's success. The couplet's first in writing villanelles. a singleness in purpose always tells.
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Apr 15, 2015
Apr 15, 2015 at 9:56 AM UTC
On Writing Villanelles
There was once, a girl called Srividya who ended conversations with a "see yea" and sometimes with, "Don't wanna be yea" but had a gentle heart like Mamma mia! She took it in her head to write which gave her friends a fright But, vidya in her heart, was tight to somehow pour her mind and write Words from her heart, upon the paper, fell they came in a tumble; they came pell-mell when they fell in place, her story, they did tell and those read said in their hearts, Aawll eezz well!!! A persistent Vidya never gave up hope and found some more, when she ran out of rope She took inspiration from the divine Pope and in her works, introduced a little operaish soap Day after day, dawn after dawn Little srividya wrote like a fawn She said to herself, lighting the midnight candle on 'Course you can write; you just need to COME ON! For her words, she used the iambic pentameter But her cruel friends said, "eyyy, podhum paa peter!" Her consistent efforts bore fruit; her blog was published seeing her beautiful works see the light of day, she felt accomplished Oh you might wonder, what does this tale tell what is the idea, I'm trying to sell without much ado, let me just say A little encouragement goes a long way!
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Nov 10, 2012
Nov 10, 2012 at 5:42 AM UTC
A poem for Vidya
A pencil is of dreams, the Sandman sings sweetly on graphite. Unlearn your rules, unleash your light. Dance on rhythms of pentameter and sing melodies that twinkle on the tip of your tongue, alliterative opera and assonance played among the bass that is literature. Sometimes you must ignore the pain in your hands, let callouses build and relish in blood filling your blisters. Pain here means progress. Sweep agony away for the sake of day then sink into the ink of night. Float on clouds of fantasy and write.
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Aug 23, 2018
Aug 23, 2018 at 11:21 AM UTC
Sandman’s wand
***Fell heal over heads           in love with a poet,   he's mostly a rhyme schemer        likes Poe and his dark Raven,   in actuality,  I'd fancy him more if     he were like Pablo Neruda, but I digress I'm much accurately fashioned after Emily Dickinson         chasing heaven's June bugs toing and froing, we'd meet at a perfectly superfluous coffee shop     he'll be murmuring elegiac pentameter I'm simply looking to devour precious words,     we'd argue about abstract destinations,               straight forward persuasions and                premonitions of wayward ink allusions, some days I want to claw mine own eyes out                amid all that nonsensical alliteration   others, I want to rip out embellishments                    of his black heart's magnification, he mutters tumult under his breath,      states he's abundantly sickly tired of all my          fanatical froufroutant  flourished fantasies, albeit, we're mild mannered artistes          of overstatement and simplification                thus, we continue laying it on thickly I, with my hyperbolic cuppa tea and honey,        he's all brass tacks, no nonsense black coffee ultimately, we reservedly seek gratification,       envisioning who functionally makes it first to a finished line of manifestations's publication,            in eternity's poetic intentions and beyond***
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Jun 20, 2015
Jun 20, 2015 at 9:14 AM UTC
Fell in love with a poet
***Fell heal over heads           in love with a poet,   he's mostly a rhyme schemer        likes Poe and his dark Raven,   in actuality,  I'd fancy him more if     he were like Pablo Neruda, but I digress I'm much accurately fashioned after Emily Dickinson         chasing heaven's June bugs toing and froing, we'd meet at a perfectly superfluous coffee shop     he'll be murmuring elegiac pentameter I'm simply looking to devour precious words,     we'd argue about abstract destinations,               straight forward persuasions and                premonitions of wayward ink allusions, some days I want to claw mine own eyes out                amid all that nonsensical alliteration   others, I want to rip out embellishments                    of his black heart's magnification, he mutters tumult under his breath,      states he's abundantly sickly tired of all my          fanatical froufroutant  flourished fantasies, albeit, we're mild mannered artistes          of overstatement and simplification                thus, we continue laying it on thickly I, with my hyperbolic cuppa tea and honey,        he's all brass tacks, no nonsense black coffee ultimately, we reservedly seek gratification,       envisioning who functionally makes it first to a finished line of manifestations's publication,            in eternity's poetic intentions and beyond***
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It was the day of the wedding of Mr and Mrs Epithalamium they looked quite the Heroic Couplet and full of Romanticism until the Englyn Prose-d the Questionku ‘ Do you take this woman’ … then in a wavering Iambic Pentameter voice the groom whispered ‘I do not know’ ….Mrs Epithalamium felt quite Dizain and tried to scratch out his Ruba’I, the Clerihew stepped forward to comfort her but tripped over some Concrete and felt like a right Cowboy. The brides father, the Russian Chastushka, grabbed the groom and with a Carpe Diem attitude threatened to Choka him. The guests all gathered in an Enclosed Rhyme with the best man making quite a Dramatic Monologue, the brides mother had her Hybronnet knocked off her head and the chief bridesmaid had her Kimo torn in the affray. The young flower girls Haibun and Hamd both burst into tears as their Crown of Sonnets were totally destroyed. The Rev. Pantoum pleaded for calm, then repeating his plea for the melee to stop started making a List of the damage, quick as a Ghazal and with great Imagism he protected the Crystalline glass from smashing into Ninette pieces. Meanwhile the poor bride was in a state of Nonet anxiously trying to get past the twins Munaajaat and Musaddas, her Idyll life had been turned upside down, today was the day she had hoped to change her Name to Triolet. Alliteration watched while women wept, then stepped forward and with a Lyric in his voice asked people to calm down, he told everyone he had Naat come here to watch a display such as this and suggested they went for a hot Canzone to discuss the next move, Tanka and Tyburn readily agreed as they were very hungry and particularly as it was Free Verse it meant they could eat as much as they wanted. The nearly bride couldn’t give a Sijo if she never saw her ex again she was sick of being Kyrielle to and did not want anyone else’s Epyllion and with a final Than-Bauk stormed out of the club… © 6/4/2013
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Apr 6, 2013
Apr 6, 2013 at 5:31 PM UTC
Another Day in The Poetry Club...
It was the day of the wedding of Mr and Mrs Epithalamium they looked quite the Heroic Couplet and full of Romanticism until the Englyn Prose-d the Questionku ‘ Do you take this woman’ … then in a wavering Iambic Pentameter voice the groom whispered ‘I do not know’ ….Mrs Epithalamium felt quite Dizain and tried to scratch out his Ruba’I, the Clerihew stepped forward to comfort her but tripped over some Concrete and felt like a right Cowboy. The brides father, the Russian Chastushka, grabbed the groom and with a Carpe Diem attitude threatened to Choka him. The guests all gathered in an Enclosed Rhyme with the best man making quite a Dramatic Monologue, the brides mother had her Hybronnet knocked off her head and the chief bridesmaid had her Kimo torn in the affray. The young flower girls Haibun and Hamd both burst into tears as their Crown of Sonnets were totally destroyed. The Rev. Pantoum pleaded for calm, then repeating his plea for the melee to stop started making a List of the damage, quick as a Ghazal and with great Imagism he protected the Crystalline glass from smashing into Ninette pieces. Meanwhile the poor bride was in a state of Nonet anxiously trying to get past the twins Munaajaat and Musaddas, her Idyll life had been turned upside down, today was the day she had hoped to change her Name to Triolet. Alliteration watched while women wept, then stepped forward and with a Lyric in his voice asked people to calm down, he told everyone he had Naat come here to watch a display such as this and suggested they went for a hot Canzone to discuss the next move, Tanka and Tyburn readily agreed as they were very hungry and particularly as it was Free Verse it meant they could eat as much as they wanted. The nearly bride couldn’t give a Sijo if she never saw her ex again she was sick of being Kyrielle to and did not want anyone else’s Epyllion and with a final Than-Bauk stormed out of the club… © 6/4/2013
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Cats are Iambic Pentameter Light-footed cats are nature’s iambics Each subtle feline step unstressed to stressed Across a lawn, a counterpane, a heart As a tail-twitching cat ballet, all grace But dogs are four-beat Anglo-Saxon1 lines Galumphing heavily and clumsily Across a moor, a sleeping-bag, a heart As a tail-wagging country reel (gone bad) Soft-footed cats are nature’s iambics And dogs are four-beat Anglo-Saxon lines 1Old English Anglo-Saxon (approx. fifth-twelfth century). Applies to four-stress hemistichal alliterative verse, e.g. Beowulf. - Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
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Jan 30, 2017
Jan 30, 2017 at 3:49 PM UTC
Cats are Iambic Pentameter
The days have blended into a poetic haze of mismatched syllables, hanging participles accented with a hint of discourage. My purpose use to be therapeutic. Each rhyme I wrote was a comma in my run-on sentences. And for awhile, I could breathe. Each breath became less wheezy, uneven and strained. After I gathered enough air, I dared to speak. Me? How could I even have the audacity to think!? To my disbelief, my words didn't fall on deaf ears. The anxiety, shame, depression and fear woven into every poem made me familiar in the minds of strangers. These strangers made me feel human. With quickness that's comparable to the slickness of a parable I was ****** from a catapult into the essence of prose. However, the latency between the beginning of my literary journey and the discovery of my gift for poetry was afflicting my sensibility. I succumbed to the bullying from hyperboles and the taunting of iambic pentameter. At times I was afraid to talk to neighbors for fear of narrative structure overhearing.   Now, I am wandering in a fog though the hills of unpublished work, echoed only by the crunch of "not good enough" beneath my feet. This was therapeutic.  Now I use it to influence my movements.
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Dec 18, 2013
Dec 18, 2013 at 6:52 PM UTC
Back to the drawing board
You don't have to remind me to listen to three AM school-night words that come out in the soft whispers you've been waiting to share with me in an attempt to shield it from the rest of the world I'll remember the things you didn't say like engraved textbook lessons when my skin starts to dampen and stick to my body like a raincoat my head hits the wood desk so loud everyone stops pretending to pay attention and i have to write "he doesn't love me anymore" one hundred times on the chalkboard and bang the parts of my past i wake up forgetting together watching the chalk dust from the day my mother told me; they almost lost you fall to the floor Every negative hallway interaction bubbles over in an abandonment issue chemical reaction and I had to drop chemistry because I found none of the connections and formulas could fix the imbalance I carry around with me like i shouldn't be failing Psychology 101. Maybe I'm clueless because I can't tell you why weather changes or square roots of negatives But I can recite the lisence plate of the car my dad has never visited me in and my sisters contact information for the 4 minute and 57 second call i can pay $6.43 to make to sit on the floor and learn about juvenile detention while history notes offer me cold faux-sympathy Maybe I'm clueless because id rather memorize the way your hand moves down my back than the quadratic formula and give up on poetry mid sentence and change "moves" to "moved" because it's all in past-tense and the difference between present and present perfect and banging erasers and not sleeping and forgetting how to function off of autopilot mode and there are lessons I will remember that won't come from staring at a projector screen when to stop talking how to look like you weren't just sobbing in the bathroom the unwritten "give a stranger a ****** if they ask" rule I'll remember every word you tell me like the test is next period and I'll study every syllable and drown in iambic pentameter and I'll still fail
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Nov 23, 2015
Nov 23, 2015 at 3:51 PM UTC
revise and resubmit
You don't have to remind me to listen to three AM school-night words that come out in the soft whispers you've been waiting to share with me in an attempt to shield it from the rest of the world I'll remember the things you didn't say like engraved textbook lessons when my skin starts to dampen and stick to my body like a raincoat my head hits the wood desk so loud everyone stops pretending to pay attention and i have to write "he doesn't love me anymore" one hundred times on the chalkboard and bang the parts of my past i wake up forgetting together watching the chalk dust from the day my mother told me; they almost lost you fall to the floor Every negative hallway interaction bubbles over in an abandonment issue chemical reaction and I had to drop chemistry because I found none of the connections and formulas could fix the imbalance I carry around with me like i shouldn't be failing Psychology 101. Maybe I'm clueless because I can't tell you why weather changes or square roots of negatives But I can recite the lisence plate of the car my dad has never visited me in and my sisters contact information for the 4 minute and 57 second call i can pay $6.43 to make to sit on the floor and learn about juvenile detention while history notes offer me cold faux-sympathy Maybe I'm clueless because id rather memorize the way your hand moves down my back than the quadratic formula and give up on poetry mid sentence and change "moves" to "moved" because it's all in past-tense and the difference between present and present perfect and banging erasers and not sleeping and forgetting how to function off of autopilot mode and there are lessons I will remember that won't come from staring at a projector screen when to stop talking how to look like you weren't just sobbing in the bathroom the unwritten "give a stranger a ****** if they ask" rule I'll remember every word you tell me like the test is next period and I'll study every syllable and drown in iambic pentameter and I'll still fail
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World of code; riddle, and a brand new language. I hold you close my dear, as you stumble on through the dark night, this knowledge is hastening to bring my demise. You sit within my pentameter, so where did I lose my peaceful mind? I'm still struggling with poetry, in finding art amongst the burdens of the street. You're applying sunscreen to your back and shoulders, and then you're basking in the heat of my astral beach. I'm stranded here alone now, sending my postcards to nowhere at all, I have grown tired of this mere existence, of fading in the city sprawl. Now Mathematics is the language of the universe, and will speak for centuries to come, gravity making sense out of chaos, and will talk forever over the atomic bomb. I'm learning my sums again darling, I'm going back to a clean state of mind, hoping to discover an answer, to why I'm constantly falling behind. When I find the equation I will call you, and profess them unto the stars, a love never lost in translation, a love where you'll always be the source.
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 8:34 PM UTC
Heaven is Full of Angles
for pennies, an app to do the heavy lifting, rhymes, pentameter, all the quatrains ya ever needed strained fever, emotions rampant, insufficient and unnecessary conditions for poverty poetry evocation, even autocorrects insipid really bad tiresome love poems, après endless generation (degeneration?) who needs you you think no such animal you be write for the art of life cannot be mechanized wrote a poem, a wistful sad lament on mothers losing children, a prayer, a yelling, a condemnation, the app was, on this subject uncommunicative, un étranger of silence in all languages you can buy love but you cannot buy pain too costly and 3D printers give you plastic, disingenuous wholly unsatisfactory for a lousy $1.99 I'll write you customized, supply the situation, a few descriptive phrases, 60 minutes later, et voila! am you app, am your scrivener, don't do roses or violets but yes to rhythm and blues will take PayPal PenPal but no credit cards you may take my words as you own, take my credit, but I won't take yours... I am app human, bring me your lush, winsome, plain vanilla, tutti frutti, all acceptable, for where the real stuff comes from I have only mined the surface, the veins beneath richness for the asking
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Jan 23, 2015
Jan 23, 2015 at 5:41 AM UTC
The $1.99 Poetry App
You'll have to talk to the poet, He's not around Right now. I don't write'em I just edit'em (I'm no good at spelling Don't know much about grammar Sonnets or Iambic pentameter, his moods, his states of mind what it is he's trying to define or find. Not sayin' that ignorance is a good thing ) I just post'em and let'em go. The poet? You'll have to talk to him and he's not around right now.
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Apr 25, 2016
Apr 25, 2016 at 9:43 PM UTC
Questions, Complaints, Compliments
a scratching modest, not demanding or shrill, the need is not great but persistent, the urge asks politely for satisfaction. if you would be so kind sir, perhaps my dear, you could find it within you to, accommodate a humble request. write us a poem about nothing, this bequest, about this or that, need not be rant nor praise, observe, distinguish, or separate, let It be about nothing much at all. let a modest whimsy bring rhyming smiling to many a lip, perhaps a tear or two would not be out of place, to keep the inner ear of the soul straight on the line that demarcates sanity and sobriety, from the madness of daily life. couplets and stanzas, irregular, no matter, iambic pentameter, overkill, too much bother, perfect simple limericks for a kind hearted fella would be most satisfactory ----- Cute but pointless. No, insufficient, a poem deserves its own import. So here is the truth, Here is a sanctified poem About something! ~~~~ I got friends in this place who deserve better. They deserve a poem that says: We are all broken, demonized. The edge is always near, But never having laid eyes on you, You have trusted me with thy struggle, And I, with hints of mine. So here is The Poem, a Medal of Honor I award to us. A poem about the only four letter word that really matters, A thousand times more powerful than mere love, I award to us for bravery conspicuous, For telling the truth, the hard way, In words that reveal the persons we are when unmasked, I award us the **Medal of Kind.** And someday when our hands shake, hard hugs exchanged And our smiles won't stop Than I will say unashamedly, ****** I love you... My men, My women My friends, My comrades You know who you are.
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Aug 18, 2013
Aug 18, 2013 at 12:13 AM UTC
a poem about nothing, maybe, maybe not...
a scratching modest, not demanding or shrill, the need is not great but persistent, the urge asks politely for satisfaction. if you would be so kind sir, perhaps my dear, you could find it within you to, accommodate a humble request. write us a poem about nothing, this bequest, about this or that, need not be rant nor praise, observe, distinguish, or separate, let It be about nothing much at all. let a modest whimsy bring rhyming smiling to many a lip, perhaps a tear or two would not be out of place, to keep the inner ear of the soul straight on the line that demarcates sanity and sobriety, from the madness of daily life. couplets and stanzas, irregular, no matter, iambic pentameter, overkill, too much bother, perfect simple limericks for a kind hearted fella would be most satisfactory ----- Cute but pointless. No, insufficient, a poem deserves its own import. So here is the truth, Here is a sanctified poem About something! ~~~~ I got friends in this place who deserve better. They deserve a poem that says: We are all broken, demonized. The edge is always near, But never having laid eyes on you, You have trusted me with thy struggle, And I, with hints of mine. So here is The Poem, a Medal of Honor I award to us. A poem about the only four letter word that really matters, A thousand times more powerful than mere love, I award to us for bravery conspicuous, For telling the truth, the hard way, In words that reveal the persons we are when unmasked, I award us the **Medal of Kind.** And someday when our hands shake, hard hugs exchanged And our smiles won't stop Than I will say unashamedly, ****** I love you... My men, My women My friends, My comrades You know who you are.
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Free verse is great, when used by great poets, but it seems that it has more recently become a way for amateur poets to be lazy. To take opinions, expressed in prose and convince the world its poetry. What is the beauty of poetry if not in seeing how the poet commands the language? To write a sonnet, To write a limerick, To use iambic pentameter, The poet must form the language to fit the structure, accomplish the meter. The poet has to find creative ways of expressing a thought that fits within the structure. Free verse does 'free the poet' to express ideas. There is a lot of great free verse poetry. Because it allows for an arrangement of ideas without a strict form. Sadly it also frees the poet to be, Well, un-poetic. Is it a poem, really, with not a single simile, no metaphore, hyperbole, no alliteration, no assoonance, no meter, no rhyme? If your not using any poetic devices at all, is this really poetry? Or just prose in disguise?
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Dec 29, 2010
Dec 29, 2010 at 8:57 AM UTC
Lazy Free-Verser
You are poetry. Every square centimeter of your existence Is it’s own iambic pentameter . & I can’t help but notice the way your smile never fails to rhyme with your cheekbones.
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Apr 4, 2015
Apr 4, 2015 at 7:16 PM UTC
You are Poetry