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"quatrain" poems
dedicated to all the better poets here... don't know much about a quatrain don't know how to write a refrain, surely could not compose a courtyard elegy maybe after and still untilled, I been buried, 'n checked out the neighborhood competition... as for limerick, that is Dr. Seuss and Ogden Nash's shtick with whom, eye, a believed descendant, cannot compete... Oh dear me,   no ode node-ed within, as for a pastoral, kinda hard to feat, where I live, a pastoral is grass cracks surviving under, breaking through to the other side of concrete and blacktop rulers Maybe one of you will haiku, send us a senryu, send off, see ya! the doc once diagnosed a severe case of inflamed iambic pentametery, with antibiotics and a diet of Hamletery, was cured most satisfactorily this silly pen-man-sinking-ship ain't capable of dat, boy how 'bout an epitaph for a graveyard stone, should be plenty of room... as it will be plenty short... all eye see and all eye know is vignettes that birth in me walking down the street, that's my bread and butter, my soul's delicacies... and moments that recorded here, for a posteriored posterity, as noted in my all my living testaments, drinking and spilling the vin, from the uninvented igniting vignettes that consecrate and connect our knowing each other though odds are we will never meet...we can yet drink together ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, And I know that if you love me, too, What a wonderful world this would be."
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May 3, 2015
May 3, 2015 at 7:50 AM UTC
why eye drink the vin in vignette (for all the better poets here)
dedicated to all the better poets here... don't know much about a quatrain don't know how to write a refrain, surely could not compose a courtyard elegy maybe after and still untilled, I been buried, 'n checked out the neighborhood competition... as for limerick, that is Dr. Seuss and Ogden Nash's shtick with whom, eye, a believed descendant, cannot compete... Oh dear me,   no ode node-ed within, as for a pastoral, kinda hard to feat, where I live, a pastoral is grass cracks surviving under, breaking through to the other side of concrete and blacktop rulers Maybe one of you will haiku, send us a senryu, send off, see ya! the doc once diagnosed a severe case of inflamed iambic pentametery, with antibiotics and a diet of Hamletery, was cured most satisfactorily this silly pen-man-sinking-ship ain't capable of dat, boy how 'bout an epitaph for a graveyard stone, should be plenty of room... as it will be plenty short... all eye see and all eye know is vignettes that birth in me walking down the street, that's my bread and butter, my soul's delicacies... and moments that recorded here, for a posteriored posterity, as noted in my all my living testaments, drinking and spilling the vin, from the uninvented igniting vignettes that consecrate and connect our knowing each other though odds are we will never meet...we can yet drink together ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, And I know that if you love me, too, What a wonderful world this would be."
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With all of the technology that's around these days have we not in fact become enslaved by its ways? It should be used towards the immediate benefit of all mankind eliminating poverty, hunger, disease and to enlighten the mind.
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Oct 11, 2011
Oct 11, 2011 at 10:47 PM UTC
Quatrain #93 - With all of the technology ...
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is what the law demands but then the law is based upon the truth by which it issues its own commands. The truth is based upon Reality where there can't be any idea of falsehood, Reality is in fact the Absolute or Supreme Being that is really all Godhood. ___________________________________________
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Sep 22, 2015
Sep 22, 2015 at 6:49 PM UTC
Quatrain #242 - The truth, the whole truth and....
The inner beauty of man is far superior to that of the outer, we only need look deep enough within us to see it's greater. It is basically through ignorance most haven't seen this fact, but to actually witness this truth requires extraordinary tact. _______________________________________________
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Apr 17, 2013
Apr 17, 2013 at 5:10 PM UTC
Quatrain #157 - The inner beauty of man is....
In balancing of the opposites a harmonious state is the end result; one can then see beyond oneself which some people call the occult. Through self-mastery in one's life comes a certain transcendence and any individual thus blest gains a unique level of independence. _________________________________________
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May 23, 2015
May 23, 2015 at 11:03 AM UTC
Quatrain #238 - In balancing of the opposites....
don’t tell me “I love you” ~by Roxanne, for Cyrano~ <> that’s a verse I’ve heard many too times before, that’s a curse of low majesty, a quatrain too plain, if that’s your best sally, retreat, say no more, too simp verses, or ungolden silences, agents of dissatisfying pain I need the best of your taste the finest visions that you eyelids occlude, make haste for my mouth grows exceedingly impatient for the other senses to do their tandem wooing slap only my face with the creature comforts others savor, words of diamonds and pink pearls mined from your breast, the bejeweled words that will decorate my evergreen, that never dies, lest, unless and until, you want my mortal affection suppressed give me your linguistic promiscuity, wake me from the stupor of ordinary, arouse me with thy tongue coiling, a bee sting delivery, a wet poem that makes all my orifices!|offices weep, your mouth, my souls recouper, your wizardry bewitching, answer my inquiry with unbounded festivity then and after all, the plain simplicity of an “I love you,” will be edged with sublimity, my mercies, your mercies our jointed, sharp pointy, introverting, interlocking, *our futures becoming our pasts* 11:07am 19-9-30 <> https://thenewgroup.org/production/cyrano/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwz8bsBRC6ARIsAEyNnvoENpdnWyqeUEwq0avNStgWCf4CocB1i239c2mHdNSFF8gOlWZtfjsaAls4EALw_wcB
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Oct 10, 2019
Oct 10, 2019 at 11:35 AM UTC
don’t tell me “I love you” ~ by Roxanne, for Cyrano~
یعقوب و یوسف و زلیخا عاشق ای جان, سر ا پا, همه دنیا عاشق بی مهر و محبتی, دو عالم مردست هر زنده، که مخلوق خدا را، عاشق
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Aug 4, 2021
Aug 4, 2021 at 4:50 PM UTC
Farsi Quatrain
Money can't buy you love because love is greater than money yet money can help you find love which is sweeter than honey. Money isn't everything but, in this world we find, it sure goes a long way; love of money is wrong and, unless used to help others, doesn't really pay.
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Jun 11, 2016
Jun 11, 2016 at 2:36 AM UTC
Quatrain #267 - Money can't buy you love....
From Being to becoming there is then an individualisation and from individuality to universality there is a realisation. From Oneness to manyness there is then a diversification and from diversity to attunement there is then a unification. ____________________________
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Feb 25, 2016
Feb 25, 2016 at 7:09 PM UTC
Quatrain #260 - From Being to becomming.....
A sonnet's what this is, that much is plain There really isn't any need to stare Its introduction's made in this quatrain Two more will follow, then a rhyming pair It is iambic, so it goes “dot dash” Two syllables a foot, five feet a line The rhythm takes you onward in a flash The sense of structure's reinforced by rhyme After the first octet, a change of mood The sonnet's true intentions are revealed Its themes are love and essence, nothing crude Hard hearts begin to melt and ******* to yield Then closure as it slowly slips away A soft exit – a pyrrhic fall – spondee.
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Oct 21, 2009
Oct 21, 2009 at 12:09 PM UTC
Sonnet 101
'Love at first sight' is a term expressed these days we don't often hear about people when they fall in love thinking of each other very dear. It's wonderful to recognise an awakened love for one another so very soon but if the depth of this love is fathomed, does it go beyond the honeymoon? _________________________________
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Jan 11, 2016
Jan 11, 2016 at 4:23 PM UTC
Quatrain #255 - 'Love at first sight' is......
Intelligence and love are parts of a universal language that we all communicate with because of our heritage. They usually transcend all barriers of time and space which in this world are common for the human race. ____________________
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Feb 19, 2017
Feb 19, 2017 at 12:37 PM UTC
Quatrain #301 - Intelligence and love are......
I thought I'd write a villanelle though form is not my forte yet I'll try, what the hell Let's see if I can do this well as an exercise in structure I thought I'd write a villanelle Can I make my verses swell write five of them as tercets well I'll try, what the hell For to my inertia quell while my muse is absent I thought I'd write a villanelle Now I've fallen to the spell but the next must be a quatrain so I'll try, what the hell My words upon the page do jell and this is almost finished I thought I'd write a villanelle then I tried, what the hell Cynthia Pauline Jones, 10/5/2014
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May 10, 2014
May 10, 2014 at 12:26 PM UTC
A Villanelle
The homecoming of the soul is a great affair of joy and sweetness but is also characterised by a feeling of surrender and meekness. After having gone astray through ignorance into the world of pain and sorrow it returns back home like a prodigal son with joy and thought for the morrow. ___________________________________________________________
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Feb 3, 2013
Feb 3, 2013 at 5:56 AM UTC
Quatrain #147 - The homecoming of the soul is....
death is coming, it is a dark point on the horizon it will be here, sooner than expected, the planet is dying why are you preparing for a future, the future why are you denying it is happening, sticking your head in the sand going about, living carefree, when your children will suffer, millions will die do you need a quatrain, a burning bush, to see the horror racing towards us nostradamus didn’t see it, but we did, like a slow train wreck the air will burn your lungs, the oceans scald your flesh by the time you react, you will have reached the point of no return your children are an army of dead men walking their bodies catching up to their environmental fate it is too late to cry, it is time to die what will we do, how will we choose, who lives, who perishes your cozy lives will disintegrate in social chaos as individual fight for survival our former rules and norms will vanish, as the strong and ruthless vanquish you will witness horrors, etched into your mind, re-dreamt every night scream and cry, it could have been avoid, such is the tragedy of the commons complacency of the masses, mass graves of the innocent gods will die, civilizations will fall, as you huddle, shaking in a dark corner
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May 12, 2019
May 12, 2019 at 12:01 PM UTC
do you need a quatrain?
To write a sonnet doth Juana press me, I've never found me in such stress or pain; A sonnet numbers fourteen lines, 'tis plain, And three are gone, ere I can say, God bless me! I thought that spinning rhymes might sore oppress me, Yet here I'm midway in the last quatrain; And if the foremost tercet I can gain, The quatrains need not any more distress me. To the first tercet I have got at last, And travel through it with such right good will, That with this line I've finished it, I ween; I'm in the second now, and see how fast The thirteenth line runs tripping from my quill; Hurrah, 'tis done! Count if there be fourteen!
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May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017 at 2:15 PM UTC
Sonnet on The Sonnet by Lope de Vega (1562-1635) Translated by James Y. Gibson
We are not the body nor the vital breath. We are not the mind we're beyond death. We are all a free spirit though incarnate, We should be aware of this and meditate.
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Oct 29, 2010
Oct 29, 2010 at 9:53 PM UTC
Quatrain #1 - We are not the body
a plain poem (the first time I came in you) a plain poem, light and effervescent, a flim-flan tasting, plein de absurde rimes, full of nonsensical rhymes, a lattice of criss crossing pastry sugary lines, the ones, cannot, struggle to deduce, induce, reduce from my constipated vocabulary oh well ~ *the first time I came in you, entered, bidden welcome, suffused a bridge between the party of the first part, the party of the second part, sugar lightness airy nonsense, two spirits dancing the singular pas de deux of their finite lives, a performance unbeatable, unrepeatable, lost to the perfection annals Shockingly, Surprisingly, Summarily, did not compose an ode, don't mine a new vein of ore, even write a plain poe poem as best can recall, at the candle melting of the sealing wax of the deal, gave an honest speech, instantly falling fast asleep with nary a grunted word ever since l, cannot write of plain love plainly, so she makes me pay with a new living elegant elegy daily, a quatrain, what a pain, this iambic panting meter love poem writing jeez louise, how I wish could write of roses red and violets blue, get back to sleep, oh well then, back to work got to make those sad moans, hers, go away, so please excuse me near ten years later, still paying the dues of the initializing error of my way she rumbles-mumbles in her pre-awakening dream state, so please excuse, got to go, think up some implicated complicated   verses to soothe away her simple poorly hidden anxieties you see, I am happy paying on and on, writing like the devil furious, she is stirring, coffee soon, cafe au lait if you get my meaning, but still cannot beat, repeat, re-alive that simple plain living poem notated, when first I came in her* <•;) 9/24/17 6:49am ~7:17am
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Sep 24, 2017
Sep 24, 2017 at 7:29 AM UTC
a plain poem (the first time I came in you)
a plain poem (the first time I came in you) a plain poem, light and effervescent, a flim-flan tasting, plein de absurde rimes, full of nonsensical rhymes, a lattice of criss crossing pastry sugary lines, the ones, cannot, struggle to deduce, induce, reduce from my constipated vocabulary oh well ~ *the first time I came in you, entered, bidden welcome, suffused a bridge between the party of the first part, the party of the second part, sugar lightness airy nonsense, two spirits dancing the singular pas de deux of their finite lives, a performance unbeatable, unrepeatable, lost to the perfection annals Shockingly, Surprisingly, Summarily, did not compose an ode, don't mine a new vein of ore, even write a plain poe poem as best can recall, at the candle melting of the sealing wax of the deal, gave an honest speech, instantly falling fast asleep with nary a grunted word ever since l, cannot write of plain love plainly, so she makes me pay with a new living elegant elegy daily, a quatrain, what a pain, this iambic panting meter love poem writing jeez louise, how I wish could write of roses red and violets blue, get back to sleep, oh well then, back to work got to make those sad moans, hers, go away, so please excuse me near ten years later, still paying the dues of the initializing error of my way she rumbles-mumbles in her pre-awakening dream state, so please excuse, got to go, think up some implicated complicated   verses to soothe away her simple poorly hidden anxieties you see, I am happy paying on and on, writing like the devil furious, she is stirring, coffee soon, cafe au lait if you get my meaning, but still cannot beat, repeat, re-alive that simple plain living poem notated, when first I came in her* <•;) 9/24/17 6:49am ~7:17am
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The ocean waves always come lapping to the sea shore at the waters edge there's hardly a difference any more. There three worlds meet that are all interdependent on each other; water, land and air merging on the ***** of our earth the Mother.
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Nov 18, 2011
Nov 18, 2011 at 8:47 PM UTC
Quatrain #97 - The ocean waves always come....
Cutting and slashing Is love everlasting Never breaking the skin It mutilates from within
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Sep 4, 2016
Sep 4, 2016 at 9:55 AM UTC
A Quatrain About Love (or Pain)
The sun, the wind, the rain and the moon, these are the things that make earth bloom. Over four distinct phases during the course of one year, harmony of each with the other is achieved without fear.
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Nov 9, 2010
Nov 9, 2010 at 8:03 PM UTC
Quatrain #41 - The sun, the wind, the rain and...
God is the Infinite Love, Wisdom and Beauty we are all seeking; the Eternal Glory and the One True Friend really worth keeping. Though we can't readily see Him with our worldly eyes He is there just the same and without any compromise.
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Nov 9, 2010
Nov 9, 2010 at 7:57 PM UTC
Quatrain #34 - God is the Infinite Love...
Love is endless and love is free love's everything to you and me. Love is now and love will always be love's everywhere to those who see. _________________
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Apr 15, 2016
Apr 15, 2016 at 7:45 PM UTC
Quatrain #263 - Love is endless and ....
O God, may Your light of love and truth always shine through illuminating all the darkness and dispelling our ignorance too. You are the Only One That eternally shines by Its own infinite light and everything’s a reflection of Thy glory witnessed by divine sight. _____________________
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Apr 19, 2021
Apr 19, 2021 at 7:34 AM UTC
Quatrain #409 - O God, may Your light....
The phoenix is a bird said to rise from its own ashes being a symbol of immortality and spiritual rebirth. So life in this world undergoes many similar flashes which determine the degree and quality of our mirth. _________________________
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Oct 31, 2023
Oct 31, 2023 at 10:24 AM UTC
Quatrain #422 - The Phoenix