Oh sorry. I saw the title and thought there must have been a mistake. Thanks so much for contributing and please accept my apologies for the misunderstanding. :)
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Oh sorry. I saw the title and thought there must have been a mistake. Thanks so much for contributing and please accept my apologies for the misunderstanding. :)
No problem, I should have bolded the letters. Maybe it was a mistake to write one poem for both, but you posted asking for entries not long before I looked at that thread, so they fit together in my mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
Hardly what I thought it’d be:
Evening shifts to night
Like forever tediously
Looking for fresh light.
Obsession
Overwhelmed by the scent of you,
breathless within your presence,
senseless when your fingers brush my skin,
enshrined within your eyes,
suspended between sanity and ecstasy,
surrendering myself to you,
inhale your essence,
only you command my attention,
nothing will keep me from you.
Periodic Table
People studying
Everyting in existence
Raw material
In all you touch or eat
On everything you see
Dictating your genome
Indicating,
Coding
This is
All there is and all there ever will
Be, of
Life and everything in
Existence.
Nice work, everyone! I told you those were fun. We'll let the contest ride until Monday the 10th, then announce a winner.
Gain from gold
or gain from mist,
did them rise from Nothing?
Thanks for your contribution, Axolotl, and welcome back! :)
about an idea that
resonance finds jad
talent expresses it glad
Endearment,
To tell a lie is to cheat,
no trust we are incomplete,
the love is at a defeat,
a criteria we must not meet,
From the moment we met,
you I will never forget,
you I will never regret,
You I will never upset,
you I will never test,
you I will never jest,
You I will never reject,
My love for you is clear,
my heart I hold you dear,
I always want you near,
In my arms I never fear,
It was a summers day,
I sore you walk by my way,
You looked and said ''hey'',
I thought no way,
can this be true,
out of the blue,
instantly I knew,
I wanted you.
She's So...
She doesn't really know me
In that timeless sense assured
Least of all my poetry
Life's ripostes singly endured
Yet love survives like a tree
5/9/2015
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Examining my flaws and virtues
X-raying my existence
In search for redemption or
Some such assistance.
Through others I grasp for me
Externally validating my soul
Now to look inward and see
To what phantoms I lost control.
Ignorance can sometimes be bliss
Although intelligence is best;
Lies and comfortable illusion
Can put your mind at rest.
Restricted by time and space
It is but a hopeless dance.
Searching for hope or meaning
In this, life's hall of mirrors:
Such is our game of chance.
Okay, Joe wins. Congratulations, Joe, and take it away!
Thanks, Pompey Bum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
For the next form, let's go for terza rima.
Your poem has to be in three-line stanzas (tercets) with the rhyming scheme pattern of A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C and so on.
According to the Wikipedia link, you need to end it " with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet".
To make the contest interesting, let's set a minimum of three tercets. So a minimal poem satisfying these requirements will have the rhyming scheme
A-B-A,B-C-B,C-D-C,D
or
A-B-A,B-C-B,C-D-C,D-D
Of course, feel free to go beyond the minimum number of tercets.
Deadline: two weeks from today.
Enjoy :)
Meditation on Terza Rima
Remember old Dante?
His work in poetry
really upped the ante.
No matter how hard you try,
you will not do it as well
in English, barely a far cry.
As anyone to you will tell -
if they studied Italian by
a candlelight - there are, well,
More rhymes in it than
there are flies in a bar
or cinemas in Cannes,
Allowing you to go far
further and more naturally
into the depths of lunar
Exploration, searching each valley
Of the mind in the darkened alley.