Famous Quoted Line Poetry Contest

[cacian]

Ok this is I believe due. I have enjoyed every single entry.

Prendrelemick: ''Anne and Will'' is a scream i enjoyed it a lot now where is that guitar? haha.

Melanie: cha-ching indeed. Is that supposed to imitate the sound of Kerching?! this piece is clever and says a lot about modern time marriages.

Pendragon:
''Love does not lie in looks, in status, in wealth so fleeting
Love lies in hearts entwined, in shared experience, in synchronized thinking''
Great lines and a very enjoyable poem.

YesNo: I like this piece especially the last stanza. every line reads perfectly.

and so the choice is difficult but since there can only be one winner i think i will have to go for YesNo!!! because the last line just did it for me.
Congratutaions YesNo.

[YesNo]

Thanks, cacian!

The next quote is from Wordsworth:

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her

This is from lines 122-123 of his Tintern Abbey poem: http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww138.html

Deadline: June 22

[Melanie]

Melanie: cha-ching indeed. Is that supposed to imitate the sound of Kerching?

Congratulations YesNo!

I never heard of kerching so I looked it up out of curiosity and read a bit of trivia saying that was the original word used but then a popular children's TV show used it repeatedly as a response to sarcasm.

Since cha-ching is a slang word, dictionaries like Urban Dictionary and Wiktionary posted definitions:
"Onomatopoeia, imitative of the sound of a mechanical cash register when an amount is rung up. Popularized by the 1992 movie Wayne's World..." ~wiktionary

[prendrelemick]

well done YesNo, that was well deserved.

[Dark Muse]

Nature's Lovers

I caught the golden gleam in the sky
and for a moment the shadow passed
across my face, and I knew my heart
soared up there caught within the
raptors claws, and thus I had no choice
but to follow.

I became lost within the prevailing mist,
but I heard a song that called to me,
and I trusted myself to the music,
guided blindly through the strange
dreamlike haze which descends
as soft dew around me.

I emerged upon the precipice
as the water rushed beneath my feet
to tumble down below, roaring in my ears,
I heard the subtle undertones, the language
as old as time, and I knew the truth
that Nature never did betray the heart
that loved her, so I spread my arms
and flew.

The wind rose up to meet me
and it was only too soon that I was
rejoined with a flash of golden feathers
of a raptor which held still unscathed
my heart between his kingly talons.

Down together we tumbled,
we fell among sweet meadow grasses
and the bird was no longer a bird
but a man who played beautiful music
upon a willow reed pipe, he sung Bardic
songs which made even the stars weep
and Nature held us there within her arms.

[Pendragon]

Congratutaions YesNo!

Natural Feelings

Love is something that defies all odds
Goes beyond every limit, point of no return
Sometimes it shapes us, a new lesson learned
The stars are not right, we have angered the Gods

Love can be fickle, love can be strong
Fleeting at best, or unshakable magic
Leading to bliss, or tearfully tragic
Portents of heartache, love gone horribly wrong

We all are just human, with feelings that blur
Love turns sour, our eyes turn away
Human emotions are bricks made of clay
But Nature never did betray the heart that loved her

Cling to Mother Nature to avoid being hurt...

Pendragon
(C) 6/5/2013

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Jack’s Magical Fruit - A Poem in Three Parts

PART I (You are what you eat)

Weaned on that lofty beanstalk that sprung
out of the earth from which magic beans were hung,
our boy Jack thrived on fruit of the vine
that transformed his GI to something far from divine.
5.. Whether kidney, charro or baked by Heinz,
potential suitors only closed their blinds.
There was Beatrice, Sally, Delilah -all disappointments
each departing, feigning false appointments.
Enter Fairy Godmother, a stereotypical caricature,
10.. who proclaimed; “Only true love can silence thy nature.”

PART II (There are many fish in the sea…one is destined for you)

Let us head south to gastronomic Lyon,
where proud parents coo at their new scion.
Her Christian name is given as Abbey Le Pew
Odors most foul, she would tersely eschew.
15.. Her stepsister’s chores held her in thrall
dashing Abbey’s dream to attend the ball.
Saturday morn while trimming the shrubbery
she espied a young prince on Rue de la Nunnery.


PART III (where true love conquers)

Jack cleared the streets with his invisible specter.
20.. It was over a Boxwood when he finally met her.
Jack’s bowels suddenly seemed out of sorts.
This pretty French Lima quelled his reports.
Out of his mouth spewed a fusillade of flatter,
the bum end was mum it would no longer chatter.
25.. Abbey was heaven scent, by the Godmother it seemed.
They attended the ball - with true love all is redeemed.
My work here is done, mused the Fairy Godmother;
“Nature never did betray the heart that loved her”

When the Abbey’s a rock’n
30.. Don’t bother knock’n

[Adolescent09]

Great stuff, YesNo!

The pacing of this poem is off, I know, but I'm unsure of how to fix it.


Crossed
Adol09

The woman at the wheel of her stuffy car
crossed at the priest who touched her boy
sped by a homeless man.
One will for justice was all but spent
One will to live was at an end,

Days later a priest chuckled
as someone announced "Not..."

Some time thence,
a street-dweller met a long-lost kin,
the day joy’s undertaker made his grave
Maybe, just maybe someone found happiness,
or maybe a few states away
a woman had crossed her chest.

[prendrelemick]

“Nature never did betray a heart that loved her.”

She said, as she went to hug her tree,
And so she chose a natural therepy.
Forgeting her cancer was nature too.

“The spirit must be cured first” her Guru said,
“The pathway to health is within your head.”
But so was the tumour.

“Modern medicine has forgotten so much.”
She chose instead the faith-healer's touch,
But cancer is its own deity.

It was the pain that made her relent,
But by then she was wasted and spent,
And the cancer was thriving.

I spread her ashes under the tree,
And as grief passed I began to see.
Her death was a natural one.

[cacian]

nature never did betray the heart that loved her
but it did stand still for the world that caught her
balance her porter
steel her mortar
nothing else would oppose her

[Melanie]

The Miracle
(true story of Kristen)

"mama", "dada", "twee"!
she pointed at
our tall backyard tree
she loved trees.

the trunk held our hammock
she reached up to
rock with her daddy
in his arms.

the weight uprooted
the tree as the
trunk fell over her
tiny head.

but nature never
did betray the
heart that loved her so.
and wondrously...

a perfect straight trunk
had just one crook
right where her head was
and never touched.

how did the tree know
to grow a crook
for what was going
to save her?

[cafolini]

Beautiful little story, Melanie. Mystery and miracles go hand in hand because coincidence cannot be proven.

[YesNo]

Thank you for all the entries!

Dark Muse: This was an enjoyable fantasy with a happy ending.

Pendragon: I liked the "unshakeable magic/tearfully tragic" lines.

Gilliatt Gurgle: Nice line about "heaven scent" and the "rock'n/kock'n" last two lines. I suspect the whole village was glad Jack found his true love.

Adolescent09: There is an interesting parallel in two uses of "crossed". The second short stanza puzzled me.

prendrelemick: One should probably take the guru's advice only when the cancer can't be cured in any other way. It is all natural.

cacian: Nature also seems to stand by and wait as I think you are pointing out in the second line.

Melanie: I agree with cafoliini that this was a very nice story.

I enjoyed them all.

The winner: Dark Muse

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Well done Dark Muse!

[Dark Muse]

Thank you, I will have the next line up soon.