Monday, September 10, 2012

Sonnet A To Z (Humor and Poetic Prompts)








A reads a book, while B prays to the Lord,
C dates D near a brook, who acts bored
before drinking E's hot tea, F retires, G lends a hand
on H's car rental business, I do understand,
J is sailing a boat
while K is collecting the field of oat,
L and M open a barber shop
with N and O getting married,
P lies to Q, R meets S at Ihop,
W strongly disagree
and decides to hire X, Y, and Z
before it's too late,
A reads a book to play the game of fate.

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Monday, September 3, 2012

The Haunted Palace (A Feature for World Famous Poet Named Eagar Allan Poe)


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in the greenest of our valleys,
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace,
(Radiant palace) reared its head.
In the monarch thoughts dominion
it stood there!
Never seraph spread a pinion
over fabric half so fair.
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Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow
(This, all this, was in the old time long ago);
And every gentle air that dallied
in that sweet day,
Along the ramparts plumed and pallid,
A winged odor went away.
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Wanders in that happy valley.
Through two luminous window, saw
spirits moving musically,
To a lute's well-tuned law,
Round about a throne where, sitting
(Porphyrogene!)
In state his glory well befitting,
The ruler of the realm was seen.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

His Island (Poetry Rally Week 71 at Hyde Park)


Far away: thunder storms, haunted homes,
Teachers' lounge, fisherman's boats,
Snow-covered mountains
above Cape Red Lake,
August, the fair time,
All the churches of Christian
are pinned in painting,
Standing next to one another
like a priest's extracted
wisdom teeth,
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We plot football games strategies,
and cook out at paid lawns,
Tilt our notebook, pages hot
from the sun, and draw stars
with images of bottomless smoke,
Between lines,
Orange slashes of a torched island flash,
Letting it pass upon the realization
of dead end.



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