#form poems on Hello Poetry

Jacob Jan 23

The stars from on high have been grabbed by hands on low
Cast from the skies the twinkle across the earth
Once seen in the heavens, now blinded by self made brilliance
Lost is the marvel of nature to the glory of machine

Inspired by a view of los angles on top of laurel canyon

#frustration #wonder #nature #modernization #free #form #reality

Jacob Jan 23

Beneficially Poor Station Placement

I sit out here upon my swiveled throne of humbled resplendence
Granted a momentary reprieve from work as storage is shuffled out
The early day's cool dance in contrast to the sun's blinding warmth

My desk was next to the bay door of a small warehouse.

#work #nature #free #form #reality

MetaVerse Oct 2024

Rondeau

The changing seasons are not more changefull
Then my mistresse; neither more vengefull
Is the wooing autumn wind that seduceth
A singing mood afore it blasteth
With bitter colde, angry and disdainfull.
Her scorne is lyke a scorpion sting painfull
In my sad heart wich bleedeth for banefull
Her who presently nowe observeth
The changing seasons.
Her cruell scorne capricious entiseth
My heart to dispaire; itt dispaireth
Dailye and dieth from disese most carefull.
Her scorne doth make my harte most woefull,
And so my smartyng heart despiseth
The changing seasons.

#love #wyatt #autumn #seasons #inconstancy #change #rondeau #fixed #verse #form

Falling Awake Oct 2024

Autopilot

It seems I don't know quite how to respond,
To the pain present, within and beyond,
So, my subconscious defaults to the lead,
With habitual patterns, I proceed…
Reliant on instincts and emotions,
These primal pathways take me through motions,
Now I’m acting rash, values misaligned,
Hurting loved ones in this stressed frame of mind,
All because I’m unable to pacify,
My cortex, drenched in stimuli.

#mental #illness #coping #rhyme #free #form #bipolar #selfinquiry #reflection

MetaVerse Sep 2024

Clerihew

Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Invented an eminently
Humorous verse form
Which is also a terse form.

#humor #clerihew #verse #lightverse #poetry #bentley #form #compact #succinctness

MetaVerse Sep 2024

the fall

the fall
     ing leaf
is all
the fall;
i call
     my grief
the fall
     ing leaf

#triolet #fall #autumn #leaf #fixed #verse #form #grief #sorrow #sadness

MetaVerse Sep 2024

alphabet soup

q                                                      h                                    r

t                                           x
                                                                                                                  p

                                            a

z                                                   y


i love u
        c                                                                                     j
                                       m
w

                       d                                                                        n
                       b

          k

                                  f

                           s                                                            g

#love #alphabet #free #freedom #space #poetry #explosion #form #formlessness

MetaVerse Aug 2024

Ballade

We're fishes in the internet
Caught in the catch of net the day.
The smartest smartphones place a bet
That some night soon you'll meet a gray.
A U.F.O. (or, as they say
In England Land, a yoofo) flies
From where sweet baby scarecrows play
And eye the stars with googly eyes.

While sweating drops of acid sweat,
A cyborg prays away the gay.
A covid sneeze that's extra wet
Is heading thine iambic way.
Tuberculariaceae......
Is the password!  You win the prize!!
Ride on a rocket to Mars, crochet,
And eye the stars with googly eyes.

If you should dance a minuet,
Throw in a twerk for Claude Monet.
I fly around a jumbo jet
While crying, "Climate change!  Obey!!"
Unqualified I fly (hooray!)
A plane that fails hardwarewise.
Olympic athletes play croquet
And eye the stars with googly eyes.

Enjoy a ride in Santa's sleigh
Before you make your reindeer pies.
Shake thou the darling buds of May,
And eye the stars with googly eyes.

#poetry #ballade #fixed #verse #form #shakespeare #tradition #cyber #tech #technology

MetaVerse Aug 2024

A Triolet

A triolet
     's a pirouette
In a ballet
A triolet
(Or should I say
     A triolette?)
A triolet
     's a pirouette.

#poetry #fixed #verse #form #dance #move #ballet #pirouette #pronunciation