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wayoutwalt
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0 posted 2002-02-28 10:14 PM



Can allusion cause confusion?
Alliterative verse
Allegory tells a story
All we do is make it worse

Broadside ballad, I’m baroque
I can’t sell this here blank rhyme
The Bard and Browning. Bronte too
They brought it forth and anytime

Cinquain from a mere haiku
Classicism- yesterday
Does cacophony, here, like you
Carpe Diem “seize the day”

Do we dare do daring ditty
Dadaism deigns doggerel
Do you think you’re diction’s witty
In the dissonance, who can tell

Epic poems are ever long
Emphasis on a eulogy
In empathy, eyes grow ever strong
An ellipses means there’s more to see

Fables are so fabulous
Fixed forms, they aren’t for me
Free verse is the fear of us
An unfettered place to be

Gleemen are for going home
Our genres to the grave
Grateful for a loving gnome
Who gave its girth to ever save

A hymn and heroic quatrain
Have a savior at their heart
Hyperbole may hurt my brain
But homonyms tear it apart

Oh, iambic pentameter
Idealistically, I write some plays
I could never be called a quitter
I will write them “in medias res”

Juggle a jingle on their tongue
Jostle a jig or maybe two
Throw a dime into their jug
And that’s what a jongleur will do

Somehow we make the kenning
King’s English is outspoken
Kill the accent from beginning
A handkerchief my knows is broken

Who lampoons the limerick
Nay the lyricist says no doubt
Light verse may not lay so thick
But for laughter not do without

Meter just may mark my measure
Might I mean my metaphor
Minstrel’s music finds me pleasure
The poet’s muse will marvel more

Sonnets are not novelty
Make the numbers add to ten
If we need complexity
I’d say nonsense to nearing end

Ode to an oxymoron
And “Oh the onomatopeia”
Use them both and this I’ve swore on
On some other day, I will see yuh

Palindrome’s are purely pleasing
“Stop on no pots” makes good sense
To say that I am only sneezing
Is a pun in present tense?

Quickly quoting poets quips
Quintets in a quivering form
Quills take ink in queried sips
And quietly quell the storm

Romance lost, once been revealed
Without rhyme there is no reason
Real poets write with sword they wield
Words are ripe and in their season

Satire is always within scope
Site for me a senryu
Sonnet writing? Lost… no hope?
Simile for me and then be you

I tried to be a troubadour
Trounced and trodden, tragically
I said hey tanka I’ll take no more
Then transformed to poet magically

Understatement under said
Undertake an ugly bliss
Understand what’s in my head
The upset heart utters this

Voice the verse without a vowel
Versify the visual vow
Vie for victor in vain for towel
Has vaulted in the ring somehow

Wordsmith wields a hefty weight
And whimsy works where it will
We all want what we cannot sate
The words to make hearts go still

Expect to exceed all exemptions
Extract from heart extra strong
Poets excel from this redemption
Extreme reward from there song

Can you feel a heart that’s yearning
You see your words and how they’re sung
Some be yielding some be learning
You have your heart forever young

We all have our poetic zone
Zeroed in on what to do
A zenith to each who have their own
We all belong in “Poet Zoo”

[This message has been edited by wayoutwalt (02-28-2002 10:20 PM).]

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Nan
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1 posted 2002-02-28 11:35 PM


Your Poet Zoo is toooooo poetic...
I went to see it the other day, but I got there at dinner time and all the poets were dining on hyperbole... Does that make sense??

wayoutwalt
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2 posted 2002-02-28 11:36 PM


ooooooooooooo yuh
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