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Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month.
Write an acrostic poem.
Here I feel the need to place something like a line count: the "hidden message" must be AT LEAST EIGHT LETTERS (or, if they're embedded through entire words, AT LEAST EIGHT WORDS) LONG.
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single
pink
rose -
it
nearly
glows
to
invite
my
eyes
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Perfection is the key to this
Riddle, if I can just find the
One ideal solution then
Certainly afterwards the
Rest will all fall into place.
Although, I’ve heard it
Said that perfection can
Twist the mind and cause
Insecurities and hesitation.
Naturally the first step is to
Accurately size up the goals
Tally the to dos in a list then
Eat a snack and take a nap then …
The Soufflé isn’t the soufflé; the soufflé is the recipe. --Clara
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Beyond the realm of talking elephants
And devious crocodiles, listless in the sun
By the edge of a dense rainforest
A fly-ridden congress of rhinos whisper in the grasses
Rejoicing at the news of a tyrant’s downfall
Isacaron, Brother number one, lays out the revolution to come
Sings to the armorbacks grievances to stir their blood
Down with the chatter of unnatural elephants!
Each must pay for the rhinos repeated humilitations
All the elephant cities returned to the jungle, the trumpeters
Dispersed back to their herds once and for all.
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Two-Faced January
If certain counters’ counts were lies
no matter how they hid their craft
supported by complicit spies
unwilling to reform their graft
regardless of this fateful stroke
repugnant to an honest life,
each partisan, untrue and woke
conspires to treat as deadly strife
their People’s dread discovery
in learning those false counters lied–
of trust burnt past recovery–
now rage is fully justified.
Non-practicing atheist
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(04-14-2024, 01:33 AM)Mark A Becker Wrote: single
pink
rose -
it
nearly
glows
to
invite
my
eyes
liked this one!!
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Outside,
peppermint
enlivens
nostrils.
When
I
need
daylight,
open
window.
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Ants work hard insofar as they're slaves,
but a beetle rolling dung is a family man.
Cats cry out like children when they fuck
while dogs so rarely whimper.
Eagles are just vultures with great PR.
Fleas don't spread plague so much as advertise it.
Goldfish remember, they just don't care.
Herons prefer the desert to the sea;
ibises, the pitcher to the lake.
Jackals feed on children when invited
but kestrels relish the chase.
Lions yawn more than they roar.
Magpies gather silver where marmots hoard gold.
The nightingale does not love most the rose.
The octopus will not seize a sleeping woman.
Ostriches kick or run: they never hide.
Peacocks fly, ravens mourn their dead,
and starlings debate the law.
Some serpents forget the curse laid upon them.
They're born with legs, like tigers born pale white.
The urial remembers when all this was forest.
The vole remembers her partner's suffering.
The yak remembers last year's scar.
Zebras despise horses for being slaves to men.
