The Latest School

See the flying French depart
Like the bees of Bonaparte,
Swarming up with a most venomous vitality.
Over Baden and Bavaria,
And Brighton and Bulgaria,
Thus violating Belgian neutrality.

And the injured Prussian may
Not unreasonably say
"Why, it cannot be so small a nationality

Necklaces And Garlands Around Bride

This is the ceremonial festival of marriage,
A bride is decorated with garlands and rings,
Necklaces she has worn with costly ornaments,
Beauty is attracting all, groom has to come.

Every poem you create here is your daughter,
Beauty grows with words and lines within,
Daughter poem looks like a bride for visitors,
Readers describe her beauty and give comments.

Nemesis

It is night-time when the saddest and the darkest memories haunt,
When outside the printing office the most glaring posters flaunt,
When the love-wrong is accomplished. And I think of things and mark
That the blackest lies are written, told, and printed after dark.
’Tis the time of “late editions”. It is night when, as of old,
Foulest things are done for hatred, for ambition, love and gold.


Racing from the senseless city down the dull suburban streets,
Come again the ragged newsboys yelping with their paltry sheets—

Cocktail Of Kalaeidoscope

(ALLITERATION)
Cows milked: mitigated mooing in the meadows then
Weaving on the warp, some workaholic women

Harvest of hapless halibuts on hooks
Bookish book-worms buried in books

A palomino and a pony patter on the paving
Hucksters and hawkers hawking every housing.

The Chance Operations Of The World Literature Into A Verse Paragraph

The Chance Operations Of The World Literature Into A Verse Paragraph
10 January, 2019

In the attempt to define the term 'literature', one can distinguish between two general directions: a broad and a narrow definition. The broad definition incorporates everything that has been written down in some form or another, i.e., all the written manifestations of a culture (hence, there are terms such as 'research literature', 'the literature on civil rights', etc.) . Needless to say that such a broad definition is problematic as it does not really facilitate communication about the topic. Furthermore, this concept neglects the fact that in many cultures in the past and for a number of indigenous peoples today, literature has not been captured in written media but has been passed down in a long oral tradition of storytelling, myths, ritual speeches, etc. Attempts to come up with a narrow definition have, however, led to such a diversity of approaches that one can hardly talk about 'the' narrow definition. Nevertheless, it is possible to sift out some of the criteria scholars have applied in order to demarcate 'literary texts' from 'non-literary texts'. These criteria include:

What's In A Poem?

Each word's a chord,
A tone, a colour,
Juxtaposing images and sounds
In harmonising order,
Assonance the flats to mollify the song
Alliteration sharps,
The plangent plucking of a harp,
Half rhyme I use
To vary the length and pitch of lines,
And introduce a complex contrapuntal strength.

Ode To The Poet's Craft

With words we weave a tapestry,
A world of beauty, bright and free.
Through rhyme and rhythm, meter too,
We bring our dreams to life anew.

Alliteration leads the way,
Repeating sounds that catch and stay.
Assonance, too, can add its spell,
With vowels that sing and dance so well.

Youth Is Dirty.

I lick your lobes with clever probes,
Alliteration, and rhymes so sturdy.
Still we choose different paths; different views.
You: Poetry is clean. I: Youth is dirty.

Know Holds Bard

To fix a headlock on a
metaphor, or
clamp a full nelson on a

simile, body slam a weak
double-entendre &
choke the life out of a

forced rhyme. To get a toe hold on a
trochee, apply an

A Glossary Of Poetic Words

I would like to re-submit this exhaustive list of terms associated with poetry and hope that members will make use of the list to understand different kinds of poetry in a better way.

ABSTRACT -a word denoting qualities that do not exist except as
attributes'- beauty, love, despair etc.
ALLEGORY -a narrative in which the subject of a higher spiritual order
is described in terms of that of a lower one.
There are HISTORICAL and POLITICAL allegories and
the allegory of IDEAS.
ALLITERATION -the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence

Clouds(Alliteration)

Wisps on the Wind
Floating, fleeting
Softly shape-shifting,
Cottonballs carried
Gently, gracefully
By brisk breezes.


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Sheer Scintillating Selections In Six Selected Seconds....

Sheer Selections in Six Selected Seconds
After having read his sweet sensational selection
the self has come to mind,
these lines to create for thine

with that Swedish Skoll for the LOL
and the Dutch Cheers for the Heineken Beers

this is no poetry procrastination
this is addictive aliens alliteration

Sport (Alliteration)

: Sport (Alliteration) 075


Can you canoe white waters in just a bucket?
Slam-dunk that Punk for stealing a car?
Watch Soccer aces pop your money in his pocket.
Or petite, pretty perky little Jockeys riding far.
Ten tennis stars can have their cake and eat it.
Chess masters checked from mating much this year.
Simple sailors asking weather weathers very clement.

Don'T Ask Me To Write A Poem

Poems are tricky expressions
It’s obvious you’re oblivious to that
Put one single word out of line
And the whole thing could go kersplat!
Similes are as difficult as quantum physics
Metaphors freeze my brain
Alliteration makes me mad
Personification beats me up with a cane
And rhyming! Don’t talk about rhyming!
Don’t even dream of mentioning that

My Poems Is Not Poetry

My Poems are not Poetry
Poetry rhythm is essential part
Communicative act of rhythms
Where words created music
An effect on the reader’s and listener
Words beginning with the same letter
And achieve a poetically effect.

My Poems has no rhythms
For the first time I don’t know

Lyrical Alliteration

T-he
I-mpressive
R-hyme
U-ses
P-leasant
A-crostic
T-o
H-appily
I-mpart

What Is A Poem?

A poem is a tale that is set to rhyme,
Preferably, to some, it meters time.
But some people just write whatever in the world
they want without any rules whatsoever.

A poem can use alliteration, metaphor, simile or symbolism.
Some prefer irony, ambiguity, hyperbole or euphemism.
But some just write what they feel for the mood they're in,
and don't pay any attention to anything.

On The Tip Of Your Tongue

The tip
of your tongue
is hidden sweetness
in dark places
lying in soft crevices between silken sheets
veins of visceral potential
alliteration
words lying unspoken
wishes
half forgotten poems

Words Well Worth 31: Slowly These Five

Slowly's sliced journey's length,
Slowly is stitched quilt's strength,
Slowly is climbed mount's crest,
Slowly, studies sans haste,
Slowly would wealth arrive,
Slowly, slowly these five!
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Transliteration of the subhāśhita along with the meanings of Sanskrit words seriatim is given as under:
shanaih panthāh shanaih kanthāh shanaih parvata-mastake |
shanaih vidyā shanaih vittam pancha etāni shanaih shanaih ||

Alliteration

Alliteration and assonance
Are what we need to make words dance.
Pretty poetic practices percolate the page,
As apples happily meet our approval and appreciation.
Words have music
As surely as the sun
Gives light.
And all these things
Are older than the hills.