Over The Rainbow

The morning rays of the Sun cling
On the upper bow of the Rainbow
Emerge after a moment ‘s dusk
Brown Pelicans and Western Gulls
Fly beneath the lower bow
That touches the water
Send fishes into hiding

As I walk along the white beach
Looking at the sea, the blue waters

An Essay On Criticism

Part I

INTRODUCTION. That it is as great a fault to judge ill as to write ill, and a more dangerous one to the public. That a true Taste is as rare to be found as a true Genius. That most men are born with some Taste, but spoiled by false education. The multitude of Critics, and causes of them. That we are to study our own Taste, and know the limits of it. Nature the best guide of judgment. Improved by Art and rules, which are but methodized Nature. Rules derived from the practice of the ancient poets. That therefore the ancients are necessary to be studied by a Critic, particularly Homer and Virgil. Of licenses, and the use of them by the ancients. Reverence due to the ancients, and praise of them.

Alankar(Decor) -87

A Recipe(Uneven Couplet) -
The uneven couplet is paired lines of different length
rhymed or unrhymed, metered or unmetered.


A Recipe

That you would relish I'm sure
This recipe try it with pleasure

Lines On Reading Too Many Poets

Roses, rooted warm in earth,
Bud in rhyme, another age;
Lilies know a ghostly birth
Strewn along a patterned page;
Golden lad and chimbley sweep
Die; and so their song shall keep.

Wind that in Arcadia starts
In and out a couplet plays;
And the drums of bitter hearts

! ...Dont Tell The World! (Sonnet)

This Sonnet is in the popular Petrarchan Form

I behold thy love as beautiful thing,
In my wrecked heart, a pleasure garden,
Thy revered love, a blooming Eden.
A daisy tuft seasoned by bright spring,
Surging in moments that defeats waiting,
I behold thy words as a jeweled crown,
On my worn pages of despicable frown.
And thy memory feeds my mind dying,

Heroic Couplet On Mending Self

Heroic Couplet Form On Mending Self
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Living in the earth you are always dreamt
In the extra light, heavy merriment,
Then you are in the over ecstasy
Have been unnecessarily busy,
So, now you have no such extra moment

As The Neighbors Are Too Far (Heroic Couplet)

Now neighbors are too far
And have closed the door
So there is a tone of horror
Echoing no more, no more
Day passes hour by hour
But night passes with fear.

Copyright © Muzahidul Reza | 11/27/2016

Forget Me Not

Forget-me-not, I felt how fair you be
the pleasing mien of you still haunts my eyes
though I must stay away from where love lies
so many flies they make it hard to see

oh, God has made a flower very fair
your petals are too shiny for a bloom
that God may let you clear the hatred gloom
and splay your scent of peace toward the air

A Couplet, Written In A Volume Of Poems Presented By Mr. Coleridge To Dr. A.

To meet, to know, to love--and then to part,
Is the sad tale of many a human heart.

0243 The Sonnet

Why is this sonnet form so dear to me?
this silent cloister of the singing heart
where I may be myself in sanctity
yet meet beloved strangers there in art;

a shape like some great arch across the world
where every word has music in its sound;
a place like prayer, inner maze uncurled
to find a pattern in that measured ground;

Lines On Mr. Hodgson Written On Board The Lisbon Packet

Huzza! Hodgson, we are going,
Our embargo's off at last;
Favourable breezes blowing
Bend the canvass o'er the mast.
From aloft the signal's streaming,
Hark! the farewell gun is fir'd;
Women screeching, tars blaspheming,
Tell us that our time's expir'd.
Here's a rascal
Come to task all,

Heroic Couplet On A Bit Of Sense

Who stop bursting an atom bomb?
A bit of sense from the brain,
Who help bursting an atom bomb?
A bit of sense from the same brain,
Good answer to the good question
You are really the brilliant of the situation.

Copyright © Muzahidul Reza |12/10/2016

As The Danger So The Savior (Heroic Couplet)

Though the attackers are many in number
The escaper is courageous and clever
So the attackers have failed to harm that
The escaper has befooled them in fact
Though the danger is dense and severe
The Strategic Manager is called the Savior.

Copyright © Muzahidul Reza |11/8/2016

Attempts In Need Of Being Safe From Burning Fire (Heroic Couplet)

Fire is empowered to burn
The things come in relation,
But the wise keep themselves
Far from fiery evil occurrence,
And if fire burns anywhere
To extinguish they hurry there.

Copyright © Muzahidul Reza |2/14/2017

One Evening I Saw The Life- Couplet

One evening on the banks of the river, I saw the LIFE
Flying like a bird, trying to cross the horizon.

One evening in a flower garden, I saw the LIFE,
Fluttering like a butterfly, hovering to suck nectar from all flowers.

One evening by the sea shore, I saw the LIFE
Dancing on the waves, trying to hit every rock.

One evening near a mountain, I saw the LIFE

A Small Couplet

in thoughts of you, peace found
in surrender, bliss unbound...

21dec2009
11.57hrs

Heroic Couplet For A Modern Talking Bird (A Tribute To A Modern Poet And Critic Bri Edwards)

A Modern Talking Bird
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A modern talking bird
Is Bri Edwards,
How much he talks! And is too hot! !
But these traits will help him to write
Some big books
With his wife,

Verses On The Death Of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D.

As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew
From Nature, I believe 'em true:
They argue no corrupted mind
In him; the fault is in mankind.
This maxim more than all the rest
Is thought too base for human breast:
'In all distresses of our friends,
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent to ease us,
Points out some circumstance to please us.'

Don Juan: Canto The Ninth

Oh, Wellington! (or 'Villainton'--for Fame
Sounds the heroic syllables both ways;
France could not even conquer your great name,
But punn'd it down to this facetious phrase-
Beating or beaten she will laugh the same),
You have obtain'd great pensions and much praise:
Glory like yours should any dare gainsay,
Humanity would rise, and thunder 'Nay!'

I don't think that you used Kinnaird quite well

0037 Ode To The Patience Of A Yawning Audience

O come sweet sleep, and close my eyes with verse!
with drowsy metre, meet a deeper sleep;
to sleep, to dream, I never am averse -
to slumber numbed by poet's numbers deep;

so, here's a verse that's very brief - a sonnet:
just fourteen lines to challenge your attention:
please rest your weary ears, I pray, upon it;
head up; back straight; let go of any tension;