A wild revolution of body and mind When towards self you begin to be kind
Good for the Health
Tag: Poetry
Token
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt - thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku a badge of honouran expression of meritpyramid relics ©JezzieG2022
Sonnet Reversed Notes
Created by: Rupert BrookeStructure: Couplet and 3 quatrainsMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: aa bcbddedefgfg Example Sonnet Reversed by Rupert Brooke Hand trembling towards hand; the amazing lightsOf heart and eye. They stood on supreme heights. Ah, the delirious weeks of honeymoon!Soon they returned, and, after strange adventures,Settled at Balham by the end of June.Their money … Continue reading Sonnet Reversed Notes
Fateful Moment
Far-reaching events changing the course of living be it gentle persuasion or a hefty shove
Roentgenize
Inspired by Word of the Day Form: Lune exposing fractures reset bones healing in plaster ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Keeping Up Appearances
Simeon Jones has bought a new car it’s parked outside like a shining new star and his wife, Betty has the latest
Inclement
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku the air is bitingout where fog kisses the groundyet birds still sing joy ©JezzieG2022
Interlope
Inspired by AWAD – thank you, Anu Form: Kimo in serene moments of contemplationwhen those intrusions invadedid you have to butt in? ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Thus, Love Speaks
What are these words that speak of love so true In the wilderness of our busy world The wild words of love speak to me and you
Kissass by Allen Ginsberg
Kissass is the Part of Peace America will have to Kissass Mother Earth
Miss Dean Reads
Daisy Dean lived her life through fiction Predictions in writer’s diction
Mathnawi Notes
The Mathnawi is written in rhyming couplets and emerged from an Iranian form around the 4th-10th century, which goes a long way to explain the form’s Persian name. The subject matter is normally heroic, religious, or romantic.There is no limit to number of couplets employed, however the lines are usually between ten and twelve syllables.The … Continue reading Mathnawi Notes
Comfort Eating
Some turn to chocolate and others to cake when the heart is aching I know folk who eat a bucket of ice cream
Marathon
Inspired by AWAD – thank you, Anu, congrats on your achievement completing the Seattle Marathon Form: Kimo training nights building up the staminafor the big day, the big racea test of endurance ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Mansuetude
Inspired by Word of the Day Form: Lune tender carefulnessfound in lovethe gentlest kiss ©JezzieG2022
Dubitable
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku the borderlineto believe or not to trustsuspicious thinking ©JezzieG2022
A Desolation by Allen Ginsberg
Now mind is clear as a cloudless sky. Time then to make a home in wilderness.
Inspired by Peanuts
Talented hound Going back to my youth “Good Grief” it’s Charlie Brown And he’s acting the goof Now Snoopy is around
Lofty
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku soaring the high skiesaerial displays amazehe’s just hunting prey ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Magic 9 Notes
So the story goes typing too fast led to abracadabra being misspelled as abacadeba and thus creating the Magic 9,Nine lines of nine syllables with a rhyme scheme of abacadeba Example Bewitched by Divina Collins Shalt not thy deprave the spell of loveenchanted words that melts the heartthat cast thy spells deep within thereofwithin a … Continue reading Magic 9 Notes
Troche
Inspired by AWAD – thank you, Anu Form: Kimo with fevers feeling clogged up and chestysip honey and lemon teabut Strepsils will do ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Simple Choice
Hidden in the density of trees The secret plans of escape While humans lurch from scrape to scrape As the world falls to its knees
I Come from There by Mahmoud Darwish
I come from there and I have memories Born as mortals are, I have a mother And a house with many windows, I have brothers, friends,
Fable and Fire
Inspired by and written for Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge – thank you Ronovan Form: Haiku those mythical talescircle around the camp flameancient wisdom shared ©JezzieG2022
Trothplight
Inspired by Word of the Day Form: Lune announced in papersthey will wedor will they see sense? ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Expedition
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku travelling beyondto find truth in the unknowndestiny the quest ©JezzieGFarmer2022
My Light in the Dark
When tears were falling from my eyes And words of love just didn’t care You were there to hear my heart’s cries
Lost in Bach
Lost in the last strains of the intensity of sound and the intimacy of Bach on the moonlit air
Teem
Inspired by Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku hustle and bustlebags overflowing untilpresent shopping done ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Whinge
Inspired by AWAD – thank you, Anu Form: Kimo mouth overworked with endless complaininga bucket of nothing rightdo this, do that, nagging ©JezzieG2022
Jim by Hilaire Belloc
There was a Boy whose name was Jim; His Friends were very good to him. They gave him Tea, and Cakes, and Jam, And slices of delicious Ham
Malic
Inspired by Word of the Day Form: Lune autumnal flavourcrumble toppour on the custard ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Karma
you don’t get to say what I should think or pretend you are always there for me so, you can tell your friends how you saved me
Nitch
Inspired by AWAD – thank you, Anu Form: Kimo notches on the bedpost keeping a scoresmall cuts reminders of timesone-night stands counted ©JezzieG2022
Succotash
Inspired by Word of the Day Form: Lune a veggie side dishred pepperscombined with green beans ©JezzieG2022
Heart and Mind
Rose-hued eyes see a pretty face To dream of while asleep Before the heart learns to see true That beauty is skin deep
Inkling
Inspired by Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku a sneaking suspicionthis is too good to be truetrust the hunch is right ©JezzieG2022
Sunday Sonnet: With how sad steps by Sir Philip Sidney
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climbest the skies; How silently, and with how wan a face! What, may it be that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp bow tries?
Scent of Honeysuckle
You are here and I am not running away instead I answer you with my tears
Truffle
Inspired by AWAD – thank you, Anu Form: Kimo treasure hunting amongst the bric-a-bracof discarded memoriesanother jumble sale ©JezzieG2022
Intricate
Inspired by Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku Vivaldi soundsecho entangled in timeBaroque in seasons ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Cacophony of Discord
The night assaults all the senses Crashing sublime As beauty and terror collide Waves ride and climb
I Am There by Mahmoud Darwish
I come from there and remember, I was born like everyone is born, I have a mother and a house with many windows, I have brothers, friends and a prison
Casuist
Inspired by AWAD – thank you, Anu Form: Kimo trick of the eye in manipulationexcessively tossed saladreasons out of season ©JezzieG2022
Changing Guards
They're changing the guard at Buck house Jump on the tube or we’ll be late “Mind the gap” the tinny voice shouts I wonder if we will see Will and Kate? Or are they away shooting grouse?
Aegrotat
Inspired by Word of the Day Form: Lune experience countsexams missedsickness is no bar ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum by Stephen Vincent Benet
Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright As the blank windows set in glaring brick, When the wind strengthens from the sea -- and night Drops like a fog and makes the breath come thick;
Malcontent
Inspired by AWAD – thank you, Anu Form: Kimo discontentment like a viral diseasechronically complainingof nothing very much ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Pages of Lust
seeking literary pleasure among the aroma of dusty old books ancient first editions
A Question of Time
How long will your warmth hold me in bed While your gentleness grazes my skin From evening until the sun shines in Through the window of scattered dreams in my head How long will your warmth hold me in bed
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