Full Moon Walk

Alternating homophonic and rhyming lines. 


Full Moon Walk

A tentative calm, a

Feeling found

Attentive comma,

(I missed a sound)

I've found another 

Place to fit it

Five hounds and others

Race to fitted

Star-sung serenades

Broken by clouds

Stars hung air in a 

Redolent shroud 

A cape for a spell

Sereneness crept

Escape for a spell

In measured step
A frog and crickets
Humming in tune
Off rocks and creek, it's
Dawn all too soon

Barroom Photographs

Six-syllable lines with even-lined rhyming. Intended meter of unSTRESSED unSTRESSED unSTRESSED.

"Might've" is not in the dictionary (also absent are "could've" and "would've"). I use them anyway, as I've always used them in speech.


Barroom Photographs

He might've said too much
That man that does'nt speak
Confessing to a beer
The secrets that he keeps

And she, the quiet-eyed
Presents herself demure
A dear old-fashioned prop
A part of her allure

Perhaps they shared a sigh
Behind the picturesque
Enunciated grins
And unencumbered jest

She might have been distraught
Or walked amongst the rain
The liquid on her cheeks
Are maybe but a stain

He might have been renowned
Or roughly debonair
He might have made a toast,
That man that was not there

Specimen A

I didn't feel like writing last week, so I didn't.  I didn't feel like writing this week, but I managed to churn out a sub-par backwards and forwards piece.  I think I need to alternate styles more; I'm getting burned out on the two forms I've focused on this year.

Specimen A

Remarkable Specimen A
Sitting still
All after curiosity
Whether it feels
It's studied
Categorized
Probing instruments
Precisely measured
Science!
Measured precisely
Instruments probing
Categorized
Studied
It feels it
Weathered curiosity
After all,
Still sitting

A specimen remarkable

Entertainment, Tonight!

While I've never been interested in the day-to-day affairs of celebrities, I don't feel as much angst toward them as this poem might lead one to think.  Homophones.


Entertainment, Tonight!


Sweater-vested
Absolutions
Sweat or vested
Ab solutions
A dressing-up
Of vacancies
Addressing up
Of vacant scenes
Oh so charming
In blazing glitter
Oh such harm in
Emblazing litter
Pretty please
Let me be leaving
Pretty pleas
Left me believing
In the skinny jeans
From the magazines

The Gambler

I'm not sold on the title, and it's becoming more difficult to come up with new homophones.  For the record, I don't know if the Sauk tribe have any casinos.

The Gambler

A fool, loaded
A fully-loaded
Lucky surge
Look, he's urged
To wind down right
Too wined, downright
Lost his shoes
Lost issues
Betting it all
Bedding a tall
Black rum
Blah, crumbs
Of more to lose
Adventure Las Vegas
Of mores too loose
I'd venture a vague guess
Lost more than the Sauks
Lost more than the socks
And barefoot, ventured home

Vagabond

backwards and forwards.   I'm getting a little bored with these, I find the homophone pieces much more fun.


Vagabond


Lowness
Necessitates vagrancy
What does one say
To so many flaws?
Tooth to nail
Dishevelment.
Understand?
Assume,
Just don't judge.
Dont' just assume
Understand:
Dishevelment,
Nail to tooth,
Flaws many.
So to say,
One does what
Vagrancy necessitates;
Lowness

The Celebrated One

lines are homophonic or simple rhyming,   it might need a little polish, but for now I like it.  



The Celebrated One


I almost said hello
(our eyes did not meet)
I almost sat hollow
Lockets at your feet
Where with all the awed
Gathered in a heap
Wherewithal, the odd
Vanity we keep
Fallen higher
Unchecked gyres
Fall in, "Hi," or
Well, not quite

While passing on the street
I almost said hello,
But our eyes did not meet