While seeking pleasure beyond the mundane To rise above this, mortality’s plane...
Rising Up
Tag: Poetry
Melenesian Sonnet Notes
Created by: Jose Rizal M ReyesStructure: Octave and sestetMeter: Decasyllabic LinesRhyme scheme: aabaaaba aababb Example A Simple Flash! By Larry Eberhart She thinks perhaps I dream of her at nightand miss her when she’s somewhere out of sight.She believes that somehow I deserve respectand am her thoughtful brave and charming knight.She thinks it’s fun to … Continue reading Melenesian Sonnet Notes
Haiku
Form: Haiku warm strawberry moonbreaths of a night made in lovedreams of lust remain ©JGFarmer2021
Another Night Another Tear
Alone in the darkness thoughts running wild vivid and vibrant as they antagonise the nerves with doubt belittling my soul with fear...
Abecedarium Notes
Commonly used as didactic poems or children, such as A is for Apple,…, the Abecedarium is a poem with words or stanzas beginning with successive letters of the alphabet. Example As Easy as ABC b Jez Farmer Arouse the senses,Breath meeting quivering lips,Craving mouth-watering moments;Delirium found in lust's first kiss. Eagerly tongues caress,Foment inner dilatation,Grasping … Continue reading Abecedarium Notes
#Writephoto – Health Before Wealth
And I say, I’m a poet, love The writing of verse ain’t good for wealth But, baby, it’s sure good for my health....
A Wave of Hedonism
No candy is sweeter and no lemon more sour as the moment our lips meet...
Let Me Die a Younger Man’s Death by Roger McGough
Let me die a youngman's death not a clean and inbetween the sheets holywater death not a famous-last-words peaceful out of breath death...
Love Concealed in the Rat Race
As the last beams of the moon kiss the night Stars towards the morning sky drift Dancing memories tickle at the feet Lips murmur softly at dawn's caress...
Haiku
Form: Haiku vanity in glassoutward looking in reversebeauty lies within ©JGFarmer2021
As You Lightly Go
As the autumn leaf that floats on past me Sacred waters must carry you away And there are no words left for me to say For now you must travel forever free...
Moonlight’s Bliss
A gentle love you and good night While waiting for the house to sleep So passion can again take flight And across the old floorboards creep...
Haiku
Form: Haiku stone cold barrierprotects shards of the brokenbehind walls time heals ©JGFarmer2021
Celestial Music by John Donne
I have a friend who still believes in heaven. Not a stupid person, yet with all she knows, she literally talks to God. She thinks someone listens in heaven. On earth she's unusually competent. Brave too, able to face unpleasantness...
Material Matters
A chaos flows in taffeta and silk The fabric cascading on chairs and floor In the sweetened hues of honey and milk...
Haiku
Form: Haiku inspiration fallsgently like leaves on a breezeseason of poets ©JGFarmer2021
Misleading Beauty
Intricate weavings bedazzled by early morning dew offer the promise of the rising sun beautiful and beguiling jewellery...
Abbreviated Haiku Notes
Abbreviated Haiku I Of Japanese origin this abbreviated haiku has the feel of a haiku in two lines, the first of ten syllables and the second of two. Whilst a reference to nature is not mandatory it is encouraged. Schematic:xxxxxxxxx: Example Lost Inside by Jez Farmer to reach outside from withinthe box that holds me … Continue reading Abbreviated Haiku Notes
Haiku
Form: Haiku from corner post perchhis dark eyes survey the worldtil black wings seek sky ©JGFarmer2021
Grief by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward to God’s throne in loud access...
Appreciation of Love
Again I am in your debt a debt money can never repay there is no price I can place on your love...
Name of the Game
With counters chasing up the ladder stairs Only to stumble down to a snake’s tail Outside the rain falls with us unawares...
Elegy by Jorge Luis Borges
Oh destiny of Borges to have sailed across the diverse seas of the world or across that single and solitary sea of diverse names, to have been a part of Edinburgh, of Zurich, of the two Cordobas, of Colombia and of Texas...
The Love of Pan
I watch you watching me as if we are divided by the universe and all the stars and worlds within and your eyes continue to stare like I am some kind of experiment...
Heritage by Countee Cullen
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang? One three centuries removed From the scenes his fathers loved, Spicy grove, cinnamon tree, What is Africa to me?....
Haiku
Form: Haiku storm clouds regatheracross the searing flame skiesflash, roar, heat recedes ©JGFarmer2021
Son of Aphrodite
A sensual little number she thinks concealing nothing beneath sparsely stretched silk as she walks down the street...
Short Particular Measure Notes
Short Particular Measure consists of six line stanzas. Lines 1,2, 4, and 5 are composed in iambic trimeter and lines 3 and 6 are tetrameter.The rhyme scheme is aabaab Example The Way Ahead by Jez Farmer Aggression within meAs eyes open to seeMy destiny is waiting thereLet my spirit go freeBe man I’m meant to … Continue reading Short Particular Measure Notes
Brief Intro
A writer of poems at forty A lady but not of leisure I live in England, how haughty My pet cats are divine pleasure...
Marshalline Sonnet Notes
Created by: Marie MarshallStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Nine syllable linesRhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg Example Gatherings by Jez Farmer A musical march matches the gownBefore promises of wedded blissConfetti falls like a gentle downOn the embrace love’s first bridal kiss.New life held in arms given a nameInnocence before the joy of lifeNo … Continue reading Marshalline Sonnet Notes
Haiku
Form: Haiku his thoughts seek answershigh in the mountain silencenew horizons seen ©JGFarmer2021
Nobody Knows
What does tomorrow bring If only we could tell Yet the future is ours to sing In the hope it turns out well No magic spells tonight As we pray to the moonlight...
Past and Future by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My future will not copy fair my past On any leaf but Heaven's. Be fully done, Supernal Will ! I would not fain be one Who, satisfying thirst and breaking fast...
Slow Jam
A hot summer’s day in a jam of cars All moving forward slower than a snail By the time we get there views will be stars The planned picnic today is doomed to fail...
Bluebird by Charles Bukowski
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you...
Lazy Day Sonnet Notes
Created by: Rebecca KerrStructure: QuatorzainMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: aabbccdddeeeff Example Lazy Day Love by Jez Farmer A cautious heart treads the path of love slowWith doubts floating freely on the air flowAnd trust a distant hope far out of reachScepticism a rough and pebbled beachWithout the soft sand that so gently leadsThe soul away from … Continue reading Lazy Day Sonnet Notes
Standard Habbie Notes
The Standard Habbie, or Burn’s Stanza, consists of 6 rhyming lines, lines 1, 2, 3 and 5 being iambic tetrameter or eight syllables, and lines 4 and 6 being iambic dimeter or four syllables. The thyme scheme is aaabab, cccdcd, eeefef and so on. Example Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns Fair fa' your … Continue reading Standard Habbie Notes
The Deadly Pudding
An uncrowded bistro in Montmartre soft music and the rapture of French cuisine tormenting the senses with romantic sounds and long forgotten aromas reawakening those Parisian days with you....
Shadows of Existence
I dwell in the shadows of existence Neither living nor dead I be. The pulse of a heart in resistance Kept on a brink of sanity...
Another Balls-Up
A question briefly crossed my mind today The question no-one ever seems to ask And if they did then what is there to say...
Haiku
Form: Haiku sweet teasing too longlonging lips moist with desirechocolate melts slowly ©JGFarmer2021
Kiss Cross Sonnet Notes
Created by Jez Farmer. Kiss Cross Sonnet 1 Structure: 3 quatrains and a coupletMeter: Octosyllabic or tetrameterSchema: aabb ccdd eeff ggExtra parameter: Part of each first line of each quatrain is mirrored in the fourth line of each quatrain Example Loneliness In Love by Jez Farmer Loneliness appeared from nowhereMy heart lost, love a distant … Continue reading Kiss Cross Sonnet Notes
Love’s Dystopia
In this darkened room the feelings are too familiar so familiar I don’t know their name for the ravenous silence prowling over my skin....
Love in Balance
There is no avoiding the mortal pain Of captivation within chains of love This life of you and I, there’s all to gain...
Haiku
Form: Haiku pulling white petalsdiscoveries of the heartmaybe; maybe not ©JGFarmer2021
Poet’s Desire
My darling, let your voice be soft As you lead my thinking aloft...
Always be a Poet, Even in Prose
Carrying bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves, Proud of her height as when she lived, she moves With all the careless and high-stepping grace, And the extravagant courtesan's thin face...
Haiku
Form: Haiku his wings soar abovemy feet walk free on the groundbirds of one feather ©JGFarmer2021
The Boulevard Montmartre at Night
After the rain, reflections of light Captivate the creative soul With impressions of Parisian night...
Do not Go Gently into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light...
