Month: April 2021

The shadorma is a six-line, 26-syllable poem (or a stanza – the syllable count by line is 3/5/3/3a/7/5.

Sunrise

Good Morning

He mumbled to me

Good morning

Good morning

Smiling I mumbled again

So begins a day.

Go to a book you love. Find a short line that strikes you. Make that line the title of your poem. Write a poem inspired by the line. Then, after you’ve finished, change the title completely.

Angry people are not always wise.

–– Pride and Prejudice.

For Darcy & Elizabeth

arlene s bice

Are they ever

an angry person has never

the cool, collective

words that are selective

that calms the abused

from words mis-used

better to leave the thoughts unsaid

let it rest, make peace or you’ll never wed.

Write a new poem that has the shape of the original; in which every line starts with the first letter of the corresponding line in the original poem.

Annabel Lee = After Love- arlene s bice

In time gone by, over the years

It happened with you by my side

Truly as i remember, i wept those bitter, salty, tears

Be it now or forever for me to hide

Always will i remember the love we closely shared

The love never faded though you have died.

The end of a century in darkened attendance

One of joy, sorrow, drama, love & romance

Dancing with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers

Swinging on a lamppost singing in the rain

With Gene Kelly getting soaked through

Saturating us with pure, gleeful emotion

Rebel with a Cause, Giant, Picnic and Ben-Hur

Living life through the creation of someone else

Excitement promised outside

Designed luxury of affluence within

Gone forever?

Maybe a rebirth will renew.

My Roads Not Taken (c)

arlene s bice

Choices to make, choices to make

Everything sold, leaving New Jersey

Where to go, where to go

Offers from Colorado, mountains call to me

Invitation to Kentucky, book shop to run

Friends in New York State & Maine

A Georgia peach said c’mon down

New Hampshire, Live Free or Die

Seeking, seeking, seeking

The voice came through, finally

The cards spoke clearly

The direction waiting for me

Lake, forest, rolling fields

North Carolina it would be

A visit was love at first sight!

Lots of life lived in 11 years

Now a home in Virginia,

I go where I’m sent

Happily with no regrets

Of the Roads not Taken.

1. April is Poetry Month!
2. My dentist who was my hero recently.
3. March is over with. It was a tough month.
4. Jane Austen spin-off books. Many carry her voice.
5. Spring temperatures.
6. Captain Midnight who makes me laugh and fills my days with joy.!
7. Dreams.
8. Social media.
9. Spring flowering trees and bushes. Gorgeous this year!
10. American history. The personal stories of those who built our country are fascinating!

So, Sun Ra Arkestra

your Seductive Fantasy

is like my dreams

topsy-turvy

upsetting the applecart

subjects popping up here

and there

and over that a way

full, bright colors

sound ? not so sure

about that

will check tonight;

but alive

taking me away

coming back

sometimes rested

sometimes exhausted

where have i been?