Poetry Forms - the Letter B, part 1
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written_leavesMore experimentation with poetic forms - I've a dozen for B, four per set, on cats and gardens. I have an exceptional liking for the greenhouse one here.
Backwoods Boast: Pete
My cat Pete can outfight,
Out-sleep, out-eat
Any mountain-lion you should send
My way.
He's the pinnacle of catness,
Cattin' fatness
That could clear out a ton of mice
In one day.
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Ballade: Greenhouse Seasons
The sun grows warmer in the Sping,
Beneath the glass a waiting green
With silence of unspeaking things;
Their notable eloquence seen
In every vein, in budding keen,
In every leaf the shadows pass
By sunlight's touch in gentle beam,
All kept beneath the greenhouse glass.
With summer's warmth the long days bring
Abundant flowers, verdant sheen
O'er all the branches, finches sing
Amid sweet peas and flowering bean.
Wide open greenhouse doors are seen,
Dispelling heat, the sun like brass
Shining off every pane and seam
All bright beneath the greenhouse glass.
The days grow shorter, Autumn's wing
Sweeps over leaves, colored between
A day and night in frosted swing.
Tho' colors rampant, warmth is lean.
The last few sunbeams here to glean
Are held safe from the frigid blast,
Midst pots of flowers under beam
And window glazed from winter's grasp.
All through the year the leaves are seen,
As soft as petals, sweet as grass,
In sanctuary they remain
Safe held beneath the greenhouse glass.
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Barzeletta (in Blank Verse): Catmint
Ambrosia of the gods of felinity,
All feeling forgotten in amber repose,
Contortionist ripples in bewhiskered stripes,
Scent-ripened in nose-twitching, catnapping mint.
Catmint! Mintbound madness, insanity root,
A-writhing, a-hunting, a-dreaming, a-twitch,
Day-train trip of the senses all rumbling by,
Each car tumbled with sleepers, hallucinating,
A tail-lashing, leaf-crushing refrain: Catmint.
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Benison: Blessing for the Garden
May God's blessing be on this yard,
May He ever its fruit and flowers guard,
That our eyes should not lack beauty,
And our hands not shirk our duty,
For steward of God's earth we be,
As long as there remains thine and Thee.
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Backwoods Boast: Pete
My cat Pete can outfight,
Out-sleep, out-eat
Any mountain-lion you should send
My way.
He's the pinnacle of catness,
Cattin' fatness
That could clear out a ton of mice
In one day.
-
Ballade: Greenhouse Seasons
The sun grows warmer in the Sping,
Beneath the glass a waiting green
With silence of unspeaking things;
Their notable eloquence seen
In every vein, in budding keen,
In every leaf the shadows pass
By sunlight's touch in gentle beam,
All kept beneath the greenhouse glass.
With summer's warmth the long days bring
Abundant flowers, verdant sheen
O'er all the branches, finches sing
Amid sweet peas and flowering bean.
Wide open greenhouse doors are seen,
Dispelling heat, the sun like brass
Shining off every pane and seam
All bright beneath the greenhouse glass.
The days grow shorter, Autumn's wing
Sweeps over leaves, colored between
A day and night in frosted swing.
Tho' colors rampant, warmth is lean.
The last few sunbeams here to glean
Are held safe from the frigid blast,
Midst pots of flowers under beam
And window glazed from winter's grasp.
All through the year the leaves are seen,
As soft as petals, sweet as grass,
In sanctuary they remain
Safe held beneath the greenhouse glass.
-
Barzeletta (in Blank Verse): Catmint
Ambrosia of the gods of felinity,
All feeling forgotten in amber repose,
Contortionist ripples in bewhiskered stripes,
Scent-ripened in nose-twitching, catnapping mint.
Catmint! Mintbound madness, insanity root,
A-writhing, a-hunting, a-dreaming, a-twitch,
Day-train trip of the senses all rumbling by,
Each car tumbled with sleepers, hallucinating,
A tail-lashing, leaf-crushing refrain: Catmint.
-
Benison: Blessing for the Garden
May God's blessing be on this yard,
May He ever its fruit and flowers guard,
That our eyes should not lack beauty,
And our hands not shirk our duty,
For steward of God's earth we be,
As long as there remains thine and Thee.
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