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by Lecram06
Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:48 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Covid-19 Triolet
Replies: 6
Views: 5104

Re: Covid-19 Triolet

Oh, a beloved triolet.  
Marcel
by Lecram06
Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:47 pm
Forum: Post Your Poems
Topic: Covid-19 Triolet
Replies: 6
Views: 5104

Re: Covid-19 Triolet

Covid-19 Triolet What shape of matter would ever guess How we would come together like this release of dawn sparrows songs confess What shape of matter would ever guess Poets in motion who never rest But entwine as aspens – never desist What shape of matter would ever guess How we would come togeth...
by Lecram06
Mon Mar 30, 2020 12:45 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself Here
Topic: Lecaram06 aka, Marcel
Replies: 1
Views: 8088

Lecaram06 aka, Marcel

Daring to get back to the Tangled Branch without getting too tangled up in my dyslexic mode of negotiating in sites.  I want to prepare myself for the April One Poem a Day Challenge. We will see. Marcel
by Lecram06
Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:19 am
Forum: The Commons
Topic: Poetry Contest -- TTB's first ever!
Replies: 5
Views: 10602

Re: Poetry Contest -- TTB's first ever!

What does PM stand for?  The illiterate one.  Marcel
by Lecram06
Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:13 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Limerick
Replies: 25
Views: 48960

Re: Limerick

Colm Roe wrote:
Sat Aug 10, 2019 9:17 am
There was a young man called Pawel
who loved a old woman called Belle,
on their first night of lust
he examined her rust
and thought no thanks, it needs too much gel.

:roll: Marcel
by Lecram06
Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:11 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Limerick
Replies: 25
Views: 48960

Re: Limerick

I wrote a limerick once in high school English class 1958. I have it memorized-- There once was a man named O'Tool who, for a living, wound thread on a spool he got tangled one day, to his Boss' dismay now they call him the old spinning fool. (had I written anything like Lecram's it would have mean...
by Lecram06
Tue Aug 13, 2019 10:02 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Mid-Summer Poetry Fest Announces Poet Laureate!!!!!
Replies: 3
Views: 15901

Re: Mid-Summer Poetry Fest Announces Poet Laureate!!!!!

https://i.imgur.com/Yd7myWA.jpg Deb wins Poet Laureate of Mid-Summer Poetry Fest!! Winning Poem is "Tides".  Congrats Deb!!!!!!!!!!! Here is a gem to savor, poetry lovers: Tides Mindless games of Solitaire and Mahjong - weak levies  against the turbulent tides of an incandescent ocean bursting with...
by Lecram06
Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:51 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poetry Decathlon
Replies: 46
Views: 87490

Re: Poetry Decathlon

"Poet's choice" You Were Here Today I lean back in the chair and set the pencil down. I fail to see it dance across the page, or hear a sweet angelic voice. I smell the early morning light enveloping the grass after days of rain. No voice. No buzzing in my toes. I witness, for a rare unclouded momen...
by Lecram06
Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:32 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poetry Decathlon
Replies: 46
Views: 87490

Re: Poetry Decathlon

# 9  Free Verse I already wrote this poem I stand in water like egrets and herons venturing to wait it out from the shallows. Vicious gales I could fight if need twist hard today’s array. I scour to spot food float close, or feel  to find what might not be there – might never show beneath  a coat o...
by Lecram06
Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:28 am
Forum: Archive 2019 Mid-Summer Poetry Fest
Topic: Poetry Decathlon
Replies: 46
Views: 87490

Re: Poetry Decathlon

#10  Wild Card   Joe Blow Outgrows The Road Show In Serial American Sentences With  Square Poem Epilogue       Chicago’s           3       big toe banjo     4       mustachioed      4       cross bow           2       bongo cargo.      4       calypso radio     6       piccolo              3       ...