BIRDSONG
Undepressed despite the rain, I feel no strain inside my nest. I've been blest on nature's chain with a tiny brain that helps me rest. A chilly blast makes flowers wilt yet every day my nest is built from scraps of past for eggs I lay. |
Out In the Rain
Through the window you look undepressed, while I stand out here soaked by the rain. It seems you are hearing the strain of a bird faraway in some nest. Your eyes look beyond me. I’m blest if I know what you’re seeing. What chain of wild thoughts are now plaguing my brain as the rain hammers down without rest! I have a compulsion to blast a hole through your door. I shall wilt out here in this storm. Yesterday you were kinder. What is it that’s built up inside that you cannot get past, a thing you won’t let me allay? |
Peter,
'Meet The Vladervlok' is a hoot! I love it! 'Master of the looney verse' is inspired. In "an envied oeuvre matched by few, surpassed" is that last word legal? This is an important question. Namely, can a homonym pass for the given word? Would that be kosher? Martin |
Sun-Depressed
In winter I am always sun-depressed, whether there’s snow or merely drizzling rain. I simply cannot take the constant strain of staying in this claustrophobic nest. Twilight comes much too soon. Although I’m blest by having enough food, there is a chain of murkiness and shadow round my brain that causes me to sleep less. I don’t rest. It’s torture waiting for the sun to blast through this melancholy. I shall wilt without those UVB rays. Every day I lose the vitamin D which summer’s built. I hope I make it till the earth gets past the solstice. Then I’ll sing a solar lay! |
Thanks Martin. You are probably right that "surpassed" won't make the cut. This was a case of the poetry, such as it is, acing the rules. My feeling is that, if "passed" for "past" is "unacceptable," so also will be the other liberties I've employed, which I hope will sneak in under the radar.
I like your latest, which I think is your best, though I'm having trouble seeing the murkiness and shadow as a chain. Peter |
This must be a record for the number of poems generated by a Speccie/Oldie competition. Brilliant stuff!
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Without going back through all the posts (I'm feeling lazy!), was it Roger who commented that there's a paucity of humorous bouts-rimés?I've had a go with this one:
I've passed my driving test - I'm undepressed, to say the least! And in torrential rain, but after twenty three attempts the strain had made my nerves a writhing vipers' nest. At last I'm off the Valium! I'm blest; the best instructor taught me, though he chain- smoked through my lessons, groaning that his brain must need some looking at. Poor man! A rest would do him good. I knew I'd have to blast my way through number twenty four. I'll wilt at some stage, though I won't forget this day. I'm thrilled - now I can have a garage built (or, rather, re-built). Four times in the past is where a massive pile of rubble lay. Can anyone please tell me how to get words into italics here? The usual 'Control i' gives me a strange bracketed word. I noticed that Spindleshanks put et al in italics in one post - so maybe you're the man to help me, Peter? |
Jayne, the Reply window should have a toolbar across the top providing all the formatting buttons, including the I, which I've just hit. Highlight the selected text then hit the appropriate button. Alternatively, you can bookend the text you wish to italicise with a bracketed I at the beginning of the selected text and a bracketed /I to close, as so, sans the internal spaces: [ I ] . . . . [ /I ]
Peter |
What happens, Jayne, is that the strange bracketed thingummy is transformed into real live italics when you press the Submit Reply thing. Like so!
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Ah, thank you, Peter and John. I'm about to give it a try (as you know, John, I am a blonde, which accounts for a lot!)
Any road up, as they say (somewhere) - feedback on my poem would be appreciated. The Oldie is going to be inundated with entries for this comp, n'est-ce pas? |
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