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| Re: One Poem For The Road by AmiableJay(m): 8:56pm On Oct 01, 2014 |
timpaker: HONEYMOON IN YEMEN (Limerick)Chai!!! |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by princesa(f): 10:48pm On Oct 02, 2014 |
Wrote this for a guy whom might feel heart broken 'coz of my action... Someday you'll miss me And rue the day you tossed my love away. Left a broken dream on a broken heart - A million sad pieces floating through space And still sail out to only you Though I let yours soar like the bird I wish they'd get trapped in Cupid's net - An arrow shot of love un-returned Then you'd feel the pain from a broken wing - Like a deep-seated fear to love again Of taking another love's mis-step And the crash of a breaking heart The same rhythm like mine. Only then shall you know my story And can tell the world the tune of my dirge. 3 Likes |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by zyzxx(m): 11:37pm On Oct 02, 2014 |
hmmmm @ princesa |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by AmiableJay(m): 11:21pm On Oct 12, 2014 |
Wow I'm so excited. I just wrote my first tanka ever although this one has a rhyming scheme almost similar to a limerick. And it really has no strong message but all the way all is experimentation. Dunno the title yet but amma name it sha like duh oh.Lols My First Tanka Ever In the realm of Scots The uncomely Thane of Fife Once envied his wife But indeed to spare her life Slew her handmaid in her cot. 2 Likes |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by AmiableJay(m): 11:29pm On Oct 12, 2014 |
THE TALE OF SAMSON "And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee" Judges 16:6, The Holy Bible A strangest apparition 'twas Like a moon skirting the rainbow His silence was her own impulse Their silvers' pledge pressed her to know The most fragile of earth's secrets: What shall be done to lift his strength? ~ Rummaging the haystack of memory A solitary hymn coiled in misery Filled Sorek's realm; untold to the heathen It's stinging verses doubled her aching Before her behemoth of desire Down dawns the day in the slopes of Zorah. ~ A Harbinger besought them in a rap "Neither strong rum nor razor to the scalp "Should thou him indulge For he shall be Judge And save Jacob's seeds from the Philistine" He fled the sky as brief as Devil's grin. ~ "Wilt thou be weak if a razor I bring To rid these locks direr than Dagon's wings?" A subtle question propped up with a press Of her bosoms on his chest as witness To testimony of her love for him She tried all tricks within her darkest whim. ~ Nights blew away like a weak tornado She ployed him tricklier than the first trio As deadly as the riddle at Timnath "How canst thou profess love without your heart? Tell me I pray thee what thy secret is" His succumb came at the best of her ruse. ~ Caved in to black goddess of subtlety Hair-ripped he was; still filled in stark hubris He swore more terror to the enemy Alas! Strength's plucked from him so were his eyes Later proved his noxious side at Gaza Unfettered in rage had his last slaughter. 2 Likes |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by timpaker(m): 12:36pm On Oct 13, 2014 |
Awesome bro. AmiableJay: Claire's Love in Hell (Tanka) Claire's hellish romance Blissful with glittering scars, Her quaint lover mugged Her docility, bridling Her marriage with sweet sorrows Special dedication to the one who must not be named. Hope the bas.tard gets jailed and you'd come be my second wifey  3 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by princesa(f): 1:58am On Oct 14, 2014 |
I pray thee dear Tim Keep faith with thy love's first wife Leave thee the ba'stard's own dame. For better and worse they swore Through strife, through cuts, through storms. Oh lookey! My first tanka!   3 Likes |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by AmiableJay(m): 10:19pm On Oct 14, 2014 |
timpaker:Chai. Cool down bro. Nice 'Tanka' btw. 1 Like |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by AmiableJay(m): 10:35pm On Oct 14, 2014 |
princesa:Rejoinder Tanka Lol The Czar has spoken Though with my art she implored Tim my fairer peer But if my heart she can read She'd find Tim's plight in myself. #Runs and hide# 1 Like |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by timpaker(m): 11:34am On Oct 15, 2014 |
princesa: Hajiya, This your tanka na wa oooo  The Tanka form has 5-7-5-7-7 syllable (count) Your third line has six syllables instead of five  And your fifth/last line has six syllables too instead of seven syllables  You did great.  Oya write another one.... 1 Like |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by princesa(f): 3:07pm On Oct 15, 2014 |
timpaker: I guess that's 2/5 then Thank you... Okay, assignment mode activated 1 Like |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by princesa(f): 1:07am On Oct 21, 2014 |
I wrote this poem exactly on 24th of August this year. It was period when there was like a dearth of poetry... It was so bad that I couldn't even pen a line or two. So I struggled (believe me, I did) to write something no matter how akward it came out. I also had everyone of my NL poetry friend in mind. Well here it is... Blank spaces Void hearts and minds Reaching out for glories past For shadows of beautiful dreams gone by When we weren't gagged from singing And our Spirits soared like butterflies, Our mouths filled with paints for the horizon In beautiful words that left men awed We knew then, the colours of love The secret key to stony hearts. Nature's portrait we easily drew While our fire burned in fiery flames Unquenched not by seven seas Now? There's even not a smoke where the fire had raged! Replaced by a struggle for deja vu's wisp And longings for water under the bridge. We let go that essence - The beauty of the inner eye Untainted Overflowing Mesmerizing Enchanting Filled with the magic from pen to paper. Where lay the diversion? The little yeast that spoilt the dough? That took away our beautiful lines and rhymes Leaving only drained out inspiration We must indee fan the embers What's life without a line or two to write? What's poetry if no pen-god serve at his feet? I guess that was then, but I still wanted to share. Tags: Timpaker, deflover, Firestar, amiablejay, Oma4u, Divepen, texanomaly, Tovot, badmusace 4 Likes |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by noble4d(m): 9:16am On Oct 22, 2014 |
wow! noble is feeling here.... oya make una feel my tanka/waka I love my angel. She is so sexy and cute. She has a pink lips, And lots of radiant hair too. She glows when I kiss her lips. 1 Like |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by timpaker(m): 10:06am On Oct 22, 2014 |
princesa: Great poem Hajiya, this indeed is a voice from the heart's mouth. Well, don't worry, we all feel that too once in a while. Btw, to the bolded...... In Olamide's voice "question for the gods" |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by princesa(f): 10:30am On Oct 22, 2014 |
timpaker:it not a Question for the gods Jo, Its a rhetorics 1 Like |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by princesa(f): 10:33am On Oct 22, 2014 |
noble4d: tanka's like this makes my cheek glow! Weldone and welcome |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by timpaker(m): 11:45am On Oct 22, 2014 |
noble4d: Sexy tanka! |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by OMA4U(m): 3:54pm On Oct 22, 2014 |
https://www.nairaland.com/1954571/nairaland-collaborative-poetry-competition-season#27358574 You are welcome to Nairaland Collaborative Poetry Competition Season One. Click the link above to join us. It's gonna be fun! |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by OMA4U(m): 4:20pm On Oct 22, 2014 |
Princesa, I love that zeal to pen even at the point of dearth. This's a reply: We must indeed fan the embers! Awaken the anthracite from the dead ashes With a bag of bellows blowing Fiery flames to unquenched inferno Where lay the burning wax of sensational poetry We must indeed fan the embers Rekindle the low fire that burns on cold coal Gulping down the elixir of poetic tea Then forever, we refine crude words into brilliant piece What is life without a line or stanza to write? What is poetry if demigods of pen's wearied mind slip? We, the harbingers of what pen can do We pledge our allegiance to poetic statue That we shall struggle to scribble Even at the utmost dearth of poetry OMA 1 Like |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by noble4d(m): 6:19pm On Oct 22, 2014 |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by noble4d(m): 6:20pm On Oct 22, 2014 |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by princesa(f): 6:34pm On Oct 22, 2014 |
Oma4u, that's so lovely, we pledge our allegiance indeed. |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by deflover(m): 4:20pm On Oct 23, 2014 |
i wrote this poem for a girl i once loved but she is far away from me now......i wish i could see her again but i need enuff cash to put a ring on her if not i wont go near princesa(f) hope you like it My face Every day, in every way. I smile in pain, drained in rain. You dine in fame, I stare in vain. Every week, in every wake. I die again, gaining no grain. You walk in grace, I look amazed. Every month, in every ounce. I loose the game, to know your name. You laugh away, I see the play. You are not my friend, you are not my foe. You are just the love, I hate to loose. I walk in the shadow, I flee at your light. I stay in your dreams long after you wake, Hoping that someday, you might see my face. 3 Likes |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by philtrum(m): 8:32pm On Oct 24, 2014 |
Wet Music(Tanka) The sound of cymbals In the whispers of the wind Joined by the clap of thunders The music to which I sing And dance in the rain 1 Like |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by OMA4U(m): 12:40pm On Oct 25, 2014 |
THE MAN BEHIND THE MIRROR When rain and sun, drops and shines When flowers and thorns grow in the same bouquet When love and hates cloak under a garment When light and darkness appear in a partial shadow Then how do we separate evil from good How do we see the man behind the mirror? When life and death hover around a hanging breath When countenance of smile and hiss grow on a face When good and bad amalgamate as a ruler When the infallible judge sits on a fence When a coin stands on its rolling edge Then how do we know the side it shows? when water and fire well up in a well when heaven and hell have a single passage when magnanimous teeth furtively bite Then how do we see the man behind the mirror? Who reflects to us our needs in every way But hides behind, watching as we waste away When dirge and ode rhyme in one verse When the holy go on pilgrimage in a cesspool When wine and venom mix in a bottle How do we see the man behind the mirror? Who reflects to us our needs in every way But stand behind, leading us astray Tag: Timpaker, deflover, Firestar, amiablejay, princesa , Divepen, texanomaly, noble4d , badmusace, Chuksemi, royver 6 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by firestar(f): 10:12pm On Nov 01, 2014 |
Lesson Learnt Shards on the cracked earth Gathered underwater Breaths and chokes Inhales and swallows Summits and valleys Forests and meadows Criss-crossed scars Trap innocence behind bars Never whole Never there Never again 3 Likes |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by noble4d(m): 7:04pm On Nov 02, 2014 |
firestar: And what is this called? 1 Like |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by noble4d(m): 7:24pm On Nov 02, 2014 |
OMA4U: Nice 1 sir...four sestet...but would have love it more if is TERZA RIMA. |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by OMA4U(m): 8:49pm On Nov 02, 2014 |
firestar: Your style is succinct and beautiful! Well done, Poetess Firestar. It's just painful that you didn't let us round off our collab. |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by OMA4U(m): 8:56pm On Nov 02, 2014 |
noble4d: I have googled it out. Nice one, I shall try that soon. I'm working on a poem that it's taking time to edit. |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by firestar(f): 9:05pm On Nov 02, 2014 |
noble4d: Good evening, NNoble4d. Lessons Learnt. Inspired from Alicia Keys. "I was burned, now I call it a lesson learned... Another lesson learned ~" |
| Re: One Poem For The Road by noble4d(m): 9:40pm On Nov 02, 2014 |
firestar: I didn't get u dear But there is a way you can write that to be beautiful. I can teach you if you r willing to learn.Noble cares |
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