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MAD KANE
MONDAY POETRY TRAIN REVISITED
For TOP - Aubade
FOREVER AGO
A
lonely
man must wait
At last she comes
Claims her love will last
for ever … never fade
Dreaded vote of confidence
precedes her planned intention
Terms, conditions, warnings, threats
In place of passion – tension
accusations, denials
questionable endeavour
She leaves as dawn announces
the first day of forever
Alone again so soon
a man considers
How rapidly
‘Forever’
becomes
a
distant memory
A
lonely
man must wait
At last she comes
Claims her love will last
for ever … never fade
Dreaded vote of confidence
precedes her planned intention
Terms, conditions, warnings, threats
In place of passion – tension
accusations, denials
questionable endeavour
She leaves as dawn announces
the first day of forever
Alone again so soon
a man considers
How rapidly
‘Forever’
becomes
a
distant memory
For Mad Kane's Haiku and Limerick
A CURE FOR LOVE?
When Doctor Love came to town
To cure the ‘stood up’, ‘let down’
He hired a stadium
And The Palladium
Such was his world renown
The tickets were sold out; gone
No seats for the love-sick; none
Intended for only
The sad and the lonely
It turns out that’s everyone
A CURE FOR LOVE?
When Doctor Love came to town
To cure the ‘stood up’, ‘let down’
He hired a stadium
And The Palladium
Such was his world renown
The tickets were sold out; gone
No seats for the love-sick; none
Intended for only
The sad and the lonely
It turns out that’s everyone
For Monday Poetry Train Revisited
ETERNAL
I wouldn’t want eternal life
A hundred years would do for me
I couldn’t take the stress, the strife
Of living for eternity
Loss of my hair, teeth, faculties
Would make me wish for death’s dark door
I couldn’t cope without all these
An OAP for evermore
I’d try to end it with a knife
Unless I could be shown the proof
That, given with eternal life
The promise of eternal youth
ETERNAL
I wouldn’t want eternal life
A hundred years would do for me
I couldn’t take the stress, the strife
Of living for eternity
Loss of my hair, teeth, faculties
Would make me wish for death’s dark door
I couldn’t cope without all these
An OAP for evermore
I’d try to end it with a knife
Unless I could be shown the proof
That, given with eternal life
The promise of eternal youth
Hi Stan, ambitious post, think I like the Limericks best but words of wisdom scattered everywhere and the last three lines of Eternal speak volumes to me.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed all three of these...the second one had a great rhythm to it!
ReplyDeleteyou are so clever stan.. that middle verse in the first one is excellent... well all of it is but that one made me read it twice!!
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ReplyDeleteMad Kane; Perhaps Dr. Love is St Valentine.
Andy; They're starting to mean a lot more to me these days.
Fledgling Poet; They follow the same kinf of theme and seemed appropriate to the varios prompts.
Paisley; I guess it's a process that everyone's been through, and if it sounds a bit cynical, that's just the effect the process has - for a while at least.
The third poem is a concept I've found oddly wearying sometimes, even from young childhood. The idea of life never, ever ending makes me tired when I'm physically and mentally worn out. But I figure it will all sort itself out once I do get to the other side.
ReplyDeleteThanks Julia; I think it's a case of, 'I don't want everything - just a little bit of everything.'
ReplyDeleteA great variation of styles there. Enjoyed them all.
ReplyDeleteI liked all three. Very different thoughts..
ReplyDeletePoetry Train: nature rules
i really like the first one. nothing seems as forever these days.. but lucky ones few and far between.
ReplyDeleteI liked all three but enjoyed the first one the most.
ReplyDeleteWhere would we be without the backbone of cynical to see us through what sometimes feels an eternity of forevers? Good stuff here!
ReplyDeleteI like the way you shape your poems on the page. A cynic among us! Who would have thought!
ReplyDeleteThanks to:
ReplyDeleteAnthony North; Nothing is forever, however much we want it.
Gautami Tripathy; Pro's & cons of love & eternity.
Floreta; Forever can become never in a heartbeat.
Ofira Sephiroth; Of course there are two sides to this (and every) story.
Tumblewords; we have to react first before an assessment can be made.
Granny Smith; Are cynics allowed to look back and laugh?
Very very nice. Enjoyed reading all three.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jeeves; forever is all around us, but never seems to stay.
ReplyDeleteI've with you on eternal life. There are far too many people not enjoying the latter part of their lives.
ReplyDeleteThanks Watermaid; Perhaps they're the ones that chose eternity, and are now regretting it.
ReplyDeleteloved all the line shere .. but the limerick was just so cutely done !!
ReplyDeleteThanks Pretty Me; If only it wasn't so true.
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