dVerse: Mickey Mouse Beat

 dVerse: Mix and Match (2)

Since doing my cento yesterday and someone commented on another writing about A Clockwork Orange, the first line of this Dada with Scissors (I think) has been swirling in my head. Sounds like a beat poem to me although it might fall under another heading I don't know about. It just flowed out after I got that first line down.

 

in this mickey mouse clockwork orange world
hickory dickory is the doc who pulls the strings
to the puppets without brains
and dr seuss puts the cat on the hat
and jack spratt jumps over the moon

left is right and right is wrong
and alice fell down the rabbit hole 
to oz 
and one pill made her smaller
and ect made her forget
and now her brain can't think straight

it's dog eat dog and mary had a little lamb
the monster under the bed
isn't real but he will get you at night
and no one will ever believe
because the world goes around in 80 days
and what did i just say?

dVerse: Poe Gone Mad

dVerse: Mix and Match

Our challenge is to try a new form of poetry. In looking over the choices, I was immediately drawn to collage because that is my dominant form of art in images. The cento is a new poem created from bits and pieces of verse from other authors. Will have to do some research but here goes.

Polyvore by Grace Beam

the woods are lovely, dark, and deep

deep into that darkness peering,
long I stood there wondering, fearing

a wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

the darkest evening of the year

there fell a silvery-silken veil of light

I shall be telling this with a sigh  

between stars—on stars where no human race is

and be one traveler, long I stood

the starry voice ascending spreads

in the silence of the night

is but a dream within a dream

so that now, to still the beating of my heart

pressing the brain, which too much thought expands,

back to its proper size again

The lines are mostly from Poe and Frost with a few from a famous poet site. Not an easy task but I like the concept.

dVerse: Happy Moments

dVerse: Open Link Night 105

Photo by Brian Beam

under froggy shade

epitome of happy ~

tortoise in garden

Our tortoise Lucy munching on rose petals in front of her log cabin under her shade umbrella. She's not spoiled is she?

dVerse: Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

 dVerse: Poetics

 

Polyvore by Grace

a blur between my known reality
and what was my life
is all i know
no beautiful mirages
unseen offerings of gelato
in the heat of summer

i lived a life i did not know
that began to leak through
in my forties
like a daydream
playing out so vividly
with mindblowing emotions
for something i did not
know or recognize

but not a daydream
nightmares
mini nightmares
when it first began 
flashbacks 
that were not my own
what was real?
was it real?
was my unknown truth
dist...ort...ed?
or was it really that
INTENSE

my every day
once amnesia broke
was a constant struggle
of what was/is real
is it still happening?
how do you know
you have amnesia
if you have
amnesia?


I have healed from the "falling apart" that came with amnesia leaking. But it was one wild scary ride for about a decade.

dVerse: Love is Blue-ish

dVerse: Alliteration

The challenge is actually for a specific alliterative form with certain accents and number of accents per line which makes my head spin. This is my small contribution to the purely alliterative requirement.


lavender is love
fields of purple ~ passionate 
our love lingering