Blank page #poem

https://dversepoets.com/2022/10/20/mtb-in-a-roundabout-way/

Thank you, Luara, for a truly challenging prompt tonight here @ #dversepoetspub. it has given my brain a workout. A roundabout was the challenge. i nearly had a

BLANK PAGE

Across, across virgin snow,

As blank as the page,

My pen must walk,

Before we talk,

As blank as the page.

Why does my ink rage?

When rhyme is ad-hoc,

Driving round the twist,

Breaking my wrist,

When rhyme is ad-hoc.

When I ink this page,

My footsteps walk,

Virgin snow kissed,

Now I’m pissed*,

My footsteps walk.

Pen held in my tight fist,

Writing hard now,

No more blank page,

Without the ink’s rage,

Writing hard now.

*Pissed used in both English and American meanings.

©20/10/2022 Rog Leach

fermented farewell

tonight at #dverse we have been prompted to look at fermentation. i have not had a lot of experience of fermented food and my mind took me somewhere unexpected.

(A warning to fathers not to treat their daughters like a princess)

#Mentalhealthawareness, #dverse

Does a farewell have to ferment?

The love of life that started with smiles,

Being brewed into the contagion of hate and want,

By the bacteria of have, have, have.

And now, now, now.

Stirred with a silver spoon,

The heart of daddy’s princess,

Broken when fermented by life,

Mind Spoiled by greedy ignorance.

After daddy has gone.

Please dads don’t ferment,

Your daughters mind with,

The vinegar of giving them all,

A spoilt brat is a sauerkid (sour child)

When life takes everything away.

A fermented farewell,

Is all that awaits,

A mind expecting,

To receive it all,

Without any of life’s effort.

© 11/10/2022 rog leach   

poetry porn.

#Nationalpoetryday, #mongolianmeter, #dverse.

thank you grace for a challenging prompt this evening. here ‘#dversepoetspub.

we have been challenged to write in the traditional Mongolian meter.

Poetry our pornography,

Poison let loose in our veins,

Potential to heal or harm,

Po faced poets spitting words.

poetry dragon

Poison let loose in our veins,

Poetry dragon dancing,

Portioning words out to poets,

Posing with Passions inner fire.

Potential to heal or harm,

Pointed expressions forgiven,

Po faced poets spitting words,

Poetry our pornography.

© 06/10/2022 rog leach

Farewell stagnation

https://dversepoets.com/2022/10/04/poetics-allen-ginsberg-and-the-beat-generation/

thank you, Saana, for an interesting prompt tonight at #dverse we have looked at the beat generation of poets. my poem was written at work today (well started) while my mind wondered away. spontaneously taking me away from the tedious task being carried out.

Farewell Stagnation.

 #Beatpoetry

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Farewell to stagnating po-faced nations,

I’m going to join the stag nation.

Farewell to be stuck into the rat race’s rut,

I’m joining the rutting stags.

Farewell to the flood of greasy burger wrappers around my ankles,

I going to where the golden leaves of autumn blow.

Farewell the seasons of corrosion,

In this stagnating city of human parasites,

I’m heading for the wild country of oaks and red deer.

Enough is enough humanity,

Stagnating in your own corrosive juices,

The wilderness shall embrace me,

Like you could never embrace it.

© 04/10/2022 rog leach