PATHOS

Acrostic Poem for The Daily Poetry Club:

Please give me your eyes

And sway to my song

The one only we can hear

Have the wand now, and

Orchestrate

So you will feel how I do

Horse Wishes

Here is a poem I wrote yesterday for my friends' site, The Daily Poetry Club.
Yesterday's theme: wishes.

Horse Wishes: An Autobiography

Age 3 to be a Horse
Age 5 my little ponies & Horses
Age 7 to be a forest ranger- and ride a Horse
Age 10 my own pet Horse I would take care of it, MOM!
Age 13 win a game of H.O.R.S.E.
Age 17 read “All the Pretty Horses”
Age 22 “Wild Horses” 2010 panoramic calendar
Age 102 a Hearse.

SHAQ Clerihew

Recently, I attended a poetry reading and was introduced to form of poetry called the clerihew. It is a four line poem consisting of a name, a rhyme for the name, and a couplet- that's it. Fun and simple. After the reading, I was determined to try my hand at writing a clerihew. As I walked home, I tried to think of a proper subject- Abraham Lincoln and Ghengis Khan had already been taken. I thought Shaq was the next obvious choice. Since then, I have strained to think of a poem fitting for the NBA demigod, though I fear no clerihew I write could be epic enough for him. This is what I came up with. . .

Shaquille O' My! Can he act! Neil

Shaquille O'Neil
Don't get real
The genie role was your best lead
A boombox wish is what kids need.

I also wrote a clerihew for my roomate, Alison. It's hard to rhyme with Rasmussen, just so you know.

Alison Rasmussen
I think it musta been
Hard how you dropped your cloak and ran
From the scene in your room with the cardboard man.

Not Alison. Cardboard man? Yes.

I dare everyone to write a clerihew. Tell me if you come up with anything good.