Six String Samurai (Waka:Choka)

Take five little man
This ain't no place fo' a kid

Steel swings red out here
So ev'rybody turns cold

Don't cross past the line
Or the spinach monster'll come

Foot steps steer behind
Unless you want to die too?

You yell and follow
And I can't argue, you're too young

I'll drop you somewhere
Right before you slow me down

They're strange around here
Nothing I can't handle though

With strings that burn blood
Deep as the horizon 'far

They all want a piece
Even death can play a tune

There in Vegas kid
(Is) where I'm gonna have my gig

The King needs an heir
And that throne is mine alone

But it ain't easy
No body plays nice here at

We walk: feet or wheels
And I hear you say squat for days

Cannibals and guns
Protestin' my Rock 'n' Roll

As this katana
Tastes alternative genre

Piling arguments
When treatments bleed red per song

The Russians'll stop me
But you'll keep me alive 'til

I snap my fingers
Hittin' the yellow brick road

Kickin' and slashin'
Soon before the day I die

They call me Buddy
Holly to your legacy
Since 1957

Theatre (Cinquain)

Theatre
Staged Life
It complicates everything
But conjures one's wit
Farce

Sleepy (Cinquain)

Sleepy
Less awake
Snoring while conscious
Uncomfortable with the stance
Tired

Writer Insomniac (Epigram)

Tough time keeping my eyes open
Tonight I try writing again!

Secretary (Vers Libre)

Write down my thoughts
For tomorrow
They may not come
But keep note
In case they do

Business (Senryu)

Business is business
We can win and we can lose
No one is happy

That Glimpse of You (Quatrains)

Oh Spanish eyes how I would love to meet
Upon a moment between steps tonight
In silence from those thin sweet lips you touched
Breathing within the minute we match sight

Hoping do I wish while present for you
Catching that blur cascading luminous
Around yourself, like halos before saints
Something divine, something like you, and thus

I fall short from you as you are to me
Though you may not know yet, as we have yet
To be... Your admirer am I today
As fate had me find you just to forget

I would demand another chance for us
But you passed right through me without a hint
Cursing me with this whif of bliss forgone
And you with your day, without a hint

Did you see me at all or did you try--
To forget me too?

Wolves Around a Sheep (Spenserian Sonnet)

Left without a friend though being amongst
Seeing their smiles glee without consequence
I watch as greedy greens flush each amongst
Questioning why they complain in sequence
Losing fact of other people's presence
Thinking only to think of themselves
Conversations don't connect their sentence
Producing vanity for themselves
Averting from me just for themselves
Neglecting the setting of my welcome
Only thinking of themselves, themselves...
Acquaintances are what I have close to home
Because in truth honest friends may never come

Tickling (Cinquain)

Tickling
Flagrant fingers
Makes one laugh
Smiling heals my heart
Playfully

Games (Cinquian)

Games
Fun tangents
Plays with minds
It hurts people's feelings
War

Suburban Goddess (Mondo)

I can't stand her show
Too flashy from the neck down
Does she know what she looks like?

Frock so bright and blond
The clouds bury her head high
Alas she's no where near earth

Art Grows (English Sonnet)

Pretty colors luminous with one's craft
A few strokes down: frescoes and canvas alike
Inlays of blacks and golden proverb drawn
Made for the history of all me to like
Metal monoliths and woven baskets
Sprung populous intrigue like haiku cinquains
A flash of light by machinery hands
Produced pictures disposing artistic gains
Impressions replied with modern ideas
From dreams to transcendence, they thought further
Industrial progression challenged them
Thus intelligent masses could think farther
As art as art as art would be and shall
No limits will stop our muses call

Three Years Enduring (Epigram)

Loligaging my time for his chance to live
Milks his ways on me when there's nothing to give

Left Hand (Senryu)

Take me as I am
The yet conjured potential
Your love frees my heart

Caca (Cinquain)

Tae
Priget mo
Sinabe yong puet
Mabaho mabaho dito pare!
Malambot

NOTE: Tagalog Cinquain

Kick (Cinquain)

Kick
Forced attack
It will hurt
Trust me it hurts
Action

Black Leather Boots (Tercet)

Sheen from a light lit high above blare down
Blinding upon black leather worn in town
Clean from the scuffs for they use to be brown

A Moment's Notice (Vers Libre)

A moment's notice
Let me just say
Is a punctual kind of experience
Not as forgiving as testimonies of love
But a pick of ice
As dry as glaciers snow
It catches you off guard when it wants
And reels you for everything you could've kept
"What if?" you say,
"What might have been?"
There can be another
But unlike this
For notices are short and swift
Unkind
Surprises in a flash
Wilting seasons at a time

Substitue Teacher (Quatrain)

Substitute teacher come in come in please
Students awaiting your every word
From yester-notes, you'll help them learn at least
For they'll repeat what they had heard

Highschool Phases (English Sonnet)

Oh thankful day, a brand new light is here
Hopeful faces smile and intrigue like mine
Free from worry curious without fault
The child of which will be the next in line
Let knowledge speak for I know much of all
As teachers teach what most have done up 'til
Think of it as this while others think otherwise
No one understands me- my precious will
The cons hit me harsh when proof tears my pride
I know less- foolish sakes, I must abide
To study more, to study more- college!
My labor shall bloom as season will ride
This is said to be the best of my youth
Ditching and learning- adolescent youth!

She, The Santa Anna (English Sonnet)

She is the freshest sea I have tasted
Casting from shore, through hills of hued skies
Gathering the oak from the western coast
Enveloping what once were our harvest prize
Her silky frock tossed and turned everywhere
With silver whisps shining behind
Motioned silhouette like apparitions
As the passing words comforts in kind--
"Hello dearest life, how are you?"
I bask in her touch so free and lasting
"Worry not, all is well. It has come."
My fingers open with alms in yearning
My leafy reds and orange break and fall
While rain and sun lay in wait for her call

Brat (Epigram)

Money and its luxuries were to suppose to provide the best of the best
Alas all that are left is the sly wily insults in between her jest

One Night Stand (Limerick)

I once courted a girl with a bottle
To passion we juiced in throttle
She gave her name
Numbers to blame
And left to me a jack to handle

Bulbs (Cinquain)

Bulbs
Luminous electronics
Brightens the room
Embellishing colors to delight
Light

Women & Roses (Vers Libre)

Women are like roses
They blush with color
Though bloom in winter
Thorns can be shaven
But they will always
Stem green with envy

Without your care, they
Will wilt before spring
Removing that scent
You once had savored
By delicate touch
As she is

Rich (Senryu)

Everything's here
Nothing to buy or to take
All that's left is Give

Everyday (Senryu)

Killing time's instance
Repetition disciplines
Monotony Blows

Freezing (Senryu)

A sting of cold air
Races through my spine and veins
Winter will reach low

Emo Lingers (Senryu)

Let's say I died now
Ropes and poison 'ready-made
Would you even care?

Underminding her feelings (Epigram)

Lost the chance of minding sex amongst the others
Now I'm left with an image much like my mothers

Dread men with long hair! (Limerick)

They're men without a luck
That caught me with my frock
My beard behold
"Heavens!" they told
"You're a man! God! Oh fuck!"

Future City (Dorsimbra)

Paint the air-blue red to yellow-gray hues
What ever may turn to will show device
From the city that once could have been home
Trashed by white flights, ghettos, and the pop rise

Economic flunks
We did suffice
But what now?
Is there time still to mend it all?

Touch Angel wings on faith and dreams so high
What now have we chanced to become further?
Don't try what hasn't been, we are now here
Recycle, politics, we can do more

Lazy Computer Technicians (Petrarchan Sonnet)

Machinery checks repetitious modes

For often will it be often-often

Often mistakened perfect 'til proven

Neglected by its Maker's lazy codes

The heat and metal combined will melt nodes

Pretentious offers dupe consumers in

To pay for none of what they need. Preachin'!

Preachin' without proof, sell nothing that "owns"

So hence we review experiences

Ink our words on white sheets of papers

Civilize the lumix whose lost senses

Took four digits from accounts: his and hers

Proposing and contesting expenses

Compensate us or face our lawyers

[a,b,b,a,a,b,b,a,c,d,c,d,c,d]

NOTE: Italian Sonnet- 8 lines of a problem, 6 lines of a solution.

Steadfast Faith (English Sonnet)

Dear friend amongst those whom cared much of much

May this find you well and bring you the sun

For clouds have passed from duskly lore spoken

Choking vascular conscience anon
Forget not Isaiah's mark and promise

Stomp on Sophomores by heel scuffed pavement-gold

Thus silver paint curse not Carpenter's craft

To those under His wing: your burdens sold
Pray as Leviticus gospels Hosanna

For sure "...they know not what they do."

But knowing enough frees choices to make

Hence feel Almighty grace, love, and argue
Let none deter you for thier benefit

You are where God wants you to be Spirit

First Job (Epigram)

Who knew that hard work could be complicated
Especially when you're shadowing jaded

Who's On Top? (English Sonnet)

Eyes that squint at sunrise fierce without truce
Wink once for a chance to twinkle at his
‘til the dusk of each morn she will seek that
Of what could be destined trails to what is
May a white horse stand before her today
Though they will argue crests, shields, and armor
Besting eaches bravery for her heart
They’ll don lances to carry her honor
But amongst his own a toll will come to
As a test of seasons changes the mind
A double-edged sword shall unsheathe herself
And the sheen of metal will rust unkind
So on to battle, on with war! Says he
But to the victor – the spoils! Thus says she

Epiphany (Quatrain)

Take me to where you are and show--
The many things I've never dreamed
Possibly for me or them too
Inspiration divinely schemed

End (Cinquain)

End
To finish
Wish I can
Yet so saddened
Conclusion

Ratings... (Senryu)

It isn't working
I'm just selling myself short
I feel really cheap

Advertisement Whore (Vers Libre)

It had to be done
My reputation
This new one, I mean
It isn't me
But it's what I need
To sell, to buy
Just get attention
Shit, all of it
But that's what they want
And it's what I need...

Murphy's Law (Epigram)

I tried so hard to have it finished tonight!
Oh God, please Lord, I pray I did it right?

to: Kim-Yen (Senryu)

The Sunset's qualm
They argue, then I arg---
Shh, who will listen?

Acceptance (Tanka)

They want someone else
I try, but it's not enough
I just want to be
I question worth beyond them
And wish to live - accepted...

Miya: The Damsel in Doubt (Tanka)

"Let her be" he said
Drink 'til consequences fail
Why did she say no?
Could it be, she was afraid?
Then I'll fight for love, Miya!

Sex and Marraige (Dorsimbra)

...so then he will become the man needed
To love you then ever so much, Michelle
For when he's committing to this, he shall
As time has sprung to love to ring the bell!

Do not leave his side
Hard times occur as often good
And when you do give in
You'll realize that "it" becomes "us"

Please take heed now before you lose yourself
Diamonds taken precariously opt
Cannot sparkle until you will "I do."
...so then he will become the man needed

NOTE: Sicilian is an iambic pentameter in "a-b-a-b" rhyme.
1st and 12th line must be identical.

[Pentameter]
[Sicilian + Free Verse + Blank Verse]

Hat (Cinquain)

Hat
Head Decor
It fashionably covers
I love wearing it
Top

6:04pm (Haiku)

The sun sets at west
Cascading the hill's solid brow
It is Six O'four

Bad Call (Quatrain)

Kick off the ball to the side lines
And tell me of all my follies
Concern the Referee of me
I'll fist your mouth with my jollies

[Tetrameter]

Life...? (Epigram)

Mar my arduous antics as of late
I tire of the monotonous day
Leave me presents and usual pleasantries
I'll lie for your sake and smile oh so gay!

For you do nothing worth your time alone
So why should I believe it's worth mine own?

[Pentameter]

Singing (Tanka)

I sing a song too
It lessens the burden now
But reminisces
Just to keep my heart beating
I curse and complain to her

Last Round (Split Couplet)

This is the last one I swear
God I swear
My writing is easy street
Oh it's sweet

Insomnia (Senryu)

Tired again man
Such a bad habit kills me
Insomnia sucks

I wanna move already (Senryu)

Where am I going?
Home is where the heart is, right?
I can't find her pulse.

Just Bored (Quatrain)

There is nothing much else to do
Probably practice some voodoo
Worse off I might not even try
I might as well end up like you

[Tetrameter]

Promises (Vers Libre)

I promised to keep whatever I am keeping
Though promising keeps aren't always kept
For those whom expect keepers to keep what's promised
They must realize that promises were made to be unkept

to: p0isonphotography (Senryu)

You're screwed royally
There's a bat near the wall
You know where he lives

Writer's Block (Blank Verse)

Starving for inspiration
I cannot find

Loss in my own words
I cannot rhyme

I make due with what's here
But never find

A poem I wish to write
On borrowed time

Poem #50 (Sonnet)

Get out of here
You so were not
Shut up you lie
You're smoking pot!
There's no such thing
Bullshit there is
Whatever bitch
You're full of piss
You so are drunk
You dumb ass fuck
Leave me alone
Before you chuck
Yeah real clever?
Punks For Ever!

[Dimeter]

If Werewolf Babes Sleep In? (Butterfly Cinquain)

Awake
So too awake
I can't fucking sleep dude
But my eyes sting like shit so dry
Damn Moon
Like a werewolf on P. M. S.
If there were such a thing
I'd ask her this
Why sleep?

[2-4-6-8-2-8-6-4-2]

Moronic Ideal (Triplet)

I won't sleep a wink
Until I can think
Inspiration's brink

My House (Sonnet)

Waking to a room of white, tactful with muck for colors resonating gray-browns
Familiar whistles and chattering chimes the day to be reckoned as my early morn
Trapped between walls, corners bleak of life, stringing with silk webs and dusty rusty molds
The floor dirt filled and dust too scrub bare feet with aging carpet thus almost forlorn
Cars pass with muffler engine roarers disturbing the peace we frustratingly live
Shouting and complaints echoing through our culdesac havens that reminds us all
There is a heaven, there is a paradise, there is a hell, But this must suffice
For struggles implore faith in hopes to dream imaginative amongst the dull
Suppose this was a home, being that it is a house, we should live and work as one
But to be one with those whom differ from your purpose, communication must come
And conjuring the such fairs less with your own conscience and much less with mine own
Keep trinkets to reminisce and new ones for hope, hours pass idly and then some
Fry the chicken and serve the sodas, give the monotony we coordinate
Life is this and forgiving is that, there's none to lose but the coed intricate

[Decameter]

Lullaby (Limerick)

She writes with keys going for so long
Typing sad stories to market one song
She cries her tears
Line up the beers
Selling her soul to say "Nothing is wrong!"

Brothel (Epigram)

It occurred to me that no one can talk with even a little bit of diction
I suppose after reading only body language, all that's left is friction

NOTE: Short witty poem in Couplets or Quatrains.

Time (Cinquain)

Time
Punctual Machine
It ticks daily
Recurring pressure to count
Clocks

Autumn ^^ (Haiku)

The heat cools at night
Leaves fall in hues of orange
Autumn has arrived

The Tortoise (Mirror Cinquain)

Walking
To stroll
Stepping across after
Toning muscles encourages more
Exercise
Move forth
Rapidly changing current pace
To go faster than fast
Better than good
To win

[Cinquain + Reverse Cinquain]

Letting Through (Cinqku)

Pardon...
Mind yourself!
Excuse me please?
I don't mean to bother--
Thank you.

NOTE: Western Tanka/Haiku, part of Cinquain format.

The Golden Rule (Split Couplet)

I killed a hand for good misdeeds undone
So now it's gone
He stole the food for us to feed the rest
...wish him the best

[Iambic Pentameter, Iambic Dimeter]

OffBeat (Couplet)

Lost today as to where I am
Poems were and now-- um...damn.

[Tetrameter]

Chunder Monkey (Limerick)

There was a young man who drank drunk
Who made use of spirits to punk
He dizzied his wits
Taking a few hits
To the lavatory he went - dunk!

Journal Break 1

I've been frustrated with writing Sonnets, attempting to perfect the meter, stresses and unstressed syllables, trying to get the damn thing right! Thus far, I've been able to make pentameters properly, but why Sonnets have to be in pentameters, I do not know? I'm just taking notes from Shakespeare's old works and failing miserably, but optimistically learning to improve! I miscounted the amount of Quatrains, so I'm sure someone out there's going to laugh at my mistake because they probably aren't satisfied with themselves and will no doubt make me feel worse to embellish their pride. Bitterness... Next is to try iambs and trochees in the upcoming Sonnet, pray I do this right.

On a lighter note, I love Chokas! Choka is a 5-7 syllable two liner that goes on and on and on forever until a 5-7-7 syllable three liner comes about to end the poem. I love it so because it can tell a story and it doesn't stress too much about mathematical perfection. So simple and wondrous!
Sedokas and Mondos are an intrigue to me though, perhaps I'll attempt in more of those. But if I get tired of any of these meter-syllabic poems, I can always rely on Cinquains for a good Sunday brunch^^

Also, I gotta try Odes sometime! I feel that my story of Black Shade may benefit from it if I learn Odes and perhaps make it into an Epic. Oh an Epic! Wouldn't that be magnificent? I could only imagine, dream of such a creation! I have to do it, I have to! I've been failing in many other writing formats, and I have yet to try poetry. Oh this is going to be great! I want to make this happen, God please let this be destiny! I rue fate as it plays such irony in my life, so let my hands do as they were created to do - to build foundations and progress the life we live in this community we call mankind! Oh let it be, let it be, let it be! [Amen].

Bliss by the left foot (Sonnet...almost)

Oh how notes stream like water upon touch
To gloss over skin and hair and lips and hand
Playing blissfully through the ears of ours
And dance with feathers to fly in heaven's band
Oh music so sweet and savory please
I wish for her and I to soar forth tonight
Through the stars and moon as fire and breathe
Compose sweet symphony to sing our great flight
For love strings destined duets upon His stage
Forgiving kisses to our vice's next page

[Pentameter]
NOTE: Sonnets go by 3 Quatrains and a Couplet...

I see the light, and it burns! (Quatrain)

My eyes sting like an open wound in pure salt
Trembling from light, mortified in the dark
Intaking the luminous penetration
Colors flash me blind, leaving on the mark

[Pentameter]

Awake Again (Couplet)

Bloody hell I'm awake again!
Damn insomnia, much like then.

[Tetrameter]

Poop Handicap (Haiku)

Stomach imploded
Can't release on the toilet
Constipated me

NOTE : Haiku deals with nature.

Dubbed Anime (Waka:Choka)

I am so happy
So happy am I so much

I bow to friendship
Translate me so much badly

My hair flies colorful
Wink big eyes, dribble small lips

Buy show, please collect
Post production, import all
Sell to you. Obey Japan!

NOTE : Choka can continue forever with the 5-7 stanzas,
but the 5-7-7 stanza will end it.

Radio (Waka : Sedoka)

Radio playing
So late yet early; Midnight --
Talk show advising...
Songs I do not know
Songs I do not care to know
With antenna, it goes on.

[Two Katauta's in one stanza = Sedoka]
NOTE: Waka written by one person.

Insomniac Writing? (Waka : Mondo)

Look at my eyes close
Dreary at noon - day and night
Why can't I just go to sleep?
Excited to write
But stupefied so much so
'Cause you have nothing to write.

[Question (Katauta) + Answer (Katauta) = Mondo]

NOTE : Waka written through dialog in reply.

Writing? (Waka : Katauta)

Excited to write
But stupefied so much so
'Cause you have nothing to write

Insomniac (Waka : Katauta)

Look at my eyes close
Dreary at noon - day and night
Why can't I just go to sleep?

Yoko Ono (Senryu)

Yoko Ono was
Weird, too cool, but not, so odd...
She ruined Beatles

NOTE : Senryu deals with humanity.

iPod (Tanka)

iPods play through cords
Notes stream (in) white wire
Select - play - select

So many songs to choose from
I can never have enough
I can never have enough

Chinese poetry according to a Japanese poet?

The Ghost may walk the earth
Restless and wandering without reason
Old men can forget their wits
Until death connects their experience

[http://deoxy.org/koan/88]

Write the Sonnet dammit! (Sonnet...almost)

Bothering myself just to do it here
Today where no one is able to distract
Myself and I and I alone also
Should not stop for fear I may or not retract
Too easy to fail and end this struggle
Pointless to restrain when I could try again
Pose the problem, and I still shouldn't stop
So heed my wish, and let my magic bargain
Oh inspiration speak to me tonight
And lay ink onto white and do it right

NOTE: Sonnets go by 3 Quatrains and a Couplet...

Doubt (Couplet)

Frustrating to aspire the goal yet inspired
Like Thomas to Jesus, where his faith was so tired

[Hexameter]

Typing (Couplet)

On so on did my digits press
Typing the words in thought regress

[Tetrameter]

Fanatic (Metric Cinquain)

"One more,"
He said to me,
"Make another tonight,
My will can be accomplished.
Amen."

___&Seek (Couplet)

In dark I fold
To light I'm told

There is none to fear
For no one is near

So hide away
On until day

Anon they will go
So no one shall know

[Trochiac-dimeter, Iambic-trimeter]

Rosaline (Quatrain)

Lo and behold
Here I am again
Writing for her
Too often in vain

God (Metric Cinquain)

Dear God
Can It be true?
Amongst all that I've known...
To be proven wrong is so right!
Wisdom

Music (Cinquain)

Music
Melodic Intrigue
Missing it so
Can't live without it
Music

Barking (Cinquain)

Barking
Dogs yelling
Becomes louder nearby
Soon I'll be deaf
WOOF!

Closure (Cinquain)

Closure
Confronting Misunderstandings
Say your peace
Then all is well
End

Hate (Cinquain)

Hate
Unintended Slavery
Despising your enemy
To fear what's theirs
You

Worry (Cinquain)

Worry
Unnecessary Concern
Wrinkling my forehead
Expecting disappointments to worsen
Stress

Useless (Cinquain)

Useless
Unavailable Purpose
Deterring in existence
Suffering pointlessly in vanity
Nihilist

Lethargic (Cinquain)

Lethargic
Extra Lazy
Moseying through life
Potentially without any responsibility
Lumix

Home (Cinquain)

Home
Peaceful Sanctuary
I sleep there
It is almost Heaven
Heart

Insomnia (Cinquain)

Insomnia
Sleepless Condition
Eternally being awake
Tired ever so often
Restless

Murder (Cinquain)

Murder
Deadly Sin
Blood spilling down
Cold chilling stream within
Cursed

Irked (Cinquain)

Irked
Unsettling disturbance
Only Wishing Conclusions
Almost Never in Peace
Irked

Mad (Cinquain)

Mad
Mentally Unstable
Reaching to hurt
It hurts too much
Disturbed

Compensation (Cinquain)

Compensation
Alternative Consolation
Earning other satisfactions
Because of being cheated
Owed

Penis (Cinquain)

Penis
Male organ
Vulnerable during erections
Very vulnerable during erections
Penis

Alone (Cinquain)

Alone
Always without
Sitting by myself
Wishing for a friend
Lonely

Boredom (Cinquain)

Boredom
Idle Inactivity
Do Us Nothing
An Absence of Fulfillment
Boredom

Gone (Blank Verse)

At night I remember so much
The chilling breeze
The awkwardness
I could almost taste your words

Wish it never left as I did
Not like tonight
Not like before
No never, it couldn't be helped

Yet here I am standing alone
Daunting the past
Regretting you
The only thing I've done right - gone