John Knight Poems

Please don't go in Spring - when love's too strong
When each day flowers the greening hedgerows throng
And when the Sun begins to shine again
And April showers with soft refreshing rain.
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This is a wane & wax poem - each line decreases from 10 to 1 syllables and then increases again for 1 - 10. The last line of the wane phase becomes the first line of the wax phase. The resulting poem has an elegant shape and symmetry.

Still the fight goes on nothing is resolved
and all these conflicts have been in vain
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This is my 100th Poem so I wanted it to be EXTRA SPECIAL!

Words like ginormous - stupendous - mega
get so overused today - even special,
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Scarlatti - Sonata a Quattro
First to compose for a String Quartet
Followed by Hyden - at the age of eighteen
Composed for the only four 'strings' he could get!
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Looking through the thousands fo poems on the PH list I felt there was something lacking. Modern poems that where quintisentailly English! What could be more English that Blackberrying in late Summer. So here is a poem on just that exercise!

Take your time as the blackberries you pick,
Be careful not to damage friut or bush.
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Gentleness of LOVE
Gentleness of look
Gentleness of touch
Gentleness of word
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Pain produces perfect pearl
For pearls are not just mineral
Aphrodisiacal oysters
Provide perfect pearls - pre-packaged!
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What calms your mind when the chips are down?
How can you smile when the others frown?
Never the spectre - always the clown?
The answer I see is PO - ET - RY
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Oh make me an instrument an Instrument of Poetry
I'll write with my hands - and exclaim
Oh make me an instrument an Instrument of Innocence
I'll write with my hands - again and again!
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Lists for this and lists for that
1. put the dog out 2. feed the cat
3. close the windows in the flat
I'm always making lists.
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