Submission: selection of cleave poems from greatwriting.co.uk

A selection of cleave poems from greatwriting.co.uk.

De-stressed-Distressed by John Bevan (aka Katanga)

__I’m certain that-I’m overtaxed
__stone-deaf, I’ll-need my ears waxed
________not hear-sometime soon
annoying noises-What a buffoon!

Feeling dies by Rachel Prudden (aka Rioka)

______this beautiful-feeling dies in me
________ally of mine-you can’t hurt me
_______reaching out-for your desire
__and freezing time-does not inspire
an aching heart but-tears in my eyes
_____for you I smile-though I should cry

The Circus by Brett Evans (aka Brett)

____The circus rolls-with joy and glee
__________into town-a novelty
___an ageing clown-shows its face
__proving youthful-without disgrace
__to such old jokes-we all connect
though his respect-through our neglect
_no longer chimes-of ancient rhymes.

Two visions: Ezekiel and Aphrodite by Brian Fone (aka patterjack)

_________Ezekiel saw a vision,-a gleaming godly vision,
____saw wheels within wheels-making the mind spin
_____spreading across the sky-as it slowly revealed itself
dazzling the enlightened man-with all its terrible beauty
__________sweeping him away-and took watcher, mind and body,
__from the reality around him-with its naked,  shining splendour.

Cleave poem submission by John Bevan

_______________________A Cleaved Limerick

____There is a young poet – in Wales
_________ _who is unique – among males
_________________in that – I think
______________he refuses – a drink
to compose what he knows – never fails

Cleave poem: © 2008 John Bevan

Cleave poems by Brett Evans and John Bevan

These poems first appeared on the Great Writing Website.

Cleave: Taste

______I long to taste my lover once again
Such sweet desserts I’ve tasted from the bottle
Though never have my senses ceased to dance
___Because my love as many times before
__Has never spoken she keeps me on my back.

Cleave poem: © 2008 Brett Evans

Cleav-age

____bitter and wine milk and honey
are more than fine and scones for tea
____you offer more I realise
______to me before in some surprise
________I go to bed and in my dreams
_____I rest my head by moonlit streams
______I find a sleep I hold a peace
____in which I weep when will war cease?

Cleave poem: © 2008 John Bevan

Cleave Poems by John Bevan.

Let us begin:

Here are cleave poems from our first contributor John Bevan.

His penname is Katanga at the Great Writing Website (where these poems first appeared).

A Cleave Poem: Dancing Girls

And now bring on the dancing girls
the girls who long lift their skirts
to dance all night from dusk till dawn
in pale moonlight but then are torn
_sleepless crying from empty dreams
__darkness dying or so it seems

Two cleaved haikus: Mourning Morning

Lightning cleaves the sky, thunderbolts crash down,
__taking dawn’s virginity, beseaching our forgiveness,
mocking morning’s peace as the birds scatter.

Two cleaved Senryus: Gain – Loss

_______search the internet look out for a word
has anyone found a name that means more than desertion
_________for our new baby and a lost future

Cleave poems: © 2008 John Bevan