He was known as a poet savant
In the café he was known to haunt
Spinning twinned couplets into epics
As fans stirred lattes with wooden sticks.
An allegory for the waitress,
In this skald, a maiden in distress
Who as Ulysses he’d try to save
In a poem depicting him as brave.
A shy man for whom rhymes were a voice
For expressing passions to his choice
In quatorzains of just fourteen lines;
Verbs and nouns wrapped in adjective vines.
Soon after he wrote his first ghazal
The sweet waitress was left to puzzle
And muse along with his adherents
About his sudden disappearance.
Across town in a Turkish café
That he now visits every day
Often staying late into the night;
He writes to a dusky waitress’ delight
Author notes
Prompt: Wordbank A - words used in this order: couplets, epics, allegory, skald, Ulysses, voice, quatorzains, ghazal
Image source: http://img2.allposters.com/images/MEPOD/10023755.jpg
A contest entry
- nomenclature by DogFish.
800 points, ended November 7, 6 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Lots of fun! Taking my rather dour list of words and spinning such whimsy with it!
Thanks for your entry!
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I am glad you enjoyed this poem. Thank you very much for your kind words. The bronze cup is very much appreciated.
Mike
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Damn Mike you are so good at the word banks, I always love to see what comes out of your pen, always a pleasure
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Thank you very much. I am glad you enjoyed this poem. I always have fun with the word banks, this one in particular was a bit more of a challenge.
Mike
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And muse along with his adherents
About his sudden disappearance
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I am glad you enjoyed those lines. I like to use words in couplets that I have not seen used to rhyme before. It puts a nice spin on a poem sometimes.
Mike
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I really enjoyed this
I loved this strange mans story, perfect rhyme as always and well done on using the word bank they look like really hard words to get to flow in a poem Best of luck in the contest 
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I am glad you liked the poem. It is indeed a story of a strange man. Sometimes people can be fickle and do a complete about face in their life.
Mike
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"He was known as a poet savant
In the café he was known to haunt
Spinning twinned couplets into epics
As fans stirred lattes with wooden sticks"
I like this part it was like the beginning of the poem (duh) but it wa like an explination and a build up at the same time. very nice job -
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Thank you very much for reading and commenting on my work. I am glad you liked the poem. I look at word banks the way a sculptor looks at wood or stone and just release the poem that lies within.
Mike
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this was fantastic! you use the words in such a creative manner and your rhyming style is incredible. loved the flow and rhythm.
thanks for sharing
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Thank you very much. I am glad you enjoyed my poem. The wordbank was much more of a challenge than the usual that I see in AP contests.
Mike
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I love this.
Verbs and nouns wrapped in adjective vines. - what a neat line!
Described the Poet Savant very well. Compliments.
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Thank you very much for reading and commenting on my work. I am glad you liked it. I kind of had some fun writing this one.
Mike
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