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TELESTICH

The TELESTICH is quite the challenging poetic/literary device, where letters in a series of lines or verse, form a word, phrase, name or successive letters of the alphabet - it is a type of 'acrostic' of which is spelled out and composed into hidden messages or wordplay. Although in acrostic, the first letters of each line spell a word, in a TELESTICH poem, the last letters of each line spell out a word, name or key message. The 'hidden message' or word can also be written within a poem, internally.














"MANGO" FRUIT I went to Market to buy Mango and ripe palM Looked Around for the Availability of ArenA

Saw one Nice and ripened, Nowhere like it seeN

My utter Grief, looks that Gay but sour stronG

Beauty Outside is only Overt like mango toO


© PRASANNA BHATTA India


 

Dark is the Sky, so is this minD

Intense its Origin, unlike minE

Brutally Ravishes the taG

But a roaR loses an oaR

Listen to Ocean's silencE

Evolves a World out of ripplE


MUSHTAQUE B. BARQ

Jammu/Kashmir, India


 

"PHILIPPINES"


Like petals scattered at sea in the maP

Greets the rising sun in its virgin FlasH

Stringing the fronds, angels made a leI

Bestowed to a people blessed and speciaL

Brave and resilient as the desert cactI

A land where summertime doesn't seem to stoP

Sun drenched beaches white and crisP

Where all are blessed with a positive chI

An Eden, our very own slice of HeaveN

A God given piece of earthly paradisE

Philippines, my dearly beloved PhilippineS


© MYRTLE REYES EVE TEJADA

Philippines


 

"APPLAUSE"


In comedy or dramA

We always need a preP

to make step after steP

and the result is vitaL

in comedy or dramA

It's crucial to be yoU

Not to be more or lesS

And the success will comE


© BOGDANA GAGEANU

Romania


 

"CLOUDS"


Walking on Clouds

Why can't we waLk on the grounds?

You Once belonged to me

This thoUght, is enough for me?

I'm holloweD by the peck I shall never receive

My desireS will forever remain in fiery breeze.


© SHEILA ANN

Malaysia


 

"POETRY"


The wheel of wisdom atoP

Endears humans to a cryptO

With salubrious words to inspirE

Swords ignorance to expertise fleeT

and mellows human's angeR

Flapped with reasons to be HappY


© IKWULONO MOHAMMED SENISON

NIGERIA


 

Reconciling "DIFFERENCES"

(A Fictionary Dictionary for Another Dinosaur Thesaurus)


I've tried subverting Dominant paradigms

Scripturient poet for Inviting new rhymes

Ambuliterate I go to Feign walks proven I talk Seeking sweetening Fast haughty squawks

Exposing extremely Erratic booksy literary cant

Commonalities dive Raw divsivly into rants

Reverently soft poet Elation validates cracks

Vibraating posh lush Nectary lectory of no maps

Diligent reconciling Careful diffuse of bombs

Warrior logophile of Extreme worthy word calms

A lubrocubicularist So beat...dreaming of sleep


© MATT ELMORE

USA

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Such an amazing form… thank you for making this possible Annette. Your hard work does NOT go unnoticed! - Matt Elmore

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