Rictameter, Poetic form exercise Options

[JustDaniel]

past your
usual haunts
you find open spaces
and you suddenly realize
that your drive to achieve has disappeared
in the brisk green of the meadows
and the open blue sky
that you're out to
pasture

[Larry]

Pasteur
was a great man
in medical circles
whose discoveries helped mankind
but some finds were merely accidental
like when he was mixing cultures
and dropped some while moving
as he went past
ewer

[JustDaniel]

you are
always trying
to create a conflict
but I never thought you would stoop
to causing problems in my front garden;
my evergreens are all friendly
so who would ever think
that you'd devise
Yew War

[Larry]

“wear yew,
it’s pliable”;
Eve whispered to Adam
after they had eaten the fruit
so they broke limbs and weaved them together
to hide their shame from each other;
they were well camouflaged
until God said,
“where you”?

[JustDaniel]

worn yew
could not cover
their disobedience
so each of them blamed the other
and yet God would not have any of it;
they were cast out of the Garden
and their punishment stays
yet today to
warn you

[Larry]

warned you
about that suit
I bought especially
for your funeral services
so you can look your best at both the wake
and the grave site but you insist
on wearing it each day
and I hope it
warmed you

[JustDaniel]

wampum
was used for trade
during our early days
by folks with very beady eyes;
got the best of native Americans
who after a while saw the light
so that when they tried it
again they'd just
whamp 'em

[Larry]

whose pen
does the writing
will not seem to matter
if all can enjoy what they read
but it can be of utmost importance
to those who want to share ideas
that what has been written
satisfies those
who spin

[JustDaniel]

goose pen
is filled with geese
who spend the afternoon
flapping their large wings and honking
but then settle in when the sun goes down;
it's a great time to go visit
provide feed and pick up
an in-the-rough
goose pen

[Larry]

goo spin
on the highway
is when you’re following
a port-a-potty truck closely
and they hit a big pot hole in the road
splashing your car with the contents
but it could be lots worse
if one fell off;
goops in.

[JustDaniel]

group's in
proximity
to an ocean-side bar;
they decide to make a visit,
and it wasn't long before they were drunk
since they were a mixed company
with some unspoken goals
most commonly
group sin

[Larry]

zen groups
can contemplate
navels and other things
but yoga positions expose
erotic possibilities for them
bringing to mind kama-sutra
pictures you saw when young
and may cause some
zen gropes

[JustDaniel]

hemp ropes
can be ground up
and rolled in fine papers
to be smoked with other people
who are afraid to buy marijuana;
they say the smell is similar,
the effect not so much;
suggest you keep
hemp ropes

[Larry]

hymn probes
meanings of faith
but when sermons are long
some people tend to fall asleep
but for the most part, it’s husbands and kids
so when the wife sees that happen,
especially husbands
sharp fingernail
probes him

[JustDaniel]

problem
with fingernails
is that they can be sharp
when your wife is rubbing your back
or when she takes a wide swipe at your face
and they can make a lot of noise
tapping, waiting for you
having bowel
problems

[Larry]

program
originates
when the bugs get too bad
so I break out the poison spray
and methodically spray all of the cracks,
sprinkle boric acid powder,
get the broom and dust pan
and watch insect
pogrom

[JustDaniel]

fulcrum
is the pivot
on which a lever rests;
this beam and hinge form a machine
that's used to move things of tremendous weight
which may be a lot larger than
what's on the longer end
that's balanced on
fulcrum

[Larry]

pulled crumb
off my old shirt
after the barbecue
only to find that it was stained
so my wife said it had to be retired;
reluctantly, it’s washed and dried
and lies waiting for use
in the rag bag
crumpled

[JustDaniel]

No Gold

rumpled
by last night's rain
the leather I'd stapled
carefully on the 2 x 4s
fashioned with triangles that I'd screwed on
so you could stand on each of them;
I'd tried to spin some hay
but my stiltskin
rumpled

[Larry]

rump led
the shapely girl
to buy larger clothes
but she still sagged when they were worn
and found that all of them were from China
where manufacturing was lax
and they used metallics
in jeans with some
rump lead