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BONTOS - Volume 14 There are specific forms of poetry like Limericks, Haiku and the Malaysian Pantun. Each of these have a very formal structure as to number of lines, meter, syllables etc. The meaning is often also tightly prescribed - especially the Pantun.
The Bonto is a new formal type of poetry for use on the net.
Symmetricality was his norm Piazza Santo Marco's minus distortion The best sort of bias is towards proportion İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 My life is agitato My wife is moderato. I only play piano; It should be con fuoco. İJames O'Sullivan & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I switched off gravity for a time To see if weightless was sublime Floating too high for the switch, I found It's easier with both feet on the ground İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Consanguinity is bad: It's consequence is sad. Genetics are deficient. Random is sufficient. İJames O'Sullivan & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Brunellesci, Il Duomo made To prove ingenuity should be displayed Octagonally vaulted, withstands all weather Structure and beauty go together İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 The children in this school Have learned a golden rule: Weakness is submissiveness; Always seek alternatives. İJames O'Sullivan & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I let a balloon float upward, free To contemplate anti-gravity Thus began my profound delirium How on earth does one catch helium? İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob held a book to his sleeping head To absorb facts while he's in bed Bob's idea is quite defective Osmotic pressure's not that effective İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 not ".com" - so sorry, @tinet ".ie" It just makes one think: Don't Bonto with drink. İJames O'Sullivan & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Conceptualize lots For bonto plots Once they're spoken Rhymes get broken İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I let my mind out on parole To clearly avoid a thinking hole Freedom of my thought attesting Sometimes thoughts can be arresting İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob brought home a pet potato As company for his pet tomato Bob's wife cut his leg off too Is your household in a stew? İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob used a bladder from a winecask As a football ('cause his friends ask) Bob and friends kick around a lot Make the most of what you've got İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Taught myself some Javascript Because a new web game was tipped Every browser's not the same Internet's an unruly game İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Swung round the cat Fed up with that Fingers unfold Sense the threshold İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I looked at janoid situations To examine polarisations Sometimes Yes and No get bolder Recall that PO's a good placeholder İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I made a hole in an old ice tray To see if ice would melt faster that way Ice evaporates, hence no pleasure Ideas suffer from vapour pressure İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 This is my last Bonto: I'm tiring rather pronto. My brain is going random Quod Eram Demonstrandum. (Is my grammer correct???? Who cares!!!) İJames O'Sullivan & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Edward strikes de Bono's theorum For a systemic succedaneum Water Logic considers this topic Perceptual systems are auto-entropic İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Attention cooked identical dishes To contravene de Bono's wishes Profligate pantries are set to entice Artistry captures variety's spice İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Ate the fruit of a magic tree To control my destiny But my waistline found attackers Fruit's OK, but you should skip C'racas! İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob consumed a large balloon To try to improve his stomach room Now his appetite's the worst Enthusiasm comes with a burst İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob a big balloon did fetch Then ate it so his stomach would stretch Balloon shows way too much tenacity Much more room but no capacity İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob consumed a large balloon To try to improve his stomach room Now his appetite's the worst Enthusiasm comes with a burst İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob puts eggs in his hammock net Simply so as not to forget Take less time to cook (Bob's gambled) Thinking eggs can come pre-scrambled İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob wore a pole To adorn his lug-hole Or is that a sleeper? Look a bit deeper İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Problems rotate To infuriate Turn the last bend Begin at the end İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Jellyfish impales a mate To make a loop, appreciate That jelly fish will soon migrate Loop to reach a stable state İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Rested knives upon some bottles To increase my creative throttles Made me think without a doubt I should cut the corks right out! İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Je me tais en Province Signaler silence C'est un dommage Changez de langage! İEtienne Ferrant & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Vegetarianism appeals to Megan To increase health, she turned quite vegan Eats no meat, eats vegetables more Develop a taste for kwashiorkor İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Lady D. had millions left As legacy of her palacial thrift Mother T. left a bucket and sari One might distinguish the saints from their worry İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I put my head in a concrete block To isolate thoughts from external shock Now they're inside and are sealed for ages Thoughts unshared become outrageous İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Beautician's skin gets acid To make her face less flaccid It made her features creep Beauty is skin deep İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Emily's funeral was in her brain To make us revile her poetry again Her death obsession's an art from her maker Beware of the passionate undertaker İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Mike went 'round the globe To gaze, admire and probe And beat an eighty day time Ridiculous is sublime İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Today this bonto is last Because time has quickly passed Bontos both good and repulsive Don't trust an obsessive-compulsive! İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Cleese was non-plussed When he made our sides bust We laugh more and more Don't mention the war İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Ed wrote Pomp and Circumstance To advertise some underpants Soundtrack turns out quite a romp Circumstance belies its pomp İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I self-sought to the letter To know my thinking better The more I looked, the less proficient Systems can't be fully self-cogniscent İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I moved the third world to number two Because it seemed like a good thing to do But now it suffers from mediocrity Third world should be top priority İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob put the weekly garbage out To empty inside the house, no doubt Mailbox is full with "Your chance to Win" Garbage must get taken in İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Mike went pole to pole To allow him to extol A dash; the sea and land sort I still hate public transport İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Head against hand To understand Hands on head Simon said. İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob took every pill To cure his ill His only disease Placebo O.D.'s İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Steve wears odd socks, To make matching shocks Wrong colour's no sickness Fools go by thickness. İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 John painted canvas To halt critics' answers Critique's for the minions Don't canvass opinions İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Eve screamed a fable To educate Abel Adam sensed pain Avoid raising Cain İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob the lawyer dismissed what he'd heard To refute the prosecution's word Judge finds innocent, not finding out A doubtful reason is reasonable doubt İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I began to write a Bonto Bored with life in Toronto I've learned it's hard to be wry You'll never know till you try. İGuy Hooper & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Axe your computer my friend It's the latest megatrend You'll discover your mind's power Creativity has its hour İGuy Hooper & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Macaroni hats are worn by Heather To think she uses a coloured feather Now they call her Yankee Doodle To think with hats first use your noodle İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I tightened nails with a spanner It wasn't the original plan, sir. I countersunk screws with a nail Don't blame your tools if you fail İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Put my mind in a jar So my thoughts would go far I improved under pressure Vacuum sealed is fresher İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 If you placed a ring in your nose You'd smell like a pig, I suppose A stud in the tongue is a waste Adornment's a matter of taste İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I measured my coffin for size As it seemed a bit small to my eyes In time I won't hate it one bit Comfort's a gradual fit İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I put my face near the mirror To experience the terror The mirror laughed right back Expect the counter-attack! İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I put square wheels on my car To make it bumpier Too many bumps is fandangled Wheels should be triangled İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob painted his boat with phosphorus So it would glow in the Bosphorus His fish nets are better endowed It pays to stand out in the crowd İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I took my mum back to the zoo It seemed like a good thing to do The queues made us stay a lot longer The sense of lineage gets stronger İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Tied together both laces To take much shorter paces Fingers got caught in the tangle Look at skills from a new angle İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Took pictures, a few To capture a view No hocus pocus Views require focus İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Gambled on the snails To prove it never fails Was beaten final lap Shell-shock's a handicap İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Removed my nose for fun To prove I don't need one Underneath is pink Bad ideas still stink İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I inflated a winecask bladder To kick because I'm footy madder Ball sports make so many elated Importance can be over inflated İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob's first name is carved in soap More publicity is his hope He gets told too late to refrain All washed up leads down the drain İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Terry broke the ring off a tin In hurry to get to the contents within The tin resists all entry attacks Surprisingly little withstands an axe İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I put a bottle upon a knife For thinking into five-day strife Bottle on knife thought misdirects Cutting edge thinking hits bottlenecks İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Redraft text better To rephrase et cetera Improves the taxonomy Et hoc genus omne İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 An idea costs nought A penny for your thought Investment dearth Add your two cents worth İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bontos Bob spoke To try for a joke Bad language fiddles Speak not in riddles İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Quality can't be controlled Because folk won't do what they're told When clenched precision is exuvial Realise quality is mercurial İSteve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I eat worms by the faceful Mirror says my skin's disgraceful I've improved my complexion Life's not bad on reflection İGuy Hooper & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 |
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