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BONTOS - Volume 36


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.
There are four lines in each poem.
Rhyming is aa bb.
Syllables: as yet undecided (5, 6 or 7)
Content:

  • First line: sets out some extraordinary behaviour. The more bizarre the better.
  • Second line: gives the explanation for the bizarre behaviour.
  • Third line: gives the result or outcome of the behaviour.
  • Fourth line: provides some "philosophical" reflection on life in general but arising from the situation.

    • Bill won't quit his career
    More wins will come we fear
    New software soon he "masters"
    Success springs from disasters
    © Jukka Kukkonen & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    "Come in here, have a cigar..."
    "You're gonna go far!"
    Hollow feelings had to die
    You can make it if you try
    © Jukka Kukkonen & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    For centuries people have been beguiled
    By Mona Lisa's cryptic smile
    She's hiding something you can bet
    A secret kept is secret yet
    © Mike Gregory & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    I choked on sands of the Nile
    Sphinx seemed to widen its smile
    Spit out sand in a sundance
    Woes dissolve in abundance
    © Rameses II & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Doing POs under the sun
    Holiday had just begun
    Heads got burnt with friendly chat
    Always wear a thinking hat
    © Lucas Gonzalez Santa Cruz & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Free cookies full of poems
    They're Creative Team totems
    The author signed web address
    They'll come if invites impress
    © Jim Handyside & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    The cerebronauts wrote bontos
    To make their brains flow
    They ended up giggling
    Is humour just brains wriggling?
    © Michael Gintowt & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Bontos made by machine
    A leap perchance to screen
    Program over-reliance
    There's more to art than science
    © Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Create cannot contain
    It's more than vessel, brain
    Result brings no extol
    Fine art requires soul
    © Jim Handyside & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Quasimodo used a wok
    To help iron flat his smock
    All the fabric scrunches
    Don't rely on hunches
    © Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Jack, for seed, exchanged his cow
    So his luck would change somehow
    Grew a beanstalk from his seed
    Dizzy heights reflect man's greed
    © Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Rumplestiltskin hates his name
    As his parents are to blame
    Now he's changed his name to Smith
    Some facts turn, in time, to myth
    © Rumplestiltskin & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Rumplestiltskin felt much guilt
    Lost his skin, misplaced his stilt
    Drank his rum, his plea dismissed
    Nought saves a reductionist
    © Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Nebuchanezzar liked pyres
    He tested faith with hot fires
    Just look at Shadrach, burnt once
    History's fact mixed with stunts
    © Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Ronald McDonald went straight
    He'd had enough of greasepaint
    Hung up his costume and shoes
    Life is enriched by new views
    © Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Bonto's hit society
    To raise notoriety
    Novelty or serious?
    History may query us
    © Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Jim wore gherkins on his ears
    To reduce his cult to tears
    They disband (quite fickle men)
    Don't get in a pickle, then!
    © Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Bilbo danced with Gollum
    To make him far less solemn
    It looked more like a scrimmage
    Confront life's evil image.
    © Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Jack be nimble, Jack be sick
    Jack took corners way too quick
    Car then crashes - reckless deed!
    Lessen waste, lessen speed
    © Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

    Poor Miss Muffet, worried, squirmed
    Nasty spider had returned
    Muffet stamps upon her knoll
    Step by step achieve your goal
    © Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1998

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