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BONTOS - Vol 9 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.
Bach spieled from a luge "It helps me write der fugue!" "In sport and music writing" "Der speed
CONFUSION Behold the emergence of premise divergence In larger amounts Clear thinking counts ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 REVERSI Now we're guilty before the crime, McCarthy justice has its time, Serve the sentence pre-admonishment, Let the crime befit the punishment! ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 FOCUS Girls don't make passes At boys who wear glasses Consider these effects Use specs for safe sex ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 PATTERN Glasses are filling And emptied, God willing Via fulfilling swilling Don't endorse spilling ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 BETTER HALF Divorce is the enemy Marriage hegemony Relationships' facets Preserve half your assets ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 SWAMI The yogi made merriment His mantra experiment Forced him to concentrate Levity levitates ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 ALL GREEK The Marathon mistress found love at a distance I know how she feels Time wounds all heels ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 EARLY WARNING Prenuptial counsel? Take only an ounceful! It isn't a must - Build friendships on trust! ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 IN NEED Don couldn't divide Until he had tried Put Don among friends Friendship yields dividends ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 GETTING SUM Pluses and minus Don't interest Linus With that look in his eye. Go forth, multiply! ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 LARD Jack Sprat Could eat no fat, Butter, margarine Sometimes life's lean ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 SPAWN "I have to confess That I can't coalesce" I hear tadpoles complain Sometimes life's down the drain ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 RETENTION Absent-minded is my curse And it goes from bad to worse Can't think if I've recalled yet I must remember to forget ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 HARD WAY Bontos are an awkward form Structured poems aren't my norm When it all is said and done Breaking rules is artful fun ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 CYBERPUNC Steve gets tired of cyberspace Faced with snail-paced interface His definition, it's to be inferred Cyberspace separates each Cyberword ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 ROTTEN EGGS Internet yields wondrous things Unprompted email offerings Sent to me from far-flung jerks There's a spammer in the works! ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 BY HOOK Jonah skis behind a whale By long attachments to its tail He does it mostly for the laughs It's fun to trace your old friends' paths ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 WHITEWASH Michaelangelo proudly displayed A ceiling advertisement for lemonade But painted it over before they sold any "Troppo Assai Troppo Presto - Non Molto Bene"* ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 *Italian: "Too much too soon - not much good" CURFEW "Veni Vidi Vici" Cried Willy Winkie But didn't quite appreciate 800 years is much too late !! ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 DISAPPEARING ACT Nikola Tesla had tricks for all Magnetic and electrical They hushed his findings when he died The best kept secrets are classified ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 BAD ANTENNAE The alien guzzled beer (the brand?- Castlemaine Four-X, we understand) Endless cans emptied - collapsed on the tiles Beware of effects of too much X-phials ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 SPENT Penny thought she went "ballistic" Looked up meaning, found it mystic Not "explosive" more like "flops" Language fails us - Penny drops! ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 MAXIMA CULPA Pope states elation Via bontofication Summa Cum Laude Sapere Aude * ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 *Summa cum laude is a crowning academic achievement. Sapere Aude is "Have courage to be Wise" from the Latin writer Horace LEST WE FORGET Alzheimer's strikes hereditarily Losing memory quite summarily I look at it another way Meet a new friend every day! ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 CLEFT PALETTE Jane stripped. Heaven forbid! Art class premise, to make a quid Paint ran out, canvas smothered Most big things look better covered. ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 BEAM ME UP Trekster grammar makes me smile Errors by the photon mile "To boldly go", a quaint initiative Should one use a split infinitive? ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 NOTA BENA George performed on a Karaoke stand Celebrity status was soon at hand Got so big, he sacked his band Some people don't quite understand ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 NURSERY CRIME Hear about Winkin, Blinkin and Nod Three heavy rock stars, peas in a pod Blinken was drugged and Nod drinks bourbon (double) It's obvious Winkin can get you in trouble. ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 LAPTOP Ray's PC works assembler code Used both at work and within his abode Popped in an interrupt, hangs up protracted We all fail to register when we're distracted ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 CORPORATE IDENTITY The clown decided to be bored Gave up friends - new things ignored Then criticised the other workers Dismal clowns can wreck a circus ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 FREE TRADE Russ concocted insults plenty Hurled them round indiffidently Found they hit back, reversed target One day you'll buy what you market ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 LONG PUNT Caterpillar dropped its football boots Squarely midst the daffodil shoots Explained "They add to my disguise" Don't shun the element of surprise! ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 PLOT COORDINATES William Shakespeare's noble art Once placed the horse behind the cart Then later in the plot, of course You'll find the cart before the horse ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 SIMPLY SMASHING Fenestration frustrates Gay Who works at staining glass all day Yearns to try some pointillismM Breakthrough! Glazed expressionism! ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 BY A WHISKER Too many cooks spoil the cat With scraps of this and scraps of that You can monitor the health of the works The fatter the cat, the greater the perks! ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 TWO BOB WATCH Bob A. shopped Until he dropped Bob B. imitates Credit limitates ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 THE BIG QUESTION If God's big then what size is he? Will his size make mankind dizzy? If God's small how compact, smart? Belief is religion's sizing chart. ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 PARTING SHOT Physicist Hawking decides space is curvy To prove it fires rifle shots all topsy turvy Is space-time really curvilinear? It's hard to argue with bullets in ya! ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 SHROVE TUESDAY Clock (at Equator) says "Clock at North Pole, Will lose seconds via relativity's hole" I'll have to use my watch (cannot trust yours) I'm not sure just when to expect Santa Claus. ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 |
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