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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