Tag: dVerse

Sigma – 25th July 2025

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ 4 Comments

Shared with dVerse – Who has a sweet tooth?

Born of the sugar babies,
full of ADHD;

The shortest attention spans,
worse than Gen Z;

The glass generation,
sharented by tech;

Sucking AI lifesavers
or a virtual idol mech;

Branded from birth
with avatar identity;

Logos before letters
and synthetic celebrity;

No razzles or starburst
needed for the dopamine tooth;

Swiping right for success,
sigma generation AI youth.

The List That Never Began – 15th July 2025

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ 22 Comments

A list poem that starts this way
Because another form comes into play
Can be seen as difficult, for sure
Do read on, as I will explore
Every nuance of this list I write
Forming here in black and white
Going forward, we must begin
Here listing so many things akin
I’ll start, I will, I promise, soon
Just give me a minute to attune
Keen, I am to make this perfect
Like a real word architect
Maybe I need to start the list here?
No, not just yet, I fear
Only I, the holder of the pen
Provoking the inspiration when
Questions arise from further in
Ready to get deeper under the skin
Shall we start? I think we’re ready
To see the first line, strong and steady
Underneath, the list will form
Variations of this long brainstorm
Where’s the list? I hear you ask
Xenial towards this unusual task
You’re wondering if I can succeed
Zoned out, I forgot to proceed
And so it goes around again….

Written for the prompt, Write a List Poem using the Abecedarian form found here.
9th Jan 2026 – Shared with dVerse MTB: first to last letters

More Than Meets The Eye – 1st June 2025

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ 12 Comments

It was a moment that went unnoticed,
I thought that I was just living;
inside, thoughts were being processed,
imagining that I could be forgiving;

Time became a great pretender,
to forget was an impossible aim;
teaching me that this offender
tried their best to hide their shame;

I tumbled on in a desperate air,
into the future, I was falling;
ideas left me in a difficult care,
insistent on a decisive calling;

So it was that I became
stuck along with my liberation;
someone new, yet still the same,
struggling towards my transformation.

A Trolaan shared with dVerse on the theme of crisis.
Trolaan, created by Valerie Peterson Brown, is a poem consisting of 4 quatrains. Each quatrain begins with the same letter. The rhyme scheme is abab for each quatrain.
Starting with the second stanza, you use the second letter of the first line of the first stanza to write, each line beginning with that letter.
In the third stanza, you will use the second letter on the first line of the second stanza and write, each line beginning with that letter.
In the fourth stanza, you will use the second letter on the first line of the third stanza and write, each line beginning with that letter. 

A Pause – 22nd May 2025

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ 6 Comments

Longer days,

a child’s return;

each breath, a moment

of life.


Tranquil dreams,

soft and silent;

shushed to doze, stilled by

slumber.


Soundless sleep,

a peaceful rest;

before the full stop…..

a pause.


Hushed by night,

lulled to the end;

forever resting

in peace.

Another attempt at dVerse Quadrille #224 – quiet, this time inspired by a couple of other existing entries, one from Punam, whose line I reversed in the third stanza and one from Lona, who introduced the Divided Quadrille and so I thought I’d give it a crack!



Maipenrai (ไม่เป็นรัย) – 15th May 2025

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ 23 Comments

Shared with dVerse Poetics: “I Have No Word in English For”. Anyone familiar enough with Thailand will intimately know this phrase. A calm acceptance? There’s nothing to be done? Fuggedaboudit?
I’ve left the phrase ‘nevermind’ like this as Google Translate also maintains it and it obviously references the slacker album from Nirvana.

Nevermind the goings on,
nevermind the things done wrong;
Say it with a smile,
sing it with a sigh;
Nevermind – maipenrai.

Nevermind, not Nirvana
toking on more marijuana;
Swing it up in style
and never question why;
Nevermind – maipenrai.

Nevermind the right or wrong,
the contrarian does not belong;
Sit down for a while,
let the anger pass on by;
Nevermind – maipenrai.

Nevermind the destination,
nevermind your frustration;
Sing your acceptance
so everyone may comply;
Nevermind – maipenrai.

Love Lies – 3rd May 2025

~ shaun tenzenmen ~ 7 Comments

Venus is the odd one out,

rotates clockwise about its axis;

a western sky sunrise!

~ Hellish heat and truly toxic ~

Long, lazy days where

time tests with great temptations

and love lies in rebellion.

A Complex Alliterisen about Venus (planet and God) shared with dVerse MTB

Charlie Zero The Poet Music picks & Reviews #20 and my quick thoughts:

Mopcut – Pretty interesting glitchy electronica in places. Would’ve appealed to me about 20 years ago.

The Vegetable Orchestra – It feels a little like artists these days need some kind of angle. The results here don’t really float my boat but I can understand folks being into and appealing, ‘hey you gotta this album made with vegetables’

MADMADMAD – This is pretty cool and fun. Could definitely see myself enjoying this in a dingy warehouse on an industrial estate somewhere with plenty of neon and flashing lights.

CLD.RĀN – I like the glitch but the other stuff around doesn’t do it much for me. As I’ve said before for this style I usually defer back to Matmos.

PinioL – Ni and PoiL together. Jumped on this from the out. Could’ve been a mess but it’s freaking awesome.