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BONTOS - Volume 19 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.
Watching TV on the couch Time was lost Laziness has its cost ©Tony Stagnitta & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Jackel is unhappy and gay Being camp does not pay He shows off his physique Being different is not unique ©Tony Stagnitta & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 The stallion burned the barn He was sick of the farm Now he's looking for' Mr Ed' Best to talk on the homestead ©Tony Stagnitta & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Walter watched the plant grow Because he did sow He was filled with anticipation Things result from plantation ©Tony Stagnitta & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I borrowed some time To commit a crime Was the crime of the century It's best to be free. ©Tony Stagnitta & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I drank cocktails from a gourd To enhance the smorgasbord Worked hard to afford this treat Fruit of labour's twice as sweet ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I tried more analysis To cure thought paralysis Abundance in poison seed Base variety on need ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I fired a Parthian Shot To tell them what was what Forget the last laugh factor Don't question your detractor ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Jeremiah confronted To doomsay with wits blunted Yellow hatless causative Accentuate the positive ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I raced some lemmings eager To find my running meagre Beaten? I was squarely trounced! Don't drop over unannounced. ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 A white page taunted Bruce His artlessness no use He found it hard to start There's more to life than art ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I have proclivities For awful nativities They're getting much stranger Don't away with a manger ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I grew a whisky tree For noisy drinkers to see The tree is tempting fate Empty vessels resonate ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I placed myself in danger To try to help a stranger He's better off than me Life shows no equity ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I was quite well rewarded For efforts I'd afforded One more stranger grateful Virtue is quite fateful ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 The end of the earth arrives Stop what depraves and deprives We'd like a chance to repent Many a foible's unmeant ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I ate fifty cucumbers For losing pounds in numbers Salad days forget us We may if more folk lettuce ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Warwick removed his clothes To attract females in droves Nudity or mere undress? There's art in artlessness ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Fred declined to read No fiction was his need Non-fiction can be sublime One must make more time ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Phillip jumped on his drum To make paradiddles come Cheap skins with holes are riddled Don't be para-diddled ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Jason smashed his guitar To make a noise bizarre AC line voltage ignored Beware the power chord ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Phillip battered his snare Merely because it was there Earplugs won't silence the din Novelty too soon wears thin ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bob developed the Moog As low-tech synths were in vogue Oscillator devices Can't beat Moog synthesizers ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Annie tried soprano sax To make musical impacts People liked it they decreed Want to play? First learn to reed. ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 John bought a valve trombone To use as a telephone Couldn't dial long distance Friction causes blisters ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Clive hopped in a booth To tell a gruesome truth His teeth were full of caries Do not trust tooth fairies. ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Ellie dated Saddam, All other men? She'd had'em! She then was told "He's bad as..." Don't trust a backwards madd-aS! ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I tore off my apparel To wear nought but a barrel Hence nudity's reactive What's covered's most attractive ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I pulled off what I wore To let folk see skin more My torso's at its crudest It's draughty as a nudist ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I clad myself in tin To seal the goodness in The seal was quite forgotten Ignore the contents rotten ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I smeared myself in zinc To cover regions pink Some viewers hailed my torso Whats hidden could be moreso ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bought a joke compendium So I would remember them Couldn't grasp the punchline art Don't read joke books end to start ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I mistook an old Matisse As it seemed no masterpiece I should have made concessions You can't trust first impressions ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Wrote these bontos on a pole To absorb some alcohol Hence my meagre talents Creative thoughts need balance ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I used cause/effect science To test influence reliance Results were quite emphatic Do not be too pragmatic ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I struggled with invective 'Cause red hat proves infective White hat springs to my defence Insult's not intelligence ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Grappled with a paradox To unpick conundrum locks Self confounding loops recount Paradigms are paramount ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bonto wonders to behold Some run hot and others cold Some are lots of fun for quotes Literature lacks antidotes ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Bonto writers can't agree On the form's simplicity Much is there when one inspects Simple quatrains are complex ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Plied some literary craft To revive some bontos daft Scrawled again for rhyme mismatch Sometimes we should start from scratch ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Tackled a football nun She wanted to spoil my fun I'm not allowed to grab it It's hard to kick the habit ©Steve Smith & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Deaf as a post, but flooded with sound meditation hikes you over inner ground with patience and time, joys seeds sprout in the heart of Man, there is no doubt ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 To be alive I had to die Phoenix rose from ashes, to fly a new man now is waking from sleep what you sow is what you reap ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I won the lottery but gained nought no joy was forthcoming from things that I bought money ran toys lost their fun only me to blame for what I have done ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 To become very poor I heaped up gold such inner treasure can never be sold the result was change from the inside out De Bonos work is worth thinking about ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 To value a teacher believe nothing he says you should think for yourself, it pays experience then removes all your doubt thinking is what wisdom is all about ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I live in a house with no windows or walls the body is not made in this way at all my house comes with me everywhere I go our home is within I think you should know ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 People lock themselves in cages by taking jobs that pay poor wages working to exist, existing to work value yourself don't be such a berk ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I'm caught in an invisible trap clever enough to argue and rap Catch 22 too clever to learn for a teacher of Lateral thinking I yearn ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I was travelling fast to nowhere my thinking and feeling up in the air chaos for me and my friends it's better to stand still, in the end ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I am looking for something that's invisible it cannot be found in the physical the journey I'm on, leads me " within " search for the key that takes you " in " ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I had one leg removed to make me more stable I'm a three legged stool sitting under the table now I'm balanced on rough floors and smooth just because I've less legs I've nothing to prove ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I rode my bike in the sea today I was riding along, the cliff fell away so frightened I clung to the bike as we fell look over your shoulder death's on your tail ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I died in the morning and rose at noon someone had tied me to an air balloon I sailed very high on my final farewell the body has gone it was only a shell ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 A second became longer than I know for an instant I felt infinity, so slow experience showed me my eyes tell lies it's worth listening to the words of the wise ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 A wise man, a noble, but he acts like a fool he's not trying to be clever or cool his disguise helps to keep him safe and sound keep your head when danger abounds ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I dive into a pool with no water in a pool of my own deepest feeling I come out refreshed and ready to go there is a place " inside ". where we glow ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I jump on my bike and swim to work I'm trying my best to look like a jerk the office astounded as I swim to my chair don't judge a man by the clothes that he wears ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I went to a pub and ordered a yacht convincing the landlord I'd lost the plot he sat me down and gave me a free beer there is usually a reason why folk are acting queer ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 After breaking an arm I went to a mechanic the arm on my plough so don't get in a panic soon I was working in the field once again humans bleed, machines don't feel pain ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Driving my car with my eyes shut tight I'm blind drunk I can't see things quite right so I shut my eyes and hit a wall there's not much sense in a drunk at all ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I made a tent out of lead for bomb disposal to protect my head the tent stood the blast I'm in one bit without thinking I'd be sore for it ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 To a dead man I gave my confession secret for all time that is the blessing the corpse then took the words to his grave to tell the truth you must be brave ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I wrote a book with no words at all I used symbols and pictures if I recall the result was clear a new type of book to find new ideas, you have to look ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I wrote my Bontos upside down standing on my head, I'm a clown trouble is I couldn't read a thing clowns make people laugh and dance and sing ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Night after night I stayed wide awake sleepless and frustrated in insomnias wake so I wrote my verse through the long night positive thought brought relief from my plight ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 A thief wanted to enter, I left him the keys my dog will let him in but not out if you please so I left him to stew then called in the cops stay out of prison or you'll get the slops ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 A thief wanted to enter, I left him the keys my dog will let him in but not out if you please so I left him to stew then called in the cops stay out of prison or you'll get the slops ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Somewhere I've caught a computer virus de Bono's thinking takes over, once inside us it's brought me flexibility and creativity wisdom is simple, no need for complexity ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I've spent my life looking for nought I've searched for sight that can't be sought this nonsense has brought much joy to me go inside, feel your ecstasy ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I dived into a pit of fear and loathing just trying to escape the sheep in wolves clothing going through fear brought me strength and peace shedding doubts and fear, helps chaos to cease ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 My heart fit and strong but I wanted major surgery some sort of emotional therapy it lead to calm in the height of the battle thinking and feeling, separate us from cattle ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I got completely lost, inside my mind drugs flooded me with light, I went blind the pillars of my reality were tossed aside when exposed to the truth you cannot hide ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I fell from a great height and floated in space somehow I was separated from the human race my thinking and feeling were retuned for me sometimes it's worth questioning your sanity ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Shut up tight, I was free thanks to de Bono I learned to think laterally the result was sublime, freedom in jail sometimes it's better to think slow like the snail ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I designed a route to my own demise I hoped from the ashes a phoenix might rise death of illusion opened gates to my heart practise thinking and feeling, master the art ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I leaped up and rocketed into space somehow by accident I joined the human race this is different from being a sheep who pushes the buttons that make you bleat ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I have answers to problems with no solutions lateral thinking brings you to new conclusions contradiction and clash resolve into their elements lateral thinking is practical, no nonsense ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I was in a school that did not exist it was covered by secrecy, veiled in mist I was fed on de Bono and P.D.Ouspensky proof comes to those who waits patiently ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 I have more wealth than numbers but I am poor my wealth is in wisdom, I've no money at all this type of treasure is worth more than gold petal at a time is how the truth unfolds ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Whilst going to London, I finished up in India flying was a chance to overcome a fear I saw Taj Mahal. she called out to me High Art leads to truth in reality ©Shaun Hopkins & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 Jo kept jumping through hoops of fire hoping to attract some accommodating squire she couldn't keep it up, she got singed one day there's more to life than the games we play ©Lucy A'Bear & Edward de Bono Creative Team 1997 |