Terry Flood Poet Rhyme

Dumbstruck Is Me - Dk

Dumbstruck Is Me (a rhyming, acrostic kind of thing)


Discombobulated, how apt the word
Utterly gobsmacked by the absurd 
Mind numbingly mortified at the nonsensical 
By waking to find I’m without either testicle
Silenced as side by side they’re strung together
To hang on the wall there forever... and ever
Running around with another man’s wife
Until I returned to a well concealed knife
Could not comprehend the Snip! Cut! and Sever!
Knock me down with a feather

I’m finding my voice is now three octaves higher
She says that it’s my fault for poking the fire

Mandy, it’s not fair that I lie here dumbstruck
Even though I was a self serving dumbf...



10 August 2021
Contest: Dumbstruck
Sponsor: Charles Messina

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Gary Radice August 30, 2021 at 2:14 AM Congratulations Terry. This poem has balls...Well, it did have. :) Cheers - Gary. Terry Flood September 16, 2021 at 11:32 AM Sorry, Gary, missed your comment. Belated thanks for your congrats. Terry

Paula Goldsmith August 29, 2021 at 8:19 AM Congratulations on your win. Way tooooo funny. Have a blessed day............. Terry Flood August 29, 2021 at 2:19 PM Thanks, Paula. Glad you enjoyed. Terry

Krish Radhakrishna August 29, 2021 at 7:37 AM Terry brilliant write! great last line!! This does happen in real life! Last one I saw- there was no knife! bare hands! so thank your stars! Terry Flood August 29, 2021 at 2:20 PM I shall consider myself most fortunate. Glad you enjoyed, Krish. Terry

Charles Messina August 29, 2021 at 5:19 AM Terry, I love how you did this in acrostic and that last line was just killer! Congratulations on your 2nd place win. All the best, Charlie Terry Flood August 29, 2021 at 2:21 PM Thanks, Charles, and thanks for the high placement. Terry

Andrea Dietrich August 12, 2021 at 4:44 PM this is FANTASTIC humor. FAVE!!! Terry Flood August 12, 2021 at 5:03 PM Hey, Andrea. Thanks for the fave. So glad you liked this. At risk if repeating myself (if you read my reply to Eve) when line four appeared on screen I nearly fell out of my chair. Don’t know where it came from but once it was there I stuck with it. Thanks again. Terry

Eve Roper August 10, 2021 at 9:48 PM hahahaha... your poems are so intresting. Terry Flood August 11, 2021 at 12:44 AM Hi, Eve. A classic example of a poem developing its own sense of direction. I had intended each line to be an expression of consternation as in lines 1,2,3 and 10. Line 4 appeared on screen seemingly without passing through my mind first. Whenever this happens I always try to run with it. Often (invariably) the ‘write’ knows best. Terry

L Milton Hankins August 10, 2021 at 7:29 PM Superb, Terry. LMAO. Strange, because I used the phrase "vaginal" crevice in a poem and the only letter that showed up was the "l". So, I dutifully substituted something less "offensive." I hate censorship!!! L Milton Hankins August 11, 2021 at 8:15 PM That's a great suggestion, Eve. I will have to try that. Terry Flood August 11, 2021 at 12:38 AM No probs there, Milt... I wasn’t gonna give the censor-bots the pleasure so I deliberately ended the f word at f.... Don’t let on, but those last four lines are only even there because the rules said ‘must include the word dumbstruck’ and I wasn’t sure the downward spelling would count. Glad you enjoyed, Milt. Terry Eve Roper August 10, 2021 at 9:51 PM Milton, what I do is separate the letters when I write a word it is going to censor... a s s