Terry Flood Poet Rhyme

Yellow Peril

You’re there, right in my face, you’re completely out of place
Like a hair found on a steak, you’re a bona fide disgrace
You’re an awful apparition and I really want you gone
I speak to other people but you’re all they gaze upon

I’ve met so many of your kind: and most of them were yella 
You have no place this close to any halfway decent fella
I’ll close my eyes and count to five and you’ll have disappeared
Or else I’ll be the worst thing that you ever could have feared

I know if you could talk you’d say, “Hey buddy do your worst.”
Your pride will come before your fall, for you look fit to burst
I don’t need to call anyone to say, “You’d better freeze.”
If anyone should come, I’d say that you’re my latest squeeze

So nothing you can say is ever gonna make me stop
You ain’t no kind of fixture and your brains are gonna pop
I have to say I grinned with youthful recall for a bit
For at my age it’s rare to find a new uncharted zit

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Beryl Edmonds January 4, 2024 at 5:15 PM Oh Terry what wit, who’d have thought you were writing about zit, had me wondering right to the end, you are simply amazing dear friend… Belle Terry Flood January 12, 2024 at 2:57 PM Thanks, Belle. I really don’t know what put this in my head. So glad you enjoyed. Terry

Jan Allison December 31, 2023 at 5:30 PM you sure made me lol, I have got they call it mellow yellow buzzing in my brain now lol:-) happy new year Terry and thanks so much for your invaluable advice about self publication it is so very much appreciated :-) hugs jan xx Terry Flood January 1, 2024 at 3:23 PM Thanks, Jan, glad you enjoyed. I’ve had about a dozen attempts at drawing the ‘laughing thing’ you mentioned in a soup mail… I just keep proving that I’m no artist. Now… that’s got everyone wondering!

Deb M December 31, 2023 at 1:57 AM Ewwww gross “but so brillliant ,so funny and so cleverly written!”!! Ha…Debx Terry Flood December 31, 2023 at 3:14 AM Thanks, Deb. Used to get them in my teens and periodically in my early twenties but not these days. One of the blessings of ageing, I guess. Have a great new year. Terry

Tom Cunningham December 30, 2023 at 9:55 PM Lol the dreaded zit that when you look in the mirror it looks like a flashing beacon. Thankfully I didn't suffer from them, Happy popping and happy new year. Tom Terry Flood December 31, 2023 at 3:12 AM Me neither… not for many, many years. Not even sure what put this in my mind, but glad you enjoyed. Happy new year to you too. Terry