Tis the way of life's challenge as an adult male,
the prize parts in two fates: flock ownership tethered
innate skills, exiting rights the Bachelor's Herd
as skills tested, foes midst or yond; fail or prevail.
barely adult male
lacking abilities needs
aimless future trials~
driven working family
young man dies by drunk driver
Each of the seven prostitutes,
Whose life began as destitute;
From their brothels to a roadside,
For men with or without a ride:
Main wish: to catch the adult male
And stop a day from going stale…
The picture is competition:
To whom would one loss petition?
Yes, a quite charged atmosphere
For one to in chats interfere:
A rival swipe for being too gaunt,
The rather fat with her size haunt
Open boasts about being half chaste;
How good cash paid one not a waste…
They were seven young prostitutes
Who’d failed in enrolled institutes.
Mockingbirds Are Noisy and Aggressive
By: Miracle Man
July 19,2021
Sunshine peeking through a mottled sky,
painting a picture on parched ground.
A Mockingbird intermittently flutters by,
and from its repertoire a familiar sound.
A mate remains busy preparing a nest,
our red honeysuckle, is their spot of choice.
Fending off trespassers, not to be dispossessed,
while sampling me with its singing voice.
When a squirrel leaves a tree and is aground,
the Mocker dives and pecks until driven from sight.
With the male mocker you don’t fool around,
it makes the squirrel chatter, from affright.
It is said that an adult male mocker,
can make 200 different sounds.
Mother rams with baby lambs
for greener grass are hunting.
Mama cows spy mama sows
with piglets softly grunting.
Creature ma’ams are joined by dams
whose baby colts start snorting!
Calves and colts and pigs like dolts
in meadows are cavorting.
March 10, 2021
for Eve Roper's Nursery Rhyme Poetry Contest
(I learned a new word doing this, which kids might enjoy learning:
dams are female horses!)
From Wikipedia:
The word (dam) can also be used for other female equine animals, particularly mules and zebras . . . A horse's female parent is known as its dam. An uncastrated adult male horse is called a stallion and a castrated male is a gelding.
There has been a joining of an adult male and a female child
Not quite a proud owner of a single pubic hair,
Letting a lamb under the same roof as The Wild
And treating both as “A Divine Pair”
The man’s boyish smiles are a ruse:
The girl hasn’t yet begun to bolted bathrooms use…
Now, there are to be matches between a stout phallus and a hole
Too tender to start conceding a goal.
… As it could burst into flames, vowing to not forget
A treatment not befitting A Nugget.
Supposedly the answer to prolonged spinsterhood
But ironically worse than chaining widowhood:
Aiming to stall a woman’s heartbreak by insincere suitors
But keeping the infant wife constantly with sly mentors.
Paired up are a two owning contrasting tracks
By races audaciously upholding their cracks
Also, the clear encouragement of hateful inhibitions
And a stark support of deaf traditions.
ninety degrees hot
slight breeze sleepless humid night -
a bachelor sings
5/20/2019
Poetry Contest: Full Writing Challenge 3, May 2019, Nature Haiku
Sponsored by: Dear Heart
Although all adult male mockingbirds sing during the day,
only a bachelor sings at night.
My subject for today's poem is Charlize
Yup! You guessed it... Charlize Theron
Now she is what I call a GORGEOUS woman
I'm drooling as I write
Oh crap! All over my keyboard!
Now I'm an adult male, usually in control of myself
BUT there's only so much a man can endure
A constant image of Charlize on my desktop
Is to say, at the very least, extremely distracting
Spell check is constantly alerting me about spelling errors
I pride myself in my self control
BUT Charlize makes me do and say naughty things!
There are many gorgeous women in the world
But she has to be just about THE MOST
Gorgeous women that ever there was!!!
© Jack Ellison 2015
21st February 2012
By Sashi Prabhu (zeauoxian)
(Couplet)
Hey mum and dad please do not lowly hum or keep mum,
When by your little one asked “where do babies come from?”
Narrated over and over this metaphorical tale,
Many scoff to tell, be it female or adult male.
Birds are like men and fly as they please,
Bees are like women, dedicated to their queen, to her whims appease.
Bees sit on and pollinate the flowers,
By, buzzing around many and over few hovers.
The birds spread the “seed”,
These to the “gen next” they lead.
This is about birds and bees a short verse,
On a topic, proscribed and taboo which parents surely must never be averse
THE CHALLENGE
It was just him and me, it was dark
Crane in the park
Oh it wasn’t the Cienfuegos great *****
Who could arm wrestle for three days or so
But it was male-to-male, that’s all:
Staring eyeball to eyeball.
I’d been there before - it made me think
Who would be the first to blink?
He had just arrived from Spain
An adult male crane
He said nothing but
I could read his proud thought.
His unflinching eye said to me
Can you navigate 6000 miles over the sea
At night without any instrument?
Can you undergo four days torment
Without water or food,
Regardless of weather or mood?
I blinked.
Never speak the truth
Keep it bottled inside
Never speak the horror
It’s something I must hide
I can’t release the pain
That was caused upon to me
I can’t release the mental anguish
And the endless years of misery
Why is a societal taboo?
When all I speak is the truth
Why do so many people shun
What is so clearly putridly uncouth?
Write about all cheerful things
Never about your past
Write about sunsets and rainbows
Forget and allow the hurt to pass
I’m sorry, but I can’t do that
I was sexually molested as a child
Three adult male cousins
Took my innocence as they smiled
Forgiveness I have given
To each and every one
But the pain and scars I still bear
Over the mental abuse that they have done
© Stacy Lynn Stiles
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