If words would wear resistance down,
trust me, I would use them.
Fine phrases mollify that frown?
The agile adverb, the nimble noun?
I would not refuse them!
If poems charmed your soul, you
may depend upon it,
I'd eulogize, extol you,
compel, convince, cajole you,
in silken sonnets.
But what can words achieve?
Nothing, I fear, that matters.
Though I would fain believe
the word webs which I weave
can knit again love's ravelled sleeve,
I'm really not quite that naive.
And so I feel I have to leave
this thing of ours in tatters.
The Tricky Thing
About The
Attribution Of Guilt...
Is That Subsequently
Everything Unlucky
(That Then Occurs...)
Is Considered
Compensatory Punishment
You Deserve!
And A Lot Of
Things Seem
Unlucky, You
Know...
Some Are
Deservedly
Inevitable.
(Guiltily Is An Adverb, Too)
-Gray Squirrel
10-04-2025
We are the nouns, the mighty tidy nouns
house cat, mouse, bat, zebras, elephants and gowns
you’re nothing without us, the verbs smirk, laugh and say
twirling, whirling, dancing, singing, along the way
the adjectives and adverbs laugh at these arrogant two
You might be the wood and concrete, but we are the glue
without us you cannot be mammoth, tiny, cold or blue
this was from a frustrated adjective named McGrue.
or dance daintily or prettily said an arrogant adverb
thinking you are all that without the others is kind of absurd
a peacekeeping preposition tried to make a pact,looking at each side.
over, under, upside down, around and through, his name was McBride.
"Walk!", cried the jimply from his perch
above the fruited plain.
With fiery lanterns they did search
o'er the vast terrain.
They trudged all day and trudged all night
until each got a small blister.
Oh, how I recoil at their woeful plight -
I'll tell you that much mister.
The jimply's demand was nothing short of
"Find my whatchamacallit!",
though most secretly prayed to the lord above
that they would find his wallet.
They slogged till the eyes in their heads
turned from green to red,
bleeding like cats and dogs they did,
like streams of fish, they bled.
'Til the smallest said aloud, "oh great jimply of renown,
you strike me as absurd.
You are not an adverb, nor are you no noun.
I don't think you are a word."
Prima Facie
adjective
based on the first impression; accepted as correct until proved otherwise.
so i accept
what choice do I have
i'm such a big fan
i love you so much
you are pure art
so i look past the downward glance of your eyes
Prima Facie
adverb
on the first impression
at first
i thought you were beautiful
but it's not
you're not
per se
it's just that you prefer the pain of others
because guilt is a solid replacement for anguish
you like to see me get hit
get struck down
because you can offer a hand down to me
but i cannot climb up to you
and i'm sorry
if my deadweight was too heavy
when you gripped my body after striking me down
It was said “ good things never last"
Last Last we lost her untimely
It was said “gone too soon"
Soon enough you will live again
Again nothing less of the lessons you've thought will forever live
It was said “painful exit"
Exiting this world was indeed painful
Painful is less of an adverb to qualify the verb ‘pain
It was said “Rest in peace"
Peace that weigh your way to eternal glory
Glory that elude the painful exit
Several testifiers testifies of fervent love
Love exemplified like Tabitha
Tabitha deed never dies hence you shall for ever live Omada.
Enow
enow. / (?'na?) / adjective, adverb. an archaic word for enough
Yes, We Survivors Do Live On But How
Many should die, millions or just enow
Yes, war and the fallen lives of war dead
Corpses strewn upon wet blood-soaked ground
In fertile fields, were farmers once did plow.
Many should die, millions or just enow
War the savagery of lost mankind
Death, carnage, loss and misery expands
In fertile fields, were farmers once did plow.
Many should die, millions or just enow
And tears fall like snow from a weeping sky
And mothers, daughters, many wear black dress
In fertile fields, were farmers once did plow.
Many should die, millions or just enow
Yes, we survivors do live on but how?
Robert J. Lindley, Sonnet
June 22, 1974
Note:
""Enow""
enow. / (?'na?) / adjective, adverb. an archaic word for the word= "enough"
Embraced with in vertical holds me
Trees vertical stands on earthen grounds
Spoken Words says God speaks
His God's galaxies qualifies me
As a part of Him
God particles
adverb
Eement of speech
Worded spoken breath
Lfe unto me existence
adverb
Like a helium balloon gases
Oxygen energy vaporized
Adverb highly favored travel spaces
Reversed placed in vessel earthen
Modified in His spirit I speak life
Life speaks through me
Spoken word I am in God
God and Me
adverb
I am that I am I am of now
Now I am adverb lyrics to the placed
Put in space
In a vessel humanities
adverb
Aversed a living person placed.
In a vessel walking living testimony
Hallelujah
3/10/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2o23(c)
The Scarlett Brothers were in the ether riding their fancy birds.
They dotted the landscape with their poetic musical words.
Throwing out adjectives, idioms and a colorful adverb.
Some jealous ones were saying they were all kinds of absurd.
I knew they were celebrating their birthdays on the same day.
They were laughing like hyenas, their tankas and haikus floating away.
They were excitedly creating poetry, as they rode into the sky, gray.
It made me happy hearing them, they embellished this Sunday!
Dumbass Genius Farm Boys Paradigm
David J Walker
“Genius” may have been the most ironic of all
The four-letter adverb monikers daily applied
To describe the general dissatisfaction
With any and all work performed on the farm
“Way to go Genius” was the norm as
The tearing down process was performed
Can you be a Genius and a Dumbass
at the same time
as you chime in
too late to make any sense
of the Dumbass-Genius farm boy paradigm
“What do you think Genius” was the question
To the obvious answer that goes without saying
To any coherent thing in the Kings English spoken
With a deep Texas drawl
“I know y’all aint that GD Dumb…dumbass”
“Y’all aint from round here, are ya Genius”
I couldn’t believe it either, but I was and
I could drop the F-Bomb with the best of ‘em
Forming a drawled word you’d never heard in the
Middle of a sentence never spoken in
Sunday school
“Hey Genius, get yer ass over here”
I’d heard that demand so many times that
I’d planned to send my ass and leave the
Rest of me behind
But that will be next time
Dumbass Genius
Written by Gail DeBole
On 10/27/2021
Updated on 10/28/2021
Don’t repeat.
Make it short and sweet.
Really and Very
Are words that don’t carry
A crucial amount of weight
To a descriptive word’s state.
If you must abuse
The word that you choose.
Then at least speak the power
So listeners do not sour.
Say “Very” to the third
Even though it’s quite absurd.
At least you’re being clever
If listeners respond, “Whatever.”
ripples of water torture accepted
the wrinkle of time descending
mannahly marantic romance
torticollis dribs and drabs of syringe
honey’d seeds remain; cakes fade away
dawn will erase; placidity will forget
but the depths release their seamonsters
reflected in the honeymoon, between palms
with firework stars overhead; eternal bliss
9/25/2020
Sponsor: William Kekaula
Impact and Metaphors Poetry Contest
*mannahly - mannah turned into an adverb
adverb
thumb war
~nailing it
***
faeries found freelance forest
matched up verbs and adjectives
married them fine and dandy
the nouns were so mad
which is concerned
might convey
the necessity
and in it's
urgency of it's need
to coney these
thoughts
as concerns to
vocalize the
need of proper
means of having
words to form
nd be spoken
in the sweet
rhythm of speaking.
Verb and vowel,
adverb and adjective
that each conjunction
support, those words
that need support.
the urgency and concern
and the lack of causing each.
these words
came from the
audancion of
the orchestra :band and
sontress and malo-cantorouss'.
those who
need to shave
do so.
the nappy headed folk,
who need those
nap's straightened, let's do-it !
get the kink's and snag's relaxed!
tonic aint just for your brother.
and Honey, use tanning paint.
the seamstress will be here
shortly, write your request,
and tell the Tenor's the
USS Frigget Ship's donated
there mass, for the
fabric for their shirt's.
they smell like fish,
"did someone
sit on these shirt's"
people, people
get with-it !"
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