I Don’t Enjoy Pride
And All It's Deceitful
Benefits.
Did I Do Good?
*Mommy?*
Am I Breaking
Your Heart?
Please Keep
Insulting Me
With Falsehood...
In All Of *Its* Forms.
It's So Easy To: *Deny*
In All *Its* Most
Obvious Forms...
No Time To Be
Proud Of Any
*Self-*Deception*...
I'm *Serious.*
Be More Obvious.
I Have Avoid-i-ance
Trained To Suit.
Wear Your *Colors!*
I'll Hide Inside.
I **Love** It.
-Gray Squirrel
08-23-2026
I watched as the dandelions blew away in the breeze
Like small tornadoes beneath me
You chuckle, then rush to collect them
Scared to see some unique begin to bloom?
Hunger rumbled through my body
Like a shouting gladiator
Piercing my stomach with his blade
Gyros spread across the set table
I watch as you sink your teeth into them
Starving like a ravenous tiger
Yet a heart softer than lavender
So, darling, let the games begin
Please offer me your hand to hold
Whisper to me, skin warm like tea
Olive complexion luring me in
Like I'm stuck inside a trance
Take this break while the tides are high
Guide me into this deep ocean
I'll backstroke through love's reservoir
This aura, it calls out my name impatiently
Sandalwood dances to my brain
The scent attracts me like a magnet
Farther away than Andromeda
My worry for the future, it drifts away
Now that ecstasy has incarcerated me
Nothing can ensure my soon release
(G)racefully tall
(L)uring blooms
(A)ttractive colors
(D)ance in the breeze
(I)nspiring growth
(O)vercoming adversity
(L)avishing flower
(A)n abundance of beauty
Heidi Sands
8/23/25
“Life is short. Relish it from beginning to end, and share your joy in it with friends and family." by author of poem
Sip the delight of life as if it were fine wine.
Savor it as you would savor every morsel of a delicious feast.
Life will not always be easy,
So you must take advantage of every precious moment.
Dance, sing, laugh, chase fireflies, and watch the sun rise and set.
Such simple things as these are free.
Life is a gift, and once you open it,
It is more important that you share it with loved ones.
Teach your children the joy of living so that
Your joy in living it will extend itself for generations to come.
Dance, freeing my soul
Act, letting emotions out
Nimble body flows
Creative mind on the move
Exuding joy, poise, grace, zest
Hawk eye and Joni
taught me to dance
The dance of the shaking keys
Different status's same margins of collar and trance
Hawk eye and Joni taught me to dance
Real still time to trim crime fat chance
Lift the thoughts a picnic of toler-ance
Bee Gees at the roller rink
Joni Mitchell with her genius iconic Ink
Running circles around constricted culture
Driving substance into something that was all show
We are at the setting of her dream
A memory to glow and light shining bright as a star
Always shining bright as stardust falls
Joni gave us a soundtrack during our growth
Where passion inspires A pin dropped
Dropped a heist on fate
The pain the fear sequestered by hope
Born to bring the song and our spirits higher
You bring the light that sparks our desire
Sixty Years Wed
Sixty years since the magnificent day
In many precious moments along the way
Xanadu in impeccable joy
That no one in the world could ever cloy
You were joined in married bliss to enjoy.
You are together where you both belong
Every day it’s clear your love remains strong
And both hearts sing a song of faithfulness
Rendition of love’s soulmate tenderness
Sung softly all your lives in gentleness.
Wishing you peace, glee and love for all times
Extremely harmonious rhythm and rhymes
Dance forever together sweet Valentines.
*+*
“Diamonds are forever and plausibly
All your future dreams were your destiny.”
Congratulations Sara and Tom!
12th October 2022
*+*
Anniversary Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Sara Kendrick
Form chosen: Acrostic
I think I’ve written some doggone good stuff
Hey, I am sorry if, for you, it wasn’t enough,
Submitting it was sometimes an afterthought
Because my skin is thick, your N/A was for naught,
I write my poems for me, and I can happily say
I’ve already had my joy long before your “nay!”
I am nonplussed when your choices seem biased
But then, who am I to second-guess your highest?
I admit, when your winner does miss the mark
I wonder why my entry apparently did not spark,
I am taken aback by a lack of judging credentials
Your seeming ignor-ance of absolute essentials,
Realizing entering is seeking only one person’s nod
Please do not think your opinion is the ultimate god,
And be as fair as you can be when selecting who
Writes the best piece and deserves a Woo-Hoo!
In closing, let me say I thoroughly enjoy contests
But love them most when my poem is the best!
Written July 23, 2022
[A fun poke at our contest sponsors!]
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June 21, 2022
Brian Strand Premier Contest
Bouncing up and down
Imitating dancing clown
Ravishing birds do
Dance, sing, hop, speak and amuse
Soothing are those flying hues
For the contest Tankacrostic by Andrea
i think
i may
have
written this
once before
in a different
form and i'm
sure titled
impromptu
but i can
visit it in
memory
as if it's
happening
again and
again for
forever
when i
want to
remind
me of a
time in
my life
in JFK
waiting
for a de
parture
looking
in a heat
ing grate
a still lit
cigarette
had been
thrown in
then came
in a new
arrival the
oldest of
survival's
live a life
time even
after an a
bomb yes
lets hear
it for your
friend and
mine that
adaptable
instinctual
moves like
rapid stop
motion an
imation so
makes your
skin crawl
cockroach
yes ladies
and gentle
men he or
she made
it's appear
ance stage
right and
left with that
still smoking
gun to smoke
after making
love with its
look just alike
loved one but
exponentially
spreading some
new genes for
after the next
war but taking
a toll firstly on
the first one
that took the
first puff for
it did not
read
SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING:
Smoking Causes Lung Cancer,
Heart Disease, Emphysema, and
May Complicate Pregnancy.
Rose
On stem
Swaying in
Evening Breezes
Soft
Dance
And swirl
No thought for
Creatures that may
Eat!
For: ” Light Up The Page 3 Poetry Contest”
Sponsor: Joseph May
(A)ppreciate today
(P)oetry
(P)aint and play music
(R)ide my motor scooter
(E)mbrace love
(C)elebrate kindness
(I)nspire others
(A)lways see nature
(T)urn things into positive
(E)ncourage friends
(T)alk
(O)vercome hurdles
(D)ance
(A)ct on my purpose
(Y)ell with laughter
Heidi Sands
1/21/19
Placed 3rd in the Word Play Contest.
Theme: What I love to do
Reach out and splash the face of God
As you free-fall from the clouds,
In you quest to quench thirst.
Nothing’s in your way,
Dance, tumble, and
Ride the wind.
Own your
Plunge!
Poems with very little words
Only serve to minutise my imagination
Every word has the power to build
My sweet imagination
So serve them to me on a blank white sheet
WITH
Verbalization flare and you got my thanks forever
Engage me in your story let me feel the
Rising passion of your soul and
You will have me hooked forever
LITTLE
Words restrict my possibility of expansive thought
Open your mind and spill out the story my fellow poet
Rewind your life and tell me all the stories of your journey
Dance on my soul like a dervish circling my aura
Sing to me with words of assonance and repetance
STUNT
Me with your poet's steel quill and dip me in your well
You need not scimp on words just show me your story of
GROWTH .
October 13, 2018
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