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91 My 19th Leaf

91.

My 19th Leaf



Plucked thee from near ground

Outdoor ornament

On Bermuda grass

It's the plant type one

Decorative “fern”!



By Hachuela clan

Neighbor relative

It belongs to them

Planted by someone

To grace their front yard



January Thirteen

Friday Twenty Twelve

Ante Aclet's wake

Night before burial

And saw Marvic G.



Neighborhood to South

Way to Codingle

Not along the road

Yellow-painted house

Just in front its porch



Friday the Thirteenth

Last day – Amaya

Hour before watching

Saw CapSU backers

I, Nanay & kin!



-01/13/2012

(Dumarao)

*My Toladas Collection

Premium Member A World at War with Itself

         Football’s not a game, it’s a weekend war
    Baseball’s a battle a day, myriad games played

         Business is cutthroat competition
    ‘Dog-eat-dog’ ~ every man for himself

          Hollywood and hospitals: grapevines
     like lightning, with stab-in the backers

     Computer systems assaulted by malware and hackers
          
          No easy answers to a world at war
          No one questioning what life is for

Premium Member Anatine Nightmare

Forty thousand duck attackers
call themselves the Southside Quackers.
In high places, they have backers.
They want more than cheese and crackers.
It's just like my mother said,
"Don't eat too much before you go to bed".


Premium Member True Confession Time

       I give up writing the ‘great American poem’…
           started after college
           in my garage
           but it was all a mirage…
       Now all my backers – I owe ‘em

Premium Member Time and adieux, worthy farm 2025'

The vibrant popinjay has gone.' The harlequin no more really
Spins in song.' The magic's now all in a can.' Younger female backers
Parry times looming advance plan..' The age'd icon takes his glances
Across the acres, of yearning souls in hopefull trances..Parody banners they lie.' beneath sultry skies.' Echo the effigy of the past,  See it burned in the mans eyes.'
Actions Describe.' Writ large the irony of life.' Youth has
Flown.' All hail its ghost, Ronnie strums, the speakers hum.'
Geri-acrity...Fumbles combinations and with alacrity..' 0yet theres really not one chance.' No way back.' All I see is false hope.' Rod Stewart is a husk.' Not yet voiceless.' Nor danceless yet
Its the back end, of the romance.!

Premium Member Here We Go Again

What is going to take for our legislators to put in safe gun laws
The ones we have on the books in most states are so deeply flawed
Everyone should have the right to defend their homes
But assault weapons we do not need to own
We will never get all the guns out of the hands of bad actors
But hopefully, we could change the minds of some of our gun backers
Tougher gun laws will never end these mass shootings
What it will do however is lower the number, of which I think we would all salute
A lot of the people who commit these crimes have made threats online
People who monitor these sites need to report these individuals in record time 
My heart goes out to everyone who has lost a loved one to gun violence 
Think if it was one of our loved ones, how long could we remain in silence


Premium Member Cave Kellers and Dig Wellers

Cave Kellers and Dig Wellers
David J Walker

Christians that go to hell 
will have one
Hell of a story to tell

       In the
Nick of time but no place to
Dwell among tent dwellers the
Cave kellers the dig
Wellers the rhyme 
Travelers the street  
Sellers and day
Sailors the night
Failures the pay
Traders the flesh
Peddlers the time
Piddlers the mind
Benders the fence 
Minders the prime 
Lenders the crime 
Numbers the prince 
Paupers the door
Stoppers the bargain 
Shoppers the grass
Hoppers old teeny 
Boppers  and hogg 
Sloppers with chart 
Toppers and good 
Coppers and hoola-
Hoopers and party 
Poopers and hot 
Peppers and self
Checkers and fat
Backers with back
Packers of heart
Stoppers and flip
Floppers and hot
Flappers and splish
Splashers and party
Crashers and hot
es and bad 
Bastards 

Christians that go to hell 
will have no one to blame
in the hottest of flame
But one hell of a story 
          to tell

Premium Member Protest

We don’t like it when you talk back.
We’re in power, so we’ll have less of that.
Protest because of our lies and fascist policies.
Well, I don’t know if you plebs understand where the power is!

You see if you talk back it means you’re standing up to all our lies and our crap.
If you create a scene by standing up together, well that means that you could eventually control the power!!! 

Because we’re Tories and we lie for a living. We just want you to keep on giving. So we’ll screw you hard and tax everything. We’ll make you plebs suffer with this ‘cost of living’

But if you stand up in mass and numbers. We’ll get really scared and hide in our fridges. Because the only thing that can stop the flow is the vehement look in your eyes when you plebs act in crowds. A general action will bring us to our knees because our billionaire backers will lose money.

X-Mass

Donald Trump loves his Russian backers
Who moonlight as KGB hackers
With silent stealth
Plundering wealth
Whilst Bojo reveals Christmas crackers

Premium Member Anything Goes

Fierce was their hatred for Reagan
   Now for Mr. Trump all the more
At his State of the Union Speech
   The Dems aimed to even the score

Trump's backers still cheering
   his "Best is Yet to Come" close
Ms. Pelosi ripped up all his notes
   then struck a defiant pose...

'Midst all of Washington's partisan woes
   Nancy Pelosi proved nearly anything goes

Premium Member Angels Net Flies--

Angels Net Flies--

sainting aurora
A black, thundery net flies
because of the ghost

backers aurora
A wide, thundery net flies
in spite of the host

6/29/19
written by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2019

Trump Supplies of Lies

Trump Supplies of Lies

Trump sure seems to have so many supplies,
Of stories and myths all substantiated by lies;
Leader of pack,
And not intact;
Even his supporters and backers now realize.

Jim Horn

Tricks Today

I wonder what the tricks are now
For once, they used to be
Some splattered eggs or toilet paper
Draped around a tree.

Another one was sidewalk chalk
All crushed within a sock
Which then was bashed against a stoop,
Much to the owner’s shock.

The treats are much the same these days,
Though home-made ones are gone,
Yet are there any people left
To play those tricks upon?

For candy-holding-backers
Will pretend they aren’t there
Or else the consequences might
Be more than just a scare.

Something New

Something New

Have you longed for something new
like ketchup on your crackers
To hang out till the break of dawn
with multiple kick backers

A peanut for a new best friend
unless you are allergic
A submarine in your back yard
so easy to submerge it

A watermelon kitchen sink
with seeds to help the drainage
A brand new wash cloth made of fur
to softly clean the stainage

A pickup truck with tap shoe wheels
so down the road you’re clicking
A new comb for your head of hair
with grease for easy slicking

To stick your neck out really far
like you have been giraffe-ing 
Have you longed for something new
like this that leaves you laughing

10/15/18

Written for: The Trying Something New Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Nina Parmenter


This was a tough one and definitely something new for me. : )

Graham Crackers

Senator Lindsey Graham is crackers
As are all those Bill Cosby backers
Females are not toys
For abuse by boys
Who are clearly sadistic bushwhackers!

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