Empty Barrels
Is most of your life spent
alone in the dark
Hiding from rainbows
in colorless spite
The sun waits a mistress
the evening a whore
That paid by the hour
exposes your blight
Professing in earnest
those things you don’t know
Whose pontification
a mask that conceals
What others see clearly
fate not to deceive
Delusion and bluster
—your folly revealed
(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)
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Categories:
barrels, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
Both Barrels - Shooting Widows
My husband is a shooter,
Which isn't always fun,
As every weekend
He's out somewhere with his gun.
So quality time together
Can sometimes be quite sparse,
"But I have to have a hobby."
He tells me with a laugh.
Our daughters getting married
To a super guy called Tom,
Has he any faults?
I've discovered just the one.
He also is a shooter,
His hobby
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Categories:
barrels, dad, daughter, humor, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Bugs N' Barrels
When the bugs in the bottom of a barrel of mash
consume all of the sugar and puke out all of that alcohol,
their civilization dies;
not because they consumed too much sugar
or puked up too much alcohol,
but because they multiplied far beyond
the ability of the barrel to sustain them.
Finding another barrel
doesn't solve anything.
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Categories:
barrels, judgement, political,
Form: Free verse
Apple Barrels
On fears regarding the refugee crisis in Europe...
Some apples make cider
And some apples not
Some ferment as expected
Some do not
There may be statistics
I suspect not a lot
That predict the existence
Of possible rot
Schrodinger’s cat
Is wise to the plot
A cat in a box
Or a wolf in a cot
In the barn there are barrels
To keep cold or hot
The cider
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Categories:
barrels, anxiety, conflict, drink, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Lock,Stock and Two Wine Barrels
Lock, Stock and two wine barrels
Give me five minutes to catch my breath,
I cannot think for this impossible rushing is deafening my reason,
A leap of faith and I may find myself in a swamp
Sinking, stinking, bogged down,
Or rather,
Will I have the castle in the sky with views stretching across the heavens?
A defiant shove and all
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Categories:
barrels, funny, wine,
Form: Free verse
The Problem With Big Round Barrels (A Series of Cooped Lymrics)
A barrel of laughs, like a barrel of hope
Echoing in my ears like suds in the soap
Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle
Loosen up my buckle
Roll around on the floor like a big dumb dope
A barrel of monkeys, what the heck does that mean?
Oh dear lord, don't let 'em out or they'll cause a scene
Pop the top
Never stop
Those two
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Categories:
barrels, funny
Form: Limerick