Best Abbreviated Poems
Wind stops for a brief moment
then strikes.
Copyright © Cynthia Jones
Feb.9/2013
We're in the middle of a blizzard. High winds and snow. We have snow drifts adding up, but not a lot of snow around the doors or driveway.
In brevity of time
God aroused my soul aside.
While enraptured in this moment,
Deity, had so rapidly,
Stripped away my sinful pride.
Blustery winds blow outside
so cold.
Minus thirty-four wind chill
so cold.
Fingers freeze within seconds
so cold.
Trees covered in ice, shiver
so cold.
I can't wait for the Spring's warmth
so cold.
Copyright © Cynthia Jones
Jan.3/2014
I am getting tired of being in this deep freeze. It's been nothing, but, cold here in the Maritimes. I went to Timmy's last nice and almost froze to death on the walk there and back home. I did, however, stay there for a couple of hours and post poetry to warm up. :O)
I have often thought it ironic
If not positively absurd
That the term, abbreviated
Is an eleven letter word
Slander my work
Disregard my views
Disgrace my ideas
It only proves my point
Our society is set up to destroy
Not people, that would be too obvious
But people, their minds and souls
In ignorance and doubt
You can't do this
You can be this
You aren't smart enough
You aren't rich enough
Embrace the material
Do your job
Pay your taxes
Play nice with others
Shut up and sit down
Like good sheep
Like good ants
Like good slaves
Good
Check out Darwin Barney's abbreviated slide and crawl into third
It's on YouTube, even Darwin laughed at himself, how absurd
For all the Blue Jays fans
Got them off their hands
Worth the admission, a fun spot in a dismal year for the birds
One Sunday afternoon last summer with the weather being great,
we decided we should carry on one normal summer trait,
and put on a ‘barby’ for the neighbours, so we can socialise,
while we have a drink of bundy and tell a heap of lies.
Before the guests were due I thought I’d clean the bar-be-cue
of the droppings from the birds, and dead cockroaches too,
but of course what normally happens, happened to a tee,
someone arrives before they should and kept distracting me.
Though my visitor is barely seven and she only lives next door,
she put to me a question that nearly knocked me to the floor
when she asked politely for the answer she expects
“Mr. Laurie can you tell me - exactly what is sex?”
Well my first intention was to send her inside to the wife,
for it really wasn’t up to me to explain the facts of life,
but she’s probably heard a story based on fantasies,
so I told her plain and simple - about ‘the birds and bees.’
The little girl’s eyes narrowed and her mouth dropped open wide.
Her little face had reddened and in a searing voice she cried
“Stay away from me, I’ve done my ‘stranger danger’ course”
and now my wife and neighbour had found the screaming source.
I made a flurry of denial from the girl they pacify,
and I pleaded out my innocence before I asked her why,
She asked a flamin’ question that no normal bloke expects.
“Well, mum told me to tell you she’d see youse in a coupla’ secs”.