Best Admonitions Poems

Today, loafing on the porch I reminisced about yesteryears,
Recalling Mom's admonitions still ringing in my ears!
As a feckless youth I let them go in one ear and out the other,
Alas, paying little heed to my long-suffering Mother!

"Stop slamming the screen door!  You're letting the...

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Speak chair to thy own ease
In distant silence from men's ears
For you have seen, and heard
Felt and smelled it all
The last part of lasagna in the fridge too long

And when I told her sit there
You kept the evidence to your breast
Quite emotionless
As upon your tongue...

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No! you weren’t born
to be beaten
raped
chained to a life  bloodstained  ingrained with pain
wordless  worthless  voiceless  choiceless  

No! you can’t live
being beaten
raped
chained to a life  profaned  restrained  
caned for being female
—don’t you dare cry out! he shouts
wordless...

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Tasks, by their very nature
are often painful to perform.
Polysyllabic pedantry exacerbates undertakings unnecessarily.
Strict contest-runners rate your
adherence to the stipulated norm.

Would Robert Frost perform feats
of wordplay? Or leave forsaken
such boring chores?  I airily
dare opine this, for Keats,
is the road not taken.

Like rednecks have their gun,
and...

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