Best Broadcast Poems
Broadcast what you know well
Live after as a tale to tell
Figure out ways to owning up
To anyone you helped disrupt
Be taller than six feet down
Not only a loss in your town
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11/27/11
Kim Merryman
Entered in PD's "Make Me Smile" contest
If I were stung by a bumble bee,
Would it make you any less an ant?
Be for me, no more
than you have hidden away
in self-deception. Today,
tomorrow, into next week,
make yourself real for me;
toss the curried bullcrap out
with that bouquet of empty words
you're so clever with. Those tapping feet
need to settle down in an honest rhythm
of sound that catches my attention,
that makes me want to press
my cheek to yours, in simple friendship.
All the wrong things are at the top
of your list.
The dress was a vested interest
In looking good; the hair drifted down,
Soft Grecian lines that curled
Over sun-browned skin
Camouflaging freckles on her back.
Roving eyes took in the seated diva;
Her throne(worth all the tea in China,
Maybe more) was The Solar Bird,
A bronze, by Miro.
Her exit was the East Wing’s nearest door.
Well, Mary O, I don't know if chicken feed's
the way to go, to catch the faultless phrase,
to turn a poet from a dame who's dazed
by right-side brain overload and malnutrition.
I'm Irish and a female;
Isn't that enough?
how
i
love
listening
to
the
whisper
in
your
voice
of
midnight
stars
AP: 1st place 2021
The winter turns
completely upside down
When we go mind to mind
In an elevated round
Of cyber synapse.
Perhaps.
I love you in the quiet space of recollection;
love you ardently in dreams that allow
no measure of restriction; where time drifts
backwards on a whim, eclipsing the Egyptian Dog Star
and Sumarian curiosities. It comes to rest
at the mouth of eternity, with a view
of a world yet to be. In the excitement
of discovering you all over again,
I will time to stand still,
and bind his eyes.
She sees herself obsessed
with perfection, utterly lost
without positive direction;
confounded by the thought
of indiscretion, she needs
some space, some time,
some introspection.
Confounded, self defense
Becomes digression,
not knowing if she's penned
the right correction; her mentor
had the nerve to take vacation
and left her in a mess
of speculation.
His Monday morning dose
Of adoration, has been put
On hold.
The turkey couple stomped out of their shed,
For the short season that all turkeys dread,
“We quit, we’re done,”
“We want to have fun,”
"OVENS OFF! DON’T DISTURB! We’re off to bed."
19/11/22
A Brian Stand Premiere Choice Poetry Contest
I had a lover once, just one,
espied through misted panes
from my corner loft,
above the grocery store.
His lanky gait would pause
for the Southbound No.3.
and though I wished,
with all my heart,
he’d lift his head from down,
the passing years have
have brought no more
than a greying shade of brown.
Shouldn't Pilsner glasses come in six packs?
I watch you struggle
in your sleep,
battle deep,
in a dream
against yourself.
I watch, and wait
to sprinkle fairy lust
inside your mind;
to spell your days
with searching eyes
beyond the obvious.
Sing with me, Henry.
Time is tapping
A worrisome foot
For the rhythm
Of life is a mess.
Too many hearts
are dressed in despair.
and the lost need a song
for their souls.