Best Call The Shots Poems

You must be kidding
Game's on and no one called me?
Ok, break time's up
I've been ignored long enough
I call the shots around here

~*~

For Linda's "Baby Babbles"...

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safe haven for poets once existed
till destructive forces came on board
those who seek just to hurt others
end up harming themselves

several such people have inflicted pain...

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Two is company
Three a crowd
A and B call the shots
I'll C my way out

I've become a nuisance 
With the key to their heart
A knee high...

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expendable lives
our elderly, sick and poor
benefits denied
D.C. may call the shots now
God is the equalizer


*Written in honor of John Freeman
for his contest "Sayings of Wisdom"...

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“Pearl Diving” (Part 2)

Angel fish are pretty, but they’re boring that’s they’re lot
the Man O War is far too flashy, frivilous, 
Octupi are too touchy...

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The Eagle, the Dove or the Turkey: Which Bird?

In January 1784 Benjamin Franklin said,
That “The bald eagle…[was] of bad moral character”; 
Called him poor, lousy...

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Back at the back, 
she was not, 
hot.
Good a lot, 
loved the most.

Bus station,
off at the station.
Lost.
'My only station,
is she lost?

Bush sided gravel road, 
to...

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John 13 (Part 2)

And now the hour was well advanced
for Him to take His leave.
He'd go the way His Father said
and leave them all to...

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Life is a challenge, seems it's always a fight
Kept on our toes, fists balled up tight
But every so often there's an ease of its grip
it'll...

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 minute poem 

Stretching, I might be four-foot-six
I've learned to fix
the wixumph jokes
of thoughtless blokes.

Some people are antriphinal -
not short on bull
"Peanut," they yell
"Who cracked...

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To The Naysayers 

I am not your saint;
Nor am I the bad seed.
An angel I ain't;
I have my own creed.

You won't guess my thoughts;
Or predict...

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There was no space between 
the bonsai.
                  
You...

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Resting my thoughts, I look unto Thee
Your peace flows divine
Resting my fears, I can clearly see
My ways, You align

Resting my worries into Thy care
All I...

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Protect your heart,
 Surround it with patience.
   Allow your light,
 To be luminescent.
 
   Try not to get your
 Hopes up...

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He's not over it,,I hear from all sides,
Hoping to get answers from other people's eyes,
I won't budge, I won't move,
I refuse to allow him to...

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