Best Disqualified Poems
The Gardner a Disqualified Poem On LemonsLemons,
their squeezed
juice
that trickles
down
the chin,
and slides
through
the fingers,
is the
sunlight
that
warms
an
April
eve'
for
the first
time
since
the previous
April.
Lemon-
drops
are
sweet,
and you
want
to
just look
at
their
sunny
sugariness,
hold one
like
a little
jewelry bead-
and
in
your
mouth
every suck-
one
after
the other
like you
string the beads-
one
after
the other
on
a
long
thin
string
the color...
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Categories:
disqualified, appreciation, art, beauty,
Form:
Prose Poetry
You Are DisqualifiedI know I told you to step forward
You know you'd acted Today's Coward,
Your right cheek scratching then moved backwards,
For my command plain bleak eyes upwards,
Still,you long to be Green Scene's Steward,
Come service with plans to drive onward...
You seem not he who'd keep smiles broad
With piled-high...
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Categories:
disqualified, career, courage, health, money,
Form:
Rhyme