Best Drouth Poems

Calaveras' famous frog was astounding
In contests never beaten at bounding
But a gambler's ruse
In the frog did infuse
Lead shot that kept him a groundling

The con artist disappeared south
Froggy's owner poured shot from its mouth
His face fiery red
He examined the lead
That had made his wallet a drouth...

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This summer, as ever, there's much to do.
But only one or two things I want to do.

I told Alan that, like him, I'm never bored.
But today, like a teenager, I'm both tired and bored.

The long expanse of summer stretches forward. Alan plans
the next 2 years...

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Leaving the War Behind
for Elihu Burritt, peacemaker

The cannon thundered in the South,
    	And with the sound
     	The carols drowned
Of peace on earth, good-will to men! 
- H. W. Longfellow,  “Christmas Bells”

1863, your old friend Longfellow almost 
despairing....

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Awake elements

Drouth wrapped in cyclical flow

Fire... Air... Water... Earth 





(My third attempt at haiku)...

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Here I go again 
with the midnight rain
late night birds twittering in their nest
I hear the whistle - the night guard blows 
rest of the world - I see repose.

Here I go again
with the darkness that prevails
along with the glittering rain drops
caused by the street...

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A serpent saved Eve from a drouth
Medusa just opened her mouth
But snakes in her hair
How did they get their?
The Devil don't know North from South?...

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outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
is where we buried the years six feet below.
all of the magic clung to the tragic
and we knew it was not time yet to go.

but of all the love, 
i would not erase a single thing.
all of the memories,
i...

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Come into the empty house
An unlocked door invites
See everything is in order
But there's grayness despite

No meal bubbling on the range
No aroma of baking bread
Absent sounds, blue loneliness
Hollow, empty, silent dread

Then mother lost her good job
She's at home every day
Yellow sunshine greets us
Orange and red fire...

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Unbridled bout of self-assertion blatant
turns you to a repelling babbling exuberant. 
Shutting of orifice floodgates you eschew,
forgetting everybody isn’t fool around you.

Torn to shards if you blurt bullsheet absurd,
do a volte-face eating your crappy words.
Try to not gulp them dry in stigmatic drouth*,
for a fly...

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And her beloved son grew alongside her like clinging vines.
During the capitulation of the Old South.
The era of a bitter drouth.

They lived hopefully from her skills as a midwife.
And though some days were gruesome for her they were perfect days.
When they were together in their...

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World from me swiftly depart
Quiet all the bustle especially the tongue
Let me today hear only messages from the heart
Let me remember those years when young

When there was not reason for a drouth
All was well and happy that I could surmise
Anything that came from my mouth
Whatever...

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Haughty
naughty

dirty 
Murty,

small nose,
fat toes.

Girl lip
did whip

put down
cause frown.

Thought smart
dart dirt

insert
to hurt

bigfoot
hard put.

Frogmouth
big drouth

cake soap
for dope.


3/1/2018

Poetry Contest:PUT YOUR FOOTLE OUT YOUR MOUTH 
Sponsored by: James Edward Lee Sr....

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From it flows waves of sweet charm
Sometimes it causes more harm
Keep that tongue in check
'Cause those words on deck
May set fire and be cause for alarm

Search east to west, north to south
Ere rainy season or drouth
One thing is for sure
There is a great cure, 
For...

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The Dry Monsoon 
David J Walker


All through the town 
	On abandoned streets
They shed the prairie gown 

And danced naked at sundown
Assured that rain defeats 

The drouth that choaks and heats
The day beyond belief

Both the Moon and the
	Monsoon are made of dust

In God We Trust we...

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Canada needed a hero but a fowl mouth                                     ...

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