Best Dumb As A Post Poems

Now the sun and the sand were treacherously hot
    and not a place for Man or a Beast.
As you must be audaciously quick to find a good spot
    or you will number among the desert's deceased.

A pair of young...

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The last days of summer sigh,
breathe out slowly.
Summer colors fade.

Mercurochrome leaves-
burnt orange and lemon yellow-
mimic the colors in my new wool sweater.

Liquid saffron autumn light
filtered through the trees,
remind me of other days
filled with envy.

Me in plain brown oxfords,
skirt not quite in style,
hand-me-down dresses,
coat from Woolworth.

Brown...

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Trees in a mindbody forest
work together in hidden ways
and through this cooperation
increase their shared resistance to disease,
mutually held immunities from shared pathologies.

In this way,
densely muticultural forest systems
with mature cooperative resistance
co-evolve even more robust
and mutually creolizing resonant;
not exactly might makes right
but more like right relationships emerge...

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annoying
empty headed
yet vain
underhanded
and disrespectful
he sure knows
how to
make her mad
simply
utterly
plain stupid
just dumb as a post
how he gets under her skin 
and
infuriates her



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Submitted on September 7, 2018 for contest HUMAN NATURE sponsored by EDWARD IBEH...

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Never been or entered a few calibrate with me

I have never calibrated before so I am as dumb as a post

But, I think this would be fun even if we both lost

Soup Mail me there are only 34 spaces left...

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