Best Examiner Poems


Premium Member Second Chance - Driving Test

My driving I thought was sublime
But I failed my test the first time
Staring down at the wheel
It was hard to conceal
That failure to me was a crime

So I applied to take another test
Very determined I would try my best
I answered every question
And I drove to perfection
The examiner was very impressed!

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Premium Member Beryl the Peril

My auntie her first name is Beryl
Put other road users in peril
She mounted the sidewalk
The pedestrians squawk
and report her to Sherriff Merrill

The Sherriff puts her under arrest
as Beryl says she tried her best
But before Beryl kills
With her dire driving skills
He insisted she retakes her test

The examiner discovered that
Aunt Beryl is as blind as a bat
So it made perfect sense
To decline her licence
I’m as pleased as a Cheshire cat!

08/10/21

Premium Member Existentialist Examiner

my voice may not be loud
I may not stand out in the crowd
not game changer
but a strange stranger
that's me

others have a louder roar
other wings, a higher soar

but, listen...there's more

epic doesn't negate my tale
Nor does fame make it pale

watch out for me
I date destiny
in my little sphere
I oscillate 
making waves that vindicate
purposefully planted
I speak the
unique

a different take
a different shake
awake
faking fake
I'm real

sometimes a whisper
sometimes a shout
or in monotone metronome meter
I...get...the...truth...out
influence is what I'm about

silence is not golden
when happiness is stolen

catalyst reviver
destitute dream finder
prejudice grinder
a healer, binder
I am reality

existentialist examiner
look at me
I'm here to leave a mark
I'll not stay in the dark

Little light shiner
I may not be the blaze 
but i'm steady, 
it only takes a little light
to ignite
the world

I am me

not a Shakespeare or a Donne
no, neither one
but my place I have won
with a party of one

that's still influence
that's still power
in this time and hour
that's all we need
one person 
to change...

one world
with one word

it can be done
I'm here
I'm your party...
your party 
of
ONE

Eileen Manassian


Art and Its People

Fickle Art and control Freaky
Don't play well together
Tolerance was not accepted
'Cause he wore pink shoes

Cross the street each day at the same intersection
Fickle Art and control freaky but the road was not
And never could be big enough for these to share

Time square and Big Ben don't speak the same lingo
Don't hold the same values to be sacred 
Dust will blow and dust will go
Huff and puff, back to the dust

Medical examiner: What stopped his heart?
Lack of tidal volume, puffed too long
Collapsed a lung...Fire up the crematory

Is it dusty in here?

***Artist note:  Ever get tired of the windbags can't let you live your life and them theirs? I sure do.

Copy Cat

6/8/17


Coming in faster than speed racer
Heart colder than a glacier

Trying to duplicate the flavor
Another clout chaser
With or without a pace maker
And bracers
Soft as a wafer

Yet another copy cat
You're wrong for that
Going to one up you chumps, with or without a hockey mask


For ages I've been at the bottom, reaching for the top
More than a lot
Attempting to plot and stir up the pot
Whether the temperature cold or hot
Like it or not
They'll get caught
And put on the spot
Having to pay the cost
For such foolish talk

Regarding any parameters
Days and nights may or may have not been spectacular
I guess there's always been scavengers
And bandwagoners
As well as opposition and challengers
Whether or not their ambassadors
During any date on the calendar
It was either solved or obscure, by any medical examiner
Above and below any fields with or without lavender

Premium Member The Wife Of Job

Although she urged her husband Job
To "curse God and die",
Was this said in hatred? 
More likely, with a cry.

She too lost her livelihood.
She felt her fibre fray
When all her precious children
We're suddenly taken away.

The man she fell in love with
Was lost in sickness for a while.
With so much grief and trauma
How could either of them smile?

Some conclude that she lacked faith.
Others say she offered Job no support.
But before we pass on judgement
Let's consider a little thought...

When their trials were over
God blessed them both abundantly.
If she was bad in God's eyes
He wouldn't have blessed her - would he?

God, the examiner of hearts, knows best
What's truly behind each word, each action.
How thankful we can feel that he understands
The pain in each reaction.

So before we draw conclusions
Based on the limits of what eyes see,
Let's remember deeper things go on
In the hearts of people like you and me.


Premium Member Revolving Resolution

Written by Gail DeBole

Zelma Zotz's new year's contribution
Is to think of a definite solution
   To avoid making a plan
   (which she really can't stand)
For yet another new year's resolution!

Note: Illustrated in Coloring within the Limericks available on Amazon.com and other retail websites.

Gail's Note:  You can find some historical information about the history of the new year's resolution at http://www.examiner.com/article/history-of-new-year-s-resolutions.

Man, Dogs Best Friend

Man and dog, reputed best friends, rise above death’s fears.
With lives on the line, heroes save, minds and hearts in action.
Stories mount across counties where rescuers save many tears.
Not for any gain or fame, but for responsible satisfaction.
 
A perky little poodle, pretty, adorned in green and gray,
Trapped inside a smoke filled house could not get away.
Firemen forced their way inside in time to save the day.
She squirmed in the arms of safety, well enough to play.
(http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2011/01/28/firefighters-rescue-dog/)

A black and white dog fell through the ice; he was not skating.
The thinly frozen water, his trap, oh, day in Rhode Island.
Rescuers came to save that dog; there was no hesitating.
They quickly warmed the shaking beast and gave a life-saving hand. 
(http://cranston.patch.com/articles/dog-rescued-by-fire-department)

A German shepherd gone astray in the Los Angeles River
Stood on a shallow watery ledge, amid rushing waters.
His savior dangled above the scene, without any shivers.
A struggle for life, one bite to the thumb…success never falters.
(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/los-angeles-firefighter-recounts-daring-dog-
rescue.html)

A candle flame, dog owner out, disaster begins to rage.
Five dogs in Colorado Springs saved while the fire burned.
One Chihuahua crossed the Vail to the great doggie sage.
But with love and a fireman’s CPR, her life was soon returned.
(http://www.examiner.com/dog-rescue-in-national/firefighters-rescue-five-dogs-save-chihuahua-
with-cpr)

Across the species border, thrives a caring respect for life.
Both man and canine have been willing to sacrifice breath itself.
Facing danger, against raging flames, bravery beyond strife,
A "dobbie" protects her puppies loving her babies more than herself.

The rescuer knew she passed through her fears and did so aptly.
He had risked his life for her and her pups, awareness shone well.
Both man and dog covered in ash with faces gray and sooty,
No bite, but kisses of thankfulness, she gave, so the world could tell.

© January 29, 2011

Premium Member When They Exhume My Poems

When I die
I give the Pulitzer Board 
Permission
To exhume my lyrics

And some overweight ME
Will put my verses on a slab
Going thru my stanzas for tone
looking for assonance and 
Consonance in my bones

As my family waits around to see
If i really was a great poet

And they will probe my lines 
for cadence
Meter and Trochee
Taking notes
As they dissect
My poetry

They will say I was anemic 
On my tercets
And many of my quatrains were forced
As they search for the source

One of the examiners 
will write on his tablet
That I never wrote 
A Sestina or villanelle

They will note, He was good.
But his books didn't really sell.

The NAACP will close that he didn’t
Represent the Black community 
Like King or Rosa Parks
Leaving my legacy a question mark

And no one will be specifically sure
If I advanced the Black Race

Leaving the matter a Cold Case


My kids will ask
But what does all this mean?
Was he really a great poet?
 Was he as good as Frost or Hughes
The examiner will stare confused


The autopsy will be intrusive
And they will say: 

REPORT INCONCLUSIVE!!

Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country: Lxxiv

IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXIV

IF ever I had a country proud of its sacred Soul Patrie
And if ever by a long shot I was nominated - not spuriously elected - Chef Ministre d'Etat 
        Plenipotentiary
The first thing I'd do is to give the Minister of Justice the sack in a hurry
I'll then take over his post and issue a long awaited (you'll agree) and needed decree
That henceforth any razor-sharp lawyer and his erudite team appointed by a client for a    
       very very high fee
To defend protect and facilitate the " escape " of any known criminal whose ill-gotten 
       gains burst bank-vaults to a brain-numbing degree
That the lawyer and his team be given the DOUBLE of the sentence meted out to the 
       criminal and be put away minus their licences to practise LAW in an Alcatraz-like 
       penitentiary
And this even if I never ever had no country to call my own with or without any patrimony


(The late eminent Vietnamese-French lawyer, Maître JACQUES VERGES, renowned for among other feats the defence of KLAUS BARBIE, the NAZI " chief " under the French Vichy regime, was also the Secrétaire de la Conférence des Avocats/Examiner for those wishing to practise law in France. And yet, in a case where I was concerned with revolting Master's and Doctoral students at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, he subtly had my case scuttled to prop up mainly Muslim and African-origin students - openly backed by JAMES BALDWIN -  who objected vehemently to being taught, besides numerous other Commonwealth authors, V. S. NAIPAUL's The Guerillas, together with Eva Peron and The Killings in Trinidad, students who also took exception to any comparison, by way of structural influence, of WOLE SOYINKA's The Road, with Greek tragedies.) 


© T. Wignesan - Paris, March 8, 2019
© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.

Easy As a 1,2,3

Hug A Taxi                 Cloud Furnace            Inflatable Train

Chug A Deer               Sweet Throne    Ping Pong Pirate

Examiner Of Creams      Unhingeology           Tailored Loving Censorship

Fluorescent Tar     Indirect Assessment             Polite Tick Aeon

Blight Whack          Tubular Wells       Sense A Ship

EndSource                 Woven Drips     Cheetah Blood

Falcon Dribble        Frank Stopp     Mastodon't

Rusty Shilling           Hardwood Grapetin     Walrus Warble

                Marble March          Flag Drone

Clarifog     Crossed Kegs       Frog Lawyer     

        Off Your Dead       Sled Polish

Sled Jammer      Spray On Fan

             FraySpan          Bus Flop

Crustaceous Clicks      1 and 2 and Free and More

   Hoots With The Fur

Segway To Heaven

Clarified Mutter                  Puddle Politics

Window Lickin' Spindle Flicker
© Rob Browne  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Let's Be Frank On This Rag

This is what the local examiner preaches 

Lynchings, or killing someone by hanging, historically were mostly used by whites against black men in the South beginning in the late 19th century, according to the NAACP.

Below my reply in comment
 
How they twist words to suit narrative, lynch mobs were a common practice in Ireland and many countries all over the world, so selectively do you promote division black or white this article is racist bias in content promoting hate

Liberal has a new agenda when it comes to the truth being told 
for what value it holds someone has to correct fools 
lynching is as old as warfare itself virtually

The Income Tax Audit

The Income Tax Audit

By Elton Camp

Perry boasted how the IRS he so loved to cheat
But found that he should’ve been more discreet
When a neighbor notified the Internal Revenue,
The agency decided that an audit they would do

The examiner soon found Perry lived like a prince
His lifestyle of income tax fraud soon did convince
“Man, you can’t have reported all of your income.
Where did this mansion and limousine come from?”

Perry also had bragged of his enormous casino win
But he hadn’t thought that he should turn a dime in
Also income showed on his Social Security account
But on his 1040 he hadn’t reported the same amount

Clothes given to the Salvation Army he took deduction
But the value he reported needed some drastic reduction
To the church Perry claimed that he gave twenty percent
But the pastor reported it wasn’t even a place that he went
© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.

So Hasty

You know they ruled your death an overdose.  He shot you up in the breast.  You were breast feeding the baby. No signs of heroin in her.  No signs of heroin or any drugs in your apartment.  You had just taken a shower and had laid out your clothes for work to get dressed.  Your hair was still wet.  You had ligature marks around your neck.  You had been dead less than an hour.  They said it was lividity.  The medical examiner in Kentucky said that lividity doesn't set up that fast.  Why?  Why did they come to that conclusion, because he worked for the police department and was a confidential informant?  Could that perhaps be the reason?  You know it is....and my daughters murder gets no justice...what a travesty of justice!!  Her Mom  By the way she has a name Kymber Michelle Dye
© Faith Dye  Create an image from this poem.

Journalist For Fictitious Possible Paradise

on Friday
one pm 
reporter
for the 
standard-examiner
at s8
interview me 
puffy puffery  

it is the day before Saturday 

one post meridiem (1 p.m.) demolishment  
set in time


correspondent of journalist 
falls  quickly ephemeral, quick

standard and examiner
frolicking on Sections of eight 

with a simple dialogue 
of puffy puffery

safety unknown

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