Best Firing On All Cylinders Poems
KaputSome days I'm firing on all cylinders it seems
Then it all goes kaput and it's nothing but steam
Try to muddle through
Not easy to do
Till I wiggle and giggle and once again beam
This limerick “KAPUT” was inspired by
my sister in crime, Jan Allison!
© Jack Ellison 2015...
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Categories:
firing on all cylinders, giggle,
Form:
Limerick
Protesting PoetsPoets in the pot
Striving not to get cooked
For poverty in the hood
As gotten all hooked
Becoming ingredients of hunger
For all to maw
A new season...
A fresh session...
For the wrong reason...
Recession a new name
Best known to them
Stimulating ideas cocooned
We are the laughing flock
of...
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Categories:
firing on all cylinders, bullying, corruption, leadership, men,
Form:
Free verse
SummertimeSUMMERTIME
Summertime, most glorious time, short lived
intense season, in which God’s glorified.
Nature is firing on all cylinders,
flora, fauna flourishing … not denied.
Time to savor fresh air, breath barefooted,
notice, clear babbling brooks calming sound.
The multitude of fragrances in air,
summer rainbows and thunderstorms … abound.
Summer, offers variety...
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Categories:
firing on all cylinders, environment, humor, spiritual, summer,
Form:
Sonnet
EsteemThe firing of charged cylinders
With the power of silence
On all four she sweeps
In her majesty;
The cruising royalty of glistening comfort.
Litters on the roads
Honking at each other’s throat,
The dust the sweat;
Slime of heat
Frayed tempers.
The sweeping swishing manoeuvres,
Like the sword well-drawn
Out from the scabbard;
In cool rapidity:...
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Categories:
firing on all cylinders, adventure
Form:
Free verse