Best Lamely Poems

"Happy Easter To You!", is the greeting I hear them shout!
Alas, I just lamely roost here, brood, ponder and pout!
I've worked for weeks making eggs...

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In shoes with their laces untied, a picture frame with image faded,
in a hotel room whose guest is dust, a drawer, empty, but for rusted...

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Where is your costume?  This question comes from my boss, who is dressed like a mouse
With a cookie.
Best of all, she has brought us...

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"While many are silenced by authority, some are voiceless as they have no courage to protest. But some prefer voicelessness for convenience sake which is...

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Blame game players sigh and lamely cry,
“Not my fault” each time plans go awry.



Date: November 15, 2020
entered in Brian Strand's Du-O Your Two-Line Poetry Contest...

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amidst cavorting delightfully, enjoying thorough
frolicking gingerly, foreign hick hating slo
hip-hopping insouciantly sustaining row

biological status quo
kvetching lamely moreso mother became pro
naturally physically rumbling, 
  ...

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Another Day...Another Accursed Blank Screen

Ma wink'n and blink'n
     mind nod yet awake,
     nor insights keen,
asper ho hum...

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Just in case you wondered...

Yours truly, (i.e. I) quickly
became hypnagogic afore
subsequently segueing soundly
into autohypnosis booklore,
while binge reading courtesy

regarding aptitude chore
treasure trove books galore
five dollars as...

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Remand


A desperate prisoner
Out on remand
Am I
Till sentence do us part
On her hand 
Lamely hung;
Inconsiderate
And
Irascible woman’s
Husband-
Suspect of love
 Treason
(Heart’s betrayer)
Defying reason
To forever wear garb
In a wrong...

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RainCoveredSKY 
RainCoveredSKY 

 The sky is Western Covered sky dark for half the canopy is covered up the smell of rain 
filters down some conflicting...

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Inapropos trois faux pas jokingly blurted out...

yesterday August 30th, 2022.

The following fictitious account
predicated upon words spilling
out me mouth before taking time
to think through how sarcastic...

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Centuries are done!
But my land and I exist yet,
Under the visage of desolation, 
Camouflaged by an arrogant power;
Bloody soldier, assassin, executioner
Amending, mastering it;
While I stay...

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Dependent


How long will you lamely follow
Determined to eat and to swallow?
Should you run away from toil,
Who will fill your pot with oil?

Not as dependents (mouth...

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That Winter night, he slipped on ice
and, sobbing, lay there in the snow;
he feared he'd catch another cold.

He couldn't stand but felt so cold,
his hands...

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I ran than jumped high
into the upper atmosphere
like a young frisky
buck naked and bare
no matter weight of world
and personal woes oppressive,
yours truly shrugged,

(she loves you...

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