Best Made A Point Poems

THE DAY I VISITED GIORGIO V.
The day I visited Giorgio V.
It was poetry that received me :
Poems lined after poems
Like the military in morning parade ;
I saw words command words
I saw words send words on errand
Every word in its rank and its place
Like items in...

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Quite a statement to make
but Einstein was prone to them
he always makes one think deep
so you need your mind kept open

everyone thinks a genius isn't them
something greatly marvelous surely
not the ordinary things of life
but the simple things makes one securely

Take the simple illustration of a...

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she had enough curiosity to kill a thousand cats but not about sex

she awoke to him on top of her AGAIN then a quick blow to the head

she had been stricken temporarily dumb

suddenly she had a sharp penetrating eruption of rage and hatred and alien...

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Humanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as individuals that Mother Nature cannot clone. 

And so it is...

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I jumped through hoops 
Landing in your abyss
I heard the snap crackle pop of my inner ear
My ossicular chain breaking in three
As I relinquished the best of me

You stood above me
In silent laughter
Tossing your dagger
Thinking you made your point
Yet I was not struck with all...

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A novel that I haven’t read
Is Fifty Shades of Grey.
I know what it’s about, but why the grey?
I couldn’t say.

The only greys that I could name
Are charcoal, smoke or ash.
But fifty shades of brown?
Now, I could name them in a flash!

There’s mocha, chocolate, bittersweet,
Mahogany and...

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I remember,
in the early 60s,
our thirty mile drive
from our historic family farm,
in all White rural Michigan,
not counting the Mexican migrant workers
which adults made a point of discounting,
on the first of several shopping trips to Thrifty Acres,
through vibrantly young all Black urban streets
of nearby Lansing.

Making Stevie...

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Freedom foremost, and the will to fight
to keep and protect our natural rights.
Nightclubs, jello shots, disco balls
mechanical bulls, beers cold and tall!
Baseball, football, and basketball games,
crazy rodeo riders on horses untamed.
Books by the millions, more than can be read,
and knowing anything can be by anyone...

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My girlfriend telling me
That my love talk is useless
So I throw away all the love poems
I write for her while feeling depress

That same day it start snowing
The place was cold as ice
She calling next to her
So she on the sofa looking very nice

Now she feeling...

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The anger gurgled up my chest painfully, hurtingly explosive -
That she would interpret me like that.
That she might be right -
That there was an element of truth in what she said.
Her preaching self-satisfied face looked ugly 
With the complacent smile
Of having made her point.
She might...

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I'm tired of people saying that soups only for the poor
I have tons of money just lying on the floor
Sometimes I come home to a nice bowl of soup
Even though I'm considered in the "Rich group"
If I have a bowl and a spoon
I'm out eating...

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Once upon a time, I came to you for help. 
You made it worse. 
You took me out of my home to a foreign place. 
You drugged me and put me on display. 
You hung me out to dry. 
You picked me apart, and I’m...

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INTERPERSONAL BATTLE

Two people circle each other in a battle of wills and of strength. 
It’s a battle between you and me, I made a point and you disagreed 
just because I was right. Did you have to call me what you did? 
What right did...

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I saw her sitting alone 
At a corner table 
Of a poorly lit inn 

Her blouse pink 
The color of 
Sweet smelling roses 

She had no clue 
Who else was in the 
Tavern and did not care 

She was reading 
From what looked like a...

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A student wrote an essay for my class,
explaining how he felt about the school.
“The rules are dumb,” was followed by one point:
“Y’all tell us how to dress. That’s SO un-cool!”

The next word made me seethe: “et cetera”!*
The kid moved on to accusation 2:
“For lotsa reasons,...

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