Best Nice Try Poems
Blood in my site as I go for the kill
Better calm down and take another pill
All the rage surges through as I lose control
The minute I black-out I could lose my soul
Negative reinforcement saturates my mind
Leaving all the crushed up pieces behind
Destruction reigns upon me, seeking to destroy it all
I know once I’m done you can only want to fall
Left in the wake you will only feel the burn
Just the idea of it can make your stomach churn
The image of taking you down sends pleasure to my brain
Best not to mess with me for this terror I will reign
I have you in my vision and I keep a close eye
When you try to sneak away I’ll say, “nice try…”
I’ve got you in my clutches, I’ve got you where I want
I’ve trapped you in a frenzy, a place where I can taunt
Don’t you try to run, don’t you try to hide
This revenge is bitter sweet and no one is on your side
You make my bones ache and my body squirm
I would love to knock you dead and make your life short term
I can hardly believe you have any life at all
I know that you can't achieve anything more than a cat call
Pathetic and pointless you are, just wait and see
I laugh in this ugly face of yours because you are nothing compared to me
The moment is righteous the minute I strike
Time slows down to bask in the glory
The time is now for something to like
The scene is oh so gory
I don’t have to make it up by submitting to a penance
I’m just glad I have made you suffer with my vengeance
Written on July 19th, 2016 and posted on August 22nd, 2016.
By: Michelle Corbin
How has it dawn on us so soon when we hadn’t even achieved much?
Why has the marketplace ceased to buy and sell so scanty the streets wither away
The clouds becomes more darkened as smokes ascend randomly our fields are on fire
We can feel the rain but it has lost its coldness
I hear more voices than I usually heard
This time of crying and wailing rather than chatting and hailing
Voices
chanting and singing songs of war
Dust and gun powders like fog fill the air,
with great rumble the battle rages
The long night tarry on nobody has awakened
Some privileged to pass on to the other side
Total transmission from what we see now
Carcasses litter the streets as we run from pillar to post
Yet not so sure where the lot may fall
Great assets lost in hot zones, they shouldn’t have taken the guns,
Gravesides more frequent than bedsides
When did we become such serious foes?
That tears can’t seem to mend?
We let our children die by our own hands and still squeeze our sorry faces
How valuable is this trophy, hope it’s worth the pains we are feeling now?
We match in battalions, onward we go
Faces brimming with boldness and courage,
Though fear still takes its partition
We leave behind loved ones not so sure,
like walking into the lions cave to kill or be killed
Jumping over strip wires, nice try
Only to step on landmines
A time to team up with death taking from one end
While it continues from the other side in its own way
Orphans, widows and widowers we make at will that which we had once pitied
What caused this sudden change?
So unfortunate many fighting ignorantly yet arrogantly
Now we pull down our once fancied walls to build more refugee camps and fill them
We overstretching science and make of men expendables
A time we show how much we can take
What we depict now is wickedness rather than strength
In this game
Winners are
Always
Rude
Tom's Cat Tom
by Joan Donnelly Ellis (intended as a picture story book for children)
Some cats are really ugly and others are really cute, like mine, Bart. Bart can be bad though. He is sometimes up to no good. One day he ate my dad's goldfish. Bart likes goldfish. They don't like him back.
Wanna know something funny? My friend, Tom Murphy has a Tom Cat that he named Tom after himself. Tom gets bored a lot and so does his lazy cat, Tom. He just lies on the couch all day. At least that is what I first thought., that the cat was lazy, you know. Then I started to observe him more closely. After a week or so I realized the feline just pretends to be sleeping but he really doesn't close his eyes all the way shut. I think he is not as lazy as he makes out to be. Often it seems that the cat Tom is engaged in serious contemplation. He might be planning some mischief. Yes, Tom has something up his sleeve I decided and as soon as he's left alone in the house BAM! He'll be off getting into trouble . Last time he was left alone the Murphy's and I believe Tom terrorized San Quentin, the Parrot. We found a mess of Quent's feathers in his cage and on the floor below. Not only that but whenever the cat Tom was near Quent would make frightening noises. I told Tom, my friend , not his cat, that we ought to get those fellows from Forensic Files to do an investigation. Tom didn't like the idea much. Said he didn't think ruffling a few feathers was a serious crime.
I glanced at Quent who was curled up on the window seat and I swear he had a "Nice Try" smirk on his face as he glared back at me . In response, I
walked to the kitchen, and lifted Quent's Temptation Treats from the counter.
He jumped off the window seat and hurried to the kitchen. As he gazed lovingly at me with his bright green eyes, I stepped on the peddle of the trash can. When the lid opened I dumped the treats in and closed the lid. Some kids are really ugly and others are really cute. Since I'm a bird lover, I don't give a hoot.
**Dedicated to one of those nights where I lay awake at night and feel the weight of the world fall upon me in the dark...**
I struggle trying to balance success and doubt..
They both carry the potential to wipe me out.
I lay awake in the dark, strangled with these thoughts...
mind blots with ideas, that storm about.
Fist clenched, teeth grind,
knuckles turn white, brain paints vivid scenes that flood my mind.
Fluorescent, incandescent, negative and light,
flashing bright till it renders me blind.
Which will take me first, the pleasure or the pain?
Perhaps both, cuz without struggle there is no gain.
They compliment each other like lightening and rain.
Both dangerously attractive in its own special way.
So how do I respond to the darkness as it throws my mind on a curved dim lit path,
when hope seems down and life can't be graphed?
Do I succumb to the evil opposite of light?
Compromise tempts me with smooth whispering cries...
But I take the high road instead, look the beast in its eyes,
I smile, wink, and chuckle "nice try."
At the transcend of time, each heart unite
Swore intense love, so deep...hoping it will last,
Weaved scenes of romantic dreams each will abide
Holding on together for fate or destiny to trust.
What is a soulmate? I have asked
Dig its meaning, found mine rather as I basked,
Feeling this inside, screaming its wants
Soul that long to have your soul, in great aspiration it hunts!
Spirit to spirit, mind to mind
Heart to heart, all of its perfect kind,
Feeling each other's soul in every hidden cry
Even in silence, both are there giving a nice try.
Ah...how longings can be fulfilled if two souls are apart?
The passionate cries, burning sensations when it starts,
Make restless souls, Oh, how hard it does
The soul is screaming, ravaging like a mirage!
Inner Whispers
Nice try Meg, answers-no, no, and Ho,ho,ho
Again with that hardly heart wrenching face. Nice try but I’m not who you thought I was. Whatever that is. Hot coffee at my chest. That was a little much. I may have spilt my ink but at least I stopped it from leaking off the paper. Yours having well surpassed the threshold of the table is left in a puddle on the floor. I hadn’t anticipated that. Yet again my judgement was clouded. Lessons never learned. Hearts tear like ripping off a scab for the unscrambled. Good people can be scrambled. I know that now. Went to your house that day. Lessons never learned. Ink stained table. You break down your false persona to screams and cracks while I churn with anxiety in this metal box you created for us. Her lighter cracks to the sound of leave and I’m a dead women. I seem to already be a dead man. This is beyond me, beyond family, beyond doctors, beyond lawyers, beyond government intervention. To be utterly screwed is a harsh mistress. She calls upon a storm of physical violence and broken thought processes. When her life was thoroughly drowned in the rains of her storm. She set me free. Good people can be scrambled. I’ll write that down.
A wealthy old man in his fifties,
Loved a girl he thought was just nifty.
Said, Will you marry me,
I'm just fifty-three?
But she married a man in his sixties.
The old man did not take this lightly,
And his friends warned him she was flighty.
He wanted her back,
But alas and alack,
She'll return on the day you turn ninety.
The young girl's first husband did die.
She returned to her first love to cry.
Said, Will you marry me,
I'm as lost as can be?
He said, Not this time but nice try.
Breathing in than breathing faster,
A perfect disaster this life of mine.
I need a drink while I'm still here waiting,
For this to all to be over and I'll be home.
To sit by myself and think for a second
Turning into minutes and now hours long.
I turn on the T.V. just clear the silence,
But just like always there is nothing on.
Except for the news, but thats so depressing,
And the weather man is always wrong.
I lift up my voice to clear out the ghost,
With a voodoo doll and my imported monkey gong.
It's pretty and gold, red trimming and swirls,
My own ancient chinese secret hex reverse curse.
It says ring it once and bow to the east,
Than read the inscription its in cantonese.
If I follow these simple directions my demons will be driven,
But unfortunately my ghost only seem to speak english.
Than they complimented me on efforts with a nice try,
A pat on my back and even said to me good night.
'Bee' put on a bar-be-que for bringing up the past,
and of course he added drinking. Now the die was caste
for stories bringing laughter from dubious glory days,
when our oats were being sown while living single ways.
Naturally it wasn't long before the 'art of studery' had died,
and leaving all the juicy stamina that our minds provide
for the love of every man’s desire that lasts until the brain,
dissolves into memory loss and cars are not thought of again.
Ah! Those Holdens flashing FJ and the Fords called 'Customline',
that prowled the streets for 'pick ups' who gave a 'come on' sign,
brought back the memories to all that only 'Hilly' could correct,
when mentioning the better Ford - was his beloved Prefect!
But did that bring on laughter and a scowl on 'Hilly's dial,
who set an argument in motion amid comparison and style.
"Customlines" 'Hilly' said "Might lure girls with the V8,
but guzzling 'carby's' kept you broke and always on the slate".
"Hilly's' right" 'Bee' mentioned, and then he added reasons why.
Of course owners of the 'kingmobiles' sed "Yeah nice try!"
But 'Bee' wouldn't let old 'Hilly' down, saying "It was just by chance,
that I realized a Prefect's perfect when we went to a dance".
"And as it happened two sisters were at the dance this night,
and 'Hilly' with his silken style had set their hearts alight.
The rotten 'bugger' took advantage by herding them up there,
and mentioning his stamina would satisfy the pair".
"When they seen his Prefect it's enough to make them swoon.
Of course they let him take them home. But they lived near the ‘moon!’
And if 'Hilly' owned a 'Customline' he would have been a fool,
'cause halfway home he would have found, he'd run out of fuel".
"Later 'Hilly' then convinced me of the Prefect's fuel consumption.
They mustn't cost a thing to run. If I believe in his assumption.
'Hilly' said he'd drove a hundred miles, but I think that he's bluffing!
Because he tried to tell me - he'd driven all that way for 'nuffing".
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J.D. and the Lawyer
J.D.’s a cowboy’s cowboy, ain’t no doubt
Knows aplenty what this world’s about.
Born on a hoss – never seen him fall
That’s why what he did surprised us all.
Some lady attorney moved into town,
Just outta school the rumors went round
She was a looker, so said all the boys
Came from back East, loaded with poise.
When J.D. saw her, was love at first sight
He’d make him a plan, do this up right.
He saddled two horses, Red and Mabel,
Packed a bottle, Jack Daniels Black Label.
Rode up to her door, said, “I am J.D.”
Would you come see Texas with me?
She said,”Why J.D. I won’t be coy,
Been wanting to meet a real cowboy.”
They rode up high to his favorite lake
Saw the West as only God can make.
He spread his blanket to be his table
Got two glasses and his Black Label.
She said,” I usually drink some wine,
But I find Black Jack suits me fine.
They talked about things they’d lost
It was goin’ well ‘til her eyes went crossed.
Then her voice slurred and she chuckled
Started to rise an’ her left knee buckled.
J.D. thought”Oh,Lord, what have I done?
This plan backfired an’ it don’t look like fun.”
He sat her in the saddle, tied up straight.
Headed for home, was getting’ late.
She’s sober by the time they got down.
Looked pretty good ridin’ through town.
Took her to the door, a sheepish grin,
He knew his welcome was wearin’ thin.
She said,”Nice try. I liked ridin’ Mabel.
Next time bring roses. Forget the Black Label!”
He learned new ways to court a lady,
That was long ago, he’s pushin’ eighty.
She’s a judge, knows all the manuals
They laugh now an’ then about Jack Daniels!
April, 2016
A bloke who hails
from New South Wales
will know of Gundagai.
Some guy found gold,
or so we're told,
in days now long gone by.
I grew up there
without a care
when both of us were nippers:
she was my mate -
her name was Kate -
I used to call her "Kipper".
We loved to lark
around Yarn Park,
and sing Frank Ifield songs,
play hide-and-seek
on Morley's Creek
all golden summer long.
I'd glance at Kip
(she fielded slip)
and try to hoist one high:
but quick as thought
she'd yell out, "Caught!"
or "Nice try, Gundagai!"
Her brain was quick,
her wit was slick,
and ready with a joke.
She'd bat and bowl
and kick field goals
as good as any bloke.
Well, time moved on.
Those days are gone,
and never to return.
I've roamed this earth,
for what it's worth,
and one thing I have learned.
In this wide world
there's heaps of girls,
and some of 'em are ripper,
and dark or fair,
I've had my share,
but none of 'em's like Kipper.
I'm not that grand
with pen in hand,
but I've written Kip a letter:
I may be wrong,
it's been so long.
She may not even get 'er.
So now you know
the way it goes.
You've heard my tale unfold.
I'm like those fools
with sieves and mules,
hell bent on striking gold.
I'm a chafing chook
on tenterhooks,
awaiting her reply.
I know my Kip -
she's sure to quip,
"Oh, nice try, Gundagai!"
Stars could see forever
Thinking never
An avalanche would pull the lever
Feeling a mile high
This movie was going to be a nice try
Not caring about anyone’s lie
Then there was the heated sun
Melted snow weighing a ton
Fear should have won
But stars thought the drama was fun
Soon another one
Saying one more and you are done
But the stars had many goals
While the avalanche revenge was to bury the souls
When it went to overtime
A fifth netted a successful find
Stars came up with the goods
To continue the vacation in the mountainous woods
A few feet below
Would you know?
Our faithful dirty blonde knight
Checking out everything was all right
When he came across the film crew
Wondering how much they had to do
All of them acting cool
Setting up for when the stars come
Down the peak where they were from
Pretending being people in a script
Characters on a holiday trip
Romance blooming
Conflict needed to make action fuming
But the avalanche started its threat
Those from Vancouver decided this was not a practical bet
Instead it was the hour to get
Ending the working stay
Let the stars get their way
As the dirty blonde knight watched the packing
Waiting for nature to do some attacking
He was sorry to see them go
And decided to wait for the stars and enjoy the next show