Best Phrase Poems

True love
if you're lucky enough 
to find and nurture it;
the ticking hand of the clock,
as eternal as a cascading waterfall.

True love,
if it pulls you out 
of a bottomless abyss, weaves 
a glittering tapestry of enchantment
that remains unbroken.

True love, 
if gifted to you 
by the heavenly...

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The rippled lake ebbs strangely silent 
while memories cling  to me---
there's not a tinge of you here anymore
and my fiery pulse  now withers:

I roam upon the  dunes of time
as  current’s surge echoes like waves' blare,
your indifferent glance marks 
a broken oath...

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I’ve a vast store of mem’ries about Chicago
as I’ve lived there for a couple of years
helping out in the parish of many immigrants,
especially Mexicans and Puerto Ricans.

I’ve made friends and a number of them
still continue to correspond by emails;
it’s like a treasure-trove of relationships -
where...

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Catch phrase’s class reunion day
All showed up to have their say…….

Willy Nilly was married to Hold your horses
 Met during a PE class on the obstacle courses
Sorry Charlie always had a crush on Get a clue
But she fell for another, Give the devil his due

What...

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Once in a blue moon I have been told
The cliché’s clan gets together with the Catch Phrase posy

If I have told you once I have told you a thousand times this story or are you the last one to know?

Well, it all started for no...

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*Image of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt.

Catch-Phrase

TANKA
(interrupt someone who's talking)

West would say, If I
may stop you dead in your tracks
East would say, If I
may slice you with some honey
criminal, subliminal

HAIKU'S
(Tea at the Roosevelt's)

Eleanor, of tea;
women are like a teabag
strong, ~~in hot water

(Parodies of mines...)
Franklin D. of...

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If you don't go with the flow,
Then they will kick you,
Out the do'.
If you work like you get no pay,
No one to you will say Hey.

If you work at your job,
As if you work for the Lord,
Even when others make it hard
In front of them...

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Ya'll thinking of each other and both way over yonder.



wrote 1-20-10...

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Three minutes ******
How can something perceived special be illusive? 
Reality check, does it really exist
East, West, and North to South they confess it
Early stages is like heaven, they say

Succumbing to their fleshly desire, they turn into monsters
Like monster rats wondering the trashy streets 
Tormented by...

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Live everyday like there’s no tomorrow,
Or your life will be filled with sorrow....

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.................................Exaggerated Yesterday
.................................Overestimated Tomorrow
.................................Underestimated Today...

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"Trigger Phrase"

A trigger phrase,
that’s  what I need,
to clarify my thoughts and haze
a trigger phrase.

It was good up there,
that thought I had,
the one that meant a new
Poem for you
down here, or up there.

A trigger phrase
to listen to,
to build onto,
to fire from

The barrel of 
a ...

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Parade of ideas in word or phrase
Onyx thoughts like chocolate cake
Eager emerald ears listen to hear
Teal thrill words like happy new year
Riding licorice lips like kente kite
Yellow words finger painting life!...

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Oh my god
An expression for emotion
A phrase for my astonishment and frustration 
Oh my god
What a hell to live in
What's the future going to be
It seems hopeless
A phrase for the world too
What a man's destruction does to this world
What can be done
It seems nothing can...

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There is a phrase A Piece Of Cake 
That goes against the ones I make
Not an easy task for me to do
Often end up with burnt mess or goo.

I start by reading all the instructions
Then gather items from recipe introduction
So far, so good, A Piece...

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