Best Ralph Poems
ROSES ARE RED
The flower’s crimson cerise hue
creates the petal’s grand debut
of love and memories to recall
my florid sanguine gift of all
VIOLETS ARE BLUE
Azalea breath with foxglove tones
embellish with an azure clone
herbaceous with a petal white
where insects set and birds alight
SUGAR IS SWEET
Bright butterflies on zephyr breeze
sip nectar from Sakura trees
I watch them dance from break of dawn
on flowers where their wings adorn
AND SO ARE YOU
You sent me a bouquet of love
drifting down from heaven above
Candy kisses sweet as fructose
on bended knee you now propose
06-22-17
Collaboration Jan Allison and Ralph Sergi
Ralph Ellison is my Father,
For I am Invisible,
I am real,
And I tire of people telling me different,
I am very real,
And yet Invisible,
I am the frailty of a man who is not allowed to feel,
For I am an appendage of other people's feelings,
I am a mirror for their beauty and as long as I show them a pretty reflection,
They love me,
But when I open up to show them a tired, pain ridden child,
They see past him, to their own wants and needs and emotional greed,
Even their queries as to my welfare, are self serving litmus tests for their own grandiosity,
Ralph Ellison is my father,
And I am invisible.
Amen.
This was quite a challenge!
You could call it - My potpourri!
It will give other "Soupers", a little glimpse,
of what it is that makes me - me!
I spent 21 years in the Air Force.
One year in Vietnam.
Been to several Foreign Countries,
thanks to Uncle Sam!
I love classic country music,
like Jim Reeves and Johnny Cash.
I enjoy the older sitcoms,
like "Golden Girls" and "MASH"!
What's my favorite movie?
"Driving Miss Daisy", I must say!
My favorite singer is, Dean Martin,
even though he passed away.
Meatballs and Spaggetti,
that's my favorite dish.
I kinda favor, Italian food,
but I sure do not, like fish!
Baseball hats, on backwards,
and drivers on their "cell",
Tattoos, lip and nose rings,
bug me all-to-Hell!
I love golf and watching baseball.
I'm a die-hard Yankee fan.
I love to snack on Oreo cookies,
and "Cadbury chocolate, when I can!
I have an addiction to cruising.
December is when I go.
It's on "Royal Caribbean" or "Carnival" lines,
for the last 10 years in a row!
Ralph Taylor
05/23/12
i hate holidays
you see cousin Ralph comes over
and my days of fun
are over before they are even begun
his tousled hair,
his cutesy grin
eyes so fair
conceal a soul as dark as sin
he steals my toys
fights with the boys
spills the table with tea
and blames it all on me
He
climbs
up the
stairs
comes
sliding
down
the
bannister
b
re aks
the ja
mb
and the one who faces
the glares is me
he once locked me in the loo
with no toilet paper
no water no scraper
now how the heck do i do
how I hate him I do
one day he put glue
in my shoe
there were nights that i wept
when he captured my bed
and snoringly slept
while i lay where Fido was fed
i hate it when he's at our house
this hateful ungrateful king of chaos
~27 May 2016~
Fictional
Ralph had been a happy pup
running and jumping and playing
Greeting our family with affectionate licks
eagerly learning a barrelful of tricks
Then one day, Ralph went kerplop
his doggy motor just plain stopped
Only four years old, he decided 'life's over'
farewell to days chasing bees in the clover
Eating and sleeping, our Ralph waxed fat
No one knew where his poor head was at
Then we found him a 'Rhoda,' and in a jiffy
Ralph came alive again, decked out and spiffy
Now Ralph and Rhoda have six pups of their own ~
'Cos there's more to a dog's life than fetching a bone
i was just a kid the first time i met him
he borrowed my brand new wrist-rocket
and scampered off into the night, laughing like a ghoul
the sound of two young lovers on a beach, punctuated by howls of pain
the returning of footfalls and mad laughter
he had his fun, now it was time to party
i had no way of knowing this crazy man was to be in my life for many years to come
i had no way of knowing he would help shape who i was to become
he drug us from the beaches of Oregon to the deltas and forests of California
forever altering the path i strode upon
once, he had me and his son dig a 6X6 pit and bury him up to his neck
pre-emptive of him "Nutting up".
we fed him beer and fritos at his request... we unburied him after he came down
There are stories to be told that i cannot tell here.... but alive and fertile in my memories.
one day i will see him again and ask permission to tell some....
But it won't matter..... you wouldn't believe them anyway!!!!!
Ah Yes, Do you remember this character from "Happy Days" Ralph Malph played by Donny Most?
Well, brothers and sisters
He inspired me to create this tongue twister.
RALPH MALPH'S MOUTH. Come on all you poets who know it.
Say it 10 times in 10 seconds if you can!
Faster!Quicker! Don't hesitate. Enunciate!
If you did it perfectly, you're better than me.
Come on all of you in poetry land.
With clever words at your command.
Give me your best tongue twisters.
All you talented sisters and misters!
The Tongue Twister Challenge IS ON!!
Dad was a great piano player
Grandpa Luther was a great man
He burned his wife’s Bible
In 1942, when Colorado farmers
Decided all Germans and Japanese
Threatened them
My grandmother
Got another Bible
English version
She didn’t have to hide
Governor Ralph Lawrence Carr
Was a great man, too
The only one who stood for
The rights of Japanese
–Americans– just like he
Said, “if you harm them
You must harm me.”
Thanks to Governor Ralph
Ito
My grandpa’s neighbor
Remained free
When his haystack was burned
He would not accept charity
So grandpa accepted his trade
Ito’s piano for grandpa’s hay
And that's how Dad
Learned to play
Friends with the great Hank G.
Quite a good hitter himself
Announced for the NY Metropolitans
I support all the New York teams
The Amazings
a team which
has won two championships
Ralph Kiner
Announcer - man who dated Liz Taylor
Man who has now gone to his rest
Ralph Kiner
ralph my great poetic friend
after the puff of smoke ends
last man standing will be you,
provider of poetic words so true
having great thoughts, not blue!
zimmer has a philosophical blend
in his poetry he has started a trend,
man of excellent Acrostic poetic flow
ahhh, the reader smiles with a glow,
even after closing his acrostic page
one remembers his poetic great taste,
friends his poetic words are very kind
openness displays in his rhyming lines,
every syllable count is very great
he always write with amazing faith,
riding the poetic highlights today
He sits on the “Dock of the Bay!”
He was the convert
to Roman Catholicism.
Government spies
denounced him quickly.
Upon arrest he was charged
with treasonable conspiracy,
because he was a catholic priest.
In prison he thought fellow inmates,
“there is no reason
why we should fear
much as to a victorious result,
for JHS has conquered the World”.
He was proud to testify about the truth,
suffered and gave life for Christ,
His last words before execution
were: “Jesus, be to me my Saviour”.
I used to roam the fields and hunt
Walk all day with nary a grunt
Train the dogs to confront a quail
Spend the night recalling their trail
I used to go to shops and trade
Be delighted with deals I made
Items others had rejected
I found, restored, and collected
I repaired old cars with my hands
Then ran the roads with bluegrass bands
Played music and to songs gave voice
Helping the crowds to laugh and rejoice
Then life took a different tone
The music stopped, my body groaned
I required help to get on my feet
Then someone had to help me eat
My voice grew weak, my mind did fade
For each function I needed aid
In spite of frustration and pain
I tried my best not to complain
Then came a longing in my soul
I began to reach for the goal
No more in this bed I would lie
I was tired, it was time to die
Then you gathered around my bed
Spoke softly, gently stroked my head
Sang the familiar gospel songs
As I prepared for the ransomed throng
As you gathered and sang below
I heard a voice say, it’s time to go
God in heaven His angel sent
And I left behind my earthly tent
I joined the choir right from the start
They have given me a good part
I want you each to realize
With the saints I now harmonize.
"Whatever course you decide upon
there will always be someone to tell you that you're wrong.
There will always be difficulties arising which
will tempt you to believe that your critics are correct.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end
requires a great deal of courage my friend."
Today's a day for all of soup to rejoice
For Ralph the poet has found his voice
He writes in rhymes but so do I
Don't tell him his words can make me cry
And I'll deny it until my dying day
Cause grown up men don't cry that way
On the 16th of June a celebration begins
My daughter was born, her and Ralph are my twins
I'll never forget holding little Ralphie in my arms
Though the hernia I got set off some alarms
I looked at my daughter and started to wave
Then looked back at Ralph who started to shave
My wife pushed my daughter in a stroller of course
With me pulling Ralphie in a wheel barrow by horse
And though I sued the stork for taking Ralphie back
They said Ralph wasn't a baby he was just getting a snack
So Happy Birthday Ralphie where ever you're at
Stay away from the fridge it's gonna make you too fat
I hope that you're healty wealthy and thin
But my daughter's in tears she misses her Twin
God Bless My Friend have a Happy Birthday and Many
More....Your Friend Larry
Ralph Escapes the Big House
By Elton Camp
It’s a life sentence with no parole allowed
“No prison can hold me,” Ralph vowed
Ralph found a loose stone in his cell
It helped to bribe the guard as well
An escape tunnel he then began to bore
Every night, he worked on it some more
“When I get out, I’ll sure kill that D.A.
And the jury & witness are gonna pay.”
“They put me into this huge cracker box
But nothing can hold this sly old fox.”
After ten years of labor almost every night
Ralph broke through to his great delight
But a key element his escape plan did lack
He was in the middle of the railroad track
“Free at last!” is what he proceeded to yell
But a rushing train, his dream did dispel
His plans for revenge vanished just like that
As the freight train then mashed him flat