Best Rinse Poems
Mind – a pool, deep and arcane,
Needs to be cleared n' cleansed from time to time
In the sinuous course of life,
Pause awhile to peer into the depths.
Over the still waters, lies a layer of scum.
At the bottom is settled,
Toxic sediments of hate,
The residue of burnt dreams
Of unsavory passions
If unattended, in this slushy mass of filth
Maggots may breed,
Eating into the flesh
Poisoning the vital serum
Pumped through the veins
Purge the dross
Flush out the dirt
Rinse it clean
And feast on the sparkle,
Of clear waters
Springing from the well heads of love!
Feb.19.2023
The Clearing Poetry Contest
Sponsor- craig cornish
liberty in verse
atypical on the Soup
born a free-spirited caballero
I’ll not dangle
from another poet’s noose
jigsaw puzzles presented
by contest sponsors
jump through hoops
win their accolades
who’s to say what makes good verse?
flash your PhD at me
“Oh yes, oh yes, you are the best,”
most wholeheartedly agree
those who compromise
win a nebulous prize
preset rhyme patterns
syllable and word counts
twisted forms, multiple forms, mega-forms
atrocities created
messages secondary
to prescribed presentations
poetic constipation
forced by over-regulation
Inside of a box there lies a machine
that lies in every home, apartment and residence.
The machine is ubiquitous and used quite often but goes unnoticed
because its very convenient and frees up people's times to play and rest.
The box was a gift of science and a wonderful of man's generosity to humankind.
But the machine can be used for other purposes and can help to re-shape humanity's programming.
Its first protocol besides washing dirty clothing can lead to sensitization.
The box has a voice and can relay messages to the machine because the box is wired with stealth and highly technical hard science.
The box first message says that people's minds are dirty and the machine may help clean them too.
The box second message says that people are bad, really bad and that the machine can not clean them.
The box third message says to the people you must agree with me that you are without hope and redemption.
The people doubt their own identity and don't know what normal is anymore.
The people doubt their own identity and rush to the stores to buy hand sanitizer, toilet paper and bleach.
The people turn on each other and socially distance themselves from friends are enemies and enemies are their best friends.
The box fifth message says to the people that I may relent and can save you
but who is against me and who is for me.
The box is very clever and befriends the people as a Savior and tells the people to confess their dirt and sins.
The box sixth and seventh and eight message says to the people that guilt is good and releasing guilt sets them free.
The box ninth message say to the people that if you really want to that you can choice to be good and that you too can embrace our way of thinking.
The box and the people tenth message to the world is that we are good and that their is no right or wrong but we are One and that we are the new order.
Burning off the previous nights sin
Often does the fire inside of those brave enough to indulge
Burns away at the consciousness, the will
To continue being the way that we are.
A construct of energy, a willful mind seeking all there is to be discovered.
So rinse and repeat to discover some more.
Life tends to be far too much of a chore.
My mind is politically correct,
but my shoes have no soul.
I have gained some retrospect,
after losing self control.
I’m washing my brain.
A clean slate is what I need.
Reprogramming my frame,
rinse and repeat.
The clothes in the washing machine, I now pondered
how I might best pass the time, and so I wandered
up a muddy hill, late to perceive I’d squandered
my time, for now my jeans needed to be laundered.
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The Awit is a monorhyme quatrain narrative as a complete sentence, with each line containing 12 syllables.
a city sleeps
days debris washed away
streetlight showers
John G. Lawless
©6/18/2018
I've learned to hate washers
I don't mean the kind
With nuts and bolts and stuff...
I mean the clothes cleaning kind..
They've got me foaming at the mouth!!!
I'm about to lose my friggin' mind!!!
They either spit out soapy water
To puddle up my floor
Or they can get
far more sinister...
Oh yes, they're capable of more!
Just now I have a small complaint,
I guess it won't kill me...
But my rinse cycle will not work
And why that should be,
So smart to know I ain't!
And I'm tired, as you can see...
These soap flaked clothes
Do itch and rash,
Bring upon my skin
i get so friggen' frustrated..
And I know it is a sin,
But one more time it does that
I'll drop a handgrenade in!
Rinse and Repeat
David J Walker
As the Sun goes up
Some go down
Some rise up
And some lie down
Shine them shoes boy
Clean that gun
Count our dead
When the day is done
Rinse and repeat
Rinse and repeat
Rinse and repeat
And cry RETREAT
But there is no going back
I’ve tried
Shallow breath, eyes dead
crank heart out of reverie
let it rinse and spin
Indictment-Excitement
makes 'The News'
Politician-Magicians
spin their 'Views'
Anonymous Economists
sing 'The Blues'
Abolitionishist-Destructionists
light the 'fuse'
Spanners and Scammers
pay their dues
Society's Credibility
badly bruised...
I have trained my whole adulthood for the challenge of this day.
The toil and sweat and sacrifice, the monotony of drill,
All those years of manning up to my ambition.
I have wrestled the beast and disciplined my will.
I mean to vanquish my opponent for the golden prize
I'll enter the ring and trust my luck to fate.
I have trained my whole adulthood for the challenge of this day.
When I rise again come dawn, I will reiterate.
ded by his need
to be successful
he retrieved the
knowledge of his past
to restore and maintain
his present.
he read the
"Dignity Recovery Act"
and studied it to refine what he thought
had been
to be what should be.
a present in a positive
definition
of realism.
"Accuracy of the Devoted"
was another written script he read
from start to finsh
only to diminish his own pride
" the induction to Reputation
described, but his knowledge
was denounced, from
every aspect of his
" Redemption"
to be at hand!
but
As it rains down and conducting a very small sound.
Also cleansing off what ever it come’s to land apoun .
As it pours down apoun the city rinseing nothing but the dirty sinning.
As all comes clean life begins to seem like at dream.
With no disperse in my line of life from now till my ending day.
I come to pray to the man above don’t stop the the rain drops
showering raindrops…
sweet floral fragranced shampoo…
warm lathered hair