Best Rubai Poems
My only son once asked me why
A fine mist, today, enveloped my eye
As I began his query to answer
Caught in my throat, a battle cry
May 27, 2019
Memorial Day, USA
Favorite Poem from May, 2019
Sponsor: Julie Ward
Placement: N/A
An introvert since I was a young child,
I am tranquil quiet and never wild;
never thinking it would be an asset,
so with my quietus- I have reconciled.
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February 19, 2021
Poerty/Rubia/Reconciled
Copyright Protected, 02-1330-710-19
All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France
Submitted into the contest, All Yours (Feb 21)
sponsor, Brian Strand, 02/21/2021
Quatrain #55:
CHOICE
Voice sacred trust in words that flow,
Poise knows you must bring truth to show;
Noise is but rust that corrupts good,
Choice now sculpts bust where beauty glows.
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
12 September 2015
Singapore
A penny for your thoughts
with inflation it’s a nickel
The longer you go on
the more I find you fickle
You looked sincere, so genuine
I’d have bought you roses and wine
But now you’ve opened your mouth so wide
On fresh shoe leather I’ll let you dine
A flower that has once lived and aged
With all of life's opportunities engaged
Then lost its petals and its scent
Waits stilled, extends its lessons of life waged
Frittering their lives away
at work, at home, at play
When the good times finally died
~ they'd nothing left to say
How blessed is the Day of Rest
You feel you are a special guest
Welcome to the Palace of the Lord
The service there - The King's Best
Quatrain #857:
MODE
Make up your mind to seek the light,
Opt truth in kind to guide your sight;
Deed can now bind the love you share,
Etch what heart finds as craft takes flight.
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
30 August 2018
Singapore
She sent her prayer
into the air
Wherever it lands
He will be there
His path has crossed mine several times
He can even read my minds
I tell you never get too close
He can also hear your cries
The love had has burnt a while
The devil barley sees a smile
The demon follows you till you death
He seeks your blood on kitchen tiles
Be aware his handsome charm
He only wants to do you harm
You came to close to his burning heart
You were killed with raised alarm
A KIDS FUNNY BEE BUZZ POEM
The fuzzy, wuzzy bumble bee
a fussy, hussy bee was he
because he lost his buzz you see
in a muggy, buggy mushroom tree
On mushrooms bitter, boggy black,
he planned an aerial attack,
but bouncing, pouncing skills he lacked
and failed to get his bee buzz back.
Now this fumbling, stumbling bumble bee
searched helter, skelter frantically
for a bigger bee to help him free
his bee buzz from the mushroom tree.
But no bee ever came around,
searched high and low, tree and ground,
but his buzz was never found,
a buzzless bee without his sound.
POOR FUZZY, WUZZY BUMBLEBEE
Liz Labadie-Reilly
October 18/2015
I stand and wait by the garden gate
My object of affection is fashionably late
When she appears she will be mine
For a wedding is planned to celebrate.
Lagoon of life, lake of man
Bitterness in life, salt of man.
Sourness or sweetness, salt of the tongue
Harvest of the young, actions of man
Sourness of tongue, sweetness of the stung
Sweetness of the unsung, sourness of the dung.
Bitterness of man, life's crucifix
Burden of follies, puff of the lung
Burden of life, crux of crucifix
Flux of follies, marks of cicatrix.
Innocence of man, lake of salted life
Influx of mother's womb, gift of Matrix.
My hands, smelly, brown, it's truly heinous...
I love those dogs, I do! But it's dubious
I'll ride my wheels again through grass!
Clean after them please? I'm simply FURIOUS...
One mouth you were given, but two ears
So you would talk half as much as you hear
Remember this biological fact
~ and affection you will gain from your peers