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Premium Member My New Year's Resolutions: Humor

I have tracked my New Year's Resolutions 
over the years these are my fantastic results.

Resolution One

2011: I will try to be more attentive to Lauren.
2012: I will pay more attention to what's her name...ah...Lori...I know I'm close.  
2013: I will try for reconciliation with Lo.
2014: I will try to be more attentive to Carol.

Resolution Two

2011: I will walk 35,000 steps a day this year.
2012: I will definitely start my walking routine this year at 10,000 steps a day.
2013: I will walk once a week.
2014: I will try to drive past a gym at least once a week.

Resolution Three

2008: I will not stare at women's cleavage .
2009: I will cut down the amount of time I stare at women's cleavage.
2010: I will stop being so obvious when I stare at women's cleavage.
2011: I will attempt to stop getting caught staring at women's cleavage.
2012: I will stop increasing the time I spend staring at women's cleavage.
2013: I will seek professional help as directed by the courts.
2014: I will try to stop starring at the female prison guards cleavage.

Resolution Four

2011: I will not let my siblings push me around.
2012: I will stick up for myself with at least one of my siblings.
2013: I will not let my siblings bullying depress me.
2014: I will talk to Dr. Potter and the group about my siblings.

Resolution Five

2008: I will read Clarissa this year all 1534 pages.
2009: I did not read Clarissa I will read Varney The Vampire all 866 pages.
2010: I will read the first 50 pages of Varney The Vampire this year.
2011: I will read some articles in the newspaper this year.
2012: I will try and finish the comics section this year.
2013: I will read one strip in the cartoon section this year.
2014: I will read the fortune cookie thingy the next time I have Chinese Food. 

18~12~2014
Sponsor: Regina Riddle
Contest Name: New Year's Resolution
Categories: stick up, fun, funny, giggle, humor,
Form: List

I Am

“ I am”
I am myself the only one to see
I am so delicate and easy to break
Maybe I will be free and then I can make some cake
One day I will be far from home and free
I am so tired of being alone and in pain
I want to be thought of and held so tight
Can there just be one time  where I stick up and fight?
I love to go out and just dance in the rain

As  life passes by I still love to hide
I want to be able to find some love
I washed my lovely body with some Dove
When  my wings fall I wont be able to fly
Sometimes all you have to do is just cry
The day will soon come when I fine my pride
Categories: stick up, age,
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member The Stick

I tossed a stick up in the air
To watch it fly around
I waited for that stick to fall
Before me on the ground

It must have been a special stick
That did not make a sound
For when I searched the ground ahead
That stick could not be found

I never did retrieve my stick
That disappeared that day
Perhaps the stick was mad at me
For throwing it away

The moral of the story is
Be careful what you say
For if a stick can resurrect
Then you should learn to pray.
Categories: stick up, fun, humor, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry


Premium Member Can We Have Our Ball Back Please

O my Lord, I hope you don’t see man as virus or disease
This bright blue globe you gave us faces such profound unease
We’re told that we will drown or burn though some of us will freeze
And only you can save us… can we have our ball back please

We drive our cars and fly in planes for holidays on skis
And now they tell us that we’ve brought our planet to its knees
We’re gonna catch the sun and stick up windmills in the breeze
Which feels like ‘fingers-crossed’ so, can we have our ball back please

We make it, break it, use it up
We throw it in the trash
And then we buy another one
Cos all it costs is cash
But now it seems our number’s up
We’ve been a little rash
This Earth unlike the phoenix
May not rise up from the ash

Another storm has ripped up houses, bridges, cars and trees 
The sewers overflowed into the rivers and the seas
But now we’re in a heatwave and it’s thirty-five degrees
It’s really rather hot so can we have our ball back please

The scientists keep saying we eat too much meat and cheese
They tell us we can all survive on lentils, beans and peas 
Which won’t achieve too much when just a few of us agrees
And so I have to ask you, can we have our ball back please

We make it, break it, use it up
We throw it in the trash
And then we buy another one
Cos all it costs is cash
But now it seems our number’s up
We’ve been a little rash
This Earth unlike the phoenix
May not rise up from the ash

This thing that’s wrong with planet Earth is killing bugs and bees
And coral reefs have had their day in many far off seas
Though governments may talk a lot, they never hear our pleas
Their taxes will not save us… can we have our ball back please

We leave our oil and gas right there beneath the sands and seas
Then ship more in with diesel fumes and importation fees
We’re gonna catch the sun and stick up windmills in the breeze
Which feels like ‘fingers-crossed’ so, can we have our ball back please 

We make it, break it, use it up
We throw it in the trash
And then we buy another one
Cos all it costs is cash…
To save the world we’re armpit deep
In net zero decrees
But only you can save us… 
Can we have our ball back please
Categories: stick up, earth, song,
Form: Lyric

Undo and Redo

If I could go back,
and knew what I know,
I’d change a few things,
and shake up the flow.
I might go to class,
be where I should be,
Say and wear what I wish,
And only be me.
Ignore the ignorant,
hold dearest friends close,
Respect authority,
never stick up my nose.
Have love and compassion,
a watchful mind,
Keep ears wide open,
and always be kind.
Harbor a strong heart,
let others be shared,
Make sure I remind them,
that I always cared.
So, if I could go back,
and knew what I know,
I might change a few things,
and see where it goes.
Categories: stick up, allegory, analogy, old, school,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

My Big Brother Sam

So my big brother
Samuel James, goes
by the name Sam, he
Started out as my friend,
but now he's my big
brother; the one who's
always there, the one
who will always stick up
for me, and help me anyway
he can, will never do me
wrong, always true, always
honest, always the Big Brother
I love forever~n~always,
To death and beyondm and that beyond
is eternally. Sam you always
know how to make me happy it's
hard not to laugh around you, then put
you and my sexy hubby together & it's
so funny, and fun, and Priceless.
I see a family full of love,
the one who can never hurt me,
The one who is amazing and fun to be around,
I love you Big Brother Sam!
Always~N~Forever,
Briana Lynn Palmer
~Dustin's Wife~
11-19-11
12:16A.M.
15almost16
Categories: stick up, brother, friendship, love, love,
Form: Haiku


Let's Keep the Peace

I lay in bed at night wondering if this madness will disappear,
    I search for answers and “ignore it” is all I seem to hear.

    Differences should be embraced not used for false accusations,
Trying my best to keep the peace causes nasty retaliations.

Rumors spread like sand for the whole world to see,
    I only do what is right, is there something wrong with me?

    There's no need to shout with anger and deep resentment,
Can't I just explore my passion for writing in sincere contentment?

I stick up for myself and others who are very undeserving,
    of ridicule with confrontation and all the useless hurting.

    I vowed to myself I'd never live with anymore dramatic play.
I'm an adult, a wife and a mother not a child on display.

It breaks my heart to read all the sarcastic insinuations,
    I can read between the lines I don't deserve these situations.

    All of us as a fellowship should be more encouraging,
let's grow together in harmony, as one unit emerging.

I stay quiet in the corner and the second I say a word,
    it gets thrown in my face and I'm the one left unheard.

    I understand there's two sides of every single story,
Let's please move forward past this before it's gets too stormy.

I will wake up in the morning and keep on writing,
    Cuz' that's why I am here, not for bickering and fighting.


***This is written to ALL of Poetry Soup so that we may all know we are here for the same reason. When the reasons why we are here start to change is when there needs to be a change in our priorities.***

BE BLESSED EVERYONE!!!
Categories: stick up, angst, conflict, encouraging,
Form: Couplet

Why People Rob Banks

Why People Rob Banks

By Elton Camp

Let’s say that I’m a robber and knock over a store
I might get a hundred bucks, but not likely more

Or I decide that I will mug some guy on the street
I never know when it’s a gun-toter I might meet

If I should so foolishly stick up the big box store
Then I wouldn’t be able to shop there anymore

And then, if I break into some rich dude’s place
Both a burglar alarm and a bad dog I might face

If robbing a bank I’m not taking any personal cash
It’s not likely anyone angrily against me will dash

The bank doesn’t want to risk its customers shot
There’ll be little or no resistance as likely as not

But to know the main reason doesn’t take a whiz
People rob banks since that’s where the money is
© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stick up, funny,
Form: Rhyme

Crossing the Pet-Peeve Line

****-retentive 
stick up the ass
over-reactive
over-dramatization
over seemly unimportant 
irrelevant issues seemed to 
always be the response to 
crossing over the pet-peeve line
that had been created over time
Categories: stick up, conflict,
Form: Lyric

Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?

Oh, where have all the cowboys gone
That weren’t afraid to speak their mind?
Oh, where have all the cowboys gone—
Have they rode off with us behind?

We used to know the right from wrong
And not all things were for a buck—
Our boys once grew both tall and strong
And all they needed was some luck.

But things have changed in this dark land
And correctness is now the word—
We’re all afraid to take a stand
And America’s now absurd!

So now we take Christ from Christmas
And are afraid to say His name—
The ACLU now makes a fuss—
And we all have to play the game!

So now we all stick up our hands—
Robbed of what all the brave have died—
And let the bad guys make their plans
As our leaders played tricks and lied.

But our time will come once again
And we’ll ride strong and still be free—
If we call the Almighty, friend,
And open hearts and eyes to see.

Yes, where have all the cowboys gone
That aren’t afraid to speak their mind?
Yes, where have all the cowboys gone?
They have not left us all behind.
© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stick up, angst, cowboy-western, faith, loss,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

The Hate Machine

bricks and bars and dirty white walls
nobody cares whenever you fall
nobody answers when you make collect calls
nobody thinks of you at all...

dropped like a dime in a bottomless well...can't wrap my mind around this man made hell
gladiators yell and guards cast lots...bettin life or death where warriors get popped
fists into flesh to amuse and amaze
the game never ends and it's not a bad dream...
doing time in the hate machine

never think of consequences...come to your senses
fried to a crisp on electrified fences
too late for repentance...no end to the sentence
division like insane incisions where racist pigs rule
reigning in blood,badges,and big black boots
peace signs like war crimes get tried...on the stand committing purgery
lying dirty devils soon put in soul surgery
no rest for the wicked,addicted,obnoxious and obscene...
doing time in the hate machine

cops,crooks,fall guys and mobsters gettin cooked,baked and boiled like lobsters
stick up kids leaving tire tracks and mile long skids
burning white lips from crackhead strips
gangster ghouls subtracting love and adding misery
black blanket parties inside perverts dreams...
doing time in the hate machine

anthony_beesley@yahoo.com
Categories: stick up, socialtime, hate, hate, time,
Form: Rhyme

Growing Up

Growing up that age,we‘ve grown out
  Of mothers bosom into streets,
  With sown leather that bounces
  Up and down among us,
  Gone far and wide, swimming in lakes
  Of Spirogyra green and tea brown water,
  Caught the silvery tilapia and slippery heels as game,
  And sold them for bread,

  Self inflicted hungered, afflicted;
  Though large ladles were waiting,
  The rowdy rascal would  returned
  With impunity and stumped to their leftover;
  And Shepherds echoed and neigh expressed
  Our wandering out and about.
 
  Now that we 've outgrown,
  We have left such things that made a lad  again,
  And looked toward the future
  When we would be father-like
  To little ones,
  We shall spit out and bellow nothing to naughty
  While to them the beds they would lay,
  And dose and dream of carbuncles, sapphire and crystal rocks,
  Floating oarless in the breeze of aquamarine riches
  And falling into bottomless abyss,
  Till  clock crow it is soon morning,
  And woke with tears all stick up to faces,
Categories: stick up, childhood
Form: Free verse

Premium Member A Cereal Killer

Just stepped on a mini wheat, now I'm known as a cereal killer
Ate some fruit loops, now I'm a star in a fruity loopy thriller
Devoured some cheerios
Now have a happy ego
Coco Puffs make me loco, puff up and stick up my bad finger!
Categories: stick up, fun,
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Footle (Part 8)

Funny Robbery

Hiccup
Stick-up

Resort for Primates

Gorilla
Villa

Country Singer Sounds like a Bird

Trilly
Willy

Small Town Dump

Village
Spillage

The Party Pooper

Thriller
Killer

Frigidity

Chillness
Illness

A Deathly Calm

Stillness
Illness

Measure of Happiness

Smileage
Mileage
Categories: stick up, funny
Form: Monorhyme

Gratuity Is Not Included

Service workers wearing fake smiles perform for the customer. Catering to their needs; pretending. Insecure bosses put the pressure on making it known that you are replaceable. Treated as a number, employees wear name tags. Told what to wear and that opinions don't matter. Corporate policies drive the machine and the answer lies in the picture book. Great emphasis put on consistency, resulting in robotic behavior that is rewarded. Individuality is highly discouraged. In matching uniforms to represent a company; divided into groups and stereotyped. A job well done is expected without acknowledgement but mistakes are called out from the other side of the window. Two faced co-workers throw you under the bus and get tongue tied when confronted. It's obvious that their own insecurities drive such behavior. The bigger person feels compassion. Walking on egg shells in their presence and justifying his behavior with hard work. Fools buy into the lies and carry it's message with confidence. Creating an image of someone they don't even know. Judge mental mentalities that boost egos at the expense of someone else. Ambivalence is rare in this word of mouth to mouth industry and your secrets aren't safe. Gossip queens give dirty looks and stick up their noses. Little do they know that they actually know so little. Often shocked when they find out the truth. I see through this transparent behavior and I don't get involved. I'm too old for the drama and my time isn't wasted on such issues. These attitudes are contagious and so easily adopted. Breaking the cycle and avoiding it's virus, calls for a man with life experience. Someone who has already been through this and been in the shoes that they wear. It takes an open mind built on a foundation of acceptance. This is an attitude that cannot be taught, closed minds won't listen. Lead by example, an impact can be made. Lowered expectations influence less judgement. People are born into a harsh world and at the end when the waitress presents you with the check; gratuity is not included.
Categories: stick up, fun, truth,
Form: Prose Poetry
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