Best Tabled Poems
Aunt Doris was feeling poorly .
I did not know what to say .
So ,I gathered all her friends around ;
And we had a Doris Day .
But Gladys got the pip and sulked
Saying it was not right.
So we stretched out celebrations
To have a Gladys Knight.
We had great fun in the July sun
A Donna Summer to enjoy.
But there would be a Shelly Winter
So dont get smug or coy.
Major Weeks adressed his Sergeant Spring
At Thanksgiving holiday ,
Saying ,can February March..
Through Beech and Larch ?
He said NO!! ..but April May .
Multiplication, Tabled
by Michael R. Burch
Be fruitful and multiply”—
great advice, for a fruitfly!
But for women and men,
simple Simons, say, “WHEN!”
Tabled Destiny
by Odin Roark
Life's tsunami starts way back
the shifting tectonics of time
re-form yet another evolution
one's bargained death wish in disguise
Most know not
when disturbance begins
when spilled milk begins to teach
when failure trumpets wisdom
From cradle to grave
we're taught
you can't have that
preschool
elementary
middle
high
higher
ahhh
the onion skin admission ticket
PERFECT JOB
Do this
Have that
Eight hour work day
No
Twelve hour work day
Yes
Be reasonable
No
Shark-infest your waters
Yes
Earn your bonus
No
Scheme your advance
Yes
Retire with honor
No
Cash in beating the system
Yes
PERFECT RELATIONSHIP
Honest background
No
Fabricated heredity
Yes
Thinking
No
Status quo
Yes
Intelligence used
No
Entitlement expected
Yes
Quiet and focused
No
Loud and scattered
Yes
Enjoined
No
Divorced
Yes
ONE DAY
The next random shift erupts
innate calendars run asunder
you're finally free
no more corralling of instinct
no more downside to curiosity
no more programs to die by
INFINITY CALLS
Shackles fall free
unhappiness exits
flames cleanse bodily disease
smoke and cloud transport molecules of ecstasy
to form anew
NEXT STOP
Catching the first breeze to nowhere
to everywhere
to schedules unknown
to existence sans time
Where chance be not tabled
where worth be not an issue
and day and night be one
with all that
was
is
and will ever be
WELCOME HOME
high priority insecurity
gastro-growling,
a peckish fling
in the food desert -
not dessert - desert
this lip service
don't a mouth fill
maybe one of five
on the sleigh's edge
gazing at the growling wolf
of slowly going down,
ground down into an
early grave ground
raw capitalism just
too hard to digest
so fasting though
good for the soul
distracts from light
panging minds dreams
sweet in the night
next meal, the next meal
what's the big deal
you don't look distended
so stop the pretendin'
and gettin' over
on us, the satiated
shoulda waited for
a fulfilling meal
to steal and run
like Jean Valjean
with loaf in hand
fleein' Javert's pursuit
ravenous for justice
but whose?, just us?
or can anybody sit down,
come around and partake
the scraps for hunger's slake
disability by definition
means "not able", not "unwilling"
but we all know some are
"getting over" 'n'
workin' the system
'steada workin' a wage
but "working poor" still,
for sure, is workin' for
a livin', not freeloadin'
on government or society
and still are "not able"
to make it, so who's
fault is that I wonder?
while sittin' here eatin'
this cookie, trying to write
a wrong, or corrected,
feed some facts, for
the peace of mind
we all know and find,
when fed, cared, and loved
care for a bite of apathy?
© Goode Guy 2013-03-31
http://inplainsight.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/12/17283055-5-questions-for-top-chef-judge-tom-colicchio-on-hunger-in-america?lite
http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/film-on-childhood-hunger-opens/
http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/us_hunger_facts.htm
http://turkeyclubamerica.com/
http://feedingamerica.org/
http://www.nokidhungry.org/
http://www.foodbankonline.org/
https://www.hungerinamerica2014.org/SitePages/Home.aspx
tabled Fall flowers
tremendous bloom of color
unnatural vase
the horticulture of cards
opens recipients’ smiles
11/3/2020
we tabled it
we sat it down,
laughter and love
expressed gratitude,
passed it around,
around the table
let us now
as we are able
take this time
its taste sublime
at the table
...mmmm...
© Goode Guy 2012-11-22