Best Takes The Cake Poems


Premium Member " Logic? "

To every thing there is a season,
A time to bring the reasoning,
Higher logic` of heart’s project,
Into view, for the mind to review,

For some say the mind`  is the only logic,
Leaving love’s heart without a project,

This mistake, takes the cake,
From this illusion` humanity must awake,

For tis the season` for higher reasoning,
And this will we do, as through God we pursue,

Love’s higher logic` God’s higher project,
An undertaking` of re-awakening,
A mind asleep, by it’s peep,

God’s Logic; the cosmic of higher mind’s project,......................................(Isaiah 55:8-9)
Love’s Faith; built on higher logic,..............................................(Hebrews 11:1-3 & 5-6)
Not on humanity’s`  earthly minded projects,
For it will always try to dodge it,
By lower logic,
Actually` enough said,  the lower mind level logic` is dead,.......................(Genesis 2:16-17)

While actually, God’s higher logic, the cosmic mind’s project, did not dodge it, 
Respect of  love`  gave the choice to man, the level of plan,
By level of chosen logic, man chose his own project,
By tree of life, or tree of strife, 
Would it be life, by tree of life,
Or death’s tree, of the mind’s strife,
The heart's, sacred start,
Or mind’s depart, from it’s heart,

Now you know the rest of the story, life’s glory,
For death was impaled, the stake did not fail, love swelled,...............(Colossians 2:13-14)
Drawing us all by love,  above,
The logic of death,
That death`  the mind did bequeathed,
Leave the dead dogs, lying in the grass,
For death has passed!!

 Dedication; "Diogenes Zuniga " I though of your personal undying faith in Love, the higher 
logic of God, who is love. All the while I was writing this, may God richly reward you with 
many fruits of love's logical righteousness, for it is the true riches of heaven. Stay logical, in 
love, my brother. Sincerely, Moses 

9-25-09 [email protected]

Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch

"Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch"



She takes the cake 
they offer, chewing too rapidly, 
she Shrews when she speaks 
I’ll beat warpath drums, she says, 
no mistake

I’m a groper ... goody two shoes
she says

mouth wide open
songs problematic 
she's done and she's gone
a stitch loose in the weave
drop one pearl one 

dropped 
gone

for kissing small bait in the shallows
she circles her quarry 
bites their backs 
she sits astride 
the legs of a hot gripping story

sits like a monkey 
begging for peanuts
she spits in comments
I'm thoroughly congruent 
in moments of questionable torrent

I am all here
dear boy
dear girl
knit one 
drop one pearl hooray

I am all here, here hearing
all seeing, all knowing
I throw it back 
and I’ll give you 
the crux of the crutch

all knowing
make no mistake.

my good god 
I don’t care
I don’t care
do we care?
I don’t care.

truly I eat their sour pears,
place more wax in my ears
she throws pearls 
decorously adorning 
the minds of sows’ rears

left wing molting
a mouth full of feathers  
right wing feeding them
she’s all knowing
bling bling bling bling

bling bling
bowling ball glowing

Ten pins 

preparing minds
sharp needles
and yarns

Purl Stitch 
knit one, 
drop one
knit one 
drop one

win

(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)







“Ram” – Paul, Linda Mcartney
https://youtu.be/dQwdanGKILI








We're so sorry, uncle Albert
But we haven't done a bloody thing all day


We're so sorry, uncle Albert
But the kettle's on the boil
And we're so easily called away


Hands across the water, water
Heads across the sky
Hands across the water, water
Heads across the sky







"Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger."

"There's small choice in wrotten apples".

"If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”

Premium Member With Beauty Greater Than a Peacock's Preen

With Beauty Greater Than A Peacock's Preen

Of all the great new dawns, Spring gifts the best
With sunbeams racing to glisten new green.
In all of Nature, she survives each test
With beauty greater than a peacock's preen.
Thy teeming wildlife, most welcomed minions
O' friend, thy gifts sing in so many ways.
With sweet Hope and Truth thy bold companions
From day's promise to final ending rays.
When new grass sings its highest gracing songs
Thy miracle, telling this world to bow.
Thy birth, taught all that all truly belongs
To the whole, future promise and the now.

Of all the great new dawns, Spring takes the cake.
Why not celebrate each, for goodness sake?

3-28-2017


Evil Intent

Vile creatures write bibles in a hole
Cursed with powers out of control
To take what is not theirs, that is the goal
Satanic smiles saved for such occasions

In seclusion they build commandments 
Create wars, massacre the masses, laugh
In their souls darkness starts with madness
Intentions are so simple posed in words 

Babies cry out from their protected womb    
Evil hears them long before their birth
Sprinkled like fairy dust the demons come
Disarming in charm, there to lead them on

Fresh to the taste of life in air the infants take
Breathe their first breath through labor pain
Laid bare and frankly, dangerous
They scream out loud for no apparent reason

Monstrous men are there to give them death 
Stalin knew how to butcher thoroughly
Five million at a time, his own people died
He takes the cake for killings in the millions

But one creature stands alone in mass murder scored
So much for Socialism and history recorded
Who controls the agriculture in the land of China
And the movement that caused a curse on all humanity  

Down to the last dead babies soul left in the soil
“The Great Leap Forward” mass starvation stands alone
Fresh from the womb into the arms of doom forever 
Chairman Mao Zedong is that master, the face of evil ever after



Created on 6/23/16 for - “Evil Is Everywhere” Poetry Contest- Sponsored by: Brian Davey

The True Me

Im living in fear
                            the lies I hear , I can never really bear
                               im torn between what's and what's right 
                               for what's wrong I have to fight
                                                      
                               it seems Im always on the run for me 
                                   Im confused on what I really see
                                     And who I could really truly be
                                                      
                                       my thoughts are consuming 
                                         im always assuming                                               
                                         I  need to conclude it,
                                      
                                        rather real or fake 
                                     my life is not a mistake
                                       my life always takes the cake

Premium Member Heartache Takes the Cake

A rainbow of flavours 
In every bite
I've savoured the sweet
And the spice of each
Plunged my tongue deep
Into pain's body
The depths of which met me
Eager to parley
The difference is plain
When your body is broken
You're glad you're alive
Unlike heartache
When you just want to die.


Premium Member My Favorite Food For Thanksgiving

Aunt Kate's Wine Cake---

A dash of nutmeg in the batter, 
takes the cake and makes it better.
But the splash of wine that she adds later,
and another cube of butter
makes us all a little fatter !



_________________________________________
For Andrea's Contest "Holiday Food Connections 2"
11/18/15

Experience Regina Tourism Flub

Regina city councillors under fire
For ad campaign’s not looked at prior
How someone did not think to inquire
Check the news if you think me a liar

This province had some odd news breaks
Like the Tim Hortons with the snake…
The moose in the school for hoof’s sake
But this capital city goof takes the cake

I suppose they were hoping for a laugh
Now it looks like there’ll be some new staff
The response may still be half and half
Talked about around the coffee carafe

They’ve taken a lot of flack in the past
Tried to steer into the skid at last
That plan backfired pretty damn fast
A collective face palm, country vast

A headline that didn’t need to be spun
With marketing that cannot be undone
Since the new slogan that they chose to run
Is : “The city that rhymes with fun”…..


** Slogan since retracted by Experience Regina
Still Managed to make International headlines, well done...

A Dmv Afternoon

"Well, I'm sorry but this is boring and your list of fines, it's got me snoring and I don't mean to be ignoring you but pouring out my story won't make my driving less deploring so I guess what I'll admit is that some of these tickets are legit but I wish you would just quit having this fit, since there really was no marking saying no parking and my dogs are really barking. So let's hurry this towards an end, is driving backward really so absurd? I won't pretend no accidents occurred but from what I heard it could be worse, for pete sakes it was only some defective brakes, this really takes the cake for such a small mistake, and sometimes I think they're just too bright so I drive at night with no headlights and you might think you're right but did we really need a seatbelt when we felt we were held in by more people than seats dealt? It just doesn't make sense, it's only an expired license! It's all in the past tense and I don't appreciate your comments about that ticket so I'll tell you where to stick it!
  I will pay the speeding one, I was needing just a little fun and may have missed reading the sign that would be heeding the speed in which I should have gone, so there, I said that I was wrong now here's some cash to pay this con, I had to pawn some things of mine to pay this fine and I don't mean to cross a line or hold things up while I whine but since you think you're so devine, and I don't even really mind paying all the powers that be, that tower over at the DMV but it really tends to sour me when I've been waiting for how many hours?  3!!!"

Nobody Noticed

You saw her ever smiling face
You just loved her laughter
You were amazed by her caring soul
You wished she was your child
You wished your kids were like her

Ever noticed how lonely she was?
Do you remember the day you saw her sitting alone down the road?
Ever wondered why she was sitting alone under that tree?
What about the day you saw her sitting in that place of sleeping?
Did you ever noticed her shattered soul?

She was a "happy kid/soul"
But deep down she was a broken soul
She missed her parents
To her, a medicine to wake the dead would have been great.

She was a "happy kid/soul"
But deep down she was empty
She was a slave in her parent's house
Having to do house chores was nothing to her,
Her mother taught her well.
But.. having her aunt's husband forcing his way inside her tiny body, takes the cake.

She was a "happy kid/soul"
But she was empty and hopeless
That she thought suicide was her only hope.

Someone should have noticed

Premium Member To Warm Up Mankind's Behind

Okay people, enough is enough
What's happening with this crazy weather
Cold enough to freeze the tootsies off a penguin
The eskimos are all huddled together

So far this winter's been the coldest in years
Certainly not a very happy camper
Civilized people shouldn't have to live like this
Us guys just love to be pampered

In all my years, through each Canadian winter
This one surely takes the cake
Not at all pleased, just want you to know
This is more than this guy can't take

If I knew who to contact I'd pay big dollars
For the sake of all mankind
Beg them to moderate these winter temps
To warm up mankind's behind

  

© Jack Ellison 2014

I Am Poetry Contest

The day they kidnapped you
Was the day I found myself lost.
I found myself mostly numb
In a frosted layer of my own tears --
My eyes now dried out from
Years of overuse.

I've never missed something this badly,
Even after losing my own dad.
Sadly this takes the cake.

I almost feel inhuman for feeling this way.
But isn't that what I am now since you fled?
The monster under my childhood's bed?
One of a total of eight -
One for every forsaken flame
That kept the fire of my childlike zeal burning -
And eight years of work still can't raise the flame from its slumber. 

Forgive me

In the chill of loneliness' cavern
I've forgotten the fondness of a smiling heart, 
Or the levity of laughter's luxury. 
I have lost the grail of passion, 
And a passion for people.

People --

Love
People laugh
People listen
People link arm to arm
And lean closer
Eye to eye 
Bonded by the light transmitted between them.

I am not people.
I am not persons.
I am but deserted versions of
burdens long forsaken,
behind the curtains of sermons sung
and versus not forgotten,
yet buried under the misery of betrayal's semblance

Remember
Meekness
Patience
Temperance
Gentleness -
These are healing balms 
From the palms of Gilead
In symbolic remembrance
Of the one whose palms hold the bonds of light 
Which people transmit -
Who submitted His will
And became Grace itself.

These are sermons sung
And versus not forgotten,
And my shaking soul 
Left lifting its melodies 
In search of the harmony that will
Someday heal its scars.

I am the lamb 
written into each palm.
I am the woman
who draws from His healing balm.
I am the human
whose imperfections only grace can heal
into sacred psalms of eternal calm.

I am
the lamb of 
I am -
The only way
the only truth
the only life
the only one.

Premium Member Corona Takes the Cake

On the street.
Want to eat.

Virus clown
shut stores down.

Pastry shop!
I will stop.

Cakes and pies -
sweet surprise.

I smell those
with my nose.

Man in mask
starts to ask . . .

Fresh pie or
petit four?

Two of each.
Make them peach.

Donut too.
That will do.

Seeing that
I feel fat!

But I pay
and I say:

Where to sit
 to eat it?

Strain to hear
words unclear.

Realize
with my eyes . . .

space too small
wall to wall.

Six foot rule
not too cool.

Drop on street
every treat.

Dogs run by.
Lick each pie.

Leave no crumb.
 I feel dumb.

Covid takes
even cakes.

Sept. 15, 2020

Originally for Beth Evans' "Threes, Please Poetry Contest"
A poem made up of three-syllable rhymes, showing a lighter side of it.
For the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Poetry Contest of Robert James Liguori

Premium Member Madagascar Where Did You Go

Madagascar where did you go
For weeks you came to my picnic
My sanctuary 
Unceremoniously and unwanted
And mostly uninvited 
Like the proverbial red ants
Like a lover I once knew
Everyday ... there you were
A lemur
A chameleon 
Perched on my blanket of poetry 
Staring with those curious eyes
Yearning for validation 
And perhaps a future visit
I must admit you're a nuisance
A pop-up, a laugh, a nightmare
For weeks on end I saw your faces
Burning  in my memory
Trolled and uncontrolled 
Now that you're gone
I look out the window 
I imagine lions, giraffes, and rhino's 
Running wildly towards my picnic 

connie pacheco 

10/20/22

Note-for weeks on end, I would come to this site and be inundated with ads. The Madagascar ad takes the cake. Lately it's gotten worse.

Moderate Face

a smile on a piece of paper
takes the cake
give me the opportunity that will work out

dx
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