Best Tenths Poems
Vodka
That is what they drink
never water
on no account will a Commie ever drink water
and not without good reason
water that's what I'm getting at
water is the source of all life
seven tenths of this Earth's surface is water
why do you realize that 70 percent of you is water
as human beings you and I
need fresh pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
are you beginning to understand
That’s why I drink only distilled water
rainwater
or pure-grain alcohol
Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation
do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived
the most and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face
Categories:
tenths, humor, malayalam, science, yellow,
Form:
Free verse
Owl..' Owl..? Dumpty had just turned back to resume speaking, yet when he looked the
bird was not to be seen Now where did that Owl go?? Then Dumpty looked down..!
there full stretch and upon its back lay the poor Owl..! What could he do..?? as he was
thinking just that thought he ran 3 times round the fallen Owls form in sheer panic..!
then out of the corner of his eye; he saw the dish..! Water he thought! and grabbed the dish..' then just to be on the safe side he picked up the spoon,! he rushed over to an old
wooden pail and dipped the dish under the water. he ran back and threw it onto the Owl it
took seven attempts before the Owl suddenly shook its head and staggered onto its feet
steady on dear Owl said Dumpty as it swayed on the spot..' Oh said the Owl how awful..'
( a square word ) Its no good at all, Excuse me but would you mind if I help you to sit
on that low branch over there,,' Dumpty said He guided the owl across and it sat down
ruffling its feathers.! Do you mind dear Owl if I make so bold in asking, what Egg-sactly
is a (square word?) It is a most uncouth array of words, that humans use to denigrate others
said the Owl..' Its not a thing nursery rhyme characters should even know of; they cheapen
peoples understanding of each other Dumpty, Oh what a terrible pass we have come to..!
( square words ) Oh how much damage they can cause..! And what a wrong thing to do to
link it to the sweet brave cat...' why he even travelled to London to see the Queen and they
still know him by that name there now, as a matter of fact I'll bet they still have a chair with
his name on it..' this will not do I shall fight to have his name recognised as it always has been
and he is certainly not a has been..! It is his by former precedent; as in (pussesion) is 9 tenths
of the law..!
Copyright Joe Maverick Poetry 2014
Categories:
tenths, anti bullying,
Form:
Narrative
Like spindled glass,
remnants filter in timeless twine,
Peaceful moments - retrieve the silence,
Like new velvet stockings, ladders await.
Time itself fraught, with abandon abate...
Yet nestled high, marooned with intrigue,
Time still time, in search origin with trace.
Times silky sands neath craggy rocks,
every rain drop accounted?
every snowflake free?
remnants filter in timeless twine,
Time retires countless moments,
With our memoirs we agree to disagree.
We selvedge our past tenths,
The lucrative lessons we behold,
Our well worn velvet stockings,
few ladders some bereft,
This future has unfold,
remnants filter in timeless twine,
Time retires countless moments...
Time retires Time...
Categories:
tenths, art, goodbye,
Form:
Concrete
Customers are like bouquets of flowers passing through our twenty-four hours.
Breakfast, lunch, or dinner all 365 calendar days guaranteed for a full twenty-four seven.
“Hello Sir”! Welcome to Waffle House America’s favorite place to eat!
Some say we are the closest thing next to God's Great Heaven!
We have a confusing language of our own, the blabbering towers of the real “April Showers”
Service with a smile that has walked the many hard-earned extra tenths of miles,
Nothing computerized with files, just organized by our own genuine unique styles.
Waitresses are serving with hard enduring time and each crosses over a mighty fine line,
Master grill operators optimize a divine talent marking your plates perfectly aligned.
Friday and Saturday nights the party train arrives blessed coffee to the many lips we’ll revive.
Regulars and irregulars you’re served just the same, pardon me did I really get your name?
Loud ones, quiet ones, and even the picky ones strive to come back to us,
Here we bring back the basics of being alive.
Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, diced, peppered, capped, or topped?
So do you want them “All the way or just partly aflame”!
Young, old, or different at being indifferent just being sane,
Especially when the “Waffle House Way” is to say the first “HELLO”!
“Morning Mam”! Can I get you your usual or will you be having something different “TO GO”?
Brief moments of insanity with the moods that walk through our doors,
Thank God for every single one of those Jukeboxes!
The quality of service opening an eye to the sly foxes,
We’d really be in trouble if we sold liquors!
Foreign, military, and even civilian are in and out,
Our servers are like the gold stored at Fort Knox.
So what can we get you today that you haven’t already had before?
“The Waffle House Way” America shouts!
It’s like being home because that’s what we are all about.
Categories:
tenths, adventure, allegory, confusion, devotion,
Form:
Narrative
Someone in the World can run 100 meters
faster than any other in a competition
and it is all about tenths
on an more than billion year old Earth
which also moves in an orbit
but not for to beat a world record
and get one new glittering prize for the collections
this is a poem about to be best in the World.
Categories:
tenths, natureworld,
Form:
Lyric
Somethings are listed as a bargain
they make it sound so fine
"You can buy this for under thirty bucks"!
Whats the price? $29.99.
Wow, that's a whole penny
there's no way you can lose.
with the money you'll be saving
how could you refuse?
The current price of Gasoline
is $2.68 and nine-tenths
why not make it $2.69
wouldn't that make more sense?
The extra one-tenth of a cent
I'm sure glad I don't have to pay
it would be such a financial burden
more than I can say.
I'ld probably need a second job
which wouldn't be too great
they could relieve a lot of pressure
if the price was just $2.68.
I don't want to seem facetious
lets call a spade-a-spade
lets make the penny obsolete
then we'ld have it made.
There would be no more prices
that end in 99
they'ld likely go to the nearest buck
which is what I had in mind.
But none of that will happen
that I know for sure
that 99 is here to stay
we'll just continue to endure!
Categories:
tenths, funny
Form:
Rhyme
Possession's nine-tenths of "the law,"
Is what some pundits say
Implying "weak" own nothing real
And brute "strength" wins the day.
But if one looks at "biomass,"
It's insects that have won,
For ALL Earth's mammals are outweighed!
My, logic can be fun!
And insect's also might survive
Our next atomic war,
Intelligence, a passing phase,
Man, "ugly" carnivore.
Is "buggiest" the human race,
"God's image" just a joke?
(Or does God foul His own nest too?)
Depends on what you smoke!
Brian Johnston
May 10, 2018
Categories:
tenths, earth, life, science,
Form:
Rhyme
Superhero strobe lighthouse helm hexagonal
Sixty degree angle glass captain bridge
Watchtower for Diminutive Town message
Warns cliff climbers must heed heirachy rule
Soaring steel pylon pinnacle, men microscopic
Sextant lassos moon coins for seafarers
Capsized as whitecaps vomit precarious
Admiral amends an untoward son with his wallet
Navigator Nerida gazes star bright broadwater
Nile writhing serpent steps calm Cleopatra
Societal riser sanitises sympathy's reaction
To hard-knock have-nots, tutorials taught her
Ignore poor crippled car sleepers in their midst
Image is nine tenths of destiny, maintain it
Dim raised to dazzling, finger emblazoned
Bestows dirtily earned glory on emaciated wrist
Beacon lights monarch morrow, slim limbs svelte
Jokers precluded erect huts on soft sand
Jewels crest strawberry sun-light garland
Dangle gold carats in cards her chronicle dealt
Third of November
Superb Vista
Categories:
tenths, beauty, change, cinderella, dark,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
Even with death
The Man’s gotta bargain a price
So I suppose that’s why that fat a** mortician
As a sales technique
Made my wife and I pick who gets to sit
From the one available chair
In his lavender lobby
For a full hour the morning after
Before he bothered to waddle out
Wiping bean soup from his forehead
Ushering us in to his office.
We asked to see my wife’s mother’s body
To confirm
I don’t know what, her proper arrival?
We were amateurs and he was offended
I could see him think
What difference does it make?
Possession is nine tenths of the law.
He managed to put his pen down
While he shifted a stack of paper
And heaved himself back up
From behind his chest high desk.
We followed him down to the basement
Of the old three story house
As if we were teens in a horror film.
At the bottom he creaked open a door
Peeked in
And I sh*t you not
He grunted under his breath “Hold on hold on.”
Then closed it fast and suggested we trust him.
We said Cremation
He said “Of course.
"We’ve been very busy with that these awful days.”
We wanted to talk colors and shapes of the urn
And to mention the pretty dresses she’d never worn
We found hanging by the dozens in her closet
We wanted to say something about the general agony
She lived within
The sleeves of her entire life
But pulling on his tie and clearing his throat
He wanted first to be exact with us
The cremation was $3000
And the car ride back and forth
To the Jackson Industrial Park
Was another $1500
Because she’d be riding in high style
Boxed up
In the front seat on the way back
And as well he’d need to see our credit card and ID
Up front
Before we proceeded any further
As if we could cheat him
Or change our minds
And reverse our mother’s departure from Earth.
Categories:
tenths, death, funeral, goodbye, grief,
Form:
Free verse
I have to tell you that this is fiction
Or else I'd get a conviction.
A family of evil with cold dead hearts
No one can trace where their family starts.
For at least a 100 years they been pulling the strings
They're not human, only cold dead things.
With more wealth than the rest of us combined
Heads of the KGC I think you'll find.
They're trying to claim the planet, they're trying to steal the crown.
Nine tenths of the people they plan to drown.
They've dimmed the light and tried making it dark
You'll be dead if you don't wear the beasts mark.
War, poverty and hunger can be layed at their door
Nearly a bank in every country, just a few more.
Slavery never ended, we're all under monies cane
They killed Lincoln because he new their game.
War criminals, murderers and sick peadophiles
Jake doesn't care who he defiles.
The truth is there for you to see with your own eyes
Don't believe government or media lies.
To this family they all pay a toll
Its the Rotchilds that's in control.
With a two party system freedom is your illusion
You're just another battery stuck in their confusion
Categories:
tenths, abuse, betrayal, future, history,
Form:
Couplet
Possession must be nine tenths of the law,
Or at lest that's what we criminals say
Every time we do not want to pay
The retail price for whatever we saw.
Does this apply when your heart has my claw
Enclosed in a grasp and held the right way?
Secured, so that I can do what I may
To get you to drop more than just your jaw.
Read these sonnets and your heart will be mine,
Overtly willing to stay by my side.
Your other body parts will fall in line,
Eventually in need of a guide.
Relax, I will make sure that they feel fine,
So that my hands will have a place to hide.
Categories:
tenths, loveheart, heart,
Form:
Italian Sonnet
Nine-tenths a century old is my mom
Well over half a century am I.
How quickly we both aged gives me a qualm.
At least my body now can't multiply!
And right behind my mom I'm following . . .
The white hairs keep appearing. It's with dread
I picture myself one day swallowing
my food with dentures stuck inside my head.
Mom scrubbed floors on her knees.(much UNLIKE me).
Her knees gave out; perhaps mine will stay good?
She's got no bad diseases, luckily.
I pray I'll age as gracefully . . . knock wood!
Nov. 26, 2020
For Tania Kitchin's Make Me Laugh With Some Humor - Any Form - New Poems Poetry Contest
Categories:
tenths, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Ten percent
Go my love, become the Earth
Do not fear this second birth
Rest not alone, my word is true
The best of me shall lie with you
I lived a life, so long alone
Until I put you in my phone
Only then, I became whole
Found the value of my soul
For you, I’ll ever grateful be
Not just the better half of me
Took no time for me to see
You were at least nine tenths of me
I the agent, you the star
One tiny part of who you are
For you to me were heaven sent
I thank you for my ten per cent
So, go now, Love, become the Earth
Do not fear this second birth
Rest not alone, my word is true
The best of me resides in you
12 December 2018
For - Last Letter to my Beloved Contest
Sponsor - Silent One
Categories:
tenths, bereavement, eulogy, farewell, funeral,
Form:
Rhyme
Sitting astride a frozen mountainside,
eighty others waiting their turn to go,
on the slope blue and red gates a path scribe,
a man says, “racer ready;” so they know.
An hour passed, now it’s my turn to ski,
explode out of the gate with a kick-start,
frozen ruts are what I find greeting me,
muscles press down to absorb impacts hard,
frantic minute, a forward-moving fight,
the scrape of ice, gates flying past my face,
come faster still, can barely stay upright,
you win or fall, there is no second place.
Cross the line, frustration at the results,
tenths of a second leaves you in the cold.
Categories:
tenths, senses, snow, sports, winter,
Form:
Sonnet
If possession is nine-tenths of the law
entirely, you're mine
though cosmically, empirically
we lack the ties that bind
For naught these thoughts
escape me through the river of the day
while every beryl and burst of you
contain me as they stay
And while the very air we breathe
is cycled through our distance
I know that even air succumbs
to love in sweet resistance
If possession is nine-tenths of the law
then what am I to do?
for obligingly, surprisingly
I now belong to you.
Categories:
tenths, life, love, passion, people,
Form:
Rhyme