Best Tolerable Poems

Said a cocky old gentleman from Kent
Whose mind was like irreparably bent
“I’m in tolerable shape
But I look like an old ape,
My bumper is shriveled, my fender bent." 

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Written May 29, 2022
10/10/7/7/10 (HMS)
Submitted to "A Funny Limerick" Poetry Contest
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To a tolerable degree.

 The boards are bored. 

The buzz has left the bee 
The salt has left the sea 
The creak has left my knee 
The shrill has left my plea. 

The smell has left my pee 
The sugars left my tea 
The ball...

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No dreams
Only fantasies
In the bed of insecurity

No vision
Eyes open
But not to see

You’re just a reflection
In-sightless
Incapable.  Incomprehensible.
Tolerable.

Hold me now
Take away my feelings
Sway me. Save me....

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Nothing occurred before
nor after this time
of a streetlamp burning
on avenues untraveled

At the heart of my question
is the thing I die to ask
too much for my tongue
far too often timid

If one minute the world is cruel
only to warrant ennui
the ensuing is absurd
familiar as an old joke...

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