Crash Land
Unplanned
Red pants
Fire ants
Big Tent
Ferment
New pope
Smokes dope
Bare back
Skyjacked
Catcall
Mass brawl
Arches
Starches
Repent
Clark Kent
Hot stuff
Hand cuffs
Crash land
Pound sand
In my youth, I never whistled at a passing woman.
In my youth, I never made a raunchy catcall.
But I’m sure the gist of what I must've been thinking
could’ve made a city like Sodom or Gomorrah fall.
He’s together now, they say,
turned out, free to walk the street;
adult child turned out to play
amid grey walls of concrete
streets strewn with disposed joys,
the stench of human fluids.
Bozos wave their lethal toys;
aging goths, pseudo druids,
faces lit by flashing screens.
promenading, zombie-dead
watch desperate dancing teens,
nature’s lemmings, AI lead.
He’s together now, He’s told,
so discharged, they need the bunk;
adult child thrown in the cold
amid barely walking drunk
searching, seeking that which numbs
the pain, soul-crushing shame.
Left to beg for others’ crumbs
he just has himself to blame
they say, go scare up some work.
he does, then try as he might
he’ll catcall some guy a jerk,
end up in another fight.
Headfirst into the sea he found her,
Madison caught Allen with her kiss;
Love left to surge bound them forever;
Free to be with her in this abyss,
Allen could breathe no trouble at all;
This realization was pure bliss;
His movements a nonverbal catcall,
the mermaid grins taking no offense;
She welcomes this monumental fall;
Fathoms down in a liquid romance,
elated with what never made sense.
SCARED RABBIT
In the middle of the night rumbling starts.
The speckled bunny stretches, dips - no heart.
Then out his bummy,
relieved of tummy’s
upset, barks up deafening catcall fart.
8/17/2020
True Story as told by my son-in-law
This limerick — 10/10/5/5/10 syllables
No regular meter
Cats got yo tongue,
catwalks, runs stalks prowls;
Meow!
Catheads catalog catlike people.
Meow, yet they smell cationic;
Cats got yo tongue!
Catlings catmints containments within parsnips;
Catnaper catcher of meow winks;
And does a catfish eat mice;
Cats got yo tongue!
And does a dog walk down a catwalk;
Does a catbird tweet-tweet...
And does a catchup ever get behind;
Do cats wear shoes with their catsuit;
Does a catboat sink or floats;;
Catcall the caterer chatter-chatter-
Cats got yo tongue;
MEOW!
8/4/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2019
He's off-the-wall
Unprecedented gall
A human catcall
Sins and grins
Feels no chagrin
Conscience of tin
Lies and fibs
Speaks in mad-libs
Smack in the ribs
Text and tweets
Clumsily browbeats
Brutally mistreats
It's no joke
Hatred's unyoked
Violence stoked
Is he secretly rootin'
For another shootin'?
~ So is Putin
Welcome into the world where I live
With the strength and fault
I care to share and give
To any soul who likes the vote
You need to nick
To win in the rat race
You kick and prick
Into the frownless face
You love to hate
Cos nonsense I can’t tweet
To date
The past I quit
Long ago
To step into the future
You choose to forgo
To embrace the catcall culture
You feel fulfills dreams
You dare to entertain
Alongside streams and reams
Of the nonsense you maintain and retain to sustain
The façade
I loathe
As sentiment salad
Sanity and dignity can’t breathe
Today or tomorrow
Not in the world
Where sorrow
Curled and unfurled
Own no iota of space
To wreak havoc
Deep or on the surface
Where a cassock
No longer features
In tiny doses
With literatures
Whose poses
Can’t detonate
The complacent bottom
Of society at the gate
Wherefrom
Sanity and insanity company part
In circumstances you detest
As from me insanity and indignity depart
When the reliability and validity of life test you waste.
Andy's crib was so small
For a gait or a crawl
Boos and tantrum
brought busy mum
Oh this was a catcall.
vivs missing lttr contst - Poetry Contest for Money
10-09-2016
I tease you.
I want to see how far I can
push you.
Where’s you breaking point?
Where is the threshold of your anger?
I admire you.
I want to know what it’s like
living in your skin.
How do you see colours?
How do they play out in your head?
I love you.
I want the world to experience you
through colours of love.
Should this be my sharing in life?
Are these words my peace still?
Raindrops pattering cadence heart doth enthrall
Anon, dripping residual with discordant notes pall
Rhythm of tapping droplets cerebral chords trawl
Guttural chorus of pinging beats on nerve ends crawl
Continuous drizzle a soothing, therapeutic waterfall
Nauseating dribble an agitating, redundant catcall
Scintillating sprinkles glisten on translucent wall
Spitting pellets congeal into hazy, brackish squall
Frothy mist of cooling vapor wraps cleansing shawl
Briny streams with transparent acid stealthily maul
A shear with in arrogant move,
Pulls up her rear to disapprove,
Turns to blush pinks within the hush,
Mouth ovate in the soft subdued crush;
Black lines expose her twisted spurs,
Fingers play with the bottom lures,
Incredulous walks the ramp edge,
I let off a catcall to fledge;
Poor soul carries her bag in hops,
Catch her to disarms as she drops,
Heaven and hell before the fall,
A swift soft kiss rumples the doll;
Obscure or white the stretch is fine,
Stay on track each path looks divine?
Looking for the formal definition, structure, and history of this poetry form? Visit the Poetry Dictionary entry below. Then return to explore how PoetrySoup members bring the form to life through their own poems.