I’m in a slight poetic fix,
For surely it’s expected
That I will write about the Knicks
Or else be disrespected.
See, for me, this team is local
So my loyalty is due,
Though no cheering, loud and vocal,
From my voice will come on through.
I’ll watch tennis games for hours
And some baseball here and there,
But it’s not within my powers,
Citing basketball, to care.
Still, to hear a drought has ended,
Fifty-three long years of thirst,
Revelry must be extended
As that pent-up joy’s dispersed.
New York City’s set and ready
For the ticker-tape parade
And the sky will rain confetti,
All poetic doubts to fade.
lovers Concerns
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Idealism tripped over it's shoe laces
chivalry sat on the floor
expectations of a lover
crumbled a mountain
her Glamware was to hard to ignore
unrealistic romantic standards
guide foolish people
seems they alway missing out
treats still bring laughter
tricks still kind people in doubt
from my understanding of love
it's a two way thing
simple expectations
still make hardworking people dream
Love in it's worthiness
is worth more than gold
prosects of finding love
is a mystery often untold
You gotta be truest to me in our doings
keeping our lovers respect
faithful to one another and everything
even when we reject
we aint jiving and we
need to figure it out
that what love really is
that's what love is all about
Citing religous hindering
often comes from those someone else
putting us gainst one another
tryna keep us in conflict
there non traditional ways
cause us to devalue our own
let stay together my lady
keep our voices in our lovers tone
Revolt against slothfulness
Causing hands and feet,
Prolonged state of inertia
Sitting, complaining, waiting.
Revolt against complacency
Causing numbness,
Like having tooth extraction.
Revolt against confusion
Causing pseudo joy,
Go grab a bull by the horn.
Revolt against the dying of
Your brazened soul,
Once citing solutions,
Ousting revolution gone wrong.
*
She complained over his inventive
Creativity
Cardboard shavings
Straw
Clay dirt
And
Concrete
To fill
Milk gallon jug soft
Lego blocks
It has a port hole through
The middle to tie rebar together
She called him a cheap bastard
and the materials prompts.
I stood and watched her performance
Citing she said she loved him
My hope to whoo her bewindled
When she refused to recognize me
Smile ya'll we happy
All us happy!
My heart was unduly fixated upon success
At first, I fail to give him my best
"I don't have time", was my protest
I was a young man at the time
In time, I found gold of a different kind
In California, I learned that I was out of line
My first citing revealed a man filled with pain
I quickly learned that Reuben was his name
For him, every day was more of the same
Love demands that we do the best we can
But at first, I was too blind to understand
That God had sent me a homeless man
Some people leave their hearts in San Francisco
Other people find their hearts in San Francisco
40 years ago, I found my heart in San Francisco
Preston Damsky speaks what he considers ‘his truth’ to power
That’s how he attained his ‘shining hour’
A law student at the University of Florida
He called to ‘abolish the Jews, by any means necessary’
A judge found Preston innocent, citing the First Amendment
as if it were one of the Ten Commandments
Though decent folks always thought that every man’s freedom stops
where another man’s begins...
Well, here I am tonight to speak my truth to Mr. Damsky:
Your ‘freedom’ is unearned, for you have threatened my life
And you will be a lawyer, perhaps a judge too, later in life
So, what will you do, you bigot, when I argue my case against you
Sweet rainwater, where is it from
Does it evaporate from the oceans
and come down from the clouds
If so, it should be salty, not sweet
Unless the clouds separate out the salt…
Or does it come from water above the clouds -
described in the six days of Creation –
which is not salty from the get-go …
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin
Scoffers ask to mock Talmudic discussions
Let these same scoffers debate the origin of rain
Citing the science behind evaporation-separation
~ and Big Bang Creation
Dear Valentine.
It all began in 1970, some 55 valentines ago.
Initially, there was a beautiful citing of YOU.
And quite suddenly, there was a thought of US.
That thought led to a longing desire for execution.
Deep within me was a fixating calculation of means.
The actual procument of resources came next,
Which led to a joyous celebration of YOU and ME.
Resulting in pure elation and satisfaction.
Happy Valentine, my bride.
It was during the early 80s when I struck gold in California.
I saw 'fool's gold' on the banks of The American River,
but my first citing of genuine California gold, the kind that
is forever treasured and never spent, was discovered on
the streets of San Francisco.
It took a while before I recognized it as gold. A closer look
and more frequent encounters were required before I saw
the gold because it was enameled with much dirt and Drin.
His name was Reuben, a harmless, homeless, and hungry man.
My next 'find' of pure gold was a 'real mother lode'
in the person of a beautiful lady named Estelle.
Estelle was the shield that God provided as
we sought shelter from one of life's storms.
Just thinking about her draws tears of love.
And then, there were the saintly trio.
Ron, Ester, and her sister Peggy. This
trio was my fuel in flight; my inspiration.
These five human 'pearls of great price'
were among the choicest, rarest,
and most precious of souls.
Real California gold.
Caramel is lucky some say
because she is a famous singer
owns three mansions
is loved by thousands
her songs are known world-wide
She can fill a concert hall and makes millions
her mother committed suicide when she was ten
no one remembers that or thinks it is a big deal
Caramel has always wanted a baby
she has had six miscarriages
and one stillborn
but no one talks about these hardships
Caramel has been married five times
two men have left her using divorce
citing irreconcilable differences
her favorite husband died in a plane crash, age 41.
two others took a lot of her money with them
Maybe she is not as lucky as some think
To say this is man sometimes akin to citing example
or what art thou we want to shed more light or extend
to a kind of limit.
Once we admit the duty and responsibility or find no
way to escape, then can we roam like beast like normadic
people like peasant farmers like these common men
in the society?.
Or share the same concept and notion of something
or grant we were raw or sometimes the quack and qualm
youth's of a thing carnality?.
To the peace on the earth already we know the decay
already the night is half past eleven or this nocturnals of
a thing.
O peace on the earth! :
Humanity?,
nation?,
family?,
or what doth keepeth it, such pillar?, let distance
a kind of fear?.
Citing cats some immigrants ate
Was his weirdest part of debate
While this barbecue
Could ignite a few
It won't make America great
He's mired with the syndrome Tourette's
The point he should make--Trump forgets!
Supporters have pain
That his tired dead brain
Is consumed by those eating pets
Original blue- haired Alice rewrote the story
Wearing a gown she constructed from linseed
With lace sleeves cut from a summer shawl
Possibly her grandmother’s favorite garment
She popped roses and pearls into her stiff sixties hairdo
Finding hairspray to keep them there was a trick
There are only six cans left, and hard to find
Ebay is selling the last two cans for $2500 each
An evil Cheshire cat appeared.
I wanted a Cheshire dog, she said.
The cat refused to go, citing poetic license
So blue-haired Alice ignored it
Not easy to do when it kept waking her up
Gnashing its loud angry teeth when she was trying to sleep
I will sit here in this teacup and behave lied the white rabbit
Who contributed to the annoying night noises by chewing carrots.
Citing the cliché, good guys finish last:
folks have little appetite for the truth.
And do-gooders are constantly harassed,
a lesson taught to intolerant youth.
Facing a future anchored in the past,
folks are cruel, arrogant, and uncouth.
Yet, big business, every once in a while,
assigns a moral value to a smile.
Without arbitration( a general notion of terms)
a solution was found to appease both parties.
Separation of was is current
means to define each aspect in
both positions and then
neogate the teams from the middle.
That gave the parent company the position of
"most concerned"
allowing the new words that
were needed
to be used as part of
the negotiating strategy.
(applied 65%/85%/95%/100%)
the collaboration of the two
put the exiting contract
in dispute;
and allowed the negators to
revail the terms of the newly
proposed contract. Citing the interest
of both positions.
Fair and accurate.
Each forum and position
than was taken into account as
the new word
usage was sorted and gathered.
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