Convoys of flashy cars
Matrimonial coteries perched on car windows
Convey cosy impressions in imaginary bars
Belying divorce shadows
That stalk and haunt new marriages
Where cooking sticks, frying pans fly
As divorce spectres havoc in carriages
Speak and sing a lie
Marriages tell and fail
As happiness through windows evaporates
To spell and impale
Marriages at frenetic rates
Scaring delights and daylights
In homes haunted
In mornings, afternoons and at nights
Taken for granted and taunted
Seventeen thousand divorces
In twenty seventeen
Evil forces from frightening sources
Marriages under siege in a cadaverous canteen
Prompting minds to boggle
Wondering if matrimonial culture sutured
Too many marriages in hedonism gamble, giggle, sniggle and google
In scary scenarios captured and raptured
Time to rethink
Pose questions
Think! Wintry wine glasses don't clink the right link
Marriage institution in need of systemic overhaul actions with surgical sections.
Categories:
coteries, poems,
Form: Free verse
Race to place hopes beyond braces, faces and traces of confidence
Buoyed, deployed, enjoyed beyond the purview of human interaction
Experienced, sensed and commenced on the throe of rows of prudence
Embraced, stressed and buttressed in the wake of actual affection.
Race to place hopes beyond braces, faces and traces of solace
Sampled and stapled on the niche in which love weeps
For want of care in settings which lace and displace
Slots that tot hope in lots and plots in which love quips and equips.
Race to place hopes beyond braces, faces and traces of balance
Struck in a relationship in need of repair
Felt to melt in the face of vagaries of chance whose nonchalance
Peeks, sticks and kicks at opportunities to mend a tenderness tear.
Race to place hopes beyond braces, faces and traces of influence
Exerted and vetted to avert the skirt that scoffs at the palaver
Communities and coteries convene at the confluence
Of love and a glove that denies John the presence of his lover.
Categories:
coteries, poems,
Form: Free verse
Enmity, war has proclaimed
Munition between coteries - organized
Victory onslaught enthusiastically aimed
Domestic cats versus gnawing rats - outrage optimized
Chief Cat hangin' in there - now terrorized.
Territory annexed by rodents
Having a grand triumph feast
Devouring every single food - sorry ... cats are prudent
Bane pricked in menus slayed those little beasts
At the end, mousers are vanquishers - strife ceased.
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* " HANGIN' IN THERE " * contest entry
*-* jun-jun villanueva
*-*july 30,2011
Categories:
coteries, war,
Form: Quintain (English)