How do I compare to thee?
Your intransience knows no bounds
Id gesticulate more often than not
Your red Mantra dress knows no warmth
Your like a mermaid uncaught
You're darndest to know
You're like a Newfoundland
Leeching perilous unreason
Your everyone’s confidante except mine
You turn me into wilderness
I do not know my heart?
I am left speechless
On the morning of your coming
you leave me dumb confounded
Freedom is the green grass where the antelope roam
It’s the darndest yarn of cotton
It’s the bottom feed for human basics
Freedom is the buttress of the Moths wing
It’s the smile you give me
when you're in clover
Freedom is the languid river
And it’s the caterpillar’s prayer
And the hero’s scythe thrashing the tall weeds
I see a glade
for freedoms chance of burgess
How do I compare to thee
Your intransience knows no bounds
Id gesticulate more often than not
Your red pattern dress
Your Yes is a No
You're darndest to know
You're like a Newfoundland
leeching unreson
Your everyones bosom except mine
You turn me into wilderness
I do not know my heart ?
I am left speechless
On the morning of your coming
you leave me dumb confounded
Chatting with Hyrum, my husband asked him
what he was watching on TV. He
raved about the show his grandpa’s
phone call had interrupted.
There was a lull. . . and then
this four-year-old kid
said, “What am I
still talking
with you
for?”
Sept. 27, 2019
for Caren Krutsinger's 'Any Poem You Want to Write 50 Words or Less' Contest
(44 words)
Try my darndest to brighten each day
At times successful, at times lay an egg
Two times outta three
Not bad 'tween you and me
If I don't improve, you can dock my pay
The 16 hour days are full;
Of judging every gain,
And every misspent penny
It is the darndest pain.'
Our working lives are greased
By debt
That gathers its weight and
to our loss
I hit the bed at ten in the eve;
But by 3am I pitch and I toss'
I awake to another grim grey day
See the struggling masses race
I know its only Wednesday;
But Friday is coming apace.!
And Friday is a spending day
In Britain as in 'elsewhere.'
And that will be OK for 'some'
Who live I am not sure where?
I know I’ll use my shrinking means
The groceries must come'
I think of some; who have taken
A quick Quid loan at apr 1735%..!
Now for only needing £200 they will be; (Finished and done.)
©Joe Maverick 27-2-2018
Try my darndest to brighten each day
At times successful, at times lay an egg
Two times outta three
No bad 'tween you and me
If I don't improve, you can dock my pay
"TELEVISION WOULD BAN IT"
I told her loving money before
her children would damage them.
I told her loving cock before
her children would destroy them.
I told her one day,
the lust from her **** would
weigh her down to the deepest
of oceans.
"Mommy, I don't want you to
go out again," she said.
her kid is three years old.
kids say the darndest things.
I bet Art Linkletter would be
proud
but recommend adoption.
By: Chicano Eddie
4-11-2017
Art Linkletter said,
"Kids will say the darndest things".
Who's he? Google time.
There are certain subjects that are taboo
When it comes to writing poetry
But I try my darndest to ignore them all
I guess I really didn't need to tell you that
It's fairly obvious I would imagine
Writing about apes with pink butts
But trust me I'm quite a sophisticated gentleman
Though sometimes these evil spirits inhabit my body
And I'm not responsible for what I write
I thought I needed to explain
Some of these recent over-the-edge presentations
What I'm trying to say is I'm getting help
But the doctors say I'm quite an anomaly
But again, I am getting help
Wish me luck!
© Jack Ellison 2014
Once I ran after a robber
Who snatched a lady’s purse,
Then after a few short strides
My lungs seemed to burst
—yet I kept on.
Then faced with a hundred steps
Upon a flight of stairs,
While I so laboriously trekked,
My chest burned and flared
—still I went on.
Walking now seems so deprived
Of what once was leisure,
With all these needles pricking inside
My heart has to endure
—but I carried on.
Then it was one rainy night,
My wife threatened to leave;
She said, “You made a chimney of our home,
and I can hardly breathe! ”
I am a man, but I can’t last
A life lived without her,
So I knelt down and made a pact
To both of us was fair;
As long as she won’t leave, I’d try
My very darndest best
To quit what she has hated most
And lay it down to rest
—and that was when I stopped
smoking cigarettes.
Haste
Makes waste
So they say
Try to check your
Speed
Sway
With me
In the dance
Let your hips just
Swing
Pets
Do the
Darndest things
I just love my
Cats
Bard
Let me
Read your thoughts
You will be my
Muse
People are wierd at times
Saying the darndest things
Like "Go play with yourself"
Oh, the thoughts it brings
Slapjack, solitaire, pickup sticks
Is no fun at all
Think I'll crawl into bed
And just have a ball
I'm a pretty literal kinda girl
Be careful what you say
I may do exactly as you tell me
You'll be blushing every day
what am I looking for on Match? you ask
and I'll tell you want I've felt
when typing to a picture - mask
attempting to make hearts melt...
Too impersonal to be personable
this game of word and wit,
when sent -
is irreversible
after you've sent the s#^t...
for now I'm looking -
platonic pal
one to count stars with
and you can
real E
call me Al
a baster
roses
sitting
by yr
Hi-Lo toesis
and schlerosis
sorry -
didn't mean to offend....
these letters are like heroes
with the darndest open end...
with lettuce falling out
and condiments, too
how can I convince you
that I really enjoy
"who are You?"
Seasons
Springtime has passed,
Summer is a blast,
The Autumn mist is near;
Yes, Fall has come and it won't be long,
Till winters chill is hear.
With Seasons bloom the darndest things,
The Willow's shad the bee,
There is much surprise to wonder of,
Just take a look and see.
Yes, nothing but pleasures for all to find,
And believe it or not, they are free...
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