Mushrooms don't have many frills,
but they seat frogs and they have gills,
so, I don't dismiss them out of haste,
especially considering their taste.
I was speaking to a friend
She said nothing had changed
But her eyes revealed
That nothing was the same
I stood looking at my friend
I had known since just a child
She indicated with her hand
That we should sit for a while
I was sitting with the friend
Who had stood by me through thick and thin
I tried to dismiss my feelings
But misgivings pushed their way up again
I felt anxious for this friend
Who had gifted me her heart
It was a lifelong friendship
That could not be torn apart
I respected the silence of a friend
A sibling from a different place
Regardless of the voiceless dilemma
Our friendship would survive unconquered and safe
Have you ever put sums monies
in a wishing well
I have a couple of times and
Then I thought well
instead of wavering and dropping guesses wishes
arising the spells
I would rather just fall on my knees
and just pray
Alas no-more-wishing no more throwing panties away I just try to fall on my knees and always PRAY
Class Dismiss
Your outer beauty that blinds me~but your inner ugliness I see.
2019 December 22
*2nd Place*
One liner
~~Silent One
You thought you found love,
while a naive youth.
And asked God above,
to confirm its truth.
Yet that love would fade
as the years slipped by.
But those feelings stayed;
and still make you cry.
Breakups hurt so much,
smiles morph into tears.
And you shun love's touch,
alone, with your fears.
Unable to cope,
you douse passion's flame.
And imprison Hope;
thinking it's to blame.
Once you dim its light,
hope cannot find you.
And slips out of sight;
making you feel blue.
Despite what it seems,
your life is not through.
So, don't dismiss dreams;
which may yet come true.
Dismiss me like I am nothing
Diminish my worth in your life
Discount my value to you
Belittle the years spent together
As if they were of tittle or no significance for you
Leaving me with my heart in my hand crushed
Though endings soon arrest litigious wrongs,
Injustice stains without impunity,
When who I’d rather share romantic songs,
Declares to God abhorrent thoughts on me;
In days from now when Marci testifies,
That evil lurks in me, a violent man,
She’ll have to look directly in my eyes,
Where she’ll see tears that still don’t understand.
My case is strong and lacks no confidence,
For truth determines judgment’s final rule,
But justice overturns by consequence,
That comes when soulmates end their vicious duel.
I know my only choice was one to fight,
But how can love on trial make matters right?
i dis(miss you, altogether,
too much to mis)take
me away, g(host of all
evils, whispering trans)fix
my sickness, steady
em(brace yourself, as
i braid your nerves in
one long str)and tell
me you like it.
This world hushes in the mist
As one’s roof he tells is down.
Refusing to rest just one elbow
One his battered town.
This world I know not
For I though it was beautiful ago.
As a youngster I was taught
A garden doesn’t always grow.
A runaway slave speaking
About his father’s fist.
Where is the love if you don’t search
But choose to dismiss?
Under Christianity laws
You play with someone matches.
You’re unsure so you dismiss their case
Running them to ashes.
Where is your love
Did it die of rock ages?
You speak your unsure mind
Wiping black on her pages.
Every case dismissed
Is polluting every child atmosphere.
Increasing their doubts
Increasing their fears.
When can these worlds
Just hear one’s deep whistle
One using what is left
To turn them too pistols?
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