Some easily fall prey to the pranks of friends
Others seriously victimized subsequently fall,
Serious victims experience the saddest ends
They are the most pitiable victims after all.
Others seriously victimized subsequently fall
Like naïve dominoes lined up for a parlor trick
They are the most pitiable victims, after all,
Unwittingly preyed upon as being weak or sick.
Like naïve dominoes lined up for a parlor trick
They’re pushed down heartlessly without warning
Unwittingly preyed upon as being weak or sick,
Because they were struck without forewarning.
They’re pushed down heartlessly without warning
Often wondering what happened with innocence
Because they were struck without forewarning,
They can’t even think about a just recompense.
Often wondering what happened with innocence
Serious victims experience the saddest ends,
They can’t even think about a just recompense
Some easily fall prey to the pranks of friends.
Written November 3, 2022
Categories:
dominoes, abuse, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Pantoum
When two parts of my life cross paths
I can't resist some smiles
Although they may diverge
By many years and many miles.
My aunt, who just turned 89,
Plays dominoes for fun
And calls to tell me, with a laugh,
How many times she's won.
Today my grandkids came to play
In our vacation place,
Discovering their dad's old toys,
Soon strewn about the space.
A highlight was the dominoes,
Placed carefully in line,
But unlike when my aunt competes,
Just strictly for design.
It warmed my heart to think about
These bookend sets of tiles,
Both much enjoyed by those I love
In very different styles.
Categories:
dominoes, games,
Form: Rhyme
KICKING DOMINOES
nonsense utter nonsense plays out
dominoes don’t just get knocked down
they get kicked down
you’ve not been attacked
and no one’s hurt you on purpose
you forgot to consider
all the facts
now you’re the one
hurting on purpose
shame…
shame…
shame…
8/8/2017
Categories:
dominoes, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
steel carriage belches
carbon cloud into the air
too early frog croaks
Categories:
dominoes, car, environment, planet, pollution,
Form: Haiku
I learned to win at Dominoes
To topple each one of my foes
It does not matter their standing
For on the floor they’ll be landing
Once I figured who to depose
I learned to win at Dominoes
Of whom each boss I’d tip over
To enact a full takeover
I used to try to gain by fraud
But quickly saw that that was flawed
I learned to win at Dominoes
Where one by one, down each one goes
The game is filled with exertion
Along with the chance assertion
Yet there are none left to appose
I learned to win at Dominoes
January 28, 2016
Categories:
dominoes, desire, evil, games,
Form: Quatern
Dominoes Falling
I wake as the rain greets me on
the face
To realize you wept until your
bliss was drained
From edges of lips well licked
Lies the deepest desires that
Brought
Two broken souls to a Valley
long forgotten
Scream now, my dear, for this
we live for,
Each cut thrusting us towards
divinity’s floors
As this rush has us walking on
all fours,
And we realize that we are
Broken and Flawed
Left with these sharp edges to
only draw blood
Our story ended before it took
flight
Its future never to see the light,
Wasting time on each other
For a fantasy called “forever”
As forever ends with no caution
Categories:
dominoes, lost love, love, recovery
Form: Rhyme
what once stood up now, no longer
like dominoes, one knocking over the other
all laying neatly in a straight row
with a clicking sound as down it goes
each connected by the dots
never enough when I draw my lot
what I once had and now haven't got
never even get to take a shot
too much time to stand them up
once it's there, then it's not
ending coming too abrupt
like a blind man on a bluff
Categories:
dominoes, introspection
Form: Monorhyme
I love playing dominoes with you honey
The way you react when you have no move is funny
We both sound like we are playing for prize money
And I laugh so hard it makes my nose runny
I love you even though you beat me at it all the time
The way you play dominoes is just sublime
And to be good at it isn’t really a crime
I just want to tease you and I would with these rhymes
Someday I will beat you even if I have to cheat
Matching tiles without the bone yard is such a feat
And I guess it is just right that I admit defeat
To be able to beat you and get even would be so sweet
When we play dominoes you really keep me on my toes
You make me think hard and I guess it just shows
In dominoes you are one of this world’s magnificoes
I salute you now but I swear to beat you one day in Dominoes
Categories:
dominoes, funny, me, love, me,
Form: Rhyme