I'm no grump
nor one to dump
let alone mock
but I can't like or lump
a pudgy frump
in a frock
who my world don't shock
yet here's the kicker
as a chick
she'd be slicker
and not to deride
but if she'd lose a few
a pound or two
the sooner the quicker
on either side
she'd be bodacious
I'd be flirtatious
and we'd roll and rock
around the clock
We are on somber mood,
we have gone from glamor to dump;
smiles over ice cream cones, over
pizza and Pepsi
are no longer
in symmetry
with actual reality.
From glamour to dump,
we have fallen from grace;
rejecting what held us
together and strong.
We turn a blind eye:
all we witness
is a pathetic lie!
Can democracy survive in hearts
without a patriotic flame?
Should we be the ones
to take the blame?
It's our choice
not to be tamed!
We are the brave, the pioneers,
the builders, the innovators,
the thinkers and the defenders
of liberty:
let this be
our testimony!
From glamor to dump is humiliation
to the bold spirit,
and to the pride of this nation
that has thrived
and survived wars;
fear is a coward that hides:
courage is a virtue and won't bow
to the menacing sword!
Twilight haze sears like veld fire in my veins that keep you alive,
Each look from you unleashes a hurricane inside my heart,
I Savor your voice,it hauls me in to its rip-roaring wickedness--
I stay here
Your Oshun styled gate carries you past the candlelight,
A fairy in the street in The Mother City,
Fingers like infernos,they touch nothing,still I am shaken-
Heart clings to memories.
I glide after the glimmer of your smile into twilight,
Anxiety in my chest,I shiver with desire for you,
Dreams shatter around me,yet I remain charmed,restless-
I can't free myself.
Victoria,blazing like sunrise on raging summertime,
Days cannot time the flame that swells at you leaving,
Each fleeting gaze keeps my heart fiery,scorched with passion-
I refuse to yield,
Endless midnights,-your bouquet lingers,
I keep the room dim,the night repeats your whisper,
My soul studies absence,a quiet defiance-
I remain here.
Chess calms my e;I uncork a hellish move in hellish and checkmate my anguish,
Sojourns in Milky Town and Pirara soothes my heartache
Baldwin and jazz saves me,Kippie's horn,Spokes's flute-
Humane Ubuntu is me.
If there’s a dump truck and a car,
Car’s sure at greater risk by far.
A soldier thick headed
Who cannot think ahead,
To whom boundaries and borders bar,
Thinks, let Pak be the truck,
Let India’s car get struck,
So thought a general-five-star
To whom stars were gifted
For getting defeated--
How low things in that country are.
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Happenings |43.08.2025| allusion, car, humour
Note: Pakistan’s Field Martial unwittingly called India a shining Mercedes and Pakistan a dump truck. He was of course heavily trolled in his country and all over the world. How he gave India, a rival, such a compliment? This limerick guesses on his possible thick-headed reasoning.
My dump truck carries
Lots of dirt
Lots of dirt
Lots of dirt
My dump truck carries
Lots of dirt
He even has a skirt
His skirt is
Around his tail
Around his tail
Around his tail
His skirt is
Around his tail
It leaves a long trial
Bone ash hills
The new kills
Surfer fills the fishes gills
Helpless creatures of the septic sea
Is this the way you were meant to be
Chemical foam waves
Petroleum roam beaches
When will we learn the lesson it teaches
I can see all pest
Piles of flotsam and jetsam
Users final rest.
It isn’t hard to explain
You do my head in
There, can I make it any more plain
You dress like a man
Make love like the dead
Does anything else need to be said
So without further ado
I say goodbye from me to you
Okay well said
Here she comes
Right, go for it
Darling, darling, you look great
New dress, suits your hair
Let’s go to lunch
Bottle of champagne
Let's just celebrate us
What the hell is wrong with you
You're like one who flew over the cuckoo
Just spit it out
Darling, there’s something I have to say
Let’s get married today
What are you saying, have you lost the plot
It’s dumping day, not love me nots
Now be a man
Darling, I would just like to say
Don’t say anything Paul, I’m dumping you, goodbye
What, you can’t just dump me, you need a build up
It’s dump protocol
Come back
I need to tell you something
Come back, don’t go…………………………….
Dolcezza is my friend,
Not my Goddess
Or my End;
Nor a flavor from my Youth,
Nor is ending of my Truth,
She is a friend.
What she will not do
I don't know
To get my friendly heart
To go
And find some other person
I don't want
On some other front.
Whose snows these are
I think I know
It makes her go out
And snowblow
And I,
Her friend,
Am simply just for show.
She mixes messages like greens
And won't quite say just what she means,
And then she leaps up
And she cleans.
Dolcezza is my loyal friend
But I don't know if she will end
What time we have
Or, if she’ll bend.
If I could win her Lady’s Heart
When now, she wants to be apart…
Ah, well!
I do not give a
..fig.
San Mateo Rubbish Dump
What was it like when the shooting started?
What was it really like?
How did it sound from where we were stood
Way back then now a rubbish dump
But then hills valleys trees grass
Enemy positions a battle ground
Where such killing wounding history
How did it sound when the shooting started?
San Mateo Landfill atop Shotgun Road
Now full of rubbish back then full of war
If we listen can we hear the shots shouts
Sounds of war killing death silence…
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The river flows in one direction
Without u-turn
The river will carry away time
The river will carry away youth
The river will carry away love
The river will carry away memory
The river will carry away
Whatsever you dump into it
Unless you try to hold it back
With a heartwarming hug
Unless you save your time
By making good use of it
Unless with a strong bond of love
Love makes people's hearts feel young
Unless with great perseverance and tolerance
True love never dies
Sweet memories linger in our mind
Never to be forgotten
Unless you purposely want to
The river flows in one direction
Without u-turn
Whatsever dump into it
Will be carried away
Will be lost forever
Never to be rescued
And so think twice
Before you give it up
Women, sure, are fighting back:
Don’t rebelling energy lack;
For men’s vicious and hateful whacks,
Their sometimes murderous whacks.
Each time one is made to seem an imp,
Some male body goes down or limp
A confused one begins to sex starve
And can attack with what women have.
You don’t a woman try to jilt
And she sits back to watch you or wilt
A time to patronize men she would dump
Better that than a throat with a lump.
Slam goes the door he is home
Kaplunk he sinks on sofa alone
Drunk driving again no doubt hiccup so loud
Dinner is ready I churp how was your day at work?
Awful they’re oozing my very life outta me
It’s their fault I need a gulp to get relief
Won’t you come to the table and nibble
Honey I don’t want food lets not quibble
Fine drink your life away slurp
Crash goes a dinner plate burp
I don’t want to fight but wack
Never give me a tongue thrash
How dare you give me a slap
I am leaving you that is a wrap.
It is Good Friday, fourteen years ago.
I decide to go to the bottom of our hill and clean up the trash.
some marvelous person dumped three months earlier.
Wild animals have dragged the stuff around; it is a real mess now.
I get it all cleaned up, it takes me eight hours.
The next day somebody has tossed out twenty-tires and three couches.
This is my road people; and it is beautiful when it is natural.
It is the beginning of a trash pile now thanks to unthinking idiots.
This is maddening.
I visited the dump today
For reasons unexplainable
I remember doing so
as a child
And seeing in amazement
The treasures that once
meant so much
Now tossed aside as litter
One had to travel up a road
Then down a steep ravine
Hidden far from
the constant reminder
Of what we have become
And the secrets that even our best friends
Have never ever seen
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