You're not doing a stellar job
distracting me with idle chatter.
Life is not something to be ignored
and swept under a mat.
I've been living in limbo
no matter how you sugarcoat it.
Life is short and every beat matters.
Every day is another notch in the cog of time fleeting.
Life is a race to the finish line,
an obstacle course of sorts.
Ignoring the elephant in the room is
an embarassing act of cowardice.
Sometimes saying something-anything
is better than the insult of shameless pussyfooting.
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
You don’t look very intelligent, when embarassing a fellow poet!
1/19/2024
Anxiety, dear?
But that doesn't exist
Cowards only run,
Don't be a baby,
Everything is fine, so why
Fear something that's not there?
Give me a break, stop complaining
Help me understand
I'm your parent
Just shut up
Kids are just moody as teens
Let me know if you need help
Medication won't help
No, I don't want you to go to therapy
Obviously you're fine, I've done nothing to you
Please don't cry, you're life isn't that bad
Quiet!
Really now, you're embarassing me
Stop that now
Tell me what I can do
Understand that I'm trying to help. I'm
Very disappointed with you, I can manage
Without drugs, why can't you?
Xanax, are you sure?
You need to try a something else
Zoloft? why take pills when you have me for support?
When Jimi Hendrix died
I started sleeping on my side
I didn't want to drown in my own vomit
When Momma Cass passed
chewing a ham and a cheese
I said "Dear Lord don't let
that happen to me"
I don't want to die
no embarrassing death
I wanna be dignified
when I take my last breath
When Elvis Presly left us
I thought "What a fool"
so now I don't try too hard
and I never strain at stool
Steve Marriot got dead
when he passed out
while smoking in his bed
so now if I get wasted
if that's the rub
when I want to smoke a cigarette
I get in the bath tub
'cause I don't wanna die
no embarassing death
I want to be dignified
when I take my last breath
L-et your presence of mind
O-perate in certain sad plight;
R-emain firm and steady,
E-very day and every
N-ight.
M-ind's presence works to control
E-ach embarassing situation;
N-ever lose your composure,
D-uring trial and tribulation.
E-arly Sunday seventh of January, do the thing right and kind;
Z-one of stress and confusion needs your presence of mind.
Bursting inwards
puckered collapse sucked in,
with explosion played back in reverse,
she caught her sneeze
behind her lips shut tight,
with only a tiny grunt,
expelled from nostrils,
sneaking out,
she saved herself from
embarassing gesundheit.
Embarrassing Moment’s
Hilarious Now But Not Funny Then
Embarrassing moment…. when you realize
Everyone is staring and snickering at me when
I walked out the bathroom with a long peace of toilet paper trailing behind me stuck to my underwear.
I wish someone would have been kind enough to let me know before I walked out of the public bathroom.
Embarrassing moment…. when you realize
A man is giving me dirty looks
because
I’m so preoccupied texting on my cell phone that I walked into a men’s bathroom that was occupied
True embarrassing moment’s stories
10/16/2015
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Behind the walls of shame
I discovered makeup when I was lost and weary, it took me to heart and hid all the scars I had.
I discovered sunglasses when I felt ashamed of my brown eyes,they all said I was a stoner way before...
I started adoring my clothes when I realised they could coverup all my flaws and shapeless shapes.
I began to adore my shoes when I was enlightened to the ruthless embarassing routes my feet took.
I became more concerned with my hair because I could tell it revealed the secrets my head is battling with.
My lips became the source of my malice and demise, they uttered the most valgur truth so I painted them pink,red,purple and more.
I chose to wipe my bruised arm with all the cheap jewellery I owned 'cause I couldnt let them see...
My hands were bloody so I dipped my fingernails in red nailpolish.
Now that am in exile in my own skin and behind all this material beings I'll holdon to my panties and only take them off to pee and bath..
Who am I to blasphem so..
LOST FRIENDSHIPS (Satis Shroff)
When old friends
Go asunder,
What remains
Are memories,
Of moments
In tranquility.
When world tremble
And words shiver,
When lips vibrate
And nothing comes out
Of your larynx.
Just the uneasy
Breath from your nostrils.
The silence and solitude
That prevails,
When friendships
Have lost their meanings.
Encounters,
Wiedersehen,
Become embarassing.
And words become superfluous.
The old wounds bleed again,
Causing pain,
That come like sea waves,
Incessantly,
Stab and go.
* * *
© Satis Shroff. All rights reserved
I have to spill my guts
It has been on my mind
It is making me quite nuts
My rooster has a problem
It is so hard to say
Just please don't laugh at him
He's OCD!!
He paces back and forth
Counting every step to a tee.
Three up
Three back
Three up
Three back!
There is no help to be
The worse you see
He has plucked
And plucked yes he
Is naked as can be!!
Embarassing
and swiftly simple
Easy...
only a few
quips and foul jokes
swiped your soul
and you had no idea
you rubbed shoulders
with a mental giant
whose gout got out of hand
did that guy really ask
to be stabbed with a
toothpick?
I already computed the
ends and means analysis
when you said your name
and rejection of the null
was the outcome
Glad we could only entertain
each other's ears
with thinly disguised venom
and sarcasm fell off my tongue
like droplets from a
calcified faucet
"talk to you manana"
more like
never, man
"thanks for the smoke"
Snow is falling heavily by the minute
from the whitest sky, which yesterday...
had me fooled for a perfect spring day.
Fall, pretty and fluffy snowflakes, fall...
floating and gracefully coming down
on the frozen hollies with empty nests.
The breath-taking snowy spectacle
can make one fantasize and dream...
oh, I'm dreaming by feeling the chill!
Little sparrows searching for shelter,
don't brave the dangerous blizzard...
step inside quickly and keep warm.
Driving in snow and ice is very hazardous,
I'm staying home and listen to the forecast...
it won't get any better as the day progresses.
How much snow will fall, I cannot predict,
and the weather man is as puzzled as I am...
it would be embarassing to be wrong again.
Sweet, hot chocolate and lemon tea are my choices,
to prevent chills from entering these unwilling bones...
before venturing outside and shovel plenty of snow.
Copyright 2010 by Andrew Crisci
Im just a fifteen year old
In love with women
Put a naked girl on it and im sold
Ill take it to the linen
I think its something with how we re wired
Because it seems to be all of us boys
Our minds are constantly tired
Especially once we ve given up toys
But for some reaason you caught my eye
I cant even put one of my long fingers on it
I get this feeling like without you i would die
Maybe its the way you laugh or your wit
Honestly
And its not embarassing
Secretly
I dream of caressing
So you could say anything*
And i dont think the feeling would change
You could yell so loud that my ears ring
And no i dont think its strange
The point is that i have this funny feeling
And it could be just because im a fifteen year old
I think its the warmth that youre healing
Because its true that i used to be cold
He was a free-spirited chap from the day of his birth.
Even his long-suffering folks doubted he'd be of much worth!
His name was Billy Bob, his mischief became town lore;
With those in authority he had a very dismal rapport!
Each Saturday night he'd go on a stupendous binge,
Embarassing the gentle folk of town causing them to cringe!
At the Baptist Church picnic he slipped gin in the punch.
The sheriff and his boys were called to quell the rowdy bunch!
He roared down Main Street in his ramshackle truck.
People cheered him on, cops pursued, 'til he ran out of luck!
He wasn't a mean-spirited lad, simply the town ne'er-do-well.
In the hoosegow, the jailer reserved his own special cell!
A delegation was formed and they lectured him stern.
He was advised to leave town and never return!
To ensure that he, their fair village would ne'er more malign,
On all roads leading to town was posted this sign:
"This is the birthplace of Billy Bob of dubious renown.
Years ago the scoundrel was run out of town.
Dare he return we'll toss him in jail,
Without the benefit of judge, jury or bail!"
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired (© All Rights Reserved)
The more I stare
at Mona Lisa"s
fabled smile,
the more I see
nothing there that's
faintly mystical;
none in those lips
is remotely
enigmatic,
none in their slight
slant is celestially
aesthetic.
In fact,
there are other ways
of looking at it:
a smile of one
trying to explain
some mild mischief,
suppressing
an embarassing
big burp, maybe,
or one deftly
hiding her
cavity-filled teeth !
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