Trevor's buddies goaded him for a bet
To venture on the scary 'ride of death'
But there was laughter and jeer
When a brown patch did appear
Wearing white pants was his biggest regret.
I went into the movie theater with Joe
The plot drew me in, I went with the flow
The hero had flaws, the heroine was odd
Suddenly I leapt up and shouted "Oh God"
The emotional blowtorch had let out a blast
A reminder of my sickening past.
Joe led me outside to the cool evening air
He asked, "what possessed you to disrupt in there?"
My reaction died down, the alarm turned off
I looked around, gave an embarrassed cough.
Joe said "There's a psychiatrist down the road"
I replied, "No doctor can lighten this load."
I said that edges are blunted, when reality is stark.
I live in a watercolor picture rather than sharp
Joe downplayed my past, but looked sad:
he said "your shouting makes us look mad"
So I'll go without Joe to the movies, that's where I feel:
Maybe in that false world I briefly get real.
A cage opens that routine shuts tight
I can return to darkness when they turn on the light.
Joe and I can go fishing, that's still alright.
STARS ADD TO TRUMP WOES
KENNEDY CENTRE NOW CLOSE
EMBARRASSMENT GROWS
he was on zoom call
she didn't know and walked in~
without a stitch on
It’s so embarrassing.
It’s tearing at me,
I’m tired of it.
It’s exhausting.
The feeling it’s causing,
I hate it.
It makes me hate myself,
I can’t help but stew in self doubt.
I can’t do this,I can’t keep that,
At some point it turns to fact.
It hurts like a slap to my face.
I ache now to embrace invisibility,
I wish I wasn’t this version of me.
I hate vulnerability,
I can’t stand being open anymore,
They ruined it.
I guess I’m not a good fit,
For anything.
I’m an
Embarrassment.
The pipe major at the front led the way
On this cold and windy St Patrick's day
He was six foot and well built
A freak gust blew up his kilt
The crowd cheered at his manhood on display...
Rage deep
Fire in my gut
Anger inside shut
Fire corrupted burning
Ever ever churning
Regret above
Fire in my head
Shame bright red
Fire unwanted burning
Ever ever learning
Return inside
Fire in my heart
Love again start
Fire subtly burning
Ever ever curing
• She's a doll like no other
• Takes after her mother
• I'm an embarrassment with feet
• Someone you wouldn't want to meet
Embarrassing, so embarrassing, what will I do?
The things I've done my whole life through!
I'll reverse the hairdryer and vacuum them up.
I'll mix them with the dog food and feed it to the pup.
What a mess, oh, what a mess, I reversed the flow.
Embarrassing things now float around like snow.
I pray to the lord in heaven that nobody sees.
It's like one big gargantuan, embarrassing sneeze.
Old grandpa, silly grandpa, have you lost your mind?
You're as crazy as a coot and a loon, combined.
This is no place for an ancient, befuddled gnome.
We are going to have to put you into a home.
Dull
as a
board meeting
until he growled
“Who ripped out the fart?”
and then the room
exploded
in zany
laughs
Why did the moon rise tonight all red faced?
Is it embarrassed by humans disgraced,
By their uncaring disregard and waste,
On the planet they have trashed and defaced?
Why do they come up here with such distaste?
Leave all their junk here, with moon face debased
By their footprints and scats left here in haste!
With no thought for how it leaves me red-faced
Why do you have to come here so shamefaced?
Please stay at home and leave me unchasted.
With celestial body, clean and white-faced.
No embarrassment endureth
With Cain’s murder of Abel: Seth,
A new born child after a death,
Tooth paste and brush for stale breath…
No embarrassment endureth:
None ever a lot achieveth,
Fights, short or long, knife back to sheath,
Water for months gone still a bath,
Years and years of naught then a wreath…
No embarrassment long liveth
Or the endless worries giveth,
Save banging of Mother by Son…
In that case, the Devil has won!
In a family, The Black Sheep
The cleaner ones forces to weep
With acts that make the skin creep
And they wish they'd put him to sleep...
Black sheep with his embarrassment
In the public fullest harassment
Of his Famous Hero Brother;
All he knows of the same mother...
"See, I need your car key, right now
And if I can't, say " Why" and "How"...
I should you on your white shirt grip
And apart the same white shirt rip!
Black Sheep as long lasts as Tortoise
For the sake of Satan' s purpose.
My bank account is sorely tried
Seems I have overspent on funs,
I must learn to swallow my pride
My bank account is sorely tried!
I’ve found it hard to put aside
Now I am getting lots of duns,
My bank account is sorely tried
Seems I have overspent on funs.
SECOND PLACE WINNER
Written August 19, 2022
submitted to "Triolet - Old or New" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Joseph May
[syllables checked with How Many syllables
rhymes checked with Rhyme Zone]
The world is in great troubles
Virus,inflation,disasters and wars
Politicians busy giving
A wearisome flood of sermons
Whys and wherefores
Dreams and expectations
Fallacies and illusions
Maybe they are no jokes
Just with a super power
Like Superman
Just splendidly excellent
Like Wright Brothers
Maybe they are just
Some superficial jokes
To cover the awkward embarrassment
Maybe they are just a taste of hegemony
Whenever I say I can
You must believe
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