***Awe, Yes...***
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Inspiration Is Not
In Competition.
Feel It Argue?
Immeasurable.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Answer Yourself,
Or Write It Off...
Your Self.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nobody Knows
What To Measure.
*Aww-Fumm Fum!*
Not Awful,
Not Awesome.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Severed At The Punchline:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Enjoy What You're
Becoming:
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Immeasurable.
-Gray Squirrel
05-18-2026
Encourages Exploitive
Opportunism!
Woooohooopsy!
When Memories
Haunt With
In-Explicable
Re-Application:
A Multi-Maleable
Re-Conditional
Condition.
Get Yer Timing
Down! Un-Rhymer.
Is It Non-Sense Yet?
-Gray Squirrel
07-26-2025
Absolute gorgeous pursuit
keep everybody with stories mute
continual chasing the impossible
chronic fatigue bible
her rope of boundaries
and laces of uncertainties
eclipse the human mind
scientific proof that bind
facts that loose its value
pale truth why one can do
voluptuous discrimination
righteous identity gestation
blindfolded juristic motive
power made exploitive
reasons life tragedy
rooted in conventionality
test to withstand her sweet lure
real and false knowing for sure
Love divine, sovereign in directive
Smites lust, selfish midst carnal perspective…
Though both can be passionately active
True love along life-building objective
Unmasks lust that’s grievously "afflictive".
While love sublime works really effective
Reaching-out: restorative, curative…
Scheming lust is deceitfully protective
In the guise of care, vainly productive
For personal gain; oh, greedy motive.
Love can turn to lust when it’s destructive
Overwhelmed with own wants, so "exploitive"…
Flawed by human nature’s mark: defective
I beg for God’s great love* --- re-creative
To vanquish lust’s force, sweetly seductive.
*Romans 5:5…The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
July 1, 2020
1st place, "COMPLETELY YOUR CHOICE(2) any theme any form" Poetry Contest; Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 9/3/2020.
Hip, hop,hip hop stubbed my toe OUCH!!
Exploitive. Get schnockered Stumble stagger fall down POOP!!!
Try to run trip hit the ground get a boo boo MOM!!!
This is nonsense ha ha hoo hoo hoo
Sneeze burp chuckle gurgle OH! NO! not that too
This is fun go ahead giggle it didn't happen to you
Humming hiccup hiccup hiccup
Ha ha hoo hoo hoo
Isn't nonsense fun to read
Sneeze burp chuckle gurgle OH! NO! not that too
Oh, how we’ve yearned to feel the sun’s warmth on our skin.
For more than twenty, mournful years, the light has been a sin.
Winter’s stony grip has kept us frozen in its exploitive storm.
Breaking loose, we revolt against the prison guards’ cruel wall.
Feel the winds of change, seeds of hope scatter far and near.
(Oh, how we’ve yearned to feel the sun’s warmth on our skin.)
Our eyes open to touch freedom with tears of solidarity
as we cling to hands and hearts over our own crumbling fear.
Families, neighbors reunite, and our nation celebrates.
There’s magic in the air as we destroy our captor’s gates.
Oh, how we’ve yearned to feel the sun’s warmth on our skin -
in the light of dawn's new star, dreams reach beyond Berlin.
Feel the winds of hope blow strong and steady at our backs
empowering souls to reach for its triumphant music.
Liberated voices lift from shadows as one world wakes to change.
Oh, how we’ve yearned to feel the sun’s warmth on our skin!
written 11/18/15 for Songs of Power Contest
E-FMCG
Insensitivity, derogation, defamation, humiliation,
Libel, slander, stigmatisation.
These Fast Moving Consumer Goods,
I’d like to term E-FMCG. Caution!
…
The Media and internet want sensational news.
Reality shows dig for what give mileage.
They want to go viral, need spice and juice,
And Intrusion of privacy is their privilege.
…
More clicks, more views, more shares,
Means publicity and more money!
Gossip, personal problems, affairs.
What sells best, are these E-FMCG.
…
E for electronic. E for easy.
E for explicit. E for exploitive
E for engrossing, yet E for empty.
E for an epidemic that’s infected our economy.
…
E for exaggerated. E for excruciating.
E for emotionless ego-thrashing.
E for evil; that is very much evitable.
E for this enormous ebon industry.
…
Entertainment, Entertainment, Entertainment!
Controversial....
drowning in a ibyss
of sequins and rhinestones
accented with patent leather shoes.
Forced into perfection
with pasty concrete smiles.
Tangled webs of lipstick and lollipops,
cheers and cheerios.
The confusing mix of a
glitzy, glamorous grownup world
and dimpled grins at war
with the tooth fairy.
Behind the false lashes
coiffed hair, plastic teeth,
the true novice soul emerges
leaving behind raccoon eyes
and powder streaked faces.
Encouraging or exploitive?
Mastering self expression
and confidence, perhaps
but what of the confusion
that manifests between
role-playing and real life?
Controversial....
The process of dealing with Sarah Pain; without the “L”
without the love;
cold hearted, winking witch
smiles at the faithful’s attempts to see up her skirt,
fantasies about her warm Alaskan bungalow
while the reality of those oil money backers,
the secession movement,
wild, natural environment
being ruined by
unnatural exploitive, racism, avarice
she parts her lips, drinks in the power,
an addict with an hourglass frame
abuses what she has, to punish her family
not to mention her competition
in the warm spring rains before 2012
her campaign takes root, sprouts
and replicates
virus upon virus
until
all that is decent
is dust.
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