sneaks chocolate bars
but eats salad in public...
dieting falsehoods
6 October 2022
Syllable counter poetry soup
Categories:
fibs, food,
Form: Senryu
loves me, loves me not
the petal pluck is biased
petal count is odd
Categories:
fibs, flower, friendship,
Form: Haiku
Be honest we say in churches
in conversations with our children
at school in classes
in cub scouts and boy scout troops
A big deal with the Girl Scouts
Easy when you are young, for the
truth is all you know. You have nothing but
the truth, for it is what young children speak
until they are savagely punished for telling it.
That is when children learn to lie
So please thank their parents
for teaching them to lie.
and be aware of the parent’s level of brutality
in these early teachings.
I am not talking of spankings.
I am talking of beatings with weapons.
or of savage beatings where the wall or a table
or a chair or a lamp is the weapon.
I am specifically thinking of belts.
Categories:
fibs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A sagely saying before when I was
That blood is more thick than water
Once I believed it, once, just once it was
The trust I bore the desire
I counted all before me to be wiser
My flaws! I should have counted not
The pains that I bear would have been lighter
And my tears would never so, drop
A sagely saying so true? So trite
Cannot yet soothe my broken ribs
Caused by my fooled thus swollen heart
Sagely sayings or sagely fibs?
Your hearts beat strange like we’re not family
Like you or I is with a curse
Your pumping veins holds not our blood in it
By you it had been made impure
This sagely saying thus used for trickery
To play our hearts so easily.
Categories:
fibs, age, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
I know that I could wrap myself
All around your sour little frame
I could swarm your life with warmth
Known only in forsaking dreams
I know that I could see into your lies
And dissect the poetry out of them
I could make you so beautiful
While you float in your sham
Inch by inch you reach your doom
And you know it by now—
A heart like yours
Is meant to consume!
Tell me, liar,
And liars to come,
Why should you fear
What we already know?
Why should I not embrace you so
Despite every abyssal blow?
I will cross you stricken by this truth
That when you lose—as liars do,
There will be another fool
To slither your life into
I could let you rest
Into my soulful acceptance
I could help you begin a life of promise
With the remnants of your deceit
Yet I know I must—in a blink,
Release you in your trails of ink
And find my way to clearer waters,
Where tears are more assuaging
Than your fibs of consequence
Categories:
fibs, betrayal, care, courage, endurance,
Form: Free verse
As a moppet he was never afraid of the dark,
he never understood that fear.
From the start
he knew this non-specific creature of terror
wasn’t real;
It was his mom’s attempt
to modify his behavior.
“If you don’t behave
the boogeyman will get you.”
He would challenge her and ask,
“What is a boogeyman, mom?”
She could never describe him
nor tell him what the boogeyman
would do to him if caught.
Nevertheless, the threats continued:
“Son, if you misbehave Santa will
fill your stocking with coal.”
Of course, they never happened.
They were fibs but lies just the same.
Categories:
fibs, children,
Form: Free verse
It’s effect designed to confuse
Politics is clearly a ruse
With culture this skewed
Truths appear to be rude
And those who won’t lie always lose
Categories:
fibs, philosophy, satire
Form: Limerick
In
a
few words-
to confuse
dissimulate and
dissemble by abrogation
Categories:
fibs, on writing and words,
Form: Fibonacci