I filled the pool today
don’t get excited
it’s not Olympic sized
it’s plastic, three foot in circumference
a pool for my dogs
Less than an hour later
I see a bunch of flying things
swarming the water
faeries? bees? wasps?
they are thin and fast
I walk closer
some glide over my head
my dog is fascinated
attempts to catch them
they are too fast for him
dragonflies – dozens of them
a colony of them;
they must have been waiting for me to fill the pool
If hate and envy fill up your heart,
Scopions
Can always come
out of your mouths.
Demons
will be filling up your brain.
Your stomach will always
Give daily strange sounds
" Brooor!Brooor!
Proor! Proor!
Fruur! Fruur!
Huur!huur"
And astonish your neighbours
And friends.
May 30/2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe
Mussabwa Chris
Fill up the inkwells
The poets are in town
Bleeding black and blue ~
Verbs, adjectives, nouns
Words fill up my brain
Spilling onto table tops
and people’s laps
I try to speak
But my tongue
is too full of words
So they fall out onto a page
Making me a poet
Not an orator
chili, pasta, steak,
fresh fruit salad, lemon cake,
gravy, gumbo, roast,
bacon, jelly, melba toast,
spicy pizza, stews,
juicy kiwis, taffy chews,
shish kabob, rolls, greens,
melon, pesto, pinto beans,
apple pie, mango,
guava, green mints, Oreos—
Heads bowed . . . Grace . . . Ready . . . Feast!
Date: December 19, 2017
Contest Title:Fem Bogstaver (Danish)
Sponsor: Rhoda Tripp
What I Am supposed to do
My tears fill up the ocean blue
Because you tore my heart in two
And you don't have a clue
Try walking a mile in my shoe
Please understand my point of view
I feel so sick like I've got the flu
Now my tears will see my through
My heart was yours,you never knew
Our love story was shared by only a few
Your sweet kisses was like morning dew
And my feelings for you will always be true
Alexis Y.
07-28-16
Inspired by the create a idiom contest
*You fill up my senses like a night in the forest*
You are my life
thoughts of you fill my soul.
Through rain and shine.
loving dreams brings us close,
My arms want to hold you
my lips want to burn under yours.
My eyes sparkle with the thought of you
like green jewels, in a limpid pool
We are as one
**Come let me hold you, let me love you again**
* and ** the two lines I used from
Annie's Song - John Denver
Contest by Silent One - music to my ears contest
27/72015
To see your gaze light the firmament
To see your smile lift the sun
It’s your eyes I see as the moon rises
My heart hopes this is love begun
You gaze through the space, do you see me?
I watch in hope forlorn
But my heart I want to give to thee
You are the reason I was born.
My love I can only send
On rolled parchment now to you
My life on you depends
For in truth you love me too
You gaze through the window
I see you every day
You face lights up as I pass
Please speak to me I pray
Although I am of lowly birth
I am rich in love for you
Please grant me a next meeting
And we could start anew.
I will do it right this time
And ask your father’s grace
But we both know it now
Together is our place.
A sign, my love, from where you sit
And gaze each day t’wards me
I promise my life, my love, my name
As I promise to make a wife of thee.
MT © 30 /7 /2014
Fill Up A Scroll
My darling , my dear love , you almost died
I read the letter and no tears would come
You promised a safe return but you lied
Solemn vow broken as you obeyed battle drum
I knew you fought in battles deadly fierce
That you could not help but be very brave
Why did you act so rashly to my heart pierce
Chancing a violent death and early grave
Promise me our vow you will faithfully renew
A love cast oath to soothe my bleeding heart
I could never live on this earth without you
When our living souls we swore to never part
Swear never again shall I read how you lied
My darling , my sweet love, you almost died
07/29/2014
I am the beauty of your face,
I am the cloud up in the sky.
Because of your love, I can trace
The joy of knowing your near by.
I am the wonder of your whole,
I am that wistful look that you begat.
Because I am deep within your soul
I am with you, where err your at.
I am your eyes that look and learn,
I am that thought that passes through,
I am the body, that you yearn
Wrapped up in this verse, so true.
I am the love that we hold dear,
The longing that gives us pain.
One day soon I will be here,
Ne'er to leave, life to start again.
Penned 30 July 2014
Fill up my heart stealing my thirst
Give me more feelings in my heart
God in your world and in your home
Give me more space Please make me smart
God pour more light in my eyes
God give me more sweet surprise
My flute’s tears are its music
Show more melody’s magic
Give me sweet fruitful sadness
God give me more awareness.
God make me what I should be
God save me God please save me
foraging
bear stores calories...
for long nap
Won hm
In an attempt to increase sales, a gas station in rural Mississippi
posted this sign for all of its potential customers to read.
Free Sex With Fill Up is what the sign read.
So after filling up his pick up truck, to the owner this customer said,
"I filled up my truck. Time to pay up. I want my free sex for my fill up."
The owner than told the customer to pick a number between 1 to 10.
If the customer guessed the correct number,
the free sex with fill up could then begin.
The customer proceeded to pick the number 9.
"You were close," the owner said, "it was 8 not 9.
Maybe you'll have better luck the next time you fill up, but I'm sorry, no free sex this time.
Over and over he'd fill up and always guess the wrong number.
"Do you think that gas station game is rigged?" he asked a friend, "I often wonder."
"No it's most definitely not rigged," his friend replied, "The owner is not a cheat.
"I happen to know, because my own wife won three times in a row,
and that was only last week."
Fill up!
Fill up!
Today is tomorrows bank,
that will carry you into Gods eternal wealth.
Skin on skin,
Tell me you love me.
You don't have to mean it
I just need to hear it now.
Naked and lying,
At least I know your trying.
I know it can't be easy, easy
even though I am.
I am trying,
To put forth some emotion
though your feigning your
devotion
you don't even know my name.
I've slipped into,
Something sort of numbing
even though I may be coming
I can't even fake a sigh.
Please just stay,
Please pretend to listen.
These lips I have I swear
are made for so much more
than kissing.
I can feel,
My body growing colder
You wink back over your
shoulder
And I'm as empty as can be.
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