Purple and black bird
Dropped the cowboys a pigskin turd
Telling a tale with heart
Playing the dramatic part
Preventing extra time
Dallas didn't mind
But the lone stars were declined
When the loop was sealed
Closing the deal
Making the Rippleys highlight real
Pulling off the steal
Disarming gunslingers' shooters
By using Tyler's powerful booter
Seconds it took to set up the stage
Creating festive rage
When odd looking ball took flight
Through the three-point designated upright
What a sight
North westerners went home lesson learned
About how they got burned
You may want to listen to Mister Poe
Bagging the Arlington's deceased head to toe
While enjoying the Rio de Janeiro show
Home it is time to go
Say good night
But lights
Should shine bright
Exorcising any Brazilian frights
New poem... called God's lessons
If loving you was my lesson
And my temptation
Then why would God ever allow me
To experience all of this
Now my notebooks are filled with memories
And words of emotions that I thought were impossible
The pain and trauma
Are written in blue and black ink
If loving you was my lesson and my temptation
Then why would God ever allow me
To experience any of this
Poems and songs fill pages of my life
Some upbeat and others filled with pain and sadness
The thought that loving someone so hard
Could eventually bring someone close
Close to ending one's life is crazy
The lessons,well they took forever
Forever to realize
I gave to much of myself to others
Others that never deserved it
If loving you was my lesson and my temptation
Then why would God
Ever allow me to experience any of this
I exposed the real uncut version of ME
I got burned
Left unread
Just ghosted.
jacinta allen..You should be banned, from Aussie mateship...For the things you've planned.' Mind you you've the time as you sit on that square, what used to be a rump
Resembles a deflated tractor tyre spare, oh dear jaciinta (so fat and bland ) why do you
Ban relief vehicles from our farmers land..
I thought much flatulence, was
coming from those pigs.. Ya know the carcases that got burned up..Swollen ugly taut and big ' then i
Saw the wobble of your tripple chin..and a stench.' When your moudh flapped wide, Well it hit me worse
than a garbos grime, in fact like
Pure sin.' Look!! You can keep your toxic ideas from hell, oh and i must note jacinta
Your visa there has been stamped as well.'
there was a young cad named O’Byrne
who dallied with the lasses and then spurned
till one day he tangled with Molly
who wouldn’t put up with such folly
and poor ole O’Byrne got burned
The Chiefs went to New Orleans to do a war dance.
However, they got burned by the seat of their pants.
It seems Custer at Little Big Horn had a better chance.
The team was hoping to win their third Super Bowl in a row.
Unfortunately, the fruitless effort was a no-go.
Come Monday morning, plenty of Kansas City fans felt pity.
What they saw on their screens the night before was not pretty.
The game led them to say what we too often hear:
"We will get our act together and come back next year".
He was thrilled to shill his best bet token
AM green candles he had awoken
So I FOMO’d in chasing candles green
Surely to see more money than I’d seen
But alas, the baned black swan, it appeared
Way worse than any flash crash I had feared
Fearing my FOMO turned flat into FUD
Fainting to facedown in red-tainted mud
He made his move, got out, and I got burned
That frenzied fickle market, it had turned
Quick to find, then lose, that forward motion
Quick to quit, then wrestle with emotion
Craving fast quick cash that we can’t refuse
Never buy more than you’re willing to lose
Unkie, my friend or foe
At night with a pin he'd stick me
So he said; in his bed
With him I did not sleep
Had my own bed_no dread
Unkie, my friend or foe
Had a curved walking cane
One hand was unusable
He had harsh attitude
He's so confusable
Unkie, my friend or foe
He had a bad sore leg
He got burned in a wreck
Running his homemade shine
That was his one paycheck
Unkie, my friend or foe
Could be soft and loving
Helped me out of the swamp
When the swamp monster ate
My shoes__ socks with one chomp
Our
Hawaiian Sun
got burned
yesterday
and cried all
night ...
usually day after
our tradewinds turns and ...
they'd
betrayedwinds
and our baby then
shone me
the coconut tree
N U T S!
all gone
just dangling palms
looks like tourists palms
ahh, fiddlestcks
more unfinished castles
in the sand
crumbling ...
kind of defines McLean.
11/20/22
Here is an honest statement
I'm extremely intoxicated
These haters still constipated
Snakes continue being nominated
Dark forces thirst for power in a world full of a lot of hatred
Or folks that are calm and patient
Much being complicated
Good intentions punished and corruption tolerated
Still nothing helps
Onto something else
Put my heart into it yet still wasn't felt
Sipping a glass of Cognac
Yet again another nosy ass
You'll never see me at any Holy Mass
The same said for discussing Zodiacs
Try your luck, shred you like a Kodiak
Wanting my help the one that they call quick
Often having a hand and much involvement
Still a drug addict and alcoholic
A continual problem have yet to solve it
Had to fight for room, since most weren't giving any
Regarding life, I'm missing plenty
I've not been living healthy
Changes, I've been resisting many
Slipping every
Time after time, eventually the outcome it is deadly
I appreciate your concern
There's been much I've had to learn
Many times I got burned
I am the girl that plays with fire
got burned so many times ,
got burned so many times .
But there is nothing more satisfying
Than feeling them flames
slowly advance from eyes to heart .
At first is just a cozy warmth
that fills your lungs with happy gas
and all you can do is laugh.
But then slowly the flames take charge,
inside your lips around your arms
between your legs
and all becomes so stalled and hot .
And the sensation lasts until the pain starts
the skin is broken, the flesh dissolves,
the bones become gray ash .
Fourth degree burns is what I have
-I told you not to play with wicked fire ,
Says my mom.
-The restoration will take a while ,
but not to worry ,that in these cases
the bone and skin always grow back .
And I start again :
- I am the girl that plays with fire ,
my name is Phoenix and I get burned all the time .
Skiing on a cup of java
the little ant got burned
Limping out to lick his wounds
he decided to return
Once again the ant was scalded
yet he seemed quite unconcerned
I guess that ants are just not programmed
for this lesson to be learned
12/27/21
Did poorly or was doing just fine
The outcome was negative or had a plus sign
Always not just sometimes
Being one of a kind
Under the moonlight and sunshine
When it took a turn for the worse or was sublime
No longer getting brushed aside
Seeking what it is that I must find
On the frontlines
Can't force it
Or forfeit
Held true or was horse
Bought it or couldn't afford it
Crystal clear or distorted
Unavoidable or able to be thwarted
Saw it coming from the crows nest
Meanwhile, most think they know best
As they struggle to clean up their own mess
Very quick to protest
In their ways they are so set
For the greater good or due to greed it was commercialized
All of this, I could not internalize
Something still stirs inside
It's tragic that humans and animals got burned alive
Better be something you're sure about
Or it'll have an unsuccessful turnout
Close and far from any birdhouse
So many rotten games
It has gotten strange
All about the profit gains
Not any pocket change
Warning Labels
I remember the eighties, common sense and smarts
big hair and jeans were just part of the arts
there was lead in our paint and asbestos on the floor
if you talked back to Mom your butt would get sore
gas was flammable, a little spark could start a flame
if you got burned by your coffee, only you were to blame
we had Ma and Pop shops, and the cassette recorder
there were no warning labels on everything you would order
ineptness has grown, with technology and time
with so many machines, there are fewer hills to climb
there are bumps and bruises on every street corner
a burn or a scrape should not be a foreigner
I don’t think warning labels are the correct tool
we should peel them all off and improve our gene pool
everyone falls, get up and brush yourself off
Let’s bring back common sense and get rid of the scoff
is it too much to ask for some killer music like we've never heard sometimes its cool to hear new or ethnic or old music lol if management wants they can send me a letter im a Computer Programmer but got burned out gave up on life etc etc poems are really fun thing i just wish there were some way we could get paid somehow for our poems views and comments etc kinda like youtube lets liven this place up lets have some fun lets write some poems!!!!!
Author Dana Redricks
June 24, 2019
I hope you have a wonderful day;
don't let misery get in your way.
Let the clouds go away; today
is the beginning of a new day.
Put on your smile on; hold
your head up high" keep
your eyes looking toward the sky.
Never be afraid to ask questions,
when you don't understand why;
remember life is a learning experience;
each stage is a new phase.
Yesterday is gone, never to return;
if you got burned maybe there's a
lesson that should have been learned.
Every season has its reason, and
every person has a purpose; this is
Your moment to shine is just around
the corner; your already star,
and have come so far; some
grow brighter, and some star
fade and fall into the obscurity
to never be seen again, but for
today shine, shine
take your moment in time.
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