Ghosts here and there going
Greedy through the candy~
Going to catch them, yes!,
Going to scare them, yes!
Gone back into dark night,
Gone 'til next Hallow's Eve~
Goobers* half-price after!
*chocolate covered peanuts
Since when did governors offer advice
on the NBA draft, teams just roll the dice
Josh Shapiro told ‘his team’
Ace Bailey’s low self-esteem
Pick him and tickets will go for half-price
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Notes: NBA = National Basketball Association
Mr. Shapiro is the Governor of Pennsylvania
His team - the team he cheers for - is the Philadelphia 76ers
Ace Bailey is a good collegiate player with 'issues'
Shipwrecked
He was Japanese, smiled politely
and took his shoes off
I smiled also, it was the right thing
for us to do, shipwrecked sat
in a rubber raft of the type leaving
Tripoli
Libya, where we murdered Gaddafi
and made a mess in the smaller
states he helped
All this because Tony Blair and the
loathsome French president bored
money from Gaddafi but didn't
want to pay it back
We had harpooned a whale with
a pen knife and a cycle pump
but we didn't have soy sauce and
let the beast go
A blue balloon in a sea of calmness
The setting sun teased us, throwing
gold coins into liquid jade.
At dawn, the Japanese gave me his teeth
and swam towards the rising sun
I gave the teeth to an elderly shark
that, in gratitude, piloted me to Mandalay
where i met another loser selling
pink oversized bra, suitable as tents
for the bombed-out people of Gaza
green plastic buckets and Nottingham
scarf,
The Japanese sent me a postcard offered
me, a Toyota at half-price
Racial harmony is about
common respect
Crystal waters plumping the honeydews
and cascading through amusement park ride.
As tourists engage in espionage
in Duckburg at Knottsbury farms.
As graves of self sufficiency,
Communes of bagged embalm.
"Do What Thou Wilt","Do No Harm".
Spirit cooking, charms I"m sure.
Missing and exploited children bearing no arms.
Foreigners get precedence over
the Citizenry collage for the sake
of stirring the melting plot.
The coffers brim
and Scrooge McF swims past inflation,
reaps the rewards of child labor
at camp Whinnie the Pooh with pedophiles and containment lasers,
adds a zero and then again, while CBDC
cabalist coup hides the genesis
of their new technology,
obfuscates the code in block-chain,
snart contract chaser-
in lock-step
and unlocked surveillance,
laser focused,
poker face,
tazered for inconclusive shadow, ban.
As we sell our Sons and Daughters
to a not so brave New World.
Sold at half price for reverse mortgage
and a haptic iPhone holographic massage.
OnlyFans and Tic Tok trends.
Where does it end?
Where the SoyLent is green.
Where the Red Firm Grows.
He took an old miser's advice
and bought her a card at half price -
it looked old and worn,
the envelope torn,
and the picture was nibbled by mice.
A Candlewick bedspread,
it must be Blackpool or Paris.
A towering sadness,
for she is lost between the waves
of there and now.
Moonlight above the 'Golden Coral',
Wednesday is half-price for seniors.
Just for starters a chocolate ice
with Vanilla fudge,a penny a slice!
quick,it's going at half-price.
my girlfriends dad is so nice
sold me a canoe half price
but on our first date
we got home quite late
saved by flotation device.
I really shouldn't order pizza
in a way I didn't though
because I ended up ordering Dominos
My taste buds made me do it
and a coupon at half price
I hadn't had pizza in so long
it was a treat nice
My scale and blood sugars
will tattle on me though
But that is a worry for tomorrow
today I feast on Dominos
Seems a Manchester man dropped trow
to test out a sofa, and how!
The fabric is swell;
it resisted poo well.
Good news too, it’s half price right now!
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Reported by employees at the Sofa Club in Manchester’s Arndale Centre. The disposition of the couch is poetic license…
Half Price Hearts
Half price candy in fancy boxes
Shaped like hearts
Sitting on store shelves
Wondering why they weren’t given
To someone’s sweetheart
Do they feel alone?
Were they abandoned?
Like the many broken hearted lovers
That this day celebrates
Left alone wondering why
How did they end up on the unwanted shelf?
Alone and abandoned
I saw the Christmas pendant and I knew
It would be the best thing to buy for my Aunt Lou
She loves Betsy Johnson, a decorator with flair,
So, I bought it for her, to show that I know and care.
Aunt Lou was overjoyed for sure
She knows I love her and my heart is pure
She did not care I bought the pendant at half price.
She was thrilled and excited, said "it's so nice!"
Nose pressed flat upto the glass,
Pockets tinkling full of brass;
Oblong jars,row on row
Candy -filled,to over flow.
Mintoes,chews and Pontefract cakes,
Limes and milk chocolate flakes;
Jelly beans and sweet love-hearts,
A few of each ,just to start.
Toffee whirls and butterscotch,
Long liquorice laces,all top-notch;
Aniseed balls,French bonbons,
Available now without coupons.
Sugared almonds and white mice,
Vanilla fudge,a penny a slice!
Just for starters a chocolate ice,
As it's going at half-price.
Barley sugar and a sherbert straw,
The shop bell tinkles as I close the door;
Is that the time! I'll have to skate,
Back into school,I can't be late.
The thing about writing songs .....
Eyebrow raiser
Paper eraser
Not gona pluck it out
and draw on in its place a
Eyebrow replacer
picture for the make up
Now she looking made up
Silly little witch
Silicone bits
prize
Half price
twice
Paid paper
p and rice
Playing the players
treat nice
and player haters
defeat guys
Lyrical rapist
How you rate this
Poetry status
writing weightless
rotary merry placements
void statements
the voice payments
Pace with no patients
Repeatedly til it set
Rolls Royce
the pavement
rollers flat the wet
hey no sweaty
sweets for heating
he meant eatin'
Lyrical link up
Clearing my drink up
Can’t think but...
Float
Clearing my drink
can’t think butt float
songs aren't really poetic are they
rhyme though a b r b ay o hey
put it to a beat it don't half bounce
read it think I smoked a half ounce
I am old, she thought. Too old to start a new relationship.
She is cute, he thought. I wonder if she knows?
I think he smiled at me, she thought. Her heart beat faster.
She is shy too, he thought. Did I scare her to her toes?
Hello, he said with his eyes, and a beautiful smile.
He is kind, she knew, almost immediately. But was she looking?
And if she had been, would it have been in the produce aisle?
The apples are half price today, he said, good for cooking.
“Do you go to church?” he asked her.
“Would you go with me on Sunday?” He asked.
She was too flummoxed to talk.
“I do not know you,” She whispered, aghast.
What is this....last call for lonely hearts?
“We could go out on Friday, and you would know me better,” said Sid.
God talked to her heart, told her to give him a chance. So she did….
Written 10-31-2019
Contest: Last call for lonely hearts collaboration poetry contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
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