For Line's Bitesized Contest 116 Dated: 22/6/25
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To tell actual fact
Rescinding tact
Unintended to fool
To follow the strictest rule
Honesty and integrity are a pact
Honestly
Total Honesty
Is Impossible To
Communicate
Due To The
Innate Ambiguity
Of Language...
Uhhh... At Least.
Whatever.
Even If It Bothers You.
Even If You Try.
-Gray Squirrel
05-13-2025
Honestly Speaking
Familiar faces turn their backs
They come and go for unknown
Reasons throughout the seasons.
Honestly Speaking
Maybe the Universe has other
Plans, Let's wait for time for
Truth reveals. Honestly Speaking
Honestly Speaking
Frankly speaking one's candor
Has put me in some uncomfortable
Situations. Honestly Speaking
For instance, correcting someone of
The spelling of my name. Honestly Speaking
I often address my feelings of confusion,
Tension, chaos. Honestly Speaking
Often feel discounted, taken advantage of,
And not appreciated. Honestly Speaking
I'm not an attention-seeker nor do I prefer to chase
Anyone who sees my self-worth is also valuable.
Honestly Speaking
My straightforwardness in my process seems to
Hinder me for not being unpretentious. Honestly
Speaking
**Honestly The Sad**
He wished to play with friends,
But his mom's rules set tight ends.
The fence knob was too high,
Beyond his reach, he would try.
Then he wished to grow tall,
And with time, he did stand tall.
He could now reach the knob,
Unlocking it, no longer a sob.
Praise God, the fence did fall.
Now he wished to help his friend,
Whose mother's life came to an end.
He gave his all to aid and mend,
But only, was abandoned in the end.
"Good Lord," he said,
"It's fine," he claimed,
"Must there be a meaning
For my merry birth?
I devote to making happy
This very bloody earth…"
He dreamed of success,
With hard work and finesse.
What did he get?
Not success, for sure.
Then he questioned his God,
"Will I ever be happy?
Even if I win, now.
What use will it be?
Is this the price I pay for them?
Is this the help you sought from me?
To crucify my joy & ease someone’s despair?"
Not satisfied with this judgment,
He refused to accept it as fair.
"I claim hereby,
Forever shall I be,
Honestly The Sad."
I I really love you I really do I so in love with you I really do it love you I really do so love you hola pray often through and it's true that I really love you when I wake up in the new day I say I so love you when I wake up in the new day I wake up praising you awesomely father I Adorn and I am honest you I really love you this is true I really really really really do honestly I love you honestly Lord my God I love you
If I were to choose 'tween you or 'tween me
To hit the jackpot in the lottery
I would choose it be you
Or someone that you knew
To lose "Suckers" "Cause I'd want it to be me
Funny Limerick Contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin
11/2/2022
Could it your fancy tickle:
The fluid you need does trickle;
Legs once free like vehicles
On Stopped Feet of Manacles?
Won’t it up get one’s hackles
That one often tasks tackles
Others’ Wrists not in shackles
For what one down to buckles?
You others tag ‘The Fickle’
Fit only for the sickle;
Expo sure to ridicule:
Lots of in Article
That you know “Just Bicycle”
Swearing on “No Icicle!”
Honestly, I won’t like it,
Though shan’t jump into a pit!
To mend our broken hearts let us come together in honest love
To end a broken heart put us together let us embrace in forgiveness
9/17/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
hey you
we have
no more expectations
and nothing to lose
surely
we fight
when we have the blues
to be
honestly in love
and
we both need
more communication
to answer every question
to be in love with your best friend
always averages seventy lies a day
insults and threatens people
believes only money is power
spoiled with $100million by age nineteen
bought his education, wife, life, and friends
believes his donations mean he owns the republican party
and thinks that money bought him the white house
threatened marshal law if elections results are not overturned
all this and more in open courts
a president and senators acting like the law does not apply to them
what the hell do these people do behind closed doors
look how brazen these con artists are out in the open
stan sand
time heals?
funny
been 30 plus years
this ole heart beats to spite me
I hear it laughing
It’s never too late to tell the truth,
Come clean and lay it all out,
To clear up any vague mistakes that’re said,
To remove any lingering doubt,
And try to restore a trust, a bond,
Restore a confident smile,
Return to a time with innocent truth,
Like you had when you were a child,
Because honest is happy, carefree and good,
Honesty shows you are strong,
When you’re honest with yourself in the mirror each day,
You can see where your own thoughts belong,
And others will judge who they see in your shoes,
“Is he a saint or a crook?”
Others will read the words you whisper,
As you write your own honesty book.
Honestly, I love the way I feel when you're with me
Especially, the way you hug and kiss so tenderly
Truthfully, I tell you now and for eternity
I will hold and keep you near me, in my loving heart eternally
Honestly, I need you more than words could ever say
Eventually, I mean to make you mine in every way
Aggressively, my love for you will grow each passing day
Heaven dear is here beside you, and from you my heart will never stray
Honestly, nobody else can fill me like you do
Frequently, I find my dreams are full of loving you
Perpetually, beneath a cherry tree when skies are blue
Both our hearts will beat together, in a merry wonderland for two
Honestly, I promise you the best that I can be
Faithfully, I vow to love and cherish only thee
Joyfully, you are the sunlight dancing on my sea
With all my heart and soul I love you, true and always honestly
Honestly, when you said I’d have
my portrait on Main Street, I didn’t expect to be the
city laughing stock.
You let that kid paint me like this?
That silly smile on my face, as if I were,
half drunk on catnip?
Do you take me for an idiot?
I’m am a proud member of the genus,
Felis Catus; not some cartoon.
Garfield, would even be offended, by this farce!
Really, do you think my legs are that twiggy?
And where’s my fur;
is it growing inside instead of outside?
And when have I ever had those
triangular pumpkin eyes?
You paint colorful spirals, bright green moons and
color burst abstracts and me as a stick cat?
Would you like it if I drew you like that?
Alright, you’ve had your joke;
now, erase that thing before you ruin my reputation!
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