egg recipes! What? Give me that cookbook
The old biddies were horrified
The restaurant owners were cannibals!
They opened up the refrigerator and gathered the eggs.
Walked out the door holding them above their heads.
We quit! They yelled to the owners.
The owner’s wife said to him
“I knew hiring three hens was going to be a problem.”
Categories:
horrifies, food,
Form: Free verse
Leeann and I are third cousins
similar in personalities, happy to know each other
she is nine, I am seventy-two; both of us is divisible by nine.
Her grandma asked if Leeann could text me.
A nine-year-old with a cellphone?
Why?
I thought it was strange, but said yes.
Leeann sent the first text “hi”.
I texted “hi” back.
Then she texted “I like your paintings.”
I love painting; I have thirteen hundred of them.
I started to think about this little girl.
Her parents are both computer wizards.
They spend all of their time with electronics.
Leeann has no siblings or cousins or close neighbors.
I texted a challenge to Leeann – how large was the largest catfish recorded?
I said “there will be bonus points for a photo.”
She whipped back the info and the picture in two minutes.
I told her it was her turn to ask me a question
We have been winging questions back and forth for several days.
One night I figured it might be close to her bedtime.
I said “what time is your bedtime?”
“Ten o’clock” – two only children raising another only child.
I was horrified.
I told her my bedtime was nine-thirty when I was in twelfth grade.
She texted back "that horrifies me!"
Categories:
horrifies, humor,
Form: Narrative
Always Speak The Truth
Never tell a lie, speak the truth
Don't feel shy, speak the truth
Truth is grace, with shining face
Reflects one's glory, fills personality space
Truth is love, truth seed sow
Truth is gold, glitters and glow
Success in truth lies, which touches the skies
In testimony when spoken, it gives surprise
Truth verifies and dignifies, truth testifies and horrifies
Truth magnifies and glorifies, truth surmise and beautifies
Truth is power, odors of flower
Truth is dignity, each minute each hour
Never tell a lie, speak the truth
Don't feel shy, speak the truth
Categories:
horrifies, truth,
Form: Rhyme
What terrifies me the most?
What do we have time for?
Perhaps a prost…
To all the things beautiful
and decomposed
The truth
Yes, it is the truth, I suppose
What if I know?
How the knowing horrifies me so
Knowing all the things that knowing shows
Mostly devastation because
the truth is rarely a rose
What if I see?
Awaken to all the images that have haunted me
Gun fire in a city that never speaks
Living out sin for the secrets we keep
A virus to wipe out all of humanity
A friend I see slipping into an endless sleep
The people,
Are they people?
That reach out and weep…
For a final word, a last goodbye
Regrets leaving imprints
In my mind’s third eye
What if…
I stop begging to be loved?
Would you abandon me?
What if I accept that I really don’t matter
and I leave?
I am tired of being invisible
I want to be seen
Would it even matter?
Would you notice at all?
Would you catch me, before I fall?
To all the what if’s and the questions I have posed
Yes, it is the truth
that frightens me the most.
Categories:
horrifies, fear, suicide, truth, violence,
Form: Free verse
Everything comes to an end.
Life comes to an end,
Relationships come to an end,
Friendships come to an end,
Understandings come to and end.
Being abandoned and left on your own hurts,
Having people move away from you hurts,
Everything comes to an end,
I’m not ready yet to go it alone.
The thoughts of being alone scares me,
The thought of being taken horrifies me,
The thought of being broken creates fear.
fears are illusions, but they aren’t illusions when only
You know what happened.
I know what happened to me, I was there,
I have reasons to fear what could happen.
Five weeks to go, five weeks to watch my back,
The end is nearly here.
You know because people think you are strong,
People think you are ready to be alone,
But you aren’t.
It’s nearly here. I smell it and I know what will happen.
It’s happened before and I know how it is and how it feels.
Categories:
horrifies, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Wracked with guilt I lay
troubled in spirit body all thoughts invoke
recalls my elevation
gut wrenching waves of remorse robs sustenance
unaware of how one’s life’s machinations
can cripple one’s destiny
no spirituality
boastful and selfish
no code to live by
wishful thinking throughout my earthly sojourn
for accumulated wealth
now weary in spirit my riches suffocates
my life review horrifies
capturing each thought word and deed emphasised
it’s counterpart reaction denigrates me
friends and love ones all harbouring resentments
had I known before
would I have heeded
the wheel of life will summon me once again
at the appropriate time a contract signed
karmically a chosen life regenerates
chance to right the wrongs
Contest Suzette Prime Poetry Contest
Sponsor Emile Pinet
Categories:
horrifies, spiritual,
Form: Suzette Prime
As the shattered ruins of tomorrow’s world
horrifies shallow minds
As the peace which we all succumbed to
remains unglorified
As the place we call our own
litters with the ravages of the fortnight
Humanity lies holding a candle
in the name of peace and harmony
which yet does not penetrate their minds
As the inhabitants of this world decimate
their lands are pillaged
As people embrace vanity
and suffer their own ways
As the string of skeletons have their name etched
In the book of sorrow
In the book of dead
The rebellious peasants are intent
on causing wreckage
Proving harm to their own people
They don’t know that rather
we all are the descendants of the same forefathers
I want this to end
noises of gunfire hurt ears drums
Piercing and killing lives
the images and the feelings
scar some for life
This is the place of death
And I try to keep hope.
Categories:
horrifies, angst, conflict, dark, death,
Form: Alexandrine
You say you no me,
So how can you not see
You say you no me
But you critic so harshly
You say you no me
Then how can you judge so easily
You say you no me
Then why whisper lies about me
You say you no me
But you only find negativity within me
You say you no me
But your always disappointed in me
Really you think you no me
Then why cant you see the wonders in me
You say you no me
But negativity blinds you from seeing me
You think you no me
But your speech horrifies me
You say you no me
But you don't stop look listen and see
you really don't no me
So don't say you no me
When you've not seen me for me
Because i wont change just for thee
Agree or disagree it dose not matter to me.
Categories:
horrifies, anger, betrayal, cry, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
I look out from the stake
to where my judges are seated;
those proud men know nothing of me.
In Christ I am never defeated
though I will die here today,
condemned for my faith and my courage.
Let me look only at the cross.
The beautiful city of Rouen,
in the curve of the River Seine,
will witness the crime
that will live long past my time.
The bodies of a thousand men
decorate your majestic walls,
you are the bride of terror, torn apart,
a city without a heart.
I have heard the voices of angels,
the commands of God I obey;
though men think they have laid hell around me,
I will rise in the smoke up to heaven
just my shell in the ashes will stay.
And now, below me a scene that horrifies,
people screaming ridicule, irreverent eyes,
cruelty calloused, stare without shame.
My spirit hovers
a conscience pure, unstained,
I am neither a heretic or insane.
Copyright, September 9, 2015
Faye Lanham Gibson
Categories:
horrifies, betrayal, faith, girl, god,
Form: Free verse
Standing high upon the knot
In my ladder years,
I claimed to be the king.
Now, the crown horrifies me.
Still some gentle cruise is within me.
Like Saturn turned upside-down.
Would we notice the madness in the crème?
If there’s anyone that’s going to point the way for you it’s me.
Not out of self-aggrandizement, out of pure love,
And full, final redemption for all my short-comings.
How do I stop the avalanche?
Why do I feel I need to stop the avalanche?
Is it really an avalanche?
Or do I like playing with visions,
Responding to my own antics with mock melodrama?
Let the bizarre stay bizarre.
I’ll be in the corner selling coconuts.
Categories:
horrifies, baby, daughter,
Form: Free verse
You carnivorous beast
Do not approach me
I must love
But the other form
You eat so wrong
Both hands
Into the mouth it goes
Rare meat
Painful to watch
As whomever it was
Horrifies me
Please just go away
I’ll catch you on the return
I’ll await your transformation
To normal life
But is it really normal
Is it worth these changes
Knowing it’ll always
Be this way
Please don’t approach me
I love you
I know you love me too
Don’t come near me
Till you change back
I’ll wait…
Russell Sivey
Entrant into Matt's "Wolfman Falls in Love" contest
Categories:
horrifies, life, love, love,
Form: Free verse