The Color
How is this red? This is blue!
Did you shut your eyes with some glue?
Just look! Take your time, think it through!
Quickly, we have more work that is due,
And better things I have to do,
We have made people form a queue!
To decide the color of this damn dress sewn!
The blue group was angry, "How dare you!"
The
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Categories:
humor society, humor, society,
Form: Free verse
Graffiti's Grip
I stood….transfixed, reading the boldly painted warning
…DON’T TURN AROUND – YOU ARE NOT ALONE
©4/7/2023
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Categories:
humor society, angst, humor, society,
Form: Other
Spam
Oh you pitiful copycat,
fake accounts you’re getting fat;
Polluting my shadow Spam,
you can’t be who I am;
That’s a dead person’s photograph.
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Categories:
humor society, computer, humor, society,
Form: Limerick
Danseuse Divine - Part the First
She slipped into the ballroom
Shimmied across the floor
Bobbed a graceful curtsy
Slid quickly through the door
Leaving some mixed reactions
From all those gathered there
First time they’d seen a tango
With the artiste totally bare
And it’s not the sort of thing
One ever ever expects to be seen
At an Official Civic Reception
For Her Majesty the Queen
And certainly not
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Categories:
humor society, adventure, appreciation, culture, dance,
Form: Rhyme
The Prepper
Be prepare like the busy ants
store food for any catastrophic event
From famine, war, or worse yet
being run by a democrat
Have guns and ammo and medical supplies
but the word to the wise
Emergency food row after row
in time of crisis your families hero
Cans of corn and cans of beans
cans of darn near anything
A can of this and
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Categories:
humor society, humanity, humor, society,
Form: Rhyme
Quarantined Spring
There's plenty of empty
Shelves and pantries
The streets weep for missing feet
Crowds of clouds float and gloat
Mocking our lot, as they mingle and flock
Oh, the lords of hoard now run the board
Going by social media shifts
Toilet paper's now the sought-after gift
One can't use scanty panties
To clean your fanny's nooks and crannies
In this sparse farce
The walls grow
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Categories:
humor society, humor, society,
Form: Light Verse
I'Ll Have What They'Re Having - Wbm
I’ll Have What They’re Having/WBM
They gather – together - alone
avatars – no identities known
promises blue
OMG – ILU
a video vape – The Game of I-phones
©7/29/2019
What’s Bugging Me Poetry Contest
Kim Rodrigues - Sponsor
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Categories:
humor society, humor, society, youth,
Form: Limerick
Eyes Wide Open
Knick Knack Paddy Whack
Can’t take back a wisecrack
If you wanna be a crackerjack
Earn a greenback from blackjack
Gotta buyback your backpack
Need to blister pack your flapjacks
Evident ebbing of drawbacks
Raises the bar for the sad sacks
The good life, so Kodak
So long as you don’t sidetrack
Selfie people hide in haystacks
Hoarding their golden tie tacks
Shall we ponder how to
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Categories:
humor society, confusion, humor, society,
Form: Rhyme
Liberal Love's Failure
One answer to Patrick Deneen's question,
Why Liberalism Failed,
not necessarily opposed to Deneen's own
more LeftBrain position,
yet considerably shorter,
is:
Profoundly democratic liberalism,
like Christianity,
has failed because it has not been multiculturally tried,
to paraphrase anti-colonizing
and non-violent communicating
Mahatma Gandhi.
Strangely,
this may also be a kind of corollary
to respond to a different title,
How the West was Won,
which would thereby postulate
How the
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Categories:
humor society, business, conflict, culture, games,
Form: Political Verse
Saturday Farmers' Market
Saturday Farmers’ Market
Here’s how it goes at our Farmers’ Market:
shoppers all ages, clothing, and races,
parents push bundled babies in strollers,
children dash eagerly through the crowd.
Others meander to and fro, seeking
new food and old faces they know.
At the top are the hucksters and politicians
handing out stickers, buttons, petitions.
There’s music: guitars, banjos,
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Categories:
humor society, children, community, confusion, family,
Form: I do not know?
Dining Without
While ambling down the boulevard,
I spied a swanky canopy.
As member of the avant-garde,
The classy bistro suited me.
When greeted by the maitre'd,
I nonchalantly said, "Just one."
He smiled and nodded graciously.
My gourmand venture had begun.
As soon as seated, promptly pounced
A waiter dressed in gray and pink.
"My name is Jacques," the man announced
And asked what I prefer to
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Categories:
humor society, adventure, food, french, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Hold My Beer
Some say that our people
will never, ever get along,
that skin is our ‘identity,’
that old, bigoted song.
Some must always be victims,
and others will oppress,
the groups A, B, C are awful,
but D, E, F are best.
I don’t care much for that,
but one thing is clear,
taking home Shanise tonight,
so wingman, hold my beer.
Others cry technology
is destined to stagnate,
that
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Categories:
humor society, culture, future, hope, how
Form: Rhyme
Lips Like Wet Vagina
lips like wet Vagina
if am good
they talk
if am bad
they talk
they always wet
their mouth with
their spit through their
lips like wet Vagina
lips like wet Vagina
if i live they will talk
if I fear to live
they will talk
if I talk they will talk
if I don't talk they will talk
they love to talk
their
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Categories:
humor society, africa, character, encouraging, for
Form: Epic
Healthcare Nightmare
Health care standards
are climate care constants
and resilient variables.
Health care giving and receiving constants
across cultures and diverse species
of plant and animal,
and perhaps even mineral, lifespans,
each and all declare
mentoring mutual health is positive,
between ego-center
and eco-exterior,
Yang and bilateral, or even multilateral, Yin,
squared and cubed
and fractal and octaves
of resilient variable sounds
and light,
space and changing interdependent times.
And absence of
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Categories:
humor society, caregiving, culture, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Neanderthal
You walk real low,
knuckles almost scraping the ground
Looking at the sky up high,
scratching your jutting brow bone
You're puzzled by that round thing,
which you can't reach
You don't understand at all,
how it could be so hot
Your belly is on the growl,
telling you it's time to go on a prowl
You like it best when you can hunt
and scavenge
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Categories:
humor society, allegory, humanity, humor, society,
Form: Free verse
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