Dear vanity o dear vanity
How silly do I look to thee
Arrogantly parading across Main street
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Praying Over Food In Public
Carry on the tradition.
Praying over your food in public.
Don’t be ashamed of his name.
Don’t worry about what strangers say.
Carry the cross.
You don’t answer to the flesh at the end.
Show by example.
Spiritual nourishment is parallel.
Pass down your value.
Be humble at the table.
Thank him for each day.
Be grateful for many blessings.
Jump suit in public
Such clothes, a woman's secret,
Dream, zest disappear.
USA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The teacher stood confused, in front of her second
grade class.
She was now forbidden to say boys or girls.
What were they, then,,,”its”?
This is called, “ social-emotional” learning.
The teacher, not only has subjects to teach.
But now a psychologist, she must be?
She will see to it, the correct sex of your child?
You thought you gave birth to a little girl?
No more....political chromosomes are in a swirl.
In public schools, this is the enlightened,new religion.
Confuse children as to who they sexually are.
Where sanity is on a mental ship, millions of miles afar.
God was removed from schools long ago.
Now, our great American heroes must go?
Grateful, I went to school decades ago!
3-31-2022
Animals have no qualms about making love in public
Why do we have such a problem being naked on the sundeck
I'll be first to start the trend
Actually, I should advise my friends
Next time they're over, they'll know what to expect
My rent-a-friend held my vindicated words in 1 condescending song,
An exacerbated flick of her tongue, in the power of 2
They latched onto the breathlessness of 3 escaping dolphins
As they beg for release unto 4 virgin soliloquies
5 wishes for the return of my rent-a-friend
Because they left without leaving 6 comments on my vulnerable bloodstain.
So, I wrote them off like 7 hidden tax burdens.
I let their door hit me 8 ways to Moscow on the way out
But, I felt fine for 9 minutes.
10 lords-a-leaping off their encrypted facade
Their kiss did not bring me to the power of 11
Like it did 12 seconds ago
Friday the 13th was our anniversary,
Another name for February 14th
“15 ways to be a good pal”, declares social media
Until they judge with 16 lashes, when perspectives fail
17 prayers to a god that didn’t rank highly on Wikipedia,
I’m the 18th rejected apostle whose horn was snatched by cashmere heathens
19 breaths to reach for better days.
20 was the max.
©
(For the contest of the Strand: Mid January 2018)
Out in public,
we maintain a stoic face.
Unreadable minds
THE LADY WHO BATHES IN PUBLIC
Harlot moon
Languishes in star bath
Shamelessly
Victoria Anderson-Throop
the moon last night made me want to repeat this favorite of mine!
THE LADY WHO BATHES IN PUBLIC
Harlot Moon
Languishes in Star-bath
Shamelessly
Victoria Anderson-Throop
12/27/12
Juja, Kenya
Have you had or seen teenagers,
who abused drugs like marijuana
and became truant and unruly?
That same teens could be
exposed to temptation again,
if they worked in a hospital,
where the supply of medical
marijuana is kept in glass cabinets.
And we think that modern vampires
are fiction as Drucula's legend seems;
there are indeed doctors and nurses
who will steal blood to satisfy their urge,
and if I have revealed this...
do you think that I am crazy?
If the FDA approved it,
what would the consquences be?
It will certainly diminish the acute pain in patients,
or make everyone around them get high?
Our streets are swarmed with pot heads,
who are hit daily by cars, because of unclear thinking;
and those who drive cause many fatal accidents...
others die of an overdose in filthy corners,
their lifeless bodies are spotted in small towns and big cities.
Is it a good idea to make it legal,
or will it endanger everyone in public places?
To wear a thong in public...
Not much chance of that...
Unless your the type...
That gets invited back...
For unlike the summer months...
What's there to show...
I myself...put it on the shelf...
As like most you know...
To thong in public...
That's a life time ago...
A little more to hide...
Even in summer time...
To wear a thong in public...
Not much chance of that...
Make me taste the brandy
devour your lips whole
taste testing your soul.
In the glass maze where we
display carnal interaction,
they see us entwined.
Café au lait lips, pale caramel hips
I let you melt over me–
all the joy and the ease.
We couldn’t stop now if we tried.
Your voice growls sex sure howls
from the hollow depths at the
base of your throat. Tell me again
why we don’t merge into the clouds
under their relentless, heat-laden stare.
Envious cloaks garnish the onlookers.
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