I simply must say No to wearing body spray
Or else I'll be allergic to myself ALL DAY! ;-P
Facing mounting pressure to do
What you really don't want to do?
That's easy as pie; holler a firm no!
Saddled with white elephant unasked for?
Say no and quickly return to sender!
The cackling devil tempts you
With enticing bait,
And threatens dire consequences
Should you reject it? Just do. Say hell no!
Beat him at his own diabolical game;
Make him taste his vile medicine
Should he tell you to dance for him.
Yes, it's funny to tell him lies, my chum.
Just tell him..."I'm sorry, I've got two left feet!"
Date written: 09/27/2021
small
favors
can become
tedious chores
which drain energy
consuming time
and money
headache
large
FIRST PLACE WINNER
Written June 28, 2021
submitted to "Say It In Nine" poetry contest
sponsored by Joseph May
[syllables checked by HMS]
this is
what
a poem
looks
like
on
paper
This is what a
poem looks like
on drugs.
In an era of celebrity
Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush
First Ladies who chose progressivity --
Nancy R. 'Just Said Yes' to sobriety
Laura B. 'Just Said No' to illiteracy
**True PROGRESS-ivity, that is: Saying NO to drugs & illiteracy
it season of games
some or insane
so eyee will not rain
stop this pain
before you give
stop still
take it slow as you go
don.t feel right
JUST SAY NO
I don't think saying no is rude
If not giving up is like saying no
Then what is so wrong with saying so
If it gives a reason to wake up with smile
and makes me look up higher and higher
then I will deny again and again
Yes! I deny to stay on ground when I fall
And I show a big NO to my fears
my hopes just stay a bit longer with no
my concentration is bit sharper with no
If saying no makes my life easier
and happier
and peaceful
then why do people detest
who say no?
Why couldn't I see? I must've been blind. Must be deaf too because so many times, I screamed at my self but never listened. And I drug myself, thru drug addiction. I poisoned my body and poisoned my mind. And what's left to show is what's left behind. Everything I own is no longer mine. I haven't just wasted myself, I've wasted my time. Whys it have to be so hard to learn a good lesson? Whys it take a prison yard instead of asking a question. Life's full of mistakes that your supposed to make. Life's full of lessons, you give and you take. I remember way back in elementary school, they said just say no! Drugs aren't cool. But I got a little bit older and decided weeds' not a drug. Why be sober? Hell, started shooting up. Now that's the path I decided to take but look where it's brought me. I'm a living mistake. I've wasted so much of my only life and you can't do it again, you can't live life twice. But as much as I hate myself for doing drugs, I learned a good lesson and learned who I was.
Just Say No
Look at the embers
The smoldering remnants of a lost world
Destroyed by arrogant world leaders
Mere children fighting over their toys
Arguing over the size of their manhoods
How did they let it go so far
How could we not say that is enough
Did we believe the lies they told us
Someone somewhere should have said no
Took the children and spanked their bottoms
And sent them to their rooms
If just one person would have stood up
Denied what they were told and thought for themselves
Children would be playing kickball in the streets
Mothers would be nursing their babies
And songs would be sung
Instead, look at the embers
Think of everything we have lost
And someone please…JUST SAY NO
JUST SAY NO TO NANCY REAGAN
Yeah yeah, I know
Nancy Reagan said “Just say no”
Well if someone really wants to cope
I say “never say nope to dope”
© 2012…..PHREEPOETREE ~free cee!~
NO, you will not have my child.
I will not be convinced by the rampant
hunger of government, the devourer of souls,
needing cannon fodder.
NO, I will not stand a zombie in a trance
an unrepentant ghoul entranced,
watching as you turn innocents
to join with the minions of destruction.
I will not plan to kill.
I will not live to hate.
NO, you will not have my child.
Death may come, as Death will,
but I will not be conned by the powers that be.
Death will not find me, or mine, willing victims
of this plague of violence.
The energy of me and mine will plan
to live and die in the light.
Please just say no
the way you already know
there is no quid pro quo
the process is painfully slow
your mind's altered from seeds you did sow
a withdrawl fit or two you'll throw
your brain's chasis will flitter to and fro
desiring the pleasure-pain once more to flow
you'll quake then tremor for another blow
but over time more resistance you'll show
the residual effect will linger as you grow
new habits you'll need to plant then hoe
when depression tugs and your mind craves another row
remember your barge already scraped that bridge so low
and shipwrecked your life on the shoals of woe
with steadying hands your anchor widely strow
skirting every pirating dealer; now your foe
Marijuana puffs
Famed hallucinatory.
Laced with excuses.
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
June 8, 2010
Poetic form: Haiku
There is so strongly grained in me
some ideas like saying “no” just
saying “no” to certain propositions,
my Catholic upbringing, or upbringing
in common with inclination. I have not
been so nice as to say no to everything,
not very nice at all, but when I do say
that’s said and no more discussion.
I’ve decided, and that’s enough reason
to say “no, I won’t do that at all.”
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