Time, once taunted, laughed at
Limits, street-lit, leapt of
Whose own, this one, as to it
Now, in a stoop, does bow.
Heathen child, in swoon of life
In the moment's worship!
Creaking more conscious of whom
Vengeful symptoms endow.
And then they said what?
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
A motive was sought
a killer who laughed
Left pictures of clowns
near victims, fore and aft
Scratching heads, pulling hair
nor reason nor rhyme was there
Investing time and money
when the belfry’s bare
Once our home was filled with love,
from God up above.
My kitchen had delicious foods cooking away,
as children played near by.
Many family and dear friends,
laughed and loved in my rooms of old.
One by one they went away,
all promising to come back someday.
My once pretty garden is now all weeds,
even the birds will not come near.
I'm A Forgotten Home,
I once was filled with love.
"Over the years we have soared hand in hand." By Poet
love
today
hand and hand
for me and you
will last forever
wishing life will go on
happy anniversary
a smile and big kiss just for you
life has been so very short for us
where did all the time go from young to old
In memory that wouldn’t get upgrades
You stay, and you’ll remain there till I go
One day wasn’t circled on your calendar of dates
Now empty is the room we used to know
The August Macke painting on the wall
Your table, stuffed with papers, vapes, remotes
And signs you left of missed video calls
Remain in memory, that in its turn, erodes
The visual memory of you keeps our time
When we were close, as close as we could be
You laughed your head back – when this image will decline
You’ll take me where you are now, I believe.
I remember our love,
from days of old.
The days and nights,
we spent by the shore.
The days we laughed,
the nights we loved.
I thought it would last,
last a life time.
Guess nothing lasts forever,
not even when deeply in love.
Somehow you said good-bye,
somehow I died inside.
Now all I can hear,
are the echoes of the silent shore.
Last night, just last night
He stared out of his window and up into the stygian sky
In the darkness, there were glints of light sparsely throughout
In the stillness, his mind started to run
But his heart was still and cold as the night
With flashbacks of smiling faces that tell lies
His precarious mind continued to race to no end
Then a lonely tear yearned to escape the corner of his eye
He wanted to oblige by letting it go, as he had done a few times before
But he just couldn't, not this time
He refused to stain his cheeks again with salty tears
Cry?
Men don't cry, right?
Yes, sometimes in the stillness of darkness, they let one or two fly
A man crying? Come on now?!
Yes!
When he's felt the insidious 'Kiss of Judas'...
But last night he didn't cry
Instead, he just laughed...
Last night, just last night, he shook his head and laughed
It's many a year since I met you
tripped over my words, mumbled 'no can do'
Loved and laughed, laughed in love
~ when the world fit like a new satin glove
The poet chuckled and the walls laughed
back!
They were her friends, after all, with nary
a crack.
The walls watched her pen, her bleeding
heart out.
Their wall souls, were her earth angels,
clearly no doubt.
They were there for her,always at dawn
and at night.
In howling winds and storms, they kept
her warm and from fright.
Delightful companions for all gastromomic
events were they.
Well-mannered, they partook as she dined,
fine manners, had they!
They worried, too,watching her walk with her
rollator.
They much preferred that,than seeing her be
a couch potato!
When the stars came out,she’d blow a loving
kiss to them.
Her stalwart friends,in the blue moonlight of
her whispered, Amen!
4/9/2023
He stood on the street corner
Having a much needed smoke
Somehow we got chatting
And he told me a joke
And i started laughing
The way that you do
He looked at me smiling
And started laughing too
And his dog laughed too.
It became a habit
Ever after that
Every morning I’d stop
For a little chat
And listen to any joke
That he would tell
His supply seemed endless
And he told them so well
And his dog laughed too.
One day I saw the dog
Out with another guy
So I said hello to him
And I asked him why.
He said he was standing in
His dad had had a stroke
So I sent my best wishes
And I really missed his joke
And his dog just looked sad.
I asked about him every day
Was told he was improving
Was chafing at the bit to
Get his recovery moving.
I was so pleased to hear
Of progress like that
For I really missed
His joke and our chat
And his dog looked optimistic.
Then one day I saw him back
Standing there having a smoke
I bid him a good to see you
I’ve missed your daily joke.
We both laughed uproariously
As he told me his latest one
And the dog wagged his tail
All signs of sadness gone
And his dog laughed too.
THEY ALL LAUGHED
An acrostic sonnet
They all laughed when I told them
How much I loved you.
Everyone said we were too young.
Yet, right from the start, I knew
At your age, they told me
Love is just in your head.
Later you will see we were right.
ater, we laughed at what they had said.
All these years have passed and still
Unwavering our love has been
Golden wedding bells ring out.
How we wish they could have seen.
Every day we are thankful we
Did not listen; you and me
22nd September 2022
Anniversary Poetry Contest
Sponsor - Sandra Kendrick
More of this, more of that
Fifty dogs, a hundred cats
Never satisfied, never enough
A card sharp, called million-dollar bluffs
Porsches, Ferraris, Lamborghinis galore
Never enough, needed far more
Penthouse in Manhattan, two in L.A.
Resorts in Palm Springs and Montego Bay
Trumped the tallest towers
Built a castle reached the sky
Clouds laughed, then raced to form
a simple question ~ W H Y?
She laughed all day
She laughed all night.
She went to bed
and had a fright.
Her ass was gone.
It wasn't there.
She laughed it off.
but didn't care.
Inspired by Mike Gentile's "She Danced her Heart Away"
“We will change the earth, and make it clean!
All evil leaders shall not succeed.
Illness, death shall never be seen!”
Doth does man drool in his ignominious dreams.
Thinking...they are gods, as if He is dead?
Fools run the earth with evil intent.
Lies and fat egos, dance in their heads.
Propaganda does small minds bend.
Always busy online and on Social Media,
Lies grow huger, with truth gasping for breath!
Mankind thinks, they are walking encyclopedias?
Bringing society to its own uncivilized death.
Yes! But how do these fools and knaves know it all?
Google, the new Bible and eternal fountain of truth!
Mankind brought on their own early, downfall.
King Soros, now rules this planet all, forsooth.
4-10-2022
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