I am my Facebook page
A list of lists
I am a picture with a filter
A tag in someone else's post
I am my SAT score
An expensive page with bullet points
I am my resume
A copy/paste letter of intent
I am my gym membership
A stack of metal I pick up to feel powerful
I am the downward dog
A first place medal in a race against no one
I am my credit score
A bank account that will never be full
I am a debt report
A numerical risk and reward
I am my insurance plan
A walking blood bag: Type O -
I am homeostatic, for now
Organ donor printed on plastic
I am a *****sapien
An old primate chasing insects
I am evolution
The self-proclaimed best of the hominids
It started with your eyes, you, like a cat,
disinterested, passing the time of day,
oblivious to mindless idle chat
such nonchalance, until you looked my way,
It started with a smile, a subtle link
to bridge the gap , a letter of intent
to say you'd read my mind and what I think
reading my lips for what I truly meant.
It started with a laugh like dawn birdsong,
or streams whose water giggles over rocks,
head tilted back, but knowing all along
who had control, you stalked me like a Fox.
It started with that kiss, hands tightly clasped
in case the force of it tore us apart
or fear that maybe it would be our last
instead of as we hoped just be the start.
It started many, many years ago
unlike jigsaw pieces not meant to fit,
we do, and through the years I think we know
when all is said and done, you started it.
February 20th 2018
For contest 'Love poem', sponsor Laura Loo
He got a dexter bull for hire at Kent,
And served him with a letter of intent;
That he stopped on a dime,
And asked for overtime,
He made a bad bull of the assignment.
LOVE
I start licking YOUR warmth YOUR taste tingles my tongue
YOUR satisfaction has begun
How could I call myself a man ; If I can not satisfy YOUR desires
Entwined in LOVE Lost in lust
Together we dance in the solitude of True Sexuality
I enter gently the moisture of YOUR LOVE
Enveloped in the rhythm of A Heavenly Song
YOUR eyes whisper I LOVE YOU
I pledge Forever with my eyes
The crescendo of our Loving peaks to climax
The bliss of ****** complete
My Heart and Soul request REPEAT
Dedicated To My LOVE Barbara Jean Gorelick
Author's note : I Apologize if this POEM offends any of my Family POETS
things happen, but not on purpose
GOD came back to earth,
and didn't scratch the surface
A bullet through my soul, its now permanent
to get into heaven, I'm so determinant
A girl stole my heart, without my consent
she then wrote me a letter of intent
I gave her a compliment 4 her astounding
accomplishment
the plaintiff's allegations were so irrelevant
from where I came from, I had 2 represent
4 the sins I committed, I had 2 repent
my love 4 people spreads through the air like
a powerful scent
4 help upon my life, 2 GOD I went
for saying what I said, It wasn't what I meant
time with my family, that's what I spent
I live 2 love, up and beyond an inconceivable extent
TYPEWRITER
TYPEWRITER
Have you seen an old old movie starring people in the newspaper businesses?
They had a old timey typewriter with the margin set and the return was manually
inclined to be reset with a nod and a frown and for all the world it seemed as iff
they was pushing it one way and pulling it the other at the same time
They typed and they retyped and they stopped and looked at the mistakes and
they edited the work and they inked the whiteout on the paper and they cussed
and took a coffee break and then they wrote a letter of intent to leave this
company no I'm sorry eye have been nice so far but now this JOB is monkeying
my back and eye must depart for FLORIDA or ZA. FOR all the world it is no
different on a computer except for the edit on the paper itself and just ewe try to
get a WORD document to spell words the way ewe say ewe want them to be
spelled
There there do not ponder the universe or quit your job just EDIT and misspell
the words correctly to be found a cosmic winner of the prize and utilize the means
of trash disposal to make the end come true and then ewe are a typewriter threw
and threw.
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