In our litigious society
folks sue at the drop of a hat
Employees and employers
Students and teachers
Wives and husbands
Even parents and children
~ locked in mortal combat
Categories:
litigious, conflict, family, school, society,
Form: Rhyme
Ubiquitous, they’re everywhere you look
Ridiculous, each page of every book
Umbilicus, they bind us like a tether
Precipitous, in haste, like nasty weather
Iniquitous, they’re tossed about in curses
Injurious, their aftermath needs nurses
Litigious, regardless loss or win
Like Sisyphus, we’re forced to start again
Ubiquitous, sometimes it seems absurd
Ubiquitous, our poorly chosen words
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for the Unburden a “U” Word Poetry Contest
theme of “Ubiquitous”
sponsored by Constance La France
written on 11/8/22
Categories:
litigious, words,
Form: Rhyme
When I was a kid, snow-ballin’ was a sport
We had a snow-ballin’ field at school
If you didn’t want to be hit, you stayed away,
That was the principal’s golden rule!
He knew kids liked to throw snowballs
And, frequently someone would get hurt,
So, he established strict boundaries --
Violate the rules; the response was curt.
If one ventured onto the designated field
And got snow-balled, even badly hurt,
No excuses were admissible, rules were clear
No matter how many tears you’d spurt.
Now, such a field would be a liability
Schools would face a plethora of lawsuits
So, a venue for fun was carefully removed
Kids were forced into less litigious pursuits.
Written October 16, 2022
Categories:
litigious, sports, winter,
Form: Rhyme
A limerick, you will find
Can be used on thoughts of all kinds
They can be religious,
Or even litigious;
Depends upon what’s on your mind!
Categories:
litigious, poems,
Form: Limerick
Town Car
Limousine
Golf Cart
Handicap
Hole in 1
Sand Wedge
Bunker
Apprentice
Litigation
1 Term
4 Short year's
Reality
Fired
Good luck Joe
You won
It's your problem now
Time to deliver
Categories:
litigious, judgement,
Form: Free verse
Diverse ideas vie for fecund place
In my mind and heart these days,
Every new thought sees the next
As an invasive unwelcome guest.
And being a democratic fella at heart,
I just wouldn't wish to play major part
As judge if privilege and freedoms be
Basis why litigious kinsmen disagree.
To every thought there's natural right
Enshrined in legal folios beyond fight:
Any idea may claim an acre of mind,
In any random astute brain they find.
And so I a respecter of sacred things
Such as fragile rights of mute beings,
Must let every instreaming opinion in;
And call null their war and brutish din.
For, has not every sovereign thinker,
Rights of their own to soundly tinker,
And censor apt and odd notion alike,
That within their wild cranium spike?
Categories:
litigious, allegory, allusion, change, christian,
Form: Rhyme
East Devon Beacon
by Michael R. Burch
Evening darkens upon the moors,
Forgiveness?a hairless thing
skirting the headlamps, fugitive.
Why have we come,
traversing the long miles
and extremities of solitude,
worriedly crisscrossing the wrong maps
with directions
obtained from passing strangers?
Why do we sit,
frantically retracing
love’s long-forgotten signal points
with cramping, ink-stained fingers?
Why the preemptive frowns,
the litigious silences,
when only yesterday we watched
as, out of an autumn sky this vast,
over an orchard or an onion field,
wild Vs of distressed geese
sped across the moon’s face,
the sound of their panicked wings
like our alarmed hearts
pounding in unison?
Keywords/Tags: East, Devon, Beacon, England, Moors, Forgiveness, Maps, Miles, Lost, Directions, Compass Points, Moon, Geese, Lights, Headlights, Headlamps, Fugitive
Categories:
litigious, allegory, analogy, break up,
Form: Free verse
POSITIVELY TRUMP
The Economy is booming
No catastrophe yet looming
After choosing Donald Trump
Where recession? where the slump?
But we’re nearing full employment
All who can, in max deployment
Black and white yellow and brown
Income up and food stamps down
Holy cow-farts! mercy me!
Not how they said it would be
They’ll soon say that Co2
Is good for plants, for me and you
Fat boy Kim not shooting rockets
NATO digging in their pockets
Who’s now talking about ISIS
They must find a brand new crisis
Trump investigation arid
Every accusation parried
Muller’s litigious top notchers
Searching still to find some ‘gotchas’!
A newcomer of outside
From old politics untied
Takes no pay, no personal gain
Unlike others I could name
Never TelePrompt refined
Opens up and speaks his mind
Straight from heart and off the cuff
Uncut diamond in the rough
Mock his lack of history pure
Never going to be demure
He hits back at thrown insults
I care more for his results
Categories:
litigious, political,
Form: Rhyme
Swamp Nightmare
Oh! me oh! my boo hoo!
Whatever shall we do
Now it’s going far too well
When it should be going to hell
The Economy is booming
No catastrophe yet looming
After choosing Donald Trump
Where recession? where the slump?
But we’re nearing full employment
All who can, in max deployment
Black and white yellow and brown
Income up and food stamps down
Holy cow-farts! mercy me!
Not the way that it should be
They’ll soon be saying Co2
Is good for plants, for me and you
Fat boy Kim not shooting rockets
NATO digging in their pockets
Who’s now talking about ISIS
We must find a brand new crisis
Trump investigation arid
Every accusation parried
Muller’s litigious top notchers
Surely they can find some ‘gotchas’!
So unfair it can’t be right
A spectre in the dark of night
What went wrong. She should have won
She was on a straight home run
But we never will surrender
With all forces we can render
We will surely draw his blood
As we dig deeper in the mud
We may yet be his ‘Grim Reaper’
For the Swamp goes so much deeper
But for now we do beseech
All together cry: ‘EMPEACH!’
Categories:
litigious, political,
Form: Rhyme
Though endings soon arrest litigious wrongs,
Injustice stains without impunity,
When who I’d rather share romantic songs,
Declares to God abhorrent thoughts on me;
In days from now when Marci testifies,
That evil lurks in me, a violent man,
She’ll have to look directly in my eyes,
Where she’ll see tears that still don’t understand.
My case is strong and lacks no confidence,
For truth determines judgment’s final rule,
But justice overturns by consequence,
That comes when soulmates end their vicious duel.
I know my only choice was one to fight,
But how can love on trial make matters right?
Categories:
litigious, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
The truth has turned to fiction
Lies are stated as if they’re fact
While overzealous politicians
Stab one another in the back
Right and left are being polarized
There seems to be no middle ground
In a world becoming globalized
No unification can be found
Vigilantes patrol neighborhoods
Killing young men fitting profiles
Thoreau is lost in Walden’s woods
Lady Liberty no longer smiles
We’ve become a litigious society
People wanting hand outs from the court
Religions have lost their piety
If this were a mission we would abort
Silent remains the majority
Wealth is distributed to but a few
We need a healthy dose of some purity
To grab a hold and pull us through
In the end it is up to all of us
To find the humanity within our soul
And in each other put our trust
So we can all reach a common goal
Categories:
litigious, political, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
You’ve pushed the boat out once again
You’re out there on the beach
With the one you chose
to exchange your vows
Were the best ones out of reach?
Well you’ve done it now the deed is done
So make the best of it
Treat him mean
and keep him keen
Avoid litigious writs.
Italian life is wonderful,
all women wine and song,
But this thing I’ll teach,
allow him one of each
and you won’t go too far wrong
best regards
David Wallace
Competition entry
Categories:
litigious, funny
Form: Limerick