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Xii: Titled Men

Dearest Prof –
I did not title them:
These ever-ready logs
Ready to assemble ants of cowries;
They dance from sea to land
Wishing to be titled by exigent gods
Who watch over their lonely coronations
Lavished with sacrificial songs!

I did not title them:
Pot-bellied officees of faculties 
Chewing mouthfuls of the land’s laws
Their neighbours:
Half-truthful goblins of tax-collectors
The smiling kick-backers
And officees of admissions –
Who titled these men?

Dearest Prof –
Many are these titled men of today
Are they found everywhere?
Do they mount uniformed road-blocks
As we pass safety-roads without eyes?
Head-strong: are their skulls also fragile?
Could the husk of a tax-collectors mouth
Eat the husks of his pot’s bottom?

Who titled these men?
Matching boldly with wrong titles?
Of course, the red-caps of the under world
Visited the newly world-renowned ref
(Prof, a roused lad heard it told!)
Did they leave the corpse by the ref?
Sadistic: are they also shrewdly fraternal?
I cannot lavish the sacred lines.
© Canny Amah  Create an image from this poem.
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91 My 19th Leaf

91.

My 19th Leaf



Plucked thee from near ground

Outdoor ornament

On Bermuda grass

It's the plant type one

Decorative “fern”!



By Hachuela clan

Neighbor relative

It belongs to them

Planted by someone

To grace their front yard



January Thirteen

Friday Twenty Twelve

Ante Aclet's wake

Night before burial

And saw Marvic G.



Neighborhood to South

Way to Codingle

Not along the road

Yellow-painted house

Just in front its porch



Friday the Thirteenth

Last day – Amaya

Hour before watching

Saw CapSU backers

I, Nanay & kin!



-01/13/2012

(Dumarao)

*My Toladas Collection
Form: Rhyme

The American Way

The American Way

In every neighborhood
There are problems that arise.
Some never get resolved
No one that fact denies.

However:  the other day
A big story was in our paper.
Of a group of upset neighbors
Pulled off a “real-estate” caper. 

It seems the lovely development
Was being constantly harassed.
By big money development folk
Looking to make some cash.

It meant to change the character
Of this lovely street of homes
By building big condos out behind
Till someone got on the phones.

Alerting all the players
Who’s home backed up to the mess
We need to band together
If we are to ward off this ugly pest.

I don’t know the many hours
These folks spent in meeting
But saw each other often enough
By first names would soon be greeting.

I don’t know the details
It wasn’t happening to me
How “huge” a problem was it?
Just how serious could it be?

I don’t have facts to share
No details to finish my rhyme
But I know enough to tell you
Big business didn’t win this time.

These families grabbed this “bull”
Soundly by the horns.
Soon a co-operative  process
With “cash” backers was taking form.

They pooled their limited resources
Each homeowner would pay a share
They’d show these roughneck players
They weren’t so easy now to scare.

They bought the land behind them
Set a plan for moving on
There may still be hurdles to jump
But for now the war’s been won.

My hat is off to each family
There may have been some glitches
But I saw no personal belongs
Out on a porch or in the ditches.

I can’t believe it’s really happening
It’s so the American way.
If a group is being harmed
All together they enter the fray.

So as the days and weeks
Progressing with plan A
Don’t lose hope or get upset
Plan B may be on the way. 


Written by oldbuck Nov. 7, 2017 to tell the story about some great neighbors that joined together to ward off big business and the government process.
© Old Buck  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Here We Go Again

What is going to take for our legislators to put in safe gun laws
The ones we have on the books in most states are so deeply flawed
Everyone should have the right to defend their homes
But assault weapons we do not need to own
We will never get all the guns out of the hands of bad actors
But hopefully, we could change the minds of some of our gun backers
Tougher gun laws will never end these mass shootings
What it will do however is lower the number, of which I think we would all salute
A lot of the people who commit these crimes have made threats online
People who monitor these sites need to report these individuals in record time 
My heart goes out to everyone who has lost a loved one to gun violence 
Think if it was one of our loved ones, how long could we remain in silence
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member We Are Merging and Surging

We are merging and surging, and rapidly purging.  
A rich man is buying our company, and he is bringing us backers, and hackers,

Best of all a stash of great cold, hard, green cash.
We are throwing out desks, and we are throwing out chairs.
Some out the window, others down the back stairs.

The money is coming; it will be here by Tuesday.
In the form of a suit, and a man with a new play. 
We are merging and surging and rapidly purging.

Millions you say? No, I think more. His name is Matthew McMooters.
Billions perhaps. We will have new computers.
                 See that old desk?  Come help me push.
It will burn up so quick, with a wonderful swoosh.

Did I forget to tell you Old Pat has built a pyre on the twenty-fourth floor?
           There are forty employees up there already,
           With Tom, Harry, Ann and Freddy.

We are merging and surging and rapidly purging.
Follow me Nick.  Follow me Nate.  
Let’s go up in the elevator, bring your Mac Eight.

			We’ll throw this picture in, this plant, this plate.
                              The rich guy will be here Tuesday.
                            With his money hard and smooth.  
                          Come on folks, let’s decide our next move.


Premium Member Cave Kellers and Dig Wellers

Cave Kellers and Dig Wellers
David J Walker

Christians that go to hell 
will have one
Hell of a story to tell

       In the
Nick of time but no place to
Dwell among tent dwellers the
Cave kellers the dig
Wellers the rhyme 
Travelers the street  
Sellers and day
Sailors the night
Failures the pay
Traders the flesh
Peddlers the time
Piddlers the mind
Benders the fence 
Minders the prime 
Lenders the crime 
Numbers the prince 
Paupers the door
Stoppers the bargain 
Shoppers the grass
Hoppers old teeny 
Boppers  and hogg 
Sloppers with chart 
Toppers and good 
Coppers and hoola-
Hoopers and party 
Poopers and hot 
Peppers and self
Checkers and fat
Backers with back
Packers of heart
Stoppers and flip
Floppers and hot
Flappers and splish
Splashers and party
Crashers and hot
es and bad 
Bastards 

Christians that go to hell 
will have no one to blame
in the hottest of flame
But one hell of a story 
          to tell
Form: Rhyme

Something New

Something New

Have you longed for something new
like ketchup on your crackers
To hang out till the break of dawn
with multiple kick backers

A peanut for a new best friend
unless you are allergic
A submarine in your back yard
so easy to submerge it

A watermelon kitchen sink
with seeds to help the drainage
A brand new wash cloth made of fur
to softly clean the stainage

A pickup truck with tap shoe wheels
so down the road you’re clicking
A new comb for your head of hair
with grease for easy slicking

To stick your neck out really far
like you have been giraffe-ing 
Have you longed for something new
like this that leaves you laughing

10/15/18

Written for: The Trying Something New Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Nina Parmenter


This was a tough one and definitely something new for me. : )
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Herkidster, Billy

OK PD let me explain to you how it is why you are only successful because of me 
regarding all your supporters and sudden notoriety.
There I was. There was P D. 
I'd been around awhile, but not my little PD.
I had and still do have many supporters who truly do support, love and care about me...
but I've given them all to my little poet destroyer P D.
I did this very methodically.
because I wanted to make a success out of my little poet destroyer PD.
It's tit for tat in this world of poetry, 
despite whatever else others have tried to convince upon me.
The more comments you leave, 
the more comments you receive.
and so one day I saw this very struggling beginner PD
who obviously 
craved attention and fame, 
because you see P D is very vane.
So I slammed PD bringing her some of the attention she so much craves, 
bringing much needed publicity and notoriety over P D's way.
All of my backers so to speak who never heard of PD
were all P D fans and supporters as well as of me.
Then I stopped commenting on all of the supporters of me, 
because I wanted to give them all to my little poet destroyer PD.
Because P D craves the spotlight, but not me.
I prefer to remain in the shadows actually.
and so you all can clearly see, 
PD is largely successful because of me. 
My little poet destroyer's forever herKidster, Billy.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member A Nation In Crisis

A NATION IN CRISIS…FALLING APART

It has been said that America
is an experiment in democracy.
If that is so—and it seems to be—
this country is in deep septic trouble.
Today, the mad dog political moniker 
can no longer be looked upon as a joke;
for America, in its political experiment
in democracy, has truly gone made and 
is now falling apart from its rabid agents
of abject bigotry, hate, and racism.

It appears that the pre-experimental exercise
of attempting to make slaver as common
as shackling pets today, has forced 
modern-day mad dog political power mongers
to readjust their corruptive variables
to ensure desired collateral damage outcomes.

Indeed, the demonizing of the innocent
to rationalize ethnic-based murder,
has become a Hitler-like tactic
that has proven its “negative-good” desire
that has arisen from this Frankenstein-styled
political experimentation—sick exploitation.

Though most of the rabid “hit men” of the racist
power-mongers are dead, others and their backers,
due to the allowed irregularities of justice, will and do,
remain alive to pontificate their demeaning rhetoric
of coded domestic terrorism, painfully canvassing
a bloody mosaic of a grieving nation in a bloody crisis.

How long America…how long shall it be…before
this nation becomes inoculated against the viral infection
of apathy that seems to have taken on a rabid smallpox-like
endurance, that continues to mesmerize us to simply watching 
the newsy dramatization of the falling apart of a nation in crisis? 
Pray tell—God’s will done—the answer will be…not long!
Wake up, people! This is no damn nightmare; it’s today’s reality.

Premium Member My Favorite President Is Yet To Be

My favorite President is yet to be
  He may well not go down in history
For he'll do what really needs to be done
  Antagonizing almost everyone under the sun

First he'll fix Social Security; it's running short of cash
  Upping retirement age to 68, a move the 'swamp' will call rash
Then he'll crack down on Medicare/Medicaid fraud and crime
  Infuriating the clout-heavy cheaters in America's medicinal slime

Next he'll free up school choice for the poor, not just the rich
  More vouchers and charter schools: teachers unions will yell and beech 
He'll clean up the ghettos, bust up the gangs, and load up the jails
  Violent felons and their Park Avenue backers will want him impaled

He'll break the stranglehold on free speech and inquiry in universities
  Big-tech CEO's will squirm, when he ends their totalitarian strip-tease
He'll repair the military, building the strongest defense ever
  Daring China and Russia to come get us -- They won't; they're too clever

He'll veto delusionary pork projects which taxpayers can't afford
  Boosting old-fashioned 'capitalism' -- for that he will not be adored
As for climate change, he'll pressure China, India and the other slackers
  To reign in their CO2 abuse, while the world calls him a bully and hacker

Truth is, my favorite President-to-be will probably never get elected
  And if somehow he does, I hope from angry mobs he'll be protected




          ~ Inspired by, but not an entry in L. Milton Hankins'
                        'Your Favorite President Contest' ~
Form: Couplet

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