Long Cooped Poems

Is it just me or I'm starting to slow down along with the unwinding of time? 
Time is running out and oh how I feel sublime
I'm in need of understanding God's Word and Law 
I...

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I have a lot to write and say, buddy, so hear me out some more
Don’t make me feel lower than I have ever felt before…
Listen, understand and stay quiet until I say no more…sorry if...

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Incomplete metamorphosis of distilled adolescent...

therefore he characterizes himself as an anomaly...any idea why?

Mortified, petrified, stultified, et cetera sheltered, 
and mortally wounded prepubescent,

I consider myself
analogously buttressed, cocooned,
garrisoned (for bing keeler), 
hardened, insulated,
where cell baited jumping frog
o'...

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{"-Every second of my life in which I cherish, So that I will never burden myself with the thought of you, I try so hard to cope with the idea of straying yourself away from...

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You vanished suddenly out of view
I didn’t know I was so far away from you
You disappeared out of the blue
Wondering where my missing shoe is
If only you knew, if only you knew
That I’ve lost something...

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I belonged to a family of farmers, we had farmed for generations;
And we were true to our land, as blooms loyal to sweet sensations.

I knew the fierce satisfaction, only derived from working the land;
And sometimes...

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Cooped within ancient bodies, this inhabitant 
dwells amongst an elder net 
of crabby, crotchety, curmudgeonly claque 
of old folks, only a portion of population I met
which achey, flaky, kooky motley crue 
disgruntlement fed as peevish...

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Go at anyone but didn't think it would be you,
I'm thinking okay but who on Earth are you,
now let's pick it apart and unearth the truth,
expose your rhymes, not bulletproof.

I'm not doing this to save...

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Have you ever wished to be able to capture a moment?
Not by the aid of photography
But by capturing and saving it in the memory that never gets full
For when you want to relive it you...

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VULNERABLE

Being of a certain age and classed as vulnerable,
The Government decreed that I should stay indoors.
Perversely, just a month before, my doctor recommended
That I should get outside more and get some exercise.
I downsized, also doctor’s...

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OFFENSIVE !!


Gus Ferenski had a problem. It was a beautiful day outside. The rebel sun gazing down 
like a peeping Tom. 
The factory air, fresh and clean 
as a San Francisco hippie. 
The leaves were...

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As I lay here dying, I see the light at the end of the path, but I don't want,
Don't want to walk towards it.
As I lay here dying, I see my whole life flash into...

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You've heard
and seen
and perhaps even felt a dichotomy
between Type A and Type B personalities?

A is for Alpha-yang.
S/he couldn't possibly be more uncomfortable
with WesternWhite male nationalistic narcissistic supremacy
when it comes LOSER!!! down on us
from on financially...

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{“When I dunk my head in holy water, to rid myself of your poison. Hatred circuits through my veins at the delusional expectancy I have clasped. I let my nucleus out of its solitary incarceration;...

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Were slowly opening back up
Following the phases
Keeping to the rules
Taking it a step at a time.

But once the gates open
A stampede of bulls
Crashes through toward the field
Ready to frolic and merry
Like nothing ever happen.

Just because...

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Every friggin day
mother hen runs amuck,
while all chicken's
beady eyes appear awestruck
drawing particular
agitation, irritation, perturbation...

of Punxsutawney (Doctor) Phil
(well grounded) woodchuck,
the latter glaring at henpecked
yours truly rifled
tail feathered rooster,
whether communicating 

nonverbal sympathy
towards me, a garden variety
Gallus gallus...

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I feel so lost
Empty inside
Like a part of me has died
From family and friends
I pretend
I try to hide
Most of my pain
But it's hard sometimes
When each tear
That falls like rain
Is screaming out loud your name
Wish I...

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Free-for-all

                                I’m wasting my...

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Take a hammer
Step up to the game
Whack a Mole?
Nope! Whack a Dummy!

You don't like staying home?
To bad, Jack! Put a lock on it!
You spend too much time bumming
Not sticking to essential stores
Your just loitering where
Your...

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This is a story of sharing. This is a story of caring for one another and placing other's needs above our own. 

Once upon a time there were two gerbils in a gerbil cage. One...

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Oct. 23, around nine o'clock, GOP's special action commanding office: Dozens of "rock-ribbed" Reps arrived on and off to attend a briefing held by their hauptman Mutt Gaets, a Florida Trumpery henchman who's revived and...

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I’ve sailed across the oceans blue
In search of promised treasure
I need to bid my pirate’s life adieu
For some riches you cannot measure

When I was invited to be part of the team
I was told it was...

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SEA PAST THE MAST

For most folks I know…….. 
that which has come to pass is stowed well away in the past
They’ve cast off the shadows and shelters of their history
However my past is wedded to...

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In private I got you cry’n and whine’n each and every time and I be deep inside ya line’n
On top ride’n like a water rafter
Faster and faster, make’n me out last her, know’n I gotta...

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By Cherbo Geeplay

It rains so much in Monrovia that a
day is like the bloated dough on a 
grey earthly May, washing over October. 
My love, the sun, hides in her bright den
refusing to be seen....

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