Long Enrolling Poems

Across figurative and literal blackened white board...

Where death of democracy writ large,
nevertheless psychological strength predominates
unlike earlier chapters of mein kampf.

Mine hardscrabble existential debacle 
spelled losing game
swept me up in malevolent mindset 
far adrift from harbored...

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"We gave you strict orders  not to teach in his name,"he said. 
Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teachings and are
determined to make us guilty of this man's blood." Acts 5:28

Peter and the...

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I watched in horror while a concerned father was apprehended for objecting to a male student entering into a girls restroom.  At two different schools and raping two girls. One father was unfairly and...

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As your mother
I think of you each and every day
You don't have a single sister or brother
Thoughts of you continue to replay
In my head all night long
Wishing you were here
Home with me where you belong
I...

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Across figurative and literal board... 
mine hardscrabble existential debacle spelled losing game of trouble

Oft times, I experience wretchedness being alive
spurring wonderment whereby thoughts
of my demise doth drive
analogous to buzzfeeding bumbling bees
combing into their hive.

Giddiness prevailed
when...

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I awoke this morning
To a brand new day
The sun was shining
Neighbourhood children played
 
Then i heard on the news
That made my hair stand on end
The Reapers elves
To our world they descend
 
Dressed in black
These creatures...

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You were like the proud king lion,
Strong with thick main, 
No hair out of place deliberately.
Constantly parading by your pack; 
Commendation stood tall in there, 
No questions, phraseology or rubs, 
The podium harmonised plans, 
To...

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In 1967, fresh out of high school at seventeen, I boarded a northbound bus to the metropolis of the mid-west. After arriving in Chicago, while waiting to be picked up by a family member, I...

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In my senior year of high school, my mother signed me up to go
to a computer school in Texas where I was to go after the summer.
But the winding roads of life don't always take...

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MY LIFE IN VERBS
by
 JOHN M. ARRIBAS





Nothing, Something Treading, Swimming, Navigating,  Vibrating, Penetrating, Dividing, Multiplying, Forming, Shaping, Moving, Kicking, Exiting, Crying, Breathing, Seeing, Sleeping, Being.

Suckling, Creeping, Crawling, Walking, Talking, Running, Growing, Playing, Adjusting, Adapting,...

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We touched each other every place
On the outside of our clothes
We kissed each other on the face
And we rubbed each other’s nose

Your prom dress was so beautiful
I watched it tumble to the floor
After four years...

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Every school stereotypes 
when it comes to enrolling lets begin
There is Catholic schools all over the world 
this is clearly an attack at our culture and beliefs 

Trying to overturn Christian values 
a direct attack...

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Fred Enrolls in Obamacare

By Elton Camp

Fred liked what the president had to say
Enrolling in Obamacare should be okay

Because affordable insurance he needed,
To his computer Fred eagerly speeded

The government site came up right away
He thought, “Hey,...

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I let out a scream when I stand on the scales -
the bitter truth, I’ve joined the species of whales!
I plan to go on a new weight loss diet
food is grilled, you must never fry...

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Helicopter parents
They are at school daily
Begging to stay longer
Criticizing other people’s children and the teacher
Wanting to bring their lunch
And take naps with their kindergarteners

Helicopter parents
Send long rambling emails to the fourth grade teacher
Why did you...

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