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Real Talk

I don’t know what the problem is

But one thing I can say

We need to get it together

In the very best way

It doesn’t make any sense

That lives are being taken

For idiotic reasons

Killers in the making

How can you speak to your Mother

In such a nasty tone

Having no type of respect

While living in her home

Don’t allow him to degrade you

Make you feel smaller than life

I don’t care if there was a ceremony

And you are his wife

Don’t let her walk all over you

Think she has a fool 

Stand up and take charge

But never loose your cool

Don’t let people abuse you

Take things like a grain of salt

If you never stand up for yourself

You’ll continue to get got

Have some self-respect

Pull your pants up off your behind

Act like you have some sense

Because the clock doesn’t rewind

Cover up your assets

Stop walking around with little to nothing on

Have some class about yourself

I don’t understand what’s going on

How many young people

Own a library card

Knowledge is Power

Have some regard

For the older people

Who you cuss in front of on the bus

Smooth out your edges

Stop trying to be so tough

Be your own individual

Stop having such a bad attitude

It can hinder you

From reaching your latitude

Life will teach you many lessons

So be a kid while you can

Enjoy the burdens you don’t have

That you will when you become a woman and a man

Stop killing each other

Shooting guns for fun

Taking people’s lives

Mothers, Fathers, Daughters and Sons

Get your education

Make something of your life

Don’t keep holding up the block

From sun up to moon light

Stop having babies

Just to keep a guy

Most of you now realize

What he said was a lie

Thought he would stick around

Help you raise your child

He’s really still sowing his oats

Out there in the wild

Take the talents that you have

Drawing, singing, rapping, and more

Turn things into a positive

Allow your talents to soar

Don’t be so negative about things

Your output becomes your return

All of your experiences

Are lessons for you to learn

Take heed to what the old folks say

They know what they are speaking about

Don’t be so quick to judge their words

Because they are schooling you

And this is Real Talk


Give God the Glory

As thoughts travel from the mind to the heart,
And spoken words cause my lips to part,
Spewing forth praise, honor and glory as an art,
This is the way everyday needs to start.

Are you docile, are you humble, and are you meek?
It’s The Kingdom of Heaven first you must seek,
Before anything else will ever be done,
Genuinely pray to the FATHER through the SON.

Those who do not give GOD the glory,
In the almighty name of JESUS Christ,
They will not share in the promise,
For the gift of eternal life.

Holler, shout, jump, jive and wail,
The Kingdom of Heaven will soon prevail,
Don’t be caught standing in the wrong line,
Only the FATHER knows the exact date and time.

You will not conquer the strongman without a sneak attack,
Never being able to subdue him unless it’s behind his back,
On guard, be ready, for the second coming of CHRIST,
There will only be one time we don’t get to do it twice.

Although an unGODLY world our GODLY Conduct can still be right,
The only thing that matters is your name in The Book Of Life,
It’s up to you to choose forever where you’ll dwell,
A mansion in heaven or an apartment in hell.

Woe be to those who will experience the grief,
An eternity of weeping and gnashing of teeth,
Infinity in suffering with Satan and his kind,
Choosing to act on thoughts he shoots in your mind.

For 24 hours a day are here then they’re gone for good,
Don’t live tomorrow for yesterday thinking well, I should…
Eternity begins but never ends even with life on earth,
Live everyday through JESUS CHRIST knowing what you’re worth.

A seasoned grain of salt that’s pleasing to the taste,
Never allow a day to go by where you sit and waste,
The sun, the moon, the stars, whatever the weather may be,
FATHER in the name of JESUS thanks for all YOU’VE done for me.

I know that I could never send a child of mine,
To suffer the likes of JESUS for so many who are still unkind,
It’s not my place to tell YOU those who are doing dirty deeds,
For while I lived my sinful ways YOU still smiled down on me.

Never will there be enough pleasing words to say,
For there are still only 24 hours in each and everyday,
Days turn into months and months continue on for years,
Form: Rhyme

Transcendental Exploits

Most everything written
(and learned ya in school)
     Yukon coon sitter, (and bet
     your bottom dollar) tibia bunch
     of contrived information

     all details bu...bu...bull...low knee
     within this poetic missive
after spending a lifetime crunch
ching numbers, the following
     singularly just my hunch,

but despite minuscule
     approximate i.e. kid size lunch
meal, (sans two clenched fists,
     and weighing about 1.5 kilograms),
     not much to munch,

yet if smacked in the kisser
     by a pugilist visited
     square in the jaw deadly (Judy hush
     hiss) sucker punch
whereby the unlucky

     recipient may see "unlucky stars"
     after brows severely scrunched,
thee above poppycock, and potentially
    "FAKE" though (Ripley deed lee)
     believe able to ye,

nonetheless behooves me
to segue-way (by Segway) to pre
sent a "TRUE" revelation see
(gnome hatter, aye
     cheese silly contradict

     mice elf alias Stuart Little) prithee
please just accept what I write
     with a grain of salt
     (from the Sultan Sea),
cuz yawl do yarself grave

     injury and lodge a gree
vance against this harmless
right ham handed cree
chore from the outer limits
     of the twilight zone, thus

I STRONGLY ADVISE thee,
     NOT to stake eh knee
     un mensch chin hubble cogitation,
and figuratively swallow, 
     hook, conga line

     and sinker thine highly suspect re
dunk yule us gobbledygook mee
cully (meekly) reed this
     more so asthma
     childish entertainment, hence oak key

jist put aside any urgent task
     to revel as sigh bee
devil logical syntax
     with sum man tricks
     playfully wasting yar

     precious time free
cully (freakily) inventing outlandish nee
incoherent yawping, towering,
     and brutally butchering,
Brooklyn speak (homer over

     mayor later mother), she
nearly always... er added
     letters "er" at'er the ender
her sentences - er stain?

Pass the Salt, Please

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it 
be salted? It is henceforth cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Matthew 
5:13 KJV 

In ancient history, salt was sought and bartered. In some places it was carried by 
camels across scorching deserts such as in West Africa where eager merchants 
traded it to waiting customers. Salt was used for money in some places, thus giving 
us the word salary.
 Today salt is used for many purposes, stocked in grocery stores, and is available on 
virtually every table.  
We use it medicinally, and blocks of salt satisfy cattle’s craving. Salt in water raises 
the boiling point, yet salt melts ice.  Put salt on meat and it preserves it.  Leave salt 
off the table and your appetite leaves with it. But too much salt is harmful. It makes 
your feet and legs swell and too much is hard on the heart.
Examine one grain of salt under a microscope and note its cube shape.  Its sides 
are made of two elements, sodium and chlorine.  These combine to form sodium 
chloride – salt.
  
Imagine soldiers in a tug of war.  An ion of chlorine glares from one corner at a 
sodium ion guarding the opposite side. As crystallization occurs the chlorine wins in 
the stare-down.  Sodium surrenders its single valence electron to chlorine and 
together they become sodium chloride.  Consider it in verse:
  
Salty Sentinels

Sodium ions stable,
assembled on the table,
salivating palates crave.
Chlorine ions tiny,
mustering soldiers briny,
guarding corners brave.
Sodium chlorine making,
crystal shakers shaking
cubes so salty white.
Ever fighting blandness;
vectors adding grandness,
enhance the appetite!
  
There is no wonder Jesus used salt as an example to the disciples in his Sermon on 
the Mount. He exhorts Christians to have salt in themselves and have peace with 
one another. See Mark 9:50
© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Puns X2

Most people are shocked when they find out 
how bad I am as an electrician.

My wife just found out I replaced our bed
with a trampoline. She hit the ceiling!

I used to think I was indecisive.
But now I’m not so sure.

Light travels faster than sound,
which is the reason that some people appear 
bright before you hear them speak.

My therapist says I have a preoccupation
for revenge. We’ll see about that.

A termite walks into the bar and asks, 
‘Is the bar tender here?’

I always take life with a grain of salt. 
And a slice of lemon. And a shot of tequila.

I don’t suffer from insanity... I enjoy
every minute of it.

The last thing I want to do is hurt you;
but it’s still on my list.

Today a man knocked on my door
and asked for a small donation toward the local 
swimming pool. I gave him a glass of water.

I’m reading a book about anti-gravity.
It’s impossible to put down.

‘Doctor, there’s a patient on line two 
who says he’s invisible.’‘Well, tell him 
I can’t see him right now.

Last night my girlfriend was complaining
that I never listen to her or something like that.

People who take care of chickens 
are literally chicken tenders.

What’s a frog’s favourite type of shoes?
Open toad sandals.

Blunt pencils are really pointless.

Two wifi engineers got married. 
The reception was fantastic.

One of the cows didn’t produce milk today. 
It was udder familiar

If attacked by a mob of clowns
go for the juggler.

The rotation of Earth really makes my day.

Pollen is what happens when flowers 
can’t keep it in their plants.

A book fell on my head the other day. 
I only have my shelf to blame though.

When the cannibal showed up late to the buffet,
they gave him the cold shoulder.

A blind man walked into a bar… and a table… 
and a chair…

How do you make holy water? 
You boil the hell out of it.


Where Ah Whoo

By Letra Compas
and
Armonia Escala

It sequence lacked luster
she found it more interesting
to exaggerate the middle
to make a more engaging plot
to detail the characters intent
making antiques of the neauce
and eldering the nuance
it creates the kind of characters
that a captives audience
would need to falling love with
with her story
through all the glory
through all the deceit
giving the majority the rules
so that those who audience
these actions
could stand tall
to speak from the stump of Morality
of the wickedness of those
 they refuse to champion
but would rather draw conclusion
as the real championed hero
stands to challenge the villain


                                              EACH GRAIN  OF SALT
                                                 by Sonido Ritmo

                                        The sages steamed in the skillet
                                            until they became smoked
                                    she removed the stems and add garlic
                                    the fumes, she coughed from the smoke
                           the peppers made her gag as she turned her head away
                                 only to cry from the onions I once heard her say
                         the grounded pork in the render let its lard moisten this pan
                           when the meat brown she added the sauce to the pan
                                    the spices more than aromus there flavors
                                                   through and through
                                   to simmer meld and remold then she the Texas 
                                     Mesquite flavored brandy  bought the whole thing
                                          together to be plated and consumed
                                                   simple clean and clever
Form: Ballade

The Islands of San Juan - Timeshare

THE ISLANDS OF SAN JUAN - TIMESHARE

[FOLKTALE]

IN A PORTION, A SPELL IS CASTE.
THE PEOPLE ARE CALLED NUGLUMMI.
IN A TRANCE STATE, THEY EAT HONEY AND BEES ARE FORM FROM THEIR EYES.
INSIGHTFULLY THEY BEGIN TO TRANSFORM THE TERRAIN AND ISLANDS FORMED FOR THE FREEDOM OF WOMAN AND MAN.

THE PEOPLE OF THE SEA ARE FREE IN THE PUGET SOUNDS.
DOUGLAS FIR GROWS TALL.
THE LANDSCAPE IS EVERGREEN AND THE LUMMIS ARE SALISAN.
DIALECTIC VERSIONS OF THIS LANGUAGE ARE POSSESSED.
THEIR LOGIC IS HOW THEY TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.

*

THE PENINSULA THAT RESIDES IN THEIR TOPOGRAPHY IS VAST IN SHAPE AND FASHIONED BY THE UNINHABITED PORTAGE ISLAND WHERE THEIR RESERVED LAND NOW LAYS.  LIKE MANY NORTHWEST COAST TRIBES, THEY GASTRONOMY CONSISTS OF THE COLLECTING OF SHELLFISH, GATHERING OF PLANTS SUCH AS CAMAS AND DIFFERENT SPECIES OF BERRIES, AND MOST IMPORTANT, AS SALMON FISHERMEN, THEY DEVELOPED “REEF NETTING.”

THEY ENJOY POTLATCH ON THE ORCAS ISLAND, SAN JUAN ISLAND, LUMMI ISLAND, FIDALGO ISLAND, PORTAGE ISLAND, AND NEAR POINT ROBERTS AND SANDY POINT.
IN ALL NUGLUMMI, WERE COMMERCIAL TO THEIR TRADE.
THEY GREATER HARVEST IS TODAY.

THE PADDLE TO LUMMI IS 68 CANOEING FAMILIES PADDLING HAND-MADE CANOES TO THE LUMMI RESERVATION FROM PARTS OF WASHINGTON STATE AND BRITISH COLUMBIA.

**

[TODAY]

THESE ISLANDS OF THE PUGET SOUNDS IS TOO FAR AWAY TO HEAR.
WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, THE SEA SWEEPS THE BEACH.
REMEMBRANCE IS IN WALKING SILENTLY AND HEARING THE TRIBAL SINGING IN SALISH.

THESE ISLANDS ARE A CASTAWAYS HAVEN – A HARBOR OF CONTENTMENT, WHICH LAY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA AND THE NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES.
ROMANTIC ENDEAVORS ARE BASED ON YOUR IMAGINATION.
THESE ARE THE SAN JUAN ISLANDS OF WASHINGTON STATE.
MAY YOUR VISIT BE SAFE!

***

April

April

Admitting that I don’t 
Still care even though it’s not fair
to be without everything
that made me 
exactly what it was to feel
what it was to be real
and now I don’t care anymore

Like the hands on a clock change 
Arms roll loose and free
Never knowing what to grab
Or to even believe in me
To catch a fall from a distance
Even though it’s right next to me
You still can’t believe 
I’d be there for every instance

Rollin like eyes on a face 
too bad the smile’s fake 
showing  mistakes
never seeing through to the truth 
but the words can’t lie 
when it makes the features
turn, to a painful time

Cause the thought remains				
Of how it’s never the same									       How I changed my ways
In these turbulent days
I can’t face now what’s in store
Cause there’s always gonna be that much more
Waiting, and hiding, 
Behind every curve
Like the moonlight
Sitting on the edge of your nerves
Shattering hopes and dreams
Misleading 
And revealing what’s not anymore


When the light shines green
its just to deceive
Even though it’s against
Everything you’ve seen
It’s dark 
Inside the heart
Filled with stains from yesterday’s rain
Leaving what’s left in the distance
And never feeling what’s real anymore
Try to look past the stage, of the rage
Knowing full well that
In this world we dig our own graves

Take me, I can not fight myself
Stretching, a life’s worth is just too much
Saddening, to run from my old self
Causing, a stigma in my eyes 

You hear a chime
Lost in age, 
A match to a time
Before May
When everything was safe

Take everything with a grain of salt cause
In the end it’s no one’s fault
Like assault
On a memory fading in the wind
No matter what it’s still a sin
Just roll with the punches kid
It’ll all turn round in the end

Premium Member Sleeping Kangaroo -Don Johnson-

sleeping         (( COLLABORATION * Don Johnson ))


by~ DON JOHNSON

The Nullabor it does abhor
the desert  in it standing
The broken heart
he keeps apart 
where Eagles are a landing
kangaroo is prolific cos good seasons bring in millions
they shoot them for the last hundred years,
Hoppy is still there in millions
Almost a plague after rain
The cure the joy the madness ploy, just catch a little Shiela
but broken hearts tend to self destroy
The one true love, to feel her
so searching for the lock of eyes upon the Nullabor
kangaroo does abound, dead straight the road for sure  
Ironic tale sour grapes inhale,
He sleeps upon the plain
his swag is near the old Ute, and the dog is ever watchful
his protector is a beaut 

~civilization calls~

he has to go back to the city streets
And searching ever searching for the eyes of lady sweet.


***by~ POET D:

Searching and searching till weak eyes fall asleep.

~civilization calls~

Calls the plague of raining streets! 
The sleeping kangaroo took me into the abyss of sour grapes.
A wildlife with wildfire turned over by wildflowers.
Seascapes; full of sand that no one dared to understand!
Drowning underwater in a universe that had no expand.
Where the passer-by's felt the expression of sadness in his sleeping face.
All it took was experiencing the world with one lonely look.
A grain of salt, in the night sky!
Where clouds ‘walk-sneak and / clouds-cry like a whirlpool’, 
Tears from a near by fountain deep in a valley.
Where we can sing for roo's sleeping heart.
Death in a wild flower mourning asleep on the hour.
Seeing’ is believing when Shiela appeared.
Drying tears with her sweet eyes over the desert lands.


A Collaboration with *DON JOHNSON 

~MY COLLABORATION CONTEST~

Mind Games and Love

It doesn't matter who you are, I know you'll agree,
maybe not completely, but to some degree.
I want to hear what you have to say, 
about how we love each other today.

Love today is a joke and a shame. 
No one knows what it is besides a game.
The divorce rate is sky high, 
at the first signs of trouble people say goodbye. 

What happened to that thing we called trust?
We switched that around and now we say lust.
How are you supposed to find your soul mate?
When men and women give it up on the first date.

Some or most people like this, 
but all I want is good evening and maybe a kiss.
I don't want to go any further with you. 
I guess I am one of the select few.

Even if there is something there,
and we do have this feeling we share.
It seems like it goes away much too soon, 
and the once feelings we had, we've become immune. 

In the future we might put together our flames, 
but right now you want to play mind games?
To me it doesn't make any sense, 
why people do this and put up a defense.

We both should know that there will be fights, 
but we see this and decide to give up our rights.
Then as I lay there wanting to call you for any reason, 
I'll tear out my insides just to hear your voice of treason. 

My eyes will water and tear up and blur my vision, 
and I will lay there for hours, just me and my indecision.
I don't know, maybe this is my fault, 
that you take my feelings with a grain of salt. 

Let me say that I am done playing, 
and I am done looking around and surveying.
I just want to find someone good and nice, 
but with each one I find, its just another roll of the dice.
© Chris Matt  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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