Long Griswold Poems

I Want a Divorce
by M. Griswold
06132020

I want a divorce and I want it right now.
I can't live with you anymore, anyhow.
My life is in torment from loving you.
It's like loving a rock that said I...

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Garbage In is Garbage Out
by M. Griswold
06152020

Garbage in is garbage out, facts are facts beyond any doubt.
Experts say what you put into your head is what you're all about.
So be careful of what you feed...

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Just Do what You Say
by M. Griswold
04012020


Why don't people do what they say their going to do.
Why do people commit to help then not follow though.
Maybe it's because it's just not that important to them.
Or...

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1797 the town of Griswold, London
in back of the banks lived a wizard who wanted the world better
he delighted in a decorated orb which his fashioned around his neck
the shadows of light perfumed its hidden...

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Only Time Will Tell
by M. Griswold
05122020

Only time will tell if we're meant for each other.
Or if this love we feel belongs to yet another.
We must take it slow and easy not to upset
this time table...

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Upon this Naked Parchment Bare
by M. Griswold
07202022

Every stroke is dimensional against this naked parchment bare.
Until the words appear, getting them to share their mystery there.
And when the master makes them dance and line-up in their...

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The Shoodbe-Wouldbe,Tobe-gottabe, Wannabees
By M. Griswold
11252021

Lush and moist are those Shoodbe-Wouldbees.
Sticky with choice is the Tobe-Gottabees.
Mix them together just so and what do you have.
A Shoodbe-Wouldbe-Tobe-Gottabee's quick healing salve.

Tobe used in extreme cases of sour quotations.
Doctoring...

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To Mend a Broken Heart
by M. Griswold
06222020

To mend a broken heart what medicines do I use.
What salves does one apply for healing to infuse.
Is there needle and thread to stitch it's torn edges.
Or sorrow's tears...

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And Then Came Four
by M. Griswold
06192020

Woa unto those who live within Man's last of days.
Four Horsemen will come amidst a great Holy blaze.
Each bringing with them their own form of disaster.
Unleashed from the heaven's by...

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You've Given Me a Gift
 by M. Griswold 
03292020

You've given me a gift Lord to live with intensity.
But I haven't understood this gift You've given me.
Is it for profit or spirit, I question most profoundly.
For...

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Morning Sounds
by M. Griswold
06212000

I awake in the morning to all kinds of sounds.
First of which is me, snoring profound.
Next usually comes a burp and a fart ,
but generally speaking, I can't tell them apart.

Then comes...

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Temptation
by M. Griswold
07182020

Temptation, temptation, that candied shadowed sin.
Always teasing to be pleasing those desires within.
Pecking away at the walls of your fortitude's tower.
Hoping to steal your spirits inner strengths power.

Lurking somewhere deep within your mind's...

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Of Sand, Wind and Sea
by M. Griswold
12151999

In solitude I drift with the sand, wind, and sea.
Not remembering where I started, nor where my ending will be.
Thoughts shifting like the sands washed by the tide.
Swirling memories...

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Boogers To You
by M. Griswold
012700

There's all kinds of boogers that come from your snotz
Depending on the weather is the form that you gotz
Also the shape of a nose and the size of the hole
Makes a...

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Dust Bunnies Ya’know
by M. Griswold
01042023

Little dust bunnies that we all know.
Li’l bits of fuzz that under things grow.
And if we don’t clean them all out.
They become BIG and scurry about.

They run with just a little...

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A Voice in the Wilderness: by M. Griswold 07102020

This is the message of God from olden days.
Given to man so he would change his ways.
As back then, it's true in these present times.
God again, speaks...

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Mrs. Brown and the Great T.P. Run
by M. Griswold   11252021

Mrs. Brown went to town for toilet paper she could squeeze.
Arriving at the store she asked the clerk petty, pretty please
“Where is the toilet...

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I Am My Will
by M. Griswold
05022019

I am the product of mine own souls will.
It's strength or weakness is my choosing still.
No other is to blame for who I am or who I will be.
For I...

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Stir Crazy Daze
by M. Griswold
03222020

Our Government has quarantined us to minimize
this Pandemic which has grown too wild in size.
Now we are all house bound captives to realize
that the internet is our only hope to socialize.

What...

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From The Edge of Reality's Plain
by M. Griswold
090204

Greetings and salutations from the edge of reality's plain.
Of course this means I think with the right side of my brain.
A place where thoughts most always expand out...

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Sweet Words
By M. Griswold
07082022

Speak to me sweet words of a romantic kind.
Reach deep within our love to which we bind.
Then gently touch passions with soothing verbs.
Of a type that excites like scent ripened herbs.

Declarations streaming...

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Melted Chocolate
by M. Griswold
08292020

You’re essence is sensual, your body divine.
With a flavor that's sexual, most finely refined.
To eat of your moist flow, I'm most inclined.
With a frenzy of a lover, I begin my sweet dine.

Chocolate...

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Rob’n Peter to Pay Jack
by M. Griswold 
12222022

Rob'n Peter to pay Paul only to have Jack intervene.
Is beyond all words and is, I'm afraid, totally obscene.
For Peter is pissed that Paul still hasn't got paid,
and...

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"A Spiritual walk"

as i lay here tonight
i fight in my plight
blooming within the night
like a beautiful dance across the light
the universe within my sight
a mixture of both pain & gain
this is where life will remain
to...

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Do Dreams Ever Die
by M. Griswold
08112020

When one who dreams passes from this life unto death.
Do all those dreams dreamed lose their spirit and breath?
Do the dreamer’s dreams follow them into their grave?
To never live again...

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