Long Hedge Poems

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Overdraft Finds Me Chill and Off Balance

Penuriousness long did acquaint
yours truly, who feels loath
to lodge complaint
regarding series of unfortunate events
(Lemony Snicket be damned)
imposed monetary constraint,

now aghast with horror
(ain't no trick),
I unwittingly did faint,
only negative indebted interest accrues,
now if ever mister money bags I haint,
no gainsay purposelessness

to air principal plaint,
yet to fulfill personal daily quota
regarding poem writing
subliminally eases restraint
prompting good samaritan

deeds subsequent anointed saint
homelessness looms around
the corner crimping psyche
argh mental health depressed
courtesy poverty doth taint.

Seriously folks (especially Bugs Bunny), 
I best coon sitter
turning over new leaf versus "fake"
gilded pretense success and posthumous
famous author doth leave me awake
nsync courtesy restless leg syndrome

shakes bed (lamb - spouse) like earthquake,
whereby thwack with her elbow
finds broken rib cage, when thus spake
Zarathustra bidding me to branch off
and leave writing... say kickstart
panhandling as faux grubstake

with global warming...
formerly deeply buried
untold bajillion dollars free,
for taking, thus best not forsake
golden, silver, bronze... opportunity

analogously swimming within monied lake,
or accumulate stash tall as Taj Mahal
and/or Trump Tower livingsocial footloose
and fancy free gourmandizing
till I resemble Mar-a-lago sized beefcake

recklessly splurging penny wise
and pound foolish
proudly arrogantly boasting
what cutthroat tactics can accomplish,
hmm... perhaps contemplating
on whim purchasing Greenland
for a song (infringing,

extracting, bilking... copyrights) swish
goes signature scribble to abolish
purposeless law meant as hedge
to sideline ruthless machiavellian brash
art of the deal done courtesy genius
eh... so what if the global
financial market doth crash, viz fillet of fish?


Premium Member Being Veggie

Being Veggie 

Here I am.
From top to toe
A meat-free human
Don't ya know 

People asked me
Why the shoes?
I do not eat them.
I'd often muse.. 

But now I'm older
And life's moved on
With larger issues
To dwell upon 

I'll soon be forty
Years a veg.
No highland castle
Or trust fund hedge 

My account is clear.
My conscience too
But still with plenty
More to do 

It thrills my soul
The human-race
Denies nutrition
With a face 

A greater cause
Now lies before
The victims no longer
Just legs of four 

The truth is out.
Our selfish ways
May just have numbered
All our days.. 

And who'd have thought
To cure our blindness
We must return
To love and kindness.


Jinjagoliath
23rd September 2021
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Playing the Skins Game

There was a pair 
Both having creative flair 
Then another two 
Having nothing to do 
Twins on two wheels 
Looking for a steal 
No need for a club 
Being in the woods with these guys who were studs 
Partying at the lake 
Spending what they make 
Not thinking this is a mistake 
A DJ was not there 
No one cared 
Dancing the four 
Ignoring she walked out the door 
Searching for Leprechaun green 
Wearing tight tailored made blue jeans 
Eyeing to purchase a Porsche 
This film work was par for the course
Acting like a driving wedge 
She did something behind the hedge 
To get out of the rough 
Her emotions taking rejection real tough 
Using a cobra iron 
As a warning siren 
Stroking the little white ball 
Making sure she made the call 
A fair way to handle a difficult situation 
Getting a good lay and position 
Into the bunker it did land 
A sandy hazard needing to get out of a jam 
With a little twist and grip that was firm 
At first the cable television gallery showed their concern
It reached its goal 
Sinking into the hole 
All this happen when she was asleep 
From out of nowhere was the underwater creep 
Nothing much after that 
For the Princess brat 
Champion players enjoy the Seminole skins 
Betting on who will win 
Take each match 
Where an eagle or birdie may hatch 
Like it is your last 
And remember your lucrative past 
Since science overnight can turn weird 
Spreading a viral infection revenge demanding fear 
In the end see the results on the card 
Digesting the negativity could be hard 
Especially on the back nine 
Marching in rhythmic time 
Knowing this is the chapter’s finale 
Realizing the positive tally 
As the golfing masters put up their cleats to hang 
One may ponder over that space drink orange Tang 
Promiscuous Miss Samantha Lane does look like Danielle Kang
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Zoya's Tears For Kyiv

Zoya sits, now all alone, 
just staring through a window pain 
to where a pink magnolia blooms 
in someone else's garden. 
And all her dacha's winter buds 
are crushed and tombed in oil and mud 
where tank and track has churned 
and soldiers on their backs are burned 
and seep her garden soil in blood. 

Net curtains dim the window pane 
but she can count each passing train 
seen through the boundary hedge, 
and glimpse each combed 
and coiffured head 
at eight, and half-past nine, and ten, 
as Zoya sits upon a bed 
and sees them coming home again 
at five from Waterloo. 

Her curtains flap with icy blasts 
damp cushions lie with shards of glass 
and where her gentle cats once basked, 
dog packs now run her Kyiv street. 

Although the hosts are warm, and kind, 
Sweet Zoya is now seventy-nine. 
Her smile conceals her inner tears, 
her loss of ending peaceful years 
sat gazing through her bedroom window, 
towards her glowing sunflower fields, 
her husband still asleep beside her.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Oktoberfest written by Mrs Yolanda Joy Nicholsen

It is that time of year again 
wooden clog upon the cobblestone
the red telly in view beer maids 
slide the giant steins across 

long tables inside the crowded tent 
huge pretzel and brats hang sparingly 
over the doorway entrance while misty 
fog pour in chasing hedge hogs 

throughout the forest a rather full 
Marketplatz beckons my attention span
I notice the Bavarian alps in view
while riding the mechanical bull
 
I'm quite taken by the lanky block 
in the far corner adjusting stocking 
dashing to buy a few more hummels 
wooden nut crackers and incense burners

taxi!!!

Written by Mrs Yolanda Joy Nicholsen


Gloriously Fake Early Boyhood

Gloriously "FAKE" Early Boyhood

Yah, ma brew their,
     and American sister golden hair -
     afar and away
book as aye ken ream hem bar,
     yea when yar whiz jist a bay 
bee, hun me
     verily hoppy goo
     loo key lil boy whar 'r each day

o'r flowed with giddiness oot nar the
     secluded Harris estuary
frolicked amidst muscled shoals
     gnome hatter sky turned
     f'ty shades o' gray
hawk cool when
     barf heat squished sand
     hall lung pristine beach hooray

ah...those memories (hmm...oh...well)
     wii ch war newt mine,
     boot bar rowed fur room Jay
son and  argonauts cave his Oh kay
seance ah waz tip poor
     tuff ford me own may
mar ease, noon thee lass nay
var tha lease, aye fain tis eyes hub boat

     hoof "FAKE" sea
     yuck rat passageway
along tha loon lee coo west
     hove yar hug quay
thee pass sea if 'ick Ou shin sum
     moo with as ray
dee aunt gull lass oon lake now win me
daughter ring auld age aye

wharf heal moss elf ill eagle
     red dee tug hoe bye
bye, cuz hive eel
     emotionally frenzied, harried,
     and jangled as if
     o'er dost hay'n reedy to die
on barb bit char writs eye
lichen to a class five

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane, no...no...no...
     methinks oh pen hee van
     thar iz a big oop stares "guy"
     seen 'm once, when we booth said "Hi"
aye whiz juiced up t'har - me no lie,
what, a stripling lad,
     (thus jist man hedge gin my
flat hand outstretched wheel nigh

fin gars call loess tug getter try
tou pet yar palm awk
     coo pull hove feet
     fur him tha floor),
     now (NOT FAKE) chalk
wii ch hide id hawk
daring ma prime er skool daze
     didst slip smooth white

     totally tubular woo din
     lock (like) thin small
     round joint long stalk
con vein y'ant lee a'signed
     tuck clap 'race ears oot side den maze
wen axed bite t'eat char, me Noah talk!

Unknown Unsought Unthought

Travelling down these sentences we find
Unknown,unsought, unthought, but always real
A home where we can rest our  fragile minds

The people  dropped,the habits left behind.
The good, the mediocre, what we steal
While travelling with the sentences we find

The hate that frees,the love that too close binds
The heart, the soul, the body, how we feel
For homes where we can rest our  fragile minds

The touch that chills, the distances unkind
Unwished for yet demanding all the soul.
Unravelling are our sentences unblind.

The freezing looks,the glories undermined
Ill timed,ill gotten, ills both new and  old,
Hedge homes where we could rest our  fragile minds

I have never dwelt in realms of gold;
But there are many stories never told.
Suffering our own sentences we find
A  home that welcomes, our more liberal minds.

Premium Member Nothing To Hide

A wealthy hedge manager was arrested
Friends said he was 
Demanding 
Bold
A risk taker
Impeccably dressed
Impressive to watch 
He didn’t tolerate mistakes
Because time was money.

His wife cried in court
Stood by him
Until the girlfriends came out
Hints of lavish parties
Money spent on expensive jewelry
Secrets kept
Signs ignored by those
Paid to watch.

Dozens of executives
Arrested
Now cooperating
Operations closed down
Employees let go
In an uncertain economy.

Investors
Lost
Money 
Savings depleted
Trust never regained
For some it was the end of the road.

The market goes up
The market goes down
Because of a man
Who stole in plain sight
With nothing to hide.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Diabolique

Diabolique!

It's so tragic, in poetry!
There is no safe place to be.
Knives come at you with your
poetry, if political.

I do understand people 
now border on the hysterical.
Anyone on the right, in danger
of poetic execution.
Unjustifiably, diabolical!

But as in life, poetry is just
personal expression.
I wish it were not considered
a dance, so evil, one needs to
rush, find a priest and go to 
confession.

I want to be accepted as me.
Crazy, but I want to be honored
more than any animal or tree.
I will not hedge on this, freedom 
of all expression,
Requires depth, not just a hug and
a kiss.
It's integrity, lies in the freedom to be.
Freedom for all .....trumps imagery.

June 27, 2019
10am PST
Form: Rhyme

The Stolen Rose

I saw her yet unopened love in bloom
So fearing then another suitor's chance
I reached to steal it from the hedge too soon
But felt the sting of thorns upon my hands

So then instead I chose a diff'rent scheme
To seize the object of my heart's desire
With cunning I might steal her love unseen
And pluck the rose from out within the briar 

I shared with her the places of my soul
Where neither light nor love before could cull
I gave and yet somehow became more whole 
And by the time her love had blossomed full

    My heart had found to its great disbelief
    That she'd become the crimson-handed thief


7.31.18
Contest: Not Just any Old Rose 
Also submitted to contest: Rose Poetry
© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Sonnet

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