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Premium Member Twas the Night Before Any Christmas

'twas  the night before any Christmas...

And all over our any town,
Lonely seniors tried so hard to forget,
What life was like in a land long ago.
When husbands or their wives were still living,
and the kids were all still home, very giving,

Today, that device called a phone,
Is not used even though they
are now even in cars?
And families send you photos of them in bars?
Or...places to impress we silly old elves!
"Why don't they leave us alone and get a life 
for themselves."

So off they go, these abled bodied-beings,
Not even dreaming that perhaps one day, 
they will be ancient and alone, too.
So, whether it's Christmas or just a plain day, 
pick up any phone you own!
Say hello to the living,you cannot speak
to the dead!
What is wrong inside your head?

Don't think a text or email can ever replace
lovable  you.
And as for our"busy" excuses?
I won't say what I call that.
What, are you...a conceited aristocrat?

Call your friend, cousin,grandmother, 
grandfather,Mother or Dad.
Anyone that you care about.
If not, it tells me it's you....it's only
..whom you value.

These old folks in the twilight of their 
years,
Must not be ignored, you never see 
their silent tears.
Do people no longer care?
They miss being loved and respected,
And believe it or not,
A dog or a cat will not make it for them.
They need a human being,I ask...when?

These seniors are terrified to call you 
at home or at work.
In a world that over glorified technology,
Where life has become one word  
communication.
And there is no life on earth,
Except living in the Facebook Nation?

Worse, emojis are not cute,
Nor, what does it say about you?
And more horrid to me, when the initial of 
your baptismal name becomes you?
It's sad..and as for automated replies? 
Are you kidding?
An insult to humanity.
None of us is royalty.
Conceited, full of self, you bet.

I don't know where the life I knew 
has gone.
I don't even know where love 
has gone.
We all morphed into Alexa's?
I cannot give birth to the past.
Just talk to my walls and stare at
unwashed frying pans..alas!

PanagiotaRomios
4/26/2019
2:15 pm PST
Form: Rhyme


Flaming Gorge

Eighteen and feline lean 
Headed for all those places I've never seen 
As I hit the road with a big grin 
Setting out so I will win
In a place, I have never been 
I must not be late 
I have a job that awaits
 
After the interview, I pretty much knew
What I would do
I will be in a place where the sky is so blue 
With a bunch Of people, I barely knew 
As we get on our way they say 
Won't be back for twenty-five days
 
We get paid for every hour we are awake 
Now I'm wondering if they aren't fake 
Arriving in remote places 
Hope I can handle these paces 
Up all night till morning light
Didn't feel quite right

As we left the job site 
I thought about being up all night 
Until the job is done 
The money is great but I am spun 
Nothing about this job was any fun 
Off to another place with crazy Kevin 
Not aware that soon I would be headed for heaven
 
Climbing up Flamming Gorge 
It's easy to see why its so high 
When we cross the peek 
Everything looked so bleak 
As we lost the bakes 
No kidding this was for all the stakes
Why must I pay for Kevin's mistake

As I open the door when I felt 
The truck slide even more 
Side to side what a hell of a ride 
I'm just glad we did not turn 
The truck into a glide

I can't hide behind I was scared 
To get to the bottom side 
When the truck stopped I popped out the door 
To chalk this truck so it would roll no more
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member This Is It

What do I want to write?
I feel like I could write and write
I will write about hard
What is hard?
Is it the opposite of soft?
Or does it mean difficulties?
Whatever it is meant
I just want to tell you that 
Life is not hard
It's not hard when you are struggling
It's not hard when you don't even know 
Where you are going
It's not hard when the part of you say go
And another part of you say no
It's not hard when the only one left is you
Just kidding
That never happens
So why do we think it's hard?
We like to complain
We like to do the grouching and moaning
We like to say "what is it, God?"
Instead of saying "this is it, God"?
Would God ever say "this is it"?
So why do we think this is it?
It's only the next step and the next step....
for the step after
Life is beautiful
Life is full of admiration
Adoration, aspiration
Go for it
Climb higher
The step is just beyond the corner
when we actually reach something
This is paradise
Unless we didn't know
This is for you and for me
Enjoy it
The thing is right now
Right here
Do you know what thing?

The Poetry Police Have Been Called! Look Out For P.D!!!

I’m trying a new refreshing write
My blessed  Soul word out of sight 
Maybe my view should truly change
Having a good look at new poetic range

I don’t want to upset the infamous P.D.**
The one who’ll  police me in 3D
Undercover poet, that apparently is not?
If I reach for my pen, he’ll take his shot!

On the run with out my needed soul
I better hide in that deep dark hole.
As he Ass kisses all those lovely ladies
Maybe he wants to have their babies??

Taking advantage of his poetic power ;-)
I bet in reality he’s as sweet as a flower!
What horrid word’s I use without my belief 
If I get caught, he may smash out my teeth!

A poet on the run from a cop so hot?
In P.Ds eyes, a poet, that I am not??
To be or not to be, that is his question?
Fountain Pen to my head, I’ll sign his confession!

Banged up in this inspirational cell
“Not a poet” written on walls of limerick hell
“P.D waz here “ plastered for all to see
As soon as he reaches for his pen, you better turn and flee!!

(Welcome and embrace our new Poet friend
I’ll love and embrace him until the end
I trust he’ll visit my poems, and call them crap
That’s my plan, body armoured up, ........I’ll just have a nap.)

**Poetry Destroyer 

Only Kidding P.D. And welcome :-)

Obviously, i can't tell you what form this is!!
Form:

Premium Member No Sh1t Sherlock

[Inspired by ‘Stating The Obvious’
Contest but doesn’t meet the spec]


Millionaire, Bartholomew Fairfax
Admitted today, he ‘forgot’ to pay tax

Goodness gracious, well I never
Knock me over with a feather
Who’d have thought it
Pull the other one

And this from his latest press release
The girl on his arm was not his niece

You’re kidding, no way
No sh1t Sherlock, you don’t say
Tell me something I don’t know
Shut the front door, I’ll be blowed

His jewel bedecked wife in her large golden carriage
Is backing her man for the sake of their marriage 

Who’d have guessed it, Gosh, who knew 
Crikey, Get away with you,
Well I’m gobsmacked,
I was not born yesterday

Still to come in The News tonight
Two youths in a pub have been in a fight
And the final result in formula one...
The man in the fastest car has won

Goodness gracious, well I never
Knock me over with a feather
Who’d have thought it
Pull the other one
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Not Meant To Be...

Just a while ago
I was happy
in a split second
it all changed

you had to leave
I hate the goodbyes
I will never get use to them

I hate the fact 
that you can't stay
I wish we didn't 
have to part ways

moments like these 
I want to cuff your hand to mine
never to loosen the grip
who am I kidding?

We're not meant to be
reality tend to skulk in
when it's the least welcomed
it's going to be difficult

but maybe it's for the best
maybe this time we need 
to say goodbye forever

because I can't live like this
I'm slowly dying, 
I’m slowly forgetting 
how to breathe…

Trauma and Addiction go hand in hand

Addiction is the compensation for something lost in childhood. You are not addicted to the substance or the thing, but it's a release from the trauma that you compensated with the substance and the addiction those feelings bring What’s crazy is
Most of our lives depend on blind faith
I was given some wise words of wisdom one time in therapy. He said, "You go to sleep with the unconscious faith that in the morning your eyes will open to see a new day." I paused and replied, "Holy crap its true!",
that means we all actually have faith built in even when we doubt we do. Even in doubt, you still have faith every minute of the day with every breath you anticipate that it will oxygenate, moving carbon dioxide from your blood to your lungs. This process is blind faith, aka body’s gas exchange Crazy right to think you’ve been searching for faith, and you have had it all along So when addiction steps in
That faith is skewed or barely hanging on So blame your parents. Just kidding they knew nothing more than what they were taught and what their eyes perceived in their own environment endured, which was full of fear, sadness and anger that unconsciously transferred to us the unaware and new baby who one day too, would be an adult now with trauma and fears without reason until they realize the reason was you. We only seen the aftereffects our caretakers were subjected to due to their upbringing where they learned to neglect, blame and shame not from their own wants but their surroundings, they too were emotionally enslaved and so on before them and all their generations passed too. This is how their trauma affects you. Addiction starts compensating for something lacking, masking an unhealed wound Pain that was never meant for a child to go through or bear painful feelings that don’t belong to you
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Every Tunic’s Tucked

EVERY TUNIC’S TUCKED

squeamish that every tunic’s tucked
on one side, lopsided, uncouth
on the page, in the book - why is
every model told to tuck her hand
inside her pocket, jam her socket
into her pants, plunge me into distress.
If they want us to buy online, can’t
we size it up ourselves. I laugh
like crazy…going crazy…the lazy
love to push buttons and tuck.
well i’m out of luck, looking through
glaring pages, glossing over, needled.

insensitive to my plight? perhaps
you have your own quirk. don’t
laugh behind my back…hit me
on the chin. just don’t tuck your tunic
with your hand in one pocket. i panic
at the unprofessional modelling. i turn
away, i scorn, i feel sick. the lazy
like to set up every one the same.
their camera should be ashamed…
how lame. let me speak…let me shout.

i was kidding about the chin -
keep it to yourself…

All Work

Out on the heated tarmac
Sounds of multiple aircraft engines
Fumes from the planes
Lung clogging matter inhaling 
Sporadic glow from the sun
Through skies filled with clouds
Dancing beside and around each other
Like a great spread of grazing sheep
Happy passengers boarding their on-time-flight
Security alert!
Be extra vigilant 
Man your post, observe all things strange
Who are they kidding?
It’s me, not them, if I have any say in the matter
Certainly not them and I
Since I would have long been gone
They say in a security emergency
Stand at your post
I say, run, run, run
The first life you save should be your own
Think I am selfish
Try standing before someone 
Who does not value their own life
With chest filled with organic matter
Wires attached to a timer
They say stand at your post
I say you would better, run, run, run

Premium Member My Fear of Darth Cay-Der

Guess who is afraid of Darth Cay-der, the cat of all cats?
I am not kidding. Darth Cay-der frightens me, grandma.
She rolled her eyes, and then the dice. We are playing Monopoly.
Tonight in heaven.  

Her photo fills me with glee but these heavenly visits are much better.
The angel began to tell me I had to leave.
I am arguing with her. Just a few more minutes, I plead.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is on this morning, the angel says.
If you get up now, you can watch it before work.
She convinces me, so my eyes flutter open

Much to the relief of my dog who has a full bladder.
I open the door, so he can relieve himself.
But a blast of cold wind hits him in the face.
He backs up.
Maybe Darth Cay-der is out there too.

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