Long Lackey Poems

Galactic Strings or Void of Space?

A poem’s akin to a necklace, one fashioned
of water-worn pebbles (from rarest of realms),
stone cold truths tumble-polished, love’s chord weaves together.
Do fossilized beads left behind in Life’s wake
spark faint hint...

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The Middle Years

She'd been wooed by dukes and diplomats
From Nome to Nagasaki,
Kept by mobsters, bishops, bureaucrats,
And a movie mogul's lackey.
She'd been plied with jewels, a fancy car,
Designer gowns and furs
By lots and lots of husbands,
Not...

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What’s the Hue of Your Heart?

Does ‘claim’ to be ‘___’ (1) not suggest one’s more Racist?
The Truth’s we’re all mongrels (and born of one mother!),
whatever our ‘Color.’ ‘Eve’ might have been monkey!
Best Science won’t lie...

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*I've been called a 'shrew,' told I am self centered, petty, and a few other rather insulting and invective names, so here is my rebuke.


Who plays the straight man for the one known as 'Schmoe?'
It's...

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You consider yourself a good, loyal foot soldier,
always doing what the big boss tells you to do
You're good at taking orders,
you're even better at following through
If there's a job that needs to be done,
and it...

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(In December 1936, English poet John Cornford
was killed in combat near Lopera, during the 
Spanish Civil War.  It was the day after his
twenty-first birthday.  Could this be the poem
he was formulating in his...

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You’ve been a yes man your whole life,
don’t know any other way to be
Licking the boots and sucking up real close
was the best way to get ahead,
according to your fawning calculation
Self-respect was an acceptable sacrifice
Being...

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Quoth felon fate t' nosy nature -
savoring sapid strays punctured.
Worn winds for eerie eavesdrop tarr':
"Why oft does thou nurse salty scars?"

Nosy nature hewn smooth visage
'to a sassy smirk - crushed chins' sway.
Ergo writ she ñ...

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Abuser  IF I HAVE MY WAY YOU'RE ALREADY FORGIVEN

I'm done being your doormat;
You've walked on me for the last time;
I'm not your personal lackey;
So you bully in school, U ain't cool
Ya wife abuser, it's...

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I am a Diehard Cubs fan
Tried and true
I wear cubbies Royal
And I bleed Cubbies Blue
I grew up watching Ernie,Billy and Santo
Ryno, Grace,and Leon
Were all my Heros.
Later it was Sosa, Maddux and Wood
They all lived through...

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Once, I was there to check a tall Zaki
And it became reason to meet khaki,
Very clean but most offices tacky:
A cop could turn one into a lackey!
 
I know The Police is for the Nation
But...

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By: Misty and Dwayne Lackey
Here is a poem My husband and I wrote together.



Painted on the walls of righteousness
is a heart that is black and cold.
Gold closed your sad eyes.
Find the lies inside a mold.
Crush...

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The Instigator
  
  The sky over Europe is silent, but there is fear 
  In the heart of many and the man who started 
  this fear is sleepless and swims...

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In the beginning there was God alone.'
He made all things to praise His name
Praise Him all creation' let everything
That has breath praise the Lord Yahweh.'
Praise Him all you demons.' Fall down and
Exalt the King of...

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Bewail paltry ministry that gentle breeze ch aunt.
Impatience and dream hack milestone and whisper, a hailstorm of ornery ilk hum.
Go by the gentle breeze and bring hope.
Leif Leif kink lackey of milky joy.

Gently, gently, gentle...

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She was the last to board the jetliner 
And had to stand forlorn 
As they found a seat for her.
Clutching a fat paperback
With no aide nor lackey in sight
She was flying to keep her date
With...

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Defenseless and drained of power
The reason is simple, you are a victim
an emotionless being without a heart

Hell is the snake in the room no one talks about
brainwashed lackey  - screaming silence
- suppresses me with...

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He said he loved her, 
though he didn't know her.
Sent her a pic to prove it,
but he was skunk-drunk.

She tweeted back;
“Pervert!”

Upset he retorted;
“Skank!”

A guy said he was a Capitalist lackey.
He tweeted:
“Drop dead socialist donkey.”

His wit...

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