Long Mayday Poems

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Maypole

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                                    Scarlet ribbons and virgin white,
                                     Adorning maypoles crowned with green.
                                     Springs festival evokes  delight.

                                     Through mists of time this pagan rite,
                                     Still celebrates it's Mayday Queen.
                                     Scarlet ribbons and virgin white,

                                     Young maids, entwining to excite.
                                     Hornpipes, with drum and tambourine,
                                     Springs festival evokes delight.

                                     Bestowing  blessings day and night,
                                     Bouquets of flowers fill the scene.
                                     Scarlet ribbons and virgin white,

                                     With blue intwined, graceful in flight.
                                     Mayday, shows love is evergreen.     
                                     Springs festival evokes delight.

                                     Maypoles, our symbols to unite,
                                     The gift of life we make between,
                                     Scarlet ribbons and virgin white,
                                     Springs festival evokes delight.


A Comic Strip Cartoon

One day in mid June, in far off Rangoon.
    The hand drawn baboon, a comic cartoon,
    Was flown to the moon, by hot air balloon.
    Then late afternoon, while in his pontoon.
    A massive monsoon, blew like a typhoon.
    He fired his harpoon, what's next! sometime soon.

    4/ 28/ 2017.

    ( The last adventure of baboon continued )

    With Mayday maroon, tied to his galoon
    He ditched his cardoon, but ate the dried prune.
    It was oppotune, with some good fortune.
    He missed a sand dune, and surfed the lagoon.
    Then with a soup spoon, rowed home to Cancun.
    He now plays basoon, in some old saloon.

    This was added after the contest was judged.
    The first of May twenty seventeen.
Form: Monorhyme

Forsaken Lands

1/5/21



Time I make a stand
And take command
Across forsaken lands

I've been able to create a plan
Much greater than
Anything before, knowing that Mother Nature can
Throw a wrench into any minor or major plan

Never watched another suffer, I stepped in and gave a hand
Even though very little of the population had
Ever tried to help a lady in distress or to save a man
Because they just never gave a damn

Continuing to age well or due to the lifestyle, starting to age bad
People that remained happy and others that stayed sad 
Some were always full of rage and mad

Very little or a lot of rainy days
In the sky a faint haze
Another unsolved and unexplained case
They often say this world works in strange ways
Turning out good or poorly and needing to say "Mayday"

Got it done with my mind and brainwaves
Stay against it or make way
Think I care, but I don't feel the same way
There'll be change made
On either side of the gateway
I would like to get a gold A.K.

I don't want to partake in the same thang
Time I change lanes
Instead of remaining in the same phase
During such strange days
Form: Rhyme

Mirror Vol Ii

I look myself in the mirror and I 
quickly look away, the man I see 
before me was different yesterday 
seems to me I worship the same 
God everyday, I been a slave to my 
flesh for too long still I'm hoping 
today is my payday, Mayday my life 
is in a state of emergency, they say 
it's power in prayer I hope so 
because me not doing so is hurting 
me, my surgeon says I gotta heart 
condition and the only way to fix it 
is to be sincere with repentance, 
forgiveness only takes place when 
the heart is broken and contrite, 
psych 101 when your mind is a 
slave, no matter how hard you try 
it's hard to escape, but the father 
threw a rope a way out of this 
destruction, the son gave it all up 
and it cost us nothing. So as I look 
back into that mirror I see what he 
saw imperfect perfection, sanctified 
sinner who by faith and grace he 
predestined
© Corey Ross  Create an image from this poem.

Letter To the Unborn

To whom it may concern
 The tick-tock never wait
The worst will come no late
  Sprouting from all corners, holy end
From west to east and back, wave counter-espionage with mask of fiend
 Who waters war ever growing seed, rest in his castle with Chateau D'yquem's bottles,
 While underdogs of the world, crouch as their heart beat rattles,
Mayday with burning fuels like volcano, mustn't be frightful 
 The hand that mould nuclear so faithful.

Seekers of peace, hardworking, they add more to the over-populace figure of land of dead
  Activist might know, they intervene with dying plead,
Hope, little like mustard, the rest of the world turned slaves to fear,
  This I know, death is very easy, I tune my Lear,To babysit my day, 
For, sorrow is the gold the earth got to pay We will die, never to die again.


Premium Member Cherry Blossom Rain

The humming bees and hummingbirds hang just above the dew
which sparkles through the hazy yon of shadows vastly few.
For lo, the sun peeks sleepily above the emerald east
as warbling birds announce to all, the Mayday breakfast feast.
At last it’s time to celebrate the annual awakening,
now won’t you please get out of bed, oh maiden of my Spring?
I beg you rise and take my arm, they will not save us plates
and down beside the entry stoop, a carriage for us waits!
I’ll not begrudge your makeup smears, nor your tangled hair,
if you’ll but cease this hibernation; you are not a bear!
Come now, free your frosty mind of winter’s chilly dream,
and in the cherry blossom rain, my youthful love redeem.
Alas, the fading carriage sounds. Great, now I’ll have to walk,
and on my way back up the hill...I’m buying you a clock.

4/18/15
Entry for On The First of May
Form: Sonnet

Buzzfeeding Sustenance Eating Drinking Beyond Point of Satiation

Buzzfeeding sustenance (eating/drinking) beyond point of satiation

Bloated swollen cheeks
analogous to first Chinese Brother,
who swallowed the sea,
now non sequitur 
off beaten track i.e.
less apropos re: guarding
par for race course as if

ace driver won Grand Prix
latter referencing international
horse race for three-year-olds,
founded in eighteen sixty three
931 + 932 = above number
satisfying ghost of Fibonacci.

Original idea predicated whereby
all Americans heartily feast
(stuff themselves to the gills)
salivating cornucopia dime
a dozen lonely people
bemoaning holiday re:
traditional Thanksgiving time,
celebrating joie de vivre chime

wine glasses clink full house,
where ushers pantomime
proffer gobbledygook and
motion rapidly hungry guests
toward smorgasboard prime
tables for gluttonous
to commit punishing crime.

Tentative arrangement made,
whereby oldest sister, and husband,
(who live a jaunt away from Maple Shade
more precisely Woodbury New Jersey)
would swing by Schwenksville

comprising one car motorcade,
thence to shuttle 31.5 miles southeast
our mutual (of Omaha) friend,
I met when counted orbitz
during late 30/early thirtieth decade.

Offer to drive out of their way
presented, since our 2009
Hyundai Sonata did betray
accountability, dependability...
reliability oy vey
woolworth no more than

couple/few Benjamins
yet real challenge constitutes
yours truly, née
theme underlying mein
kampf pennilessness pray
I did (despite being orthodox

atheist) to no avail
relying upon social security
regarding disability (mine) Mayday
forthrightly, feebly, faintly...
calling before men
donned with white coats

came to take me away
to the happy home with trees
and flowers and chirping birds
and basket weavers who sit,
smile, twiddle their thumbs and toes.

Communication break down 
compromised eating humble pie 
regarding this ole man
upended above mentioned plan

whereby attending 
hosted by: Gail la Dorfman 
afforded rubber express
thus with Forrest Gump I ran
all the way across 
Ocean thru to Japan.

Premium Member Serenity

The sea can be an unforgiving environment, always expect the unexpected.
Quote by Poet.




I was five miles west of Plymouth Sound in my sailing boat 
Nothing gives me more pleasure than being at sea afloat
I'd been practising my sailing and had just rounded the bay.
Getting myself prepared for an upcoming race in late May.

An urgent message came through that a storm was approaching 
I fixed a course straight for home; a fierce storm I wasn't risking 
The waves started rising and I reached down to secure the boom 
A sudden gust caught it knocking me overboard, and I felt doom.

The cold water brought me to, and I felt the back of my head
There was a wide gash, and I saw that my palm had turned red
My boat had drifted out further and was about thirty feet away 
I was at the mercy of the waves and couldn't send a mayday. 

The back of my head was pounding and I was getting weaker
And the waves were getting higher and it was getting bleaker
A bird watcher on a cliff with a scope had seen me come to harm
And had quickly phoned the local coastguard to raise the alarm.

I was drifting in and out of consciousness and felt the end was near
All I could think about was my wife and family and those I hold dear
I felt very sleepy and a feeling of serenity came over me like a wave
I was getting weaker now and thought this cruel sea will be my grave.

I could hear the throb of an engine and could see lights flashing red
And right above me was a coastguard helicopter hovering overhead
A winchman lowered himself down and then grabbed hold of me
And around my waist put a harness and winched me up to safety.

I passed out with fatigue and when I came to, I was in a hospital bed
And for a minute I thought is this heaven and am I already dead ?
A week later I was discharged and I sought out those who'd rescued me 
The coastguards and the bird watcher to thank them all personally.

I was sitting at home when a man from the coastguard phoned me
He said "I've got some good news, we’ve found your boat out at sea
There’s no sign of any damage and she was afloat and upright 
And we’ve towed her into the harbour, so your future is looking bright”.
Form: Rhyme

Defecation Clogged Toilet Bowl Courtesy Metamucil

Defecation clogged toilet bowl courtesy metamucil..
and found (me) zee papa pooped out

**** eyes zing thee
nightly dump for yesterday
July 8th, 2020 - whereby
plunger helped obstruction give way
I nearly lost me life and limb oy vey

oh my dog, the same asinine outcome
which spurred poet to get underway
matter of fact, a replay
of excretion almost occurred today
and thus an attempt to describe

a tragicomic scenario
regarding bowel movement size of subway
overflowing potty nearly 
found yours truly quay
king, yet impossible mission 

arises to portray
unsightly situation, the
juvenile elements of style 
I hate to overplay
odoriferous subject matter
 
nsync with constipation
since laxative delineates, 
expedites, facilitates,... née
posits heavy load emanating out rectum
quite amazing what smelly waste 
exits out me

necessitating captain my captain 
to signal mayday
posterior end, a dime size orifice,
which malfunctioning sphincter muscles
one moost never be lackaday

'though kids and adults
laughed back in the day,
if and/or when Danny Kaye
tactfully poked fun
at such critical bodily phenomenon

equally important as a jackstay
to keep afloat body electric
'curse with auxiliary 
linkedin kickstarting jazzmatazz interplay
analogously precise as

Swiss made timepiece
said system responsible
to expel bodily toxins
upon which sitting on porcelain throne
one can softly utter hooray

thankful to experience relative pleasure
until one becomes feeble minded,
whereat fifty plus shades of gray
matter allows, enables, and
provides enjoyably foray

into the bathroom, which entranceway
hoop fully not barred nor off limits
cuz that primitive urge one best not delay
lest one requires lower
gastrointestinal intervention

especially if blocked up
fecal matter turns to clay
unless of course one doth
cause damage and betray
respect toward well
oiled human machine

exercising and eating healthy
avoiding backside skeleton musculature issues
yes... I reckon during twilight years
control over bowels doth slip away.

Premium Member Why we're married to the weather

Why we're married to the Weather 

The British Summer ebbs and flows, and with it moans of wrath and woe
They wait for months to see sun, they speculate will it come
It arrives… and within a week, they speak of burnt alive

It lasts for days or maybe weeks, the heatwave cooks, they act like freaks!
Too hot to work - life shuts down, or walk? They put their foot down 
Does talk cease… no, we’d be so lucky for five minutes peace

The air conditioning breaks down, the shops sell out of hand-held fans
The ice cream prices triple, my favourite raspberry ripple
Then rain comes… and all you hear, can't we have a bit of sun?

The rain is fine, hardly monsoon, the fine stuff that still wets you through
The brolly blown and battered breaks, the drains are blocked, the mud is caked
The garden… I've a watering can, still a hosepipe ban

The leaves turn gold and gently fall, the clocks go back the darkness calls
The autumn colour palette, Nature's cue to hibernate
But travel… plans are stopped, because the leaves the lines have blocked

The winter brings it's usual tasks; road closures, drifts and icy blasts
The children play in snow storms, the snowmen built in quick form
And nature… stirs a surprising crop, the wakened snowdrop

The April showers, the Mayday flowers, the country fayres washed out for hours
We British moan every twist, but yet we cannot resist
Like a spouse… we whinge and grouse, not a change would we arouse
Form: Sijo

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