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Inside the Hilton Hotel With Rats

All I hear of Hilton Hotels is terrible,
making mistakes but taking the money, 
slanderous to staff now that ain’t funny, 
acting all proper job 
when a proper nob, 
discrimination I can prove 
seeing certain staff removed, 
we had no HR we could turn to
the manager had no concern for staff like you 
setting me up to be disciplined and sacked 
somewhat misfired though that plan, fact, 
and when I was eventually fired 
it was illegally done I’m no liar, 
if Hilton Hotels challenge this poem as libel 
then I will prove it’s not a lie I will, 
they keep managers that manage like monsters 
power mad heads become like satanic imposters,
this manager got sacked but still works for them
he's the manager of the York Hilton 
they charge too much 
care too little 
so to Hilton Hotels here’s my middle!!!
© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Actions Script Our Future

"The future depends on what you do today." - Mahatma Gandhi

Sages long ago, from experience
and insight have stated in unequivocal terms
that our future depends on
what we do today. So, spring into action
and leave the comfort zone.

Turn away from the shadows
of the past, mirroring fear and doubt, 
of actions that misfired
of battles fought in vain
or dreams that never came true,
giving one aches and self- contempt
making one withdraw into a life of inaction.
 
Instead, search for new opportunities,
fan the flames of self- love
flickering within,
never before fanned,
yet may blaze and blossom.

it will script new stories
breathe fresh life into you.
it will come in the form of quieting peace
like a hand holding one, never letting go

find joy in giving up a plan that went futile
take one day at a time, live now
and steal the moment like a thief.

extinct are our Yesterdays, 
illusory are our Tomorrows, 
Today is all that exists, 
what there is and all there is.

When seeds of action are sown today
We shall reap the harvest later

today is our way up hill
the arena for action decreed
the stage set for the show
the tool and trade for life.

so, toil relentless today.

panic not over yester years,
rant not on chances missed
greet Today, right in front!
live Now.

render it your respiration and perspiration
strive, find and reap rewards galore!

Premium Member A Series of Unfortunate Darwin Awards

The Darwin Awards are a posthumous honor, recognizing those who have improved the human gene pool by removing themselves from it by their own foolish actions.

In a robbery way out in Long Beach
Elliot's handgun misfired in the breech
    Down the barrel he took
    A quite scatterbrained look
Then made it more than a figure of speech

There was a foolish fellow named Gary
Who gulped gasoline over near Cary
    The fuel made him gag
    So he fired up a ***
And now smokes in the state mortuary

"Look, no helmet!" Phil proudly decried
In the headgear disobedience ride
    He stood for his rights
    Then put out his lights
When he flew off his Electra Glide

An impatient Korean got miffed
And was ramming the doors of the lift
    Then went a bit daft
    When he got the shaft
But his ride to the bottom was swift

References:
http://jdgroover.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/the-2013-darwin-awards-are-out/
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2012-03.html
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2011-03.html
http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2010.html
© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Early Blossoms

All England, blinking nervously, is out!
A little mild spell, much to our surprise,
has brightened frowsy February skies.
We sniff the air with nostrils schooled in doubt.

Baffled by balm, the fruit trees have misfired.
Like foolish virgins, hurrying on their scarves,
They've pushed out blooms half-petaled and half-starved.
The coming frosts will slice them like cheese-wire.

And I have loved you far too eagerly.
My half-cocked hopes have withered on the bough.
I should have doled my sweets more meagerly -
then, had I granted space, and time, and light,
your hobbled feelings might have taken flight,
in any time or place - but England. Now.
Form: Sonnet

A Beast of Chirality

I blink my eyes and then the world is gone. 

Open once again to see some peons upon the lawn.

They came to hear the Lion yawn and swipe a wife by dawn.

That's why I keep my pride and believe,

to conceive that it's respite is my reprieve.

But you yuppies be just mere pawns in the grand scheme;

placed at rank 2 file C.

I treat myself to treats I don't need to ask the priest.

I fill a lady's niche when God's dead like Friedrich Nietzsche.

I'm an autonomous man, the world needs me.

Due to greedy deeds, I lost the lot of you to petty thievery.

Now standing orthogonal to the bishop you orthodox Cis.

Tearing holes in the fabric of time while mother nature sits and knits that. 

Amidst a scrimmage over minish mishaps, fisticuffs and misfired mitts with whiplash.

Hexed by wind and turbulent syntax.

As activists vehemently flail at the fascist crux; only to be met by impasse.

Making my attempt to love exclusively an outward expression;

a barrage of affection bombarding the good intentions of a meta-man’s vision.

Otherwise known as fortified Freudian defense mechanisms.

To deal with ideals in an asymmetric system. 

Oh but I pray praise that I am what I be.

Hallow thy be virile amongst a creed of faulty seeds.

Yet I’m an enantiomer, a Chiral Beast;

my courage can never be superimposed upon the fear of defeat.

Finally granted with the Coupe de Gras when disagreements meet.

As if graced by chance, I advance with the apex of a Sword’s vertice.

Striking clean from the left to then evade your deceit.

I take a seat while a woman cleans my wounds with peace.

Ahh but even in victory, the warrior’s woe must be debriefed.


Early Blossoms

All England, blinking nervously, is out! 
A little mild spell, much to our surprise, 
has brightened frowsy February skies. 
We sniff the air with nostrils schooled in doubt. 

Baffled by balm, the fruit trees have misfired. 
Like foolish virgins, hurrying on their scarves, 
They've pushed out blooms half-petaled and half-starved. 
The coming frosts will slice them like cheese-wire. 

And I have loved you far too eagerly. 
My half-cocked hopes have withered on the bough. 
I should have doled my sweets more meagerly - 
then, had I granted space, and time, and light, 
your hobbled feelings might have taken flight, 
in any time or place ... but England. Now.
Form: Sonnet

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