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Premium Member Best Friends

It was one of those days

Started with the shower

She wanted to join me

Which in any other day would’ve been great

But her best friend was sharing it sort of to speak

It was a sympathetic sort of share

Which was true

The wife did leave me on the Friday

To visit her mum

Coming back on the Monday

So technically she lied

Coming back on the Sunday

A good lawyer would pick up on this immediately

Granted, when I told her best friend she had left me

I maybe forgot to mention it was only for the weekend

Anyway, back to the problem at hand

The shower has packed in love

Okay sweet chops, I’ll be naked waiting for you

Right love, oh god don’t go into the bedroom

You bastard

She went into the bedroom

So anyway, since it was Sunday, I popped out for the rolls and papers

He did this every Sunday, the Lawyer explained

Two Police cars, sirens blaring, flew up towards the house

So as the Judge stated, jailing her for 90 days, taking into account the mitigating circumstances in this sorry affair

Could have been a lot worse, I suppose

So I was at a loose end, and a visit to the hospital was long overdue

Naturally I took the obligatory grapes and flowers

Technically, she was still the wive's best friend

But my god, if you could’ve seen the venom coming out of that one good eye

I swear, if she could speak through that wired jaw

I would have got a right ear bashing

So I sat down on the bench eating my grapes, thinking

I do hope they two can put this behind them

Probably laugh about it in 83 days.
© Paul Bell  Create an image from this poem.


Ovation For Ovulation

Sense altering fertility:
                   a stoic female falters

Seven consecutive avid hours in each four weeks 
I mull over mitigating my chosen ongoing celibacy 
Primitive drive permeates realms where pleasure peaks
Stomach burgeoning coersion detects digital delicacy

Needy as a newborn, abdomen aches, resonates reason
Discarded inhibition of prudence pursues resolution, swollen
Tulip bulb split, affliction's blister is conceived procreation
Stupendous scenarios sordid, fluent imagination draws on

Widened with aspiration, desire requires instant unbridling
Materialising gluttony beckons with incandescent distress 
Moans cryptic as ocean speak, freed from concious conspiring
Unboxed frolicked fathomings become loitering brain's duress
Form: Quatrain

An Oop Pinion About Omitted Ir Rack

Mime moost re cent poem titled 
     Mental Illness...Inherent Since Birth
fourth line down lacked an accidentally 
     ohm mitt head "rack", thus presenting dearth
of understanding, and
 
     set in motion a domino effect 
     (hard to believe), but YES 
     offsetting tilt of the Earth,
hence an immediate necessity arose
     to forewarn unsuspecting readers
 
     experiencing swollen 
     gaseous equatorial (abdominal) girth 
homeopathic remedy easily concocted 
     brewing herbal tea over hearth

(chamomile my favorite - with a dollop 
     of honey), a curative 
     that doth mesh well
synchronizing linkedin saw tooth
 
     assemblage mitigating tell
tale grinding gears finds unwanted 
     frictional heat, 
     which haint so swell

possibly causing, 
     (when sprocket incorporated) 
     permanent chain damage 
     requiring extremely delicate 
     "heroic" measures to quell

hoop fully this poetic patch 
     doth not require ye  tubby brash
boot more critical concern 
     would constitute head crash,
perhaps necessitating total revision
 
     of poem whipped off in a dash
so concludes the rhymed reason 
     sent faster then 
     greased lightening doth flash.

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Premium Member The Wino

Shallow tracks he left
now most dissipated by winds of time.
"Britches" searches these tracks for good times,
but recalls only those,
which taste of persimmons before first frost.
He represented things a son didn't want in a dad.
"Britches" often wondered about mitigating circumstances,
and while reluctant to indict;
he reasoned why things were as they were,
and how they had gotten that way.
"Britches" father was possessed by the fruit of the vine,
he consumed and was consumed.
What he gave life, life returned tenfold.
Sin in a bottle, had stolen his dad,
leaving him embittered but with great resolve.
"Britches" now clings to hurtful memories of a man
who never met his qualifications of a dad,
just a father.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.


If

if but and also
all ran down a street
whose cousin’s mother’s sister
legalized love’s distant dream

with in on and beyond 
following closely after
a key hole of time’s future now
spooked bejesus out of bounds

when shoes string along
black wholes green with envy turn
worms come out of closets
knots know not to sing a song

who’s to tell this from that
when clocks ring hollow
and all gods feel sorry
for four score is no more

the measure of all that entails
enshrined within without’s about
debts delinquent devout doubt
morrow’s mourning mewing moss

cons an injunction positively plain
predating position’s posture to fame
signing is a song’s sad dismay
crossing is a road without delay

as gold to ash dust turneth brown
merely’s mostly mitigating moves
shakes the earth’s shivering please
bordering boundless broken bones

if the sun’s heart skips a beat
then your turn will ours become
and if water cries life’s complete
put it down thou will be done

tomorrow is a stranger’s rising night
yesterday’s rose incites my light
love plays dangerous games
whose rules bend time and blesses names

the quill of now rests in peace
also how never more then ever
is not who is once was was
trolls never words were whether

Nine-Pint Ramblings

Some people think I’m anti human
Some believe I really would
Free this world of the species
If I easily could.
We are not the only animals
But for what it’s worth 
We are the only ones
Destroying mother earth.
Seven days of creation
Just to give birth 
To the scourge 
Of this earth?

I don’t mean to offend
But will if needs must 
To try and convince others
We hold this planet in trust;
Not just for future generations
Of our human race,
But for all the other animals 
With whom we share this place.
I suppose it’s just another lost cause
When some see others in need
Of basic food and water
Just to satisfy their own greed.

The only mitigating factor,
Which rather baffles the mind,
No matter how we treat the animals 
We inflict worse on our own kind.
So, praise the lord and pass the bottle.
Praise the lord that I am free
Praise the lord for pre -cast concrete
And let heaven help the trees.
And praise the lord for good strong drink
For when it hurts  too much to think.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member She and I, Await To See

I stand in awe at the arrivals gate
As she walks towards me, my heart now waits
In-trepidation now sinks in
My hands to touch her Spanish skin

I feel a feeling never known before
Emotions of love ooze through my pores
Closer she walks into my world
I joy to witness her hair being twirled

I understand after we've talked for a while
Mitigating circumstances, but we still smile
Tomorrows take their time because of this
As we continue our holiday, in hope and wish

I reflect on the days that we spent together
How happy she was in the Scottish weather
Now she has returned, I'm again left all alone
I hope and pray Scotland will be her new home

I meditate, contemplate, in understanding to believe
In wonder muse I marvel when we met my eyes did see
As she walked towards me, my heart now awaits
Will she ever return, through the arrival gates
Form: Quatrain

A Fool Awakes

I awoke within myself.
As all my thoughts fell off the shelf.
An air of conscious discontent.
Slowly revealing what they meant.

The world had turned as I had slept.
And midnight burned as the dawn crept.
Leaving an ethereal sense of wonder.
And curiosity to ponder.

So many ghosts a company.
My soul as I'm not sure I'm me.
Within this moment here on earth.
Awaiting God for my rebirth.

An arrow flew between my eyes.
Intervening my disguise.
A momentary lapse of focus.
Disturbing magics hocus pocus.

So now the road is long and wide.
I'm left to look from side to side.
For now there is no place to hide.
So many choices to now decide.

What can we see in the dark hour?
Where silent secrets reveal their power.
As we are left to carry on.
Into the mystic mist of dawn.

Note: This is the first of a few poems I am going to post here that I wrote when I was in the mental health unit a couple years ago. The stanza of an arrow is about something in the early morning hours out by the nurses station that weirdly interrupted my process so to speak. I was in for depression and I was suicidal. They actually committed me for 6 months. That was a depressing day. But all things considered, it was all for the best. The therapist who sent me there actually probably saved my life as I was Hell bent on doing it the next day after I was done dog sitting for my nephew. Wow. This is not easy to do. But I wanted the reader to know what some of these poems are about. As you'll see in some of the other poems. There are some other mitigating aspects to that situation. Much love to all who read these. <3 Leslie
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Spooked

"Another 150 Illinoisans have lost their lives in the last 24 hours
   May each of their memories be for a blessing
2,240 residents have tested positive for the virus
   Another 365 new hospitalizations were recorded
      730 people are on ventilators...

"These are real people, who have and had real lives
   So, the virus is out there.  It is among us
      Stay inside your homes.  Please!
         Only go out for essential trips...

"Make sure to wash your hands thoroughly
   for at least 30 seconds, with soap
whenever you touch exposed skin or a foreign object
   Multiple hand-washing is the message here...

"And wearing a mask at all times out-of-doors
   is key in mitigating the virus 
      I just can't stress that enough
Don't forget social distancing either
   Stay at least six feet away from the person
       with whom you are interacting...

"I'm the last person in the world who wants these restrictions
   I'd like to open up the state as much as you would
      Yet the the statistics don't lie.  And though 
          we're flattening the curve
             the virus is still out there  
                It is among us..."

I could give the daily speech by heart myself
   Thank you, Governor Pritzker, for spooking me
and so many other law-abiding Illinoisans who have
   been foolish enough to buy into your extended lockdown
For which you had no legal authority, whatsoever --
                Bully!

And which, by the way, didn't apply to your family
   Your wife and kids hopped on a plane and flew to Florida
       to your tawny vacation home --- 
          Stay at home, my foot! --- 
              Hypocrite!

I hate going outside with my mask and gloves
   I hate going shopping or to the pharmacy
      I hate going for a walk in the park
          It's all on you, Mr. Pritzker
                May you reap
             What you've sown...

      And after the next election
        May your memory be for a blessing

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