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Premium Member Times Have Changed

Times Have Changed
By Franklin Price
4/21/2017

Times have changed, not for best
Consequences are confusing
Computers have replaced the rest
One has made what you're perusing

Internet replaced the letter
Wired phone and telegraph
Don't know how it gets much better
Makes us grimace, makes us laugh

Key strokes made this not a Bic
Sent out at the the speed of light,
For you to read, that's really quick
Instant info wrong or right

No further need for traveling
Computers keep us in the race
We can Face Time that's our thing
From right at home or any place

Fully clothed and at our leisure
In a suit or in the nude
Whether business or pleasure
Civilized or crass and crude

We receive both truth and lies 
It's hard to tell just which is which
 We must come to realize
These changing times are just a *****

These times have driven us to Snopes
Must question all we see and read
To find out if we're fools or dopes
Marks, to swindle, yes indeed

Consider this a warning call
Do not believe a thing you get
Question Snopes as you should all
It's not a source you should not vet
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member What Llama Lil Saw In Bagdad

 What Llama Lil Saw in Baghdad

In Llama Lil's Cafe eating crackers and Stilton 
surveying the street and reading Milton 
Sits a strange and moody itinerant 
Icon for a well-known roll-on deoderant 
Under cover spy for a  US president 
Devoid of all human sentiment 
On assignment he was hand picked 
And his code name was Eggs Benedict 

Perusing the pages of Paradise Lost 
he re-read the phrase "At no human cost" 
For his orders were, to him revealed 
between the lines of Milton concealed
and I suspect, though I really can't say
the reason for this strange communique
Was due to the results of a  wide-world survey 
Showing few are caught dead, reading 'poet-ray' 

Deep in thought on his plan of attack 
He heard a blonde from the table at his back 
Summon the waiter with fingers clicked 
to order a double Eggs Benedict 
Mysteriously, in dark glasses AND reading Milton 
She slipped him a note- her number at the Hilton 

He felt a strange rumble in his tummy 
He remembered how the cheese tasted funny 
The last thing on earth our hero has seen 
are the spinning walls of Lil's, Argentine theme 

The rest of his life flashed past his eyes 
Is this the way a hero dies? 
Super -spy and icon for a well known deoderant 
Killed -from effects of a straying rodent 
Missed his liason at the Hilton 
Some one mailed his copy of Milton
pages torn and stained with Stilton
(Yes! It was from the Bagdad Hilton!) 
To an address inside the cover 
T'was to: George W Bush or someone or other
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Never Too Old

I was perusing on the Net
It was good fortune to have met
Not in person, I'm sad to say
An Interesting woman, anyway
Interesting and talented too
Amazing what she succeeded to do
After a very late start
Aged 78 before painting Folk Art
This person had dabbled a bit
Her life changed when tragedy hit
She found painting soothed her grief
It gave her solace and relief
From the troubles and strife
That engulfed her life
To me, this now-famous woman Inspires
Older people to realize
You are never too old too succeed
To strive to fill, a life-long need
No-ones life is a bed of roses
Ask the famous Grandma Moses
Form: Rhyme

Resumption of Daily Nightly Constitutional Lap2

Just on the cusp of experiencing joie de vivre,
the triumvirate of Crooks and Quade
figuratively swoop down
to announce re: inspection
of apartment unit B44
whenever they deem appropriate.

Thus series of unfortunate events
(linkedin with bull limey
Lemony Snicket bro)
got sidelined nsync with
contracting a minor bout
with deadly Amish Flu
symptoms found garden variety reasonable rhymer
bedridden feeling a little horse and buggy (ha),
incapacitated to craft signature poetry writing.

An honest to dog confession
regarding hiatus spewing forth
vociferous versatile vocabulary
mine words - worth their weight in gold
(told woofer I do not know), nevertheless
included perusing a gamut of reading material.

The passion to engross intellect
witnessed courtesy immersing
attention, concentration, excitation
gratification, intoxication;
knowledge prized more precious
than fine spun gold.

Likewise crafting (albeit painstakingly)
elusive notions that flit
to and fro hither and yon
(analogous to ping pong ball)
within parameters of
microscopically crenellated
sixty plus shades of gray matter
also constitutes fervent interest.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member My Favorite Brother

One sad day, some years ago, 
I got news that my father passed away. 
He lived a long and happy life,
so I felt joy and sadness on that day.

Perusing a box of photographs and things,
his drawing, a poignant feeling, would evoke.
In his childhood crayons, it was beautiful - 
a tree that seemed to be an oak. 

Between a person's years of birth and death,
there's only a hyphen left to show,
but, in my father's unexceptional life,  
he left something more - I know.

My brothers and I, quite frankly, 
I would not celebrate. 
Many fathers before and after him, 
by having offspring, regenerate. 

Yet, when I was a boy of nine,
My dad would, my brothers and me, provoke,
by planting in our front yard football field,
a native sapling, a California oak.

That tree is now my favorite brother, 
huge, but kind and strong,
hosting an entire ecosystem, 
with squirrels, and birds, in song. 

In their short life upon this earth
many want to build a legacy.
Here is my advice for them and those.
On a sunny day, go plant a tree.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Old Dead Poets

I admire great poets old,
perusing the tragic ends.
Researching their writing styles and patterns
their layouts, rhyming, punctuation, moods,
in dark solitude they penned dreadful words.
Many, end by suicide,
others of drug addiction.
John Berryman threw himself off a bridge,
Weldon Kees, disappeared into nowhere,
Rupert Brooke, he died at twenty-seven.
Some living a good long life,
with a death due to old age.
Merwin had a childhood full of sadness,
but he found his Zen in nature writing,
he explained his style as an open form.
Abraham Klein, a recluse
he lapsed into a silence.
Called, one of Canada's greatest writers,
here is one that published at eight years,
Wilber, he lasted to ninety-six and wrote.
I admire great poets old,
perusing the tragic ends.

_________________________
 March 7, 2018


Poetry/Blank Verse/Old Poets Dead
Copyright Protected, ID 18-1001-977-01
All Rights Reserved.  Written Under Pseudonym.


Written for the contest, Seven-Ten
sponsor, Emile Pinet

First Place

Old Jet

Day was very sunny,
Old Jet felt so funny,
Old black lab, muzzle grey,
His family off to work today,
Old Jet lay down to sleep,
Left alone, watchdog to keep,
His gait was slow,
Not much get up and go,
Jet slumbered on, 
Not too long, 
His canine dreams bemusing,
Flashbacks Old Jet perusing,
Brilliant happy companion days,
Lots of fun and rambling plays,
Ben was his best loved lad,
Now his unofficial dad,
Jet's loyalty never wavered,
Yes, Ben he always favoured,
Pats and hugs and lots of snacks,
All kindness, time to relax,
Old Jet's breathing slowed,
Snoring on, time to go,
Asleep in the sun, one deep sigh,
No one home to say goodbye, 
No drama, no fuss, 
Old Jet's no longer with us,
His long life was over,
Puppy Heaven for old rover,
Old Jet had breathed his last,
Finally, Old Jet had passed.

Though a Democrat

Unblinking reflexive opinions lean
     indubitably, favorably and certifiably
     with minimal pandering soliciting
     uber voodoo yawping woos

socially quintessentially obviously markedly
     consciousness brakes alignment
     defining mine political views
loosely yet not strictly, jerry-rigged,

     hidebound Democratic
     fealty haltingly pledged ones and twos
to roster of candidates
     slated to challenge incumbent Republicans

     all to quickly accused,
     sans participating sinister ruse
this active voter puzzled at controversial
     eye opening ex post facto

     fractious, governmental
     harmfully injuriously jaw-dropping
     suppression within top secret queues
during nasty donkey kong braying p's and q's
(case in point) scurrilous, opprobrious,

     and malodorous Clinton administration,
where (based upon my recent perusing
     "The Peoples History” – 
     me strongly endorses

     (authored by Howard Zinn news
worthy revelation, (whose recounting
     atrocious, calumnious, egregious
     glaring ignominious knowledge

     jackbooted, mandated, predicated
     on blind trust, essentially billeted
     charade, facade, inlaid faux Hope loose
bandied cutthroat gratuity legislation

     favoring pandering "pork" via
     pretentiousness to wealthy gentiles Jews
abandoning average civilians snuffing out
     sputtering, grousing, and hoo's

flick erring tapering fuse
whereat this news worthy informed citizen
     totally tubularly unaware of any clues
pertaining to antithetical maneuvers,

     (loo win ski) shenanigans, and undertakings
     today yields genuine boo's
toward Clinton, where I despondently feel
     he renegged promises 

     made to electorate (except top 1 %) got souled
     (sold) to remaining 99% cheapest bidders
     as-sized thirteen duff heated no nothing
     sneezing Schnorrers 
     spluttering phelgm at me at-chews.

Premium Member A Judges Dream

A Judges Dream

While judging a poetry contest I dreamt
of the time and the thoughtful energy spent
perusing the content, rhythm and rhyme
confused by the presence of rosmary’s thyme

counted the syllables, measured the meter
only to read something sick’ningly sweeter
and then with a bang a poem exploded
my god was the writer just crazy – or loaded.

Thus was I tortured, forced to flee from my bed
to read once again whatever I’d read
awaken the muse, become more reflective
remember that poets have but one directive

and that is to write, and then to write more
then share what they’ve written with both rich and poor.

John G. Lawless
5/27/2021
Form: Rhyme

Last Night Out

As it was our last night in Santander
we went out for a meal somewhat grander
Perusing the set menu I did choose
three courses with complementary booze
The waiter who came a glass did pour
leaving the bottle for me to have more.
How generous this seemed at such a good price – 
those refills of wine did more than suffice;
yet what remained seemed such a shame to waste,
so I poured a glass for Olivia to taste.
With adventures in Spain so soon to lapse
we were thankful for all we'd enjoyed and relaxed.
Soon came the time to our room to adjourn,
I felt in control and steady for the return.
But on our departure I missed a step
and fell to the left. So I must accept
that a glass too many had been imbibed.
Down on the street, Olivia at my side,
a trinity of youths then rushed to my aid,
an old man on the floor before them splayed.
Muchas grazias, I said, when stood upright
relieved to be unhurt on our last night.
Form: Couplet

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