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A Manual For Brides

Here, I wrote a bridal guide,
A rule book for future brides,
No matter if you're fair, fat and wide,
 Or not, here's some dependable asides,
First, keep degrees and jobs up to date, 
With some mates you can't relate,
You never know when the rats will turn,
To being a doormat, is what to spurn,
Keep some getaway money set aside,
This is important in a bridal guide,
Always update your roadside assist,
Without that, car bingles can get you miffed,
Ditto home and car insurance too,
Note these well, I say to brides like you,
Never take drugs if to Bali you roam,
Then you definitely won't be coming home,
Herein,  I wrote a bridal guide,
My rule book for brides like you.......


Formal Ambitions

The rule book
Of Society rules
We either live by the rules
Or be ruled unfit:

Toe the line
Walk that fine line
Keep in line
But never cross the line;

Speak up
Speak when spoken to
Speak politely
But never speak out of turn;

Mind your manners
Mind where you look now
Mind your Mama
Oh just never mind;

Look out
Watch out 
Just let it play itself out
But never let it out;

Come when called
Come along now
Come here
Just never come alone.

But sometimes
The line between formal
And informal
Ambition
Blurs
And I come
Unspoken
Alone
In my mind
Without you
Playing it out
With both feet
Planted firmly
Over the line.
© Deb Radke  Create an image from this poem.

Gotta Have Guts

Gotta  have   guts   to   fall   and   rise, 
To buck the trend and wrest the prize,
To   thrust  your  life   in  hands of mates,
To believe in self, tempt the fates.
Each day  give yourself a surprise.

Night's dark mantle leads to sunrise,
Rise   from  the  dust   with  this  surmise. 
Cock a snook at life if it grates.
Gotta  have   guts.   

When you are down and life's not nice,
It's  up to you  to   add  the  spice. 
Play  not  as  the rule-book states;
You'll  grin   when  you  knock   at  the Gates.
Heed   well  these  words ,  those  of the  wise :
Gotta  have   guts!   

~12 Jul 2016~
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Best Rondeau Poem - sponsored by Laura Loo

Rondeau Rhyme Scheme: AABBA-AABC-AABBAC
EIGHT Syllables in each line except the 4th line in second stanza ( C ) and the last line in the third stanza. ( C ) They have FOUR syllables and is the repeated refrain from the first four syllables in stanza one
Form: Rondeau

Equilibrium

I beg of guilt to riddance my sin, 
sincerity mixed pleasure of call deep within. 
My mind of haze to idea once preformed, 
mascot contribution to my theatrics well formed. 
Beauty and a beast to a sickening desire, 
my body fuelled with pain from my minds deep transpire. 
Berate of my complexion, fabrication and hope,
 sacrifice my solitude with hopes of being cleansed deeper than soap. 
Cremation from the burning of wait does bring forth,
my stature destined to the mirror now morph. 
Soul, hand of pasture ,and faith in the god once named, 
all placed in pieces of a figure left to blame.
Waiting on a miracle to work to good deed,
hoof of purest lamb now sentenced to breed.

Thorn and thistle cursed to beauty of rose, 
man’s fortune to women with a price of propose.
System segregation from the people born truth, 
turn to natures sin in purpose of youth. 
Belief met bravery in hand of defeat, 
rush to the opening of a church in  large fleet. 
Memory reconcile with death fortune placed, 
sanction granted to power in need of erase. 
Intelligence fought sympathy in the war of troubled mind, 
am I useless without leadership if my demise meet unkind? 
Body built to the soil cursed by I man, 
colonies trapped in brutality of gods plan. 

Beggar, theif, and humanity at hand, 
Are criminals to be punished if future lie in the sand? 
Is truth upon belief of a system unpredicted, 
the structure a temple yet torture left unrestricted. 
Mind place of memory to the mistreatings underway, 
if I hold power to speak why should boundaries get a say? 
Free speech is a right in the rule book of law, 
however issue runs deep with dictatorship to core. 
Does a cry of babe not rustle in your mind? 
A predator to be freed yet a crook to be fined. 

A god of justice is spoken in scripture, 
but thy neighbour is thought on suspicion, never close to a sister. Harmony sung in words comprise, 
dealings from the devil while society treat to infantilise. 
If a body is a right to the owners spoken truth, 
why should societal exception meet way to the youth? 
For a pasture, a priest, or a saint of country name, 
would allow such action to ignight as if flame. 
Then action should compromise the wrongdoing upon mass, 
the power of performative government is as fragile as glass.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Guy Advice To a Friend

You tried to win her over
with dark chocolate and daisies
Passion on beds of clover
always works with the ladies

So why her indiscretions
She revealed it with a sigh
You didn't ask the right questions 
the rule book doesn't apply

See beneath all that glitters
her cool choreographed style
It's not hidden in twitters
try looking beyond her smile

Her love you cannot purchase
She can sense if you are fake
Do not play on the surface
dive down deep into her lake

Once she's truly discovered
surely passions will run deep
The depths of her uncovered
whispered secrets you must keep

She'll give you what you wish for
there is magic in her soul
If you just reveal your core
together you will be whole

Don't ever try to change her
that person she'll never be
If you try, she'll leave for sure
for that girl needs to be free!

Contest: "Men your advice to another man on females"
Sponsor: Brenda Chiri
Written December 18, 2018
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Intelligent Design

INTELLIGENT DESIGN

What goes up should always come down
The reason laws of physics have shown
What takes birth should someday die
The reasons in rule book of biology lie.

Nature functions within its own tenets
Life floats like cloud of changing facets
Dreams we make the storm surge they face
Some live, some blow away, we can’t trace.

We toil and try to take life wherever we want
Can’t reach the goal for the bridges get burnt
The wrecking reasons we can’t reckon at all
That’s when we hear sound of fate’s footfall.

Mind likes to fly on fragile wings of free will
Shape of life it can’t change or configure still
Unsure if it’s an artifact of intelligent design
Or fated expression of coded ancient gene.

March 8, 2018.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Drop Kick

Nobody ever sees a drop kick today.
The days of its popularity have gone away.
Look in the rule book; it’s still a legal play.
This is a move teams tend to avoid
since the ball took the shape of its familiar spheroid.
It is rare to get a true bounce when the ball touches the ground.
That is why attempts are practically never found.
However, a New England Patriots quarterback had no fears.
He performed the first drop kick in over sixty years.
The ball successfully went through the uprights for a score.
Since 2005, we have not been able to see anymore.

Information taken from the website of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Form: Rhyme

Arms To Fight Our Mental Health

Why don’t they teach you in school 
all the different ways of people 
the narcissists need to control 
their treatment that turns cold 
the manipulators need to hold 
separating heart from soul 

We do not see evil deeds until it is our time to bleed 
the tricksters lies to deceive, the rule book they will never read, 
emotional blackmail or coercion killing the dream of the person 
the tattletales fictional version always depicting who is the worse one

Because those who don’t play by the rules 
don’t stop until you’re miserable 
teaching what’s not taught in school 
so you learn after the fall 

Mental health is on a scale 
success as easy as the fail 
yet with no method to tell 
behaviour heading straight for Hell 

so in this world made of people 
we cannot detect what’s lethal 
taught things which we have no need for 
psychology is what we should teach more 

Armour up our mental health 
protecting us from someone else 
just some knowledge there to help 
so we see evil deeds in stealth 

A radar to protect oneself 
armed to save our mental health
© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

All True Man

Bhima at Denhegoo
                              from Chump to Champion
                       The Ballad of a Struggling Contender

Fought to hard
to get it
struggled long thyme
to acheive
learned alotta thangs
long the way
meet some people
you won't beleive
looked down upon
by the in crowd
jerked arounded
by the outcrowd
women done leaked
my secrets
and men done
challenged me
studdered

when she said 
I do
was scared
cause
I lacked instruction
Said I love you to
early
she only beleived
in deductions
prayed real hard
to get here
Am the champion of this town
talked about by stranger
to some I'm just a clown

but you know one thang
I'm ah man
I'm ah real true man
yes i am
I'm a man
I'm ah man
best beleive
I', ah man!

( Gruel Starffs(..........Look Mister Promoter: you want us to come out here and be contenders to your champion. Rivals to our foe. You want us to look the wrestling public in the eye and say he's the best and I'm the next best thing to him.Mr. Prromoter I'm looking you in the eye and telling you: you made a mistake in hiring me cause we found a clause in our contract that states a group of ten within the company can unite and form a championship sub commiitee and crown a champion, if the current champions tenure excceeds 2 years. well we did and from now on I am the champion and until the disfunction of the championship committee is solved I am both Champion and number one contender and one win over the champion even in a best outta 3 falls match can be proof enough to send to the board of directers to Crown me " The United Worlds Champion" that's the contract you signed laughing at me.I've score two falls against him. One more And I am Champion. It the Clause of all Clauses; Mr. Promoter! The Clause is entitled" ******The Rules of Untangling Contracto Facto Championious committee rulio Section 280-two by Codes of Victory in The rulebreaker rule book*
Form: Bio

Premium Member Burn the book

Is religion just a rule book,
whose author’s intent we mistook,
reading not in between the lines,
creating divides hearts can’t brook?

God within us, for our love pines,
waiting for the day our soul shines
but since we dwell not in the heart,
we remain in ego’s confines.

Deeming all one and none apart,
shift to heart is the way to start,
knowing we are eternal light,
to behold which, is a learnt art.

Mind, we took as boon is now blight,
for it veils our aura bright white,
caging us in narrow belief,
dimming our spiritual sight.

Let us choose to turn a new leaf,
giving soul much needed relief,
embracing all, judging no one,
for our sojourn on earth is brief.

Let us here now then come undone,
for we’re the light that lights the sun,
dwelling in God’s heart, one with Him,
spreading love and light, having fun!
Form: Rubaiyat

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