Long Slip of the tongue Poems

Let your skeletons out of the closet and let them dance with mine, the way that our bodies once moved together in an unspoken of time
I am one of these skeletons, maybe your biggest one...

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DynDoeth with serious face and determined stride entered the room and advanced directly toward Joulupukki.  Standing to face the elf, Joulupukki, was intent on getting some answers, but before he could utter a sound...

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Part 5

They continued to fry under a blistering sky
    With little water to stifle the heat.
When the Hippo put forth, "Considering our course,
    We have entered the waters of...

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(Collection of Brevity Poems, 50 words or less)

Fall (24 Words)

Random vibrations
Branches stand still
Autumn’s frailty
Shaking in the wind

Warmer hues presented
As air outside chills
Branches emptying
Solemnly to the ground


You Are Not the Father (38 words)

Prince Charming thought he’d...

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YOU ARE TOO GOOD FOR ME SO SET YOURSELF FREE

You ask me why?
Because sometimes the world makes me cry
You ask me how?
I don’t how I’ve lived until now
But this much is true
Perhaps it was to...

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I was a city born and city bred young fellow,
whose shoes had mostly only touched concrete and tar.
Oh yes I had seen grass, but out on a footy ground
and my entertainment was drinking at a...

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I still have that dream of us
on what would be my last day in Uruguay
sitting on a low stone wall
overlooking the vast sea
while the sun is chased away behind us
and the wind gently brushes the...

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There was a time in my life when I was Self-assured
and I experienced the Esteem of my fellow man.
I could walk into a roomful of strangers and have no qualms
about the dangers of a slip...

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One day, she had found herself old enough to hold her dad's pen,
And scribble onto a piece of paper, as her dad had done so.
But as she began, and to say it was her first...

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One day, she had found herself old enough to hold her dad's pen,
And scribble onto a piece of paper, as her dad had done so.
But as she began, and to say it was her first...

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(More Brevity Poems, 50 words or less)

Unknown (22 words)

Hidden in secrecy, Shrouding the truth
Showing little, Unable to sleuth
Reasons unknown, Motives unclear
Open to none, All out of fear.


Sliding doors (16 words)

I saw her look
from across the...

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Why be afraid to admit the truth,
When the truth is all we have?
If when one door closes, another one opens,
why even dare looking back?

The following sentence is false,
The previous sentence is true.
Always accept a challenge,
what...

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So many words are there in our speech,
 they can be very poor, they can be rich.
 No one can be indifferent to their meaning
 as they are alive and express your feeling.
 Spoken word...

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I was lost, but then I found you
I never thought that it would be this way
I showed you my heart, I left it unguarded
Then like a thief in the night, you stole it away
These days...

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when faced with a clearing upon a path 
are you more likely to walk or take a ride
is the answer more important than the question you ask 
or is your journey just a result of...

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Is that your heart you're tearing out
and nailing to my wall in a frenzy?
A mishmash of suggestions and recommendations,
a slip of the tongue
that turns into an inferno,
the day that's already done?
I remember more than that.
Days...

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The Name Game

Understanding human nature can be very complex indeed
Especially when there are people whose names are hard to read
Let me give you some examples to explain what I m talking about
There is no simple...

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Marginalized middle finger people
moving upwardly mobile
on a quality-of-life escalator going always down

Mall pallbearers for the palladium pocketeers,
(them who bring forth weekly pocket tears)
Three-piece suit gator claws with Wall Street wolf ears

Kiss-the-ring finger people
trying to climb...

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The Builder


If it does not bite you at the end of each breath,
Then I will start again and again
And I will rewrite it, all over again.


Do it all again; pretend we are friends.
I never claimed...

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Every time I see your face somber  
And your tone unhappy
Any day that passes without us talking
My heart grows wrinkles
For your pain also pains me 
And I question if I’ve done anything wrong to...

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Jabba the Hutt has a spur up his butt
that makes him as mean as a wasp

If you stop for a look, at that glutton of glop, 
his looks will not help him a lot!

His rotten...

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So much to solicit, but with substance excluded,
she mimics intimacy, but leaves one secluded.
Flatteries slip off her tongue like honey's sultry sweetness.
"Come to this incensed bed for pleasure's soft caress."
Like a crafty serpent's spiel, her...

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I designed notes to craft the beauty of one’s emotions 
                        ...

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You will become old
Older than the wild
Older than dull cutlery

Someone will feed you with a spoon
You will eat the spoon and ask for another
Tubes and wires will hold you together

Nurses will come in the night
Roll...

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When someone says, “You look FLABulous”!
Is it just a slip of the tongue
Or are they secretly trying to let you know
You're not trim like when you were young!

Words can be cruel and hurtful at times
Specially...

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