Long Slip of the tongue Poems

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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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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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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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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A word, a traitor,
escaped the fortress of my teeth,
a rogue syllable, a rebel sound.

It danced, a clumsy jester,
in the silence that followed,
a ripple in the still pond of conversation.

The air thickened,
a tapestry woven with unspoken...

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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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*Image of Sundial Lawn Landscape by Pixabay.

What is a sundial in the shade?

"What is a sundial in the shade?"
use your gifts and be not afraid,
let your light so shine before men,
and share to all your...

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Forgive, Then Move On
Written: by Miracle Man
2-5-2019

Whatever we've said,
Or whatever we do.
Puts some touchy person,
Into a “He's Racist” stew.   
A slip of the tongue, 
Years ago, now causes strife
Does revenge change anything?
Forgive and...

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How long must the hostility and bitterness continue
The clear majority has made its preference known,
The higher courts of the land have verified what is true.

How much evil and vindictiveness are together sown
Like springtime plantings of...

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

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

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We have harbored distrust for many generations
It’s time for inclusion, respect in all nations
We must not judge color, or traditions, or dress
 We must accept differences, should we expect less?

A slip of the tongue, perhaps...

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if I said or told

things I should of not 

please for give me

I am just flesh and bone.

your anger with me

lets me see I was wrong.

if I said or told

things I should of not,

it was...

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Hope is a dream, a wish, and a prayer,
offering endless possibilities.
She's dressed in hand-me-downs, frail and threadbare,
spun from fears and responsibilities.

She visits the hearts of both old and young,
often appearing as their last resort.
She's been...

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July fourth and firecrackers aren't heard.
Perhaps because it's raining as I type.
I thank the gods for booming sounds deferred.
My guess, I'm getting old. I hate the hype
That everyone is caught up with today. 
In youth...

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“Slip of the tongue…” indeed asserts the mouth
midst heart’s justifying grievous whisper
while soul, caught between deception conflicts
clamors for freedom against guilt-caused angst
vanquishing fraud and falsehood for peace gain.

Lips now can’t be sealed to let justice...

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What crap.
I write of this and that
 the dog, the birds, the cat.
In these random fluctuatinos
 can't imagine where to be punctuating.
Use the comma, colon, apostrophe for contractions
 as i slip and slide to my...

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Unclear words comb their way into my mind
Putting them on paper
Feels so much better
Not so cluttered and chaotic
Its concrete and mine
A pencil and an eraser
Is all I need
They’re my friends
My allies
Ready when I need them
Working...

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 A fall from heaven and a slip of the tongue
a hope to remember and a song to be sung
always forever and not a moment to spare
for sorrows and kindness hung in the air

Through a...

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