Long Stickler Poems

"Candy Girl" - 2



He had been watching her from the far end of the Ice Bar, where he was sitting propped up on an ice ledge which was cushioned in plush Reindeer hide and Yak...

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Dragon is always in Hero mode, most certain of that, you can be sure.
The Sheriff of CrazyLand is a stickler for all the rules, he does ensure.
If only either one of them… had at least...

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Mosquito Bat

Peering closely, I sought to quickly skim through the online latest news …
True to form, I am a stickler for keeping up with the latest happening news…
Given this internet age and its borderless media...

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Spelling, syllable count, vanity, too simple, Simon! Be prolific, cruel, smart, up to par, above the bar, fit for the stage. Tap, tap, tap…
—by poet

The Prismatic Self

See the wooden stage, markers for my feet, bright...

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Oh noo' It has happened again.! I thought we had escaped the continual scene:
forever falling down, and ya know what people actually celebrate it..? 
and we'd thought we were safe here) a place where you...

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an earlier draft of this barely satisfactory missive ex post facto, i chomped asper with upper dentures upon evincing a couple of typographical errors, in up rye or draft, and did not wanna dodge being...

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Uprooted and windswept in the storm you caused
I was aghast and asunder like a sinking boat
the last straw was placed and I drowned
it was your slight that I simply could not fight
you tossed your royal,...

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My mother taught me  many lessons
First ,about the birds and the bees
Where did I come from mommy?
Oh, I found you in a barrel of Crabs.

 Her lessons in decorum were priceless
Walk always with your...

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CUCUMBER    PARADISE

Never for preserved peach or tomato  -  only for cucumber:
Always steaming lots of big jars and sterilizing lids,
Ukrainian Inna lived for the pleasure of the shiny green rosids,
And dreamed...

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The drowned (man), Translation of Etiemble’s poem: Noyé by T Wignesan

( Etiemble who devotes some pages in this only verse volume to translations was a stickler 
to the practice of reproducing the original in its...

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The Widow

Some time, ago a man went climbing an icy mountain on his own, why? I don't what was on his mind maybe he was the type of a man who had no friends because...

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My Lucky Dog Surely Has No Fleas

My lucky dog surely has no fleas
they all jumped from him onto me
His luck could be quite fetching
were I not so furiously scratching

When he sneezes the cold I get
my...

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No comfort for the stickler, sticking literary fixtures depicting conflicting inklings to their minds as perfect pictures.
With one stroke of my pen the standards rose again and damned be lesser men. 
As the pros of...

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A pattern? Mom did not need one. She made her own
Like her own jelly, jam, and one time ketchup
When kids came to play, they stuck with her
She was more fun than I was, but a...

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If my mind be painted in colors borrowed, would it be red? 
Rusted in brown, or maybe instead, an indigo streak?
Depending upon the source of inspiration, 
and the song on the radio at the time...

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Inspired by Mick Talbot’s message to all participants in his haiku contest.



Mick’s maybe a stickler for the contest rule
He’s only helping so you don’t look a fool
If you don’t have any rules it all falls...

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A man still in the darkness
Who has never seen the light
Is better than a man toying with darkness
From the vantage point of light

One knows and lives with the pain
The other sees his own injuries and...

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Knock, knock who's there in my bathroom?
Jan the princess of posterior interior transfer

Knock, knock who's there not in my hot tub?
Cheryl the magnificent moonlight moon pie muncher

Knock, knock who's there in the pickle barrel?
Dale the...

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With a quick competitive descent,
Darling Daffy and his feisty duels;
No sportsmanship? He turns violent;
He’s a stickler for all of the rules;

Makes no difference if it’s a giraffe 
or Bugs Bunny banging on that piano, 
play...

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Member of Poetry Soup Crowd

Into His great world, God has brought us all
Insult ego or intelligence takes a lot of gall
So before writing poem consider the result
Never insult and with reader should consult.

There is much...

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Being Caught in a Big Blitzkrieg 

Could it have been that her and a colleague
Had both been caught in a big blitzkrieg
And when they did rules started to bend
Until Hillary started showing her hind end.

Conservative...

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Who says my mother is no more in this world?
She has not left me to face alone this cruel world
Believe me, she is always with me
Her kind glowing face, I can always see

I can see...

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Who says my mother is no more in this world?
She has not left me to face alone this cruel world
Believe me, she is always with me
Her kind glowing face, I can always see

I can see...

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I am often called a perfectionist,
I expect correctness in all I do,
High standards make me a precisionist,
This assessment is exact, fair, and true:
I will accept only the very best,
I am a stickler for accuracy,
Some will...

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They're not your friend
this message I'll send
you're sure to feel the prick
uh oh a clique
their standards are too high
and even if you comply
you won't meet up to them
even though you're a gem
they won't recognize you...

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