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Premium Member Longtime Bosom Buddies

two good longtime bosom buddies
puerile teasing games they play
they're inseparable toddies
they're different from night and day

puerile teasing games they play
ooh, ooh, eee, eee, aah, aah
they're different from night and day
arf, arf , dog object to its tah...

ooh, ooh, eee, eee, aah, aah
high-speed monkey pulls his friends tail 
arf, arf , dog object to its tah…
feuds erupt, and calm still prevail

high-speed monkey pulls his friends tail 
they're inseparable toddies
feuds erupt, and calm still prevail
two good longtime bosom buddies

5/6/2020

fun musing, no one has used the photo 3 for the contest
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Pantoum


Earthquake In a Tea Cup

"Earthquake in a Tea Cup"

the earthquake 
rocked through 
a pink haze 
soft and powdered
scent of lit smoke
flaming fires 
hot oven baked 
green apples 
ripe skin sizzled 
and popped
ice cool cinnamon crisp 
lemon peeled martinis 
black russians and they're 
ripped unfriendly cousins 
Long Island Iced teas and
Asian Pear Chit-Cha toddies
osmanthus oolong trading
asset smiles flying under 
the Roger Ramjet radar
exploded rapturously 
candied petals floating
hearts marachinoed
stevia sweetened cherries
skewered and buttered up 
mercilessly on the q.t. 
roses burnt apricots
she arrived shimmering
in the clouds 
a seduction 
ruffling feathers
in their 
crème de la crème 
tea cups shaking 
their quiet worlds up
dominoes lined straight laced, 
drugged and shot 
they all thought
it was the second
coming 

the world 
was her stage 

the fall out 
was atomic 

their shadows
scattered 

nuclear imprints

incalculable,
the numbers

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
Form: Narrative

Premium Member 41Degrees North (49 Degrees West)

In April of nineteen twelve, a ship set sail so grand,
A tale of wealth and power, a journey well-planned.
Warnings were ignored, the ship sped through the night,
Men on duty sleeping, Californian unaware of Titanic's plight.
Steel and iron rivets, a mix of strength and flaw,
A lie repeated often enough will often escape the law
A plan, some say, to silence the wealthy few,
Who opposed the central bank, a theory that grew.
The Titan's tale foretold, in fiction's eerie rhyme,
A ship destined, too grand, lost in a moment of time.
Could poems and prophecies have seen the fate so grim?
Or was it human error, a tale of pride and sin?
The wealthy men aboard, with power in their hands,
Opposed the Federal Reserve, in its in utero lands.
Illuminati whispers, secrets in the night,
A game of power, hidden in plain sight.
The Samson seen the rockets, but rum toddies dense the sense
And the cargo bay was full of seals and will illegally be fenced
Some men etched, unsinkable, defied the hand of God,
But met its fate in icy waters, a tale forever odd.
It's 41 degrees north and 49 degrees west 
This is where Titanic is laid to rest
A century has passed, the theories still remain,
A story of the Titanic, in history's refrain.
Form: Couplet

Vanilla Kisses For My Princess, Rosy Ones For My Lady

It was a frozen winter made for cardigans and hot toddies 
she my mother, my first teacher, was feeling sad 
about what  she couldn't say for she could not recall  
I sat by her bedside and flipped through the old album 
and while she nodded  she silently, cried ...
" Tears are like the quiet drift
  Of petals from some magic rose
   And grief yet flows from the rift
   Of unremembered skies and snows"
"Was he my husband?" she asked me with a vacant stare 
I quietly gave my consent then placed a hand on her frail shoulder  
"can we go get some ice cream?" she asked   	
a grown child with a smile that I could not efface    
The sun went down and as we sat in the cafeteria round 
we ate vanilla ice cream from plastic cups  
and watched the sun go down on the wintry hedge   
"Vanilla kisses for my Princess, Rosy ones for my Lady"
That was what dad used to say to us each day  
but tonight, she couldn't recall a thing that he would say. 

May 7, 2021

Premium Member Aaachooooo

As the autumn and winter seasons inexorably unfold,
You can bet that I'm destined to catch my annual cold!
I've tried every remedy from the local pharmacist's shelf,
Includin' syrups, lozenges, even toddies to cure myself!

My nothe ith all thopped up an' I can hardly respthire.
My lungths are congesthed - they feel like they're afire!
My eyeths are red an' thwollen an' I can barely thee.
Every bone an' muthel in my body acheths - woe ith me!

I called the docther's offith for relief only to be told,
That he wath home in bed nursin' a nasthy cold!
He would've told me to take an athpirin an' go to bed.
I reckon I'll juth have to thuffer through it here inthead!

'Cold' ith a mithnomer for thith afflicthion anyhow.
"Why ith it called a cold?", I muse, throkin' my fevered brow,
An' quaffin' noxthious concothions to relieve my burnin' throat.
The meds can't quash my mithery, as the pharmathy ads promote!

Man hath thent rockeths soarin' through the boundleth univerth,
So why can't they find a cure for thith worrithome curth!
There musth be some college kid who thomeday will find a cure.
She'd be more than eligible for Nobel estheem I'm quite sure!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rightths Resethered
Form: Rhyme


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