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Bidding For Brands

Boohoo is bidding for Boo-Boo
But Yogi’s not seeking a deal,
He’s scanning the park for a picnic
Looking forward to his evening meal.

Warner Brothers deny their involvement
So investors are kept in the dark,
But rumours are spreading ’round Bedrock
And the restrooms of Jellystone Park.

Boohoo is bidding for Boo-Boo,
It’s becoming a sought-after brand;
For Yogi it’s deeply upsetting
And he’s drawing a line in the sand.

This fetish for gobbling-up trademarks
Is addictive - a turbulent torrent,
So the trustees of Hanna-Barbera
Have rescinded Mister Ranger’s warrant.

Boohoo is loving the limelight,
Printing posters to boast of expansion.
Directors are driving round Dorset
Seeking out an available mansion.

Animated heroes fall silent,
Suppressing their deep-seated rage,
They’ve vowed to stop buying new costumes,
Thought bubbles stay blank on the page.

Snagglepuss is sacking his agent
Whose alibi soon fell to pieces,
Wacky Races have cancelled two meetings
Though Mister Jinks is still chasing meeces.

Huckleberry Hound is blue in the face,
So upset that he’s leaving his kennel tea.
Boohoo’s directors have not thought this through,
Analysts think they’ll soon pay a penalty.

Now Matalan, Primark and Peacocks
Are struggling hard to pay rates,
They see this young upstart named Boohoo
Just sealing competitors’ fates.

The Jetsons are locked in a hangar
Refusing to talk to the press,
While Cindy is comforting Yogi
Because bears aren’t accustomed to stress.

Just how many trademarks are needed
To cater for everyone’s tastes?
With so many trend-setters in lockdown
Periodically measuring waists.

The Jellystone team is downhearted
When they note that admissions are down,
With Boohoo now trashing their legacy
It’s the first time they’ve seen Muttley frown!

Yes, Boohoo is bidding for Boo-Boo,
It’s becoming a sought-after brand;
For Yogi it’s deeply upsetting
And the prospects for fashion seem bland.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member This Docile Earth

This world, never ours alone, but shared with other creatures great and small.
The Earth turns and new dawn comes, and will long after we're gone.
A Sandpiper flitted along the shore and told me so.   

We must face a truth that we borrowed these days, you and I,
from benefactors and trustees, unborn and untested, yet will be.
I finally understand now, watching the selfless Caracal's practiced smile.. 
the tawny red bearded lion basks in the same sunshine.

Touch a heart, lift a soul will you? It's not too late. 
For I have faith we are mostly good.
Now listen to the song of nature, be kind..
and don't worry about what never would.
Form: Prose

The Bow That Bridges Heaven

He wrangled with his world, found a way to cross the seas
on merchant boats brimful of slaves, bound for British shores.
Innumerable are the things that we shall never know;
amazing, those things to which destiny holds the keys.

As a captain of slave ships, raw pain he thought to ease;
yet, time after time, clouds filled his skies with fear and dread.
“God laughed at my calamity,” he would say later when he found
the bow that bridges heaven and seeks a God to please.

He met with Wilberforce, a man settled on his lees,
challenged him, as abolitionist for slavery.
Years passed, but emancipation passed as English law.
The bow that bridges heaven, mankind from bondage frees. 

John Newton is his name; He’s one of heaven’s trustees.
Inspired he wrote, Amazing Grace, which brings to my mind
the rainbow -  God’s own honored promise to keep His word. 
The bow that bridges heaven and keeps us on our knees.

April 2, 2020

1. “the bow that bridges heaven,” Christina Rosetti
2. “I also will laugh at your calamity;” Proverbs 1:26
3. "There are innumerable things that we shall never know, but there are remarkable things that we shall truly experience in life'." Franc Rodriquez.
4. "The Lord has promised good to me. His Word my hope secures. He will my shield and portion be  As long as life endures.  John Newton
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Hoover or Kirby Correctional payoffs

Rather Galesburg Joliet 
Terrehaute Florence Colorado 
to the shores of Bogotá 
flushing heroin fentanyl 
through the gates behind bars 
thee corrupt prison ran 
by gang leaders paying 
off prison guards you can 
ask yourself what brand 
to buy into Hoover vacuum’s 
are reliable American made 
while Kirby Brands offers 
negligence falsifying death 
row inmates finally hangman’s 
curse while the hoover 
vacuum continues to crawl 
over the paisley patterns in 
the federal building breaking 
even on Lasalle and Van Burean
where Gargano once controlled 
most of the revenue trading fenced 
with osh gosh severe terrorist 
threats released only when corrupt 
prison guards do exactly what 
he says attack who he says attack 
while Kirby vacuum holding twenty 
convictions drugs violence victim 
intimidation battery hit and run 
corrupt family members controlling 
Wisconsin prison system looking to 
transfer power back to Joliet upon 
Hoover stamp of approval which 
might cross over interfering with 
the free Hoover movement this 
certainty opens the flood gates 
for Gambino early release programs 
for death row inmates just can’t 
have all power to the people without 
including all prison across America 
not to exclude Gitmo with the 
boarders rise in Islamic crossing 
over Lore Mannino territories all 
corruption throughout prison systems 
changes hands through Gambino rackets
funnelling crime throughout abuse 
of power corruption evenly distributed 
meanwhile power is being tampered 
with 40 years of dirt swept under 
the rugs until the Hoover vacuum 
is plugged back in all bets are off 
ask yourself what’s your Brand 
Hoover trustees or unreliable Kirby 
designed to malfunction fictitious 
score boards chips blood everywhere 
devouring the structure of all power 
terrorising FBI confidential human sources 
during an election where corruption sinks 
fast folding swiftly better get a broom 


No fear of terrorist threats from 
violent offenders gang leaders 
corrupt prison guards organised 
corruption abuse of power intimidation 
of an FBI confidential human source 
FBI informants CLEAN IT UP
Form: Masnavi

Premium Member Tahoe Tree Love

I love the browns in Tahoe’s nature,
I cry from the beauty in each acre …. 

I have seen many parts of America, 
savored each region’s unique flavor,
yet I am now a mute and awed appraiser.
In Tahoe, nature and enchantment neighbor.
Deep inside me, emotional tribute waves
gather, build and then rise in praise.
I feel the fuel of my soul’s veneration
as it revels in my Father’s creation.

My head and my heart harbor no doubt
that God comes here for any timeouts.
The oldest, tallest and most sturdy trees
are the lakes and mountains strong trustees.
Each flaunts an assured, confident attitude
for they have long lived their attributes.
I watch these trees with my soul’s eyes
as each nestles clouds in lazy, velvet skies.

Trunks reddish to dark brown are superb. 
Such huge trees dwarf mankind into a blur.
Ancient brown trunks are divine to behold.
I give thanks man left them undisturbed.
I would love to dwell in this forest’s folds.
A simple cabin would serve my fantasy.
Each day I’d visit a different brown tree,
absorb them one by one, most happily.
Form: Lyric


Monorhyme On Rachana Sharma

Never behaved in the school porcine;	
Had wise words for everyone to opine;	
Full of wise thoughts and memories refine;	
Rachana Sharma is ready without any supine.	
An eyesore progress she achieved school in 	
Even the trustees could no longer decline;	
Her help for others whenever did she design	
Was a feast – a great help and fun to dine.	
For 8 years was she my dear mentor fine	
From whom I learnt how to continuously grin	
In adverse situations and start from begin	
So that new fight and efforts lead you to win.	
Earlier she was looking like a pumpkin	
But now she managed her past confine:	
Looking beautiful, smart, nifty and divine	
Is ready ever any problem to define.	
She is my inspiration, she is my Kline,	
She is the best lady as a helpful friend in.	
With her I developed Monorhyme fine;	
And defeated many enemies malign.	
A good mentor and nice for nation mine	
Is none than Rachana - a brave feline.
Form: Monorhyme

Premium Member Endangered Inheritance

Inheritance
 
We are guardians of the future are trustees for 
                                                       posterity though wars galore are our legacy

We leave to our children the genocide in shining armour
                                                  destruction that we vowed not to happen again

Its all in the mind and however we feel not involved we
                                     soak up the human condition promote it in our thoughts

At the airport I picked up two of my triplets 23 now and
                                                 with one staying behind 23 plus 23 plus 1 = 47

It should have been easy to remember my parking lot number
                                           2 K 47 two kind children and one loved one missing

My age when I met my lover 47 the writers ‘group 47’ maybe
                                             the white death hunger winter in Europe that time

47 days until Christmas and 2 Kinfolk to arrive yet I however
                                      instead chose 2 AK 47’s as my mnemonic automatically

As in 2 angry Kalashnikov guns blazing me back to that dark
                                         gloomy place where my car had been rested for later

What kind of light what remembrance and outlook on life has 
                                       been planted like a bomb in my destructive perception

Do I accept when words convoluted connotations sinister
               aberrations seep and creep the into the percipience of what I call home
     
Or must I refuse not to become guilty of killing by proxy
                                                  of destroying the heirloom in mind and in spirit                                
 
By not standing up to that covert insidious manipulation and
                  domination taking place in my head I suppose I am guilty as charged    
                         

14th November 2016

Premium Member Legacy

I cycled across the river to Fort Lee
Then on the park roads under the Palisades
At the time it didn't occur to me
Undercliff Park didn’t come free; a man had paid.

I walked the carriage-road of Pocantico Hills
It was early, I saw cows and said "moo"
I vaguely heard of the man who paid the bills
So I could walk through fields, enjoy the view.

I hiked with my brother in Acadia Park
We pitched a tent on Mount Cadillac
High above the sea, lightning after dark
At sunrise, we high-fived, and put on our packs

I didn't know John’s spirit hovered there
The man who paid for all this land
A man who did more than his share
A believer, he made this his stand

Above Jackson Hole I rode my bike up high
Clouds dispersed, snow-peaks showed
I felt the rush, like an advance guard spy
John spent well, this was what he chose

John’s descendant Marion wanted revolution
So it could take away her money, deal with it better
Peggy Rockefeller joined SDS as a solution
Some rich kids see wealth as an iron fetter.

John Senior and John Junior, would they plea?
Be dismayed at the causes to which their money now goes?
Would John ask the fund’s new trustees
Not to fund radicals, and NGOs?

Maybe its intuition, that makes a man decide
But take a hike in the Smokies, or Yosemite and recall
In this kind of charity John took pride
An Idealist whose legacy still stands tall.

Now in Pocantico I wear a disguise
I’m full of shame, it’s true
Because whenever I come over a rise
Some kid laughs and points and says “Moo”!
Form: Lyric

Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO BEARS US ON EAGLES’ WINGS

January 24 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 19-21

Key Verse – Exodus 19:3-4 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO BEARS US ON EAGLES’ WINGS	

Praise be to God for bearing us on eagles’ wings to:
Bring us to His will as His peculiar treasures
Bless us by His ways as His privileged trustees
Build us up by His Word as His profitable teachers
Brace us along His ways as His provided trainees

Exodus 20:5 Praise be to the Lord for declaring to us 
that He is a jealous God; thus, we must:
Love Him wholeheartedly 
Listen to Him well
Lean on Him willingly
Learn from Him wisely
Look to Him worshipfully

Exodus 21:3 Praise be to the Saviour for appointing a place 
for us so we can stay in His fortress, fleeing from:
Temptations and disaster 
Trials and difficulties 
Tests and despair
Tribulations and deceit
Travails and discouragements
Troubles and dread
Threats and disarray
Terrors and dismay.  Amen!

January 24, 2024

Charlie Was Dead: Dickens

Charlie was dead

Charlie was dead: to begin with,
There is no doubt whatever about that.
I leave my residue to Carol for Christmas
and Little Dorrit his faithful Tom Cat.

There’s been hard times here in Bleak House,
Villainy and miserly crime capers,
I spent my fortune in shops of curiosity,
Pickwick wrote of it, in his gossip papers.

You gather here with great expectations,
Of bequeaths, chattels and yield.
But listen well to my loyal Trustees,
Messrs Chuzzlewit and Copperfield.

To that twister and Street Urchin Oliver,
and to show I bear him no grudge,
 I do leave a Crown and one Farthing,
and a sixpence to Barnaby Rudge.

To our mutual friends Dombey and Son,
Please accept my cane and fine silk scarf.
May you prosper all the year round,
As comfortable as a Cricket on a hearth.

So, here is my last Will and Testament,
Yes, I’m worthless, so whimper and brood.
Where did it all go, there is no mystery,
Lost at Cards to Nickleby and Drood.

KS 6/11/2017
© Kevin Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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