Long Unappetizing Poems

My Word,  My Honor   

Vows & promises are meant to be kept,  
Yet one's word to be honored is nowadays somewhat inept,  
Its old fashioned, seen as an item of...

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I dreamt of a situation in which I had chosen the option of lightheartedly  losing my life with full knowledge of was I was doing, but not of what was next to come.
I dreamt...

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Sky blue eyes looking
past the bounty of pork rinds
past boundless skylines
stare blankly for way too long
then to the menu
cradled in his plastic hands.

Plant-based food options 
required by government 
mandate appear first
photographed in black and white
described...

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A woman’s Man 
 Women in the merchant fleet are nothing new, there have been 
stewardesses, on ships since the late fifties. Before that we had 
to do with mess-boys to bring us and as...

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She is super, she says.  After I leave there, I feel great!
This is my friend Louise who is trying to convince me to sign up for a massage.
I suspect if she gets a friend...

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Brown nose,
head bowed low
Sniffing submissively so

Wag the sniveling tongue,
show the power privileged ones 
much servile love
Catch the prime scraps
tossed from your master’s table

Give a howl of gratitude,
back bent ... eyes to the floor
Do a lot...

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nothing
 happened
  today
but
 should
  expect 
it?

Lousy thoughts of a bored mind sitting on a empty chest listening to a hollow motor.
I want to be sedated; the song is playing the tune but the...

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The rain halted, but the breeze didn't cool.
Fiery sunny colors dwindle in the heat.
Cubes of sugar didn't dissolve.
Unappetizing or overgrown tea
It lacks both charm and stillness.
In that, you stated you'd stand back

Breath is a wave-spelling...

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Blue Cheese and Old Pickles Poetry Contest
Craig Cornish

A dish of disappointment
mocks the kitchen chef
two anomalies sitting on his cutting board
all in their glory, dumbfounded
... and unappetizing 
plated for aliens and not humans
or for a horse...

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I've been served lots of unappetizing things 
that simply did not please my palette.
Being force fed with bitter or insincere words 
is unappealing presented as a crisp green salad.

I would rather be underfed and malnourished...

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I
Moby Dick is a classic, so I've been told
tried to read when was younger, tried to read when more old
chastised my own self severely each time
for not having interest in words so sublime.
II
Billy Budd caught...

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Let's SEE What's in the laundry hamper?

" One a soiled cloth diapers
a fierce icky stinkysocks
some noxious obnoxious unclean towels
horrid stinking under-shorts
unappetizing horrible awful grubby baby bibs 
Oh, my some mephitic nauseating obscene panties.
Musty nauseating odious...

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