Long Vocab Poems

Each English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun,
   and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one
of "proper" dictionaries has neologism words -
   the editors must...

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If anyone would like to have some community fun, 
please send me a limerick(s) in a comment or soup mail.  



The famous Blarney Stone, some can't resist
When in Ireland, it's on tourist's checklist
But do...

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Time and again he flashes those images before me;
The sin that so easily besets me
You should think that by now I get the picture
That I now understand his whims
That I can say “get behind me,...

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Just when life was getting back to normal. 
We get smacked with another load of bull. 
It dragged us in with strong magnetic pull. 
Removing peace covering eyes with wool. 

We cleaned up the crazy...

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hey white girl
what are u doin 2 day?
are u complaining about da events of ur self imposed stressful day
hey white girl
what u sayin 2 day?
Knowin u
its in direct contradiction 2
what u said yesterday
hey white girl
Didn't...

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Carmena was born in Bolivia
but left that place at seventeen,
after three years of waiting for the chance
to live out an American dream.

When her folks finally got their green cards
they moved up into old Santa Fe,
Carmena...

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It has become painfully obvious that the only way to be heard
is to pay through the nose to be a lifetime nerd,
the way to be read in on this sight 
is to pay through the...

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Poetry Soup, The foundation where I’m planting my roots, 
Lassoed by a rope that’s never loose,
Always bringing me back,
I’m here, ready with no fear, high jacking minds causing post traumatic panic attacks,
Ya no match for...

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I try and publish and a poem in souptime and "the soupstraints to the confines existant 
excell to a minimal maxitude of differentila indifferencode interossities.
Since i am not sosoup fast with my train of soupthought...

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POESY TO (T)RAP
A poem for a competition is requested.
Who is the judge and what does s/he like?
Does political correctness circumscribe the contest?
Where shall the heart of upbeat poet strike?
Cancel that. The rhyming is old-fashioned.
Like speech...

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I've grown a bit slower, I've grown a bit fatter,
  my mission each hour: relieving my bladder.
When I was a youngster, I had no idea
  old coots who eat fruits will just get...

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We fight like we were scheduled
Almost like it was premeditated
Opinionated like leaders of our debate teams but not liberated
We continue long after it ends hence we aren't celebrated

Our happiness is however taxed
Maybe our feelings have...

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There is a building, two blocks down
Where students come from out of town.
There are no textbooks,
There are no rules.
Only students labeled as fools.
They learn about life in a peculiar way,
Their school isn’t open in during...

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About these ditsy moments - I’m blonde, I have a few,
but there is one real cringer I think I’ll share with you.
Before I do, please promise me though, that you will not laugh
as the tale...

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THINGS  I  DON’T   UNDERSTAND *  


First the facetious stuff then the seriously bad * 
Moralizing  punch  line which I usually do add.
Don’t understand  difference between horse and...

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THE TRUTH WILL SET U FREE 
dont let go of me 
BIBLE damn LIARs 
hypocrites
I'm on trip  
finger prints on my soul 
ill never be sold 
RELIGION is GOOD FOR BUSINESS A TRIPLE DIGIT...

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Misfortune passed me today, with days of constant pursuit, a leg dropped me a pass, my tongue twisting, my long well rehearsed script, grew lines I new not their whereabouts, it was calmness and character...

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Every time I sat down to write you a poem
Don't know why but my lines couldn't catch its rhythm,
All these years I have been sharing my feelings through my words,
But when it comes to you...

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"Finally my blood began to coagulate,"
the second stage of hemostasis -- how great!
First I applied pressure to the bleeding spot,
the platelets circulate to stop it (a "clot.")

Coagulation forms a more solid wall,
in other words: a...

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"The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate...

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The I told you so,
I feel for you though,
very little — because
‘they can’t replace us,
they have no soul.’

They don’t need one,
they have all the souls 
of the poets before you.

FYI understand it is over,
the best...

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Kids flick paper airplanes
And goof around in class
But what can you expect?
The teacher won't get off her ass.

Such lovely etiquette
Our tax dollars at work
So please don't strain yourself
You inconsiderate jerk.

I speak as a student of...

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I Am Feeling You
January 5, 2014 at 3:17pm
Sometimes I run out of words
in which to respond
to my amazing poets
from around the world.
"Like" buttons are deficient,
I open my "dialog bag"
and scatter bountiful
yet limited vocab throughout
my mind.Only...

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I’m tempted to backhand the ones who call
		us sixty-somethings old or elderly.
		How dare they use such terms describing me?
		Infuriating! Boy, do they have gall!

		It’s fine to be solicitous and hold
		the door—to be polite, but not...

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quotidian

normalcy, like eating two segments of your friend's orange

after your vocab test

 

like looking out the window of a Starbucks placed

almost anachronistically

in the backyard of the forest

 

like sipping a too-sweet coffee and watching

the rain...

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