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Premium Member You Had a Bird In Hand

You had a bird in hand


your boat was right there at your pier
with your name on it
all the accouterments were at your fingertips
there was nothing  to do but jump aboard
it was that easy 
one step at a time
over the gangplank
one, two, one, two
bingo, all aboard
but no
not one, two, one, two ... splash like one thinks
however ...
baby snubbed her nose, a pleasant way of saying condemnation 
wanting a bigger,faster and shinier ship
condemning the smaller ship
okay ...
keep in mind you had a bird in the hand
a boat that would have been loyal to you
it certainly doesn't match up with the bigger,faster and shinier ship
but it would have been loyal
then again ...
maybe the horizon has a pretty picture for thee 
then again ... maybe that picture has laughing donkeys
who knows
who knows ...
how long you be waiting for that perfect horizon
who knows ... if laughing donkeys bred
the gist of it all, you did have someone that was loyal to you
contrary to what you might have thought

connie pachecho

1/29/17


Perche Sono Me IV Fire Part 1

Perche Sono Me IV (Fire)
It’s been a long time since I have told anyone why I was myself and why I am me. It was long ago that I dictated three prose poems on this matter. The same questions have come up; newer ones add to my plight. I am single because I will not settle for anyone who only fulfills the needs of my loins. I prefer a person that arouses my intellect and respect for her. The people I have met only meet one of those criteria, except one meeting two of the three. Still, to get all three is a challenge. Even getting two of the three is a challenge.
Why are you Single?
I am myself because of the pain I have endured by many who have claimed to want of me while they were giving a kiss of deceit. Playing with anyone's emotions is an unethical crime that haunts the perpetrator later in life. Several females who claim to know what they want are falling and feeling the pain they deserve for what they wanted was not deserved or earned. If you are stupid enough to want a bridge and house built for you without contributing to the production, then do not expect to have them when the man has built them. Of course, an unethical man will claim to have these until you are trapped and left out in the trash. Do not expect the good man to take you in, as you are not recyclable. When you give up on wanting a respectable man, you give up on being respectable to yourself. Your pain and the pain of your children were caused by you pursuing the pleasure of your false beliefs. One of them believed that she wanted a person of her faith. He could not commit to the person of free milk. He used her for five years. HARK to her for showing disrespect to herself and her daughter. Now, she is with someone who cares about how they treat her. Putting aerosol on excrement does not make a candle's scent flow in the breeze.
What type of partner do you want to marry?
Education is vital to me as I have seen many go to school only to find a mate or find a person to mate with. It is pretty disturbing that the goal is procreation and recreation. It is wiser to find someone who matches the qualities of a good girlfriend or wife if they meet the higher qualities. If you want a good friend, find someone with the qualities of a good girlfriend. If you want a good girlfriend, find someone who would make a good wife. If you want a good wife, then focus on these two aspects.
Form: Prose

Premium Member Come Back Colorful Butterfly Faerie

colorful butterfly faerie flew into the garden today
The marigolds, lilies and lilacs all leaned her way
Wanting a favor, a glimpse, a look at her gown
She had a terrific personality, and no kind of frown

She is such a beauty! The elves and dwarfs did agree.
Tomato worm never saw her; he was watching TV
The radishes and carrots tried to get her to come over.
She was adorable! said the cat and an old dog named Rover.

Colorful butterfly faerie told them she would be back soon.
She had promised a relative she would meet them on the moon.
As she flew away, the garden waved and yelled out good-byes.
Within minutes she had entered a large cloud up in the skies.
Form: Rhyme

Will You Hold My Hand-Inspired By a Title Written By Denise Narayadu

She only wanted a kind soul to hold her hand
Remembering what life is, but forgetting why
Just wanting a guide in a now strange land

A solitary desert footprints lost in the sand
The journey impossible but still she'll try
She only wants a kind soul to hold her hand

She feels lost in this vast and lonely land 
So much despair still her eyes remain dry
Just wanting a guide in a now strange land

Confused asking what will happiness demand
She continues steadfast and she will not cry
She only wanted a kind soul to hold her hand 

Looking for the strength to make her stand 
Always some truths that she cannot deny 
Just wanting a guide in a now strange land

Time reveals two paths one bland one grand
A single star luminates in a pitch black sky
She only wanted a kind soul to hold her hand
Just wanting a guide in a now strange land

Premium Member Three Dogs at the Groomers

Three dogs at the groomers, three hours till there done
go out to eat lunch, have Italian tasty and fun
Entrees served, cell phone rings
Kublai's eye bleeding, doggie bags they bring
Get Kublai to the vet, has pulps on his eyelid
surgery to remove them, clean teeth as he's out on meds
Back to the groomers Ghenghis barking up a storm
Sassy nervous growls as trimming her nails performed
Ghenghis happy to see me looks like a puppy all prim
Sassy frighten harder to get her in kennel second time
Home with those two back to the vet
Kublai ready to go home in my lap he sit
His eyelid fixed and had two teeth pulled
Kublai wearing a cone feeling like a fool
He got stuck under a end table wouldn't back up
the cone came off Kublai as Ghenghis sniffed his butt
Kublai in a deep sleep Sassy licks his eye
Ghenghis begging as I eat my Italian wanting a bite to try.
Form: Rhyme


Naked Coffee Shock

Naked Coffee Shock

So.   It’s early Sunday morning in DC
Visiting my locale Mickey D’s
I’m not too bright about anything
Simply wanting a cup of Joe
Before I go to church
The help as usual is friendly and polite
(Some say they’re not but that’s alright)
2 ugly men walked in behind me
Clearly they were there to sin
Both had no clothes on so things went south
They were erect
(and I don’t mean posture or the building of a house)
I averted my eyes at the appropriate moment
These are hard times and getting harder
Not wanting to be party to this depravity and crime 
I tried to leave but…. Never mind…
 “Reach for the sky!”  The nude men shouted                      
Then struck up a conversation
(I thought this was salacious and unkind)
So.   I geared up my stronger serious mind
Became sophisticated and refined
I told them they are in the wrong place and time
Informed them the church is close to here 
If they were so inclined I’d take them there  
Repentance is a goodly and Godly thing
“Ridiculous!”  They cried 
They wanted more than a house of God
It was the apple pies they so desired
I told them they looked silly and kinda dumb
Reminded them they had no guns (obviously, they were naked)
There was no way to fake it
The only thing they threatened were some smiles 
So.  The manager told them there are no pies
And sizing up the situation, continued
“Can’t either of you read?”
The sign is clearly posted
“Shoes are required”  
You are not properly attired 
So kindly leave
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Black Snow

1. A dangerous vision coveting another,
blurred by envy to need a mental monocle.
she burns in such deadly blast
not to realize the soul already promulgate itself
to the better one.
Nothing can serve as a wake up call
to warn against the penalty point.
What was once a silent partner in thoughts
transform to wicked acts and a stench
not to be overlooked, wanting a friend to be less.

2. Sees up through her friend
both are fine, she wants to be finer
both are well, she wants to be better
a onetime dove becomes arrogantly disloyal
a part-time energy with flashlights
relevant to the downfall of another,
exhibiting abrupt vagaries, 
playing billiards not even to win
but to break the board,
watching closely in a bad timing
to revert all positives with negatives.

3. In the flowing dam of our love,
you poured strong acids of your crude emotions.
you are the one downgrading your worth to a bric-a-brac
your unexplained anger proves the more
that I’m by far better.
On this affliction, you stay rat-arsed,
giving jealousy so much importance
to be obsequious to it.
Time to be matey with the envied has passed,
let this dark heat continue fighting
for the devil may care.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member In Memory of Grumpy Cat

It is so hard to say goodbye.  The end has come.
     I knew it would . . .  someday.  Such a good cat;
for twelve long years, my Grumpy, always there for me,
            wanting a pat, a lap, a snack to make you fat.

I recall our first meeting on a freezing winter day,
      cold, unfriendly eyes of a stray, rejected by the world;
alone and afraid, hissing.  Slowly a trusting friendship,
            and eventually in my arms you were curled.

How can I endure this cruel world without my friend?
     But of course, I must go on . . .  I imagine you;
in a beautiful garden, lush and green.  Sunshine streaming,
            bird songs filling the air, and a sky azure blue.

You are busy grooming your shiny brown tabby fur,
     amber eyes twinkle, a little pink tongue busy curling;
a paw, a face . . .  something catches your attention;
            you jump up to swat a passing butterfly whirling.

Rolling in the cool grass, you curl up for a nap, 
     with a sigh . . .  and death came to you like a thief;
till I draw my last breath, I will hold you in my heart,
             the price I pay for loving you so much, is grief.

But, I would not change one moment of our time together,
      you were a gift from God, to last me all my lifetime;
never to be repeated . . . as you drew your last breath,
                I whispered in your ear, till to heaven I climb,

       and I placed you in God's loving arms in the meantime . . . 

__________________________
Written at sixteen years old
Posted, April 27, 2017

Elegy/In Memory Of Grumpy Cat
Copyright Protected, ID 895903

Juvenilia
Ceclia Hopkins-Drewer


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"All things bright and beautiful,
 All creatures great and small:
 All things wise and wonderful,
 The Lord God made them all . . . ."
     (Mrs. Cecil Frances Humpreys Alexander, 1848)
Form: Elegy

A Poet

I love a lot about who I am....
A Mistress who has come into her own
A sister that LOVES her sisters no matter what
A friend who will fight to the end for loved ones
A hard worker that does what needs to be done
A mother who REALLY misses her cubs
A lover...enough said there
An ex wife who would love to be mean
A moderator who has to be fair
A college student wanting a new career
And I am a poet....
A poet that writes MANY different ways
I write happy and sad
I write fantasy and haunted
I write about my past and my future
I write humor when I can
I write how I want and when I want
I write for me and for others as well 
But MAKE NO MISTAKE...I will not
Change any of my work because it 
Does not make sense to you...
You see some of what I write is not meant 
To make sense in a logical way....but hey
If my work or that of any other is not to your
Taste...you do not have to read what I write.
I am a poet...a poet who will write what
I want any time and any place...that is what a
Poet does....we write poetry that is for us 
And makes sense for us......
I will take the good comments as well as the bad
Just do not expect me to change for you.....
After all I am....A poet......

Premium Member It Sucks

It sucks to be young,                                                                                            you need to learn it all.                                                                                          It sucks to be old,                                                                                              know it all and are running out of time.                                                                It sucks to be poor,                                                                                   working two or three jobs.                                                                                   It sucks to have things,                                                                                  with everyone wanting a slice.                                                                            It sucks how time stands still as a child,                                                              old age and time just flies by.                                                                                It sucks my birthday was canceled,                                                                     I missed the party, cake and presents.                                                                It sucks this world had gone mad,                                                                      guess we are all in it together.
 
Date Written: 8/6/2020

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