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Mermaid Messes Around With Her Healing Hands

mermaid messes around with her magic hand
Spurts and sparks fly out across the water onto land.
I would not do that if I were you, a wise man says.
The next thing she knows she’s in a fishbowl with Inez.

Inez is miffed, her bowl is too full with this maid.
You need to go! You give me too

Categories: messes, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

In My Messes

I’m in awe of Him
The One who loves 
Even my most messy efforts
Those verses I write
That don’t really delight
Even me, they seem
So disorderly, so muddled
That I would like to take them apart
And start over with something new
Something improved 

But He loves even these cluttered
Tangled and confused
Inklings that survive my edits
And pour out my soul
My burdens

Categories: messes, appreciation, christian, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Metric System Messes With My Head

I grew up with inches, yards, miles, and feet.
I knew the difference, it was easy, and neat.
But today I am far behind in the dust because
Metric scale is what the new math does.

Millimeters, centimeters, cha cha cha.
Pencil thickness is about one centimeter. Rah Rah Rah.
Ten Millimeters is one centimeter, reminds me of cents to a

Categories: messes, age, math,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Vladimir Putin Finally Messes Up

Honestly I abhor the Rain
Russia-triggered in Ukraine
A deluge as finishing as A Plague
All its relevance fastened on The Vague…

Vladimir finally choosing to mess up,
All along longing to with the Devil Sup…

Consolingly I believe in Sanction,
Certain it falls not to function;
A trust in more closures of Russia’s Banks
For a corresponding reduction of battle-field tanks;
A booing at

Categories: messes, death, evil, integrity, violence,
Form: Rhyme

They Are Noncompliant Messes

He is deemed least likely to succeed in kindergarten
Cannot follow in a line, is horrible at being redundant
Never fits in with the rest of the cookie dough
Distorted immediately after being cut into a circle
He cannot be educated the teacher says in a note to his mother
He is Thomas Edison

She is strangely odd, her professor writes.
She

Categories: messes, life,
Form: Free verse

No One Messes With Grandma

Tuesday was the day that Saturn came crashing down out of the sky.
She fell with a plunk, many people thought they were going to die.
She got smaller and smaller, until she fell with a tiny little plink.
Saturn fell in my grandmother’s dark room, into her photogenic sink.

We grandkids asked Grams, should we share Saturn's plight?
Gram

Categories: messes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Baking Can Be So Sweet

His joy shone while sweet baking and icing with me,
shone on me, him and our cat for he was just three.

Categories: messes, care, child, childhood, christmas,
Form: Couplet

Messes Up My Coiffure

Ladies of the Soup I bow in your honour
You curl up my toes, with images impure
My thoughts go askew
Bamboozled right through
Doing the naughties messes up my coiffure


© Jack Ellison 2015

Categories: messes, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Humanities Messes

A lot of the problems we face in our lives
    are caused by too many excesses.
The state of things in the world today
    cause too much stress and distress us.
Only through Christ and the power of prayer
    can we conquer the things that opresses us.
Keep faith

Categories: messes, faith,
Form: Rhyme

Sticky Messes

Br'er Rabbit me
still tries to best Tar Baby
still gets caught up
in the emotional mess
as an ego-maniacal half-wit
when the best approach
is to not approach,
as if staying out reach
and staying out of touch
were one-in-the same
as running like hell
in another direction.
But as a gluttonous masochist
two, maybe three, times each year
I'll stand within reach
and swing away. No.
That is not

Categories: messes, confusion, depression, lost love,
Form: Free verse