There's a shindig in town where the upper class flocks
This societal stuff Joe constantly mocks
bow tie and black shiny shoes
entry for Joe they politely refuse
If you want to come in wear more than a pair of brief jocks
Magpies musing to get money,
Mock at misers sans magnanimity.
Lands laugh at those that wend
Their way mumbling: my land, my land.
Lover, at the lady-love’s spouse,
Proud, playing with the love-child in his house.
Death scorns, laughing aloud
At the battle-scarred king in shroud.
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Translation |07.08.2024| free verse, fun
The Sanskrit verse:
arthaah hasanti uchita- daana viheena lubdham
bhoomyoh hasanti mama bhoomih iti bruvaanam |
jaaraah hasanti tanayaan upa-laalayantam
mrtyuh hasati avanipam rana-ranga- bheerum ||
How it mocks your mind to think
a thing your faith affirms as tenet.
You tussle with the doctrinal ink:
was there an inaugural minute?
"Always existed," can that be right?
The thought swevels all your senses.
Saints with you do mull and marvel
trapped in past and present tenses.
The picture will clear on a day hence
when puzzles will be pieced complete.
They will make heaven-sent sense
as in tears we kneel at Jesus' feet.
The Masked " You Might Know Me"
Made his in ring debut, Mangeged
by " Gone Tour Me" he challenged
Dale B. Finer. Out classed by Y.M.K.M.
Finer sucummed to a Grall Gamers
Bearhug .
In what's said to be
A world class series of
Manuvers,
"The World's Bestest Ever"
Ulster Besputin
Verses
"Moody" Belkez Butaev
Ended at 31:00 when
Butaev used a Cattlemen's Beal
To position Besputin for the
pin.
"Big Money Grip" Dax Dollbouis
Beat Lammy Loco via submittion
With the Casters Canyon Victory Roll
:57 .An Areana record.
The Bankday Brawler and Ghetto Suchi
Beat Tissey Tilmon and Fattey Frikston
In a tagteam encounter, Frikston
Was on the receiving end of a
Louisiana Jaw Jam(right cross)
And in the main event
Members of "The Roster"
"Los Natralous " Javolen Suet
And "Tangles" Tanna Simmers
Went head to head with
Gym. Guy Frankie and
Badboy Boston
The bout ended in a
No DQ when the referee
From und Sommers lyre
And Javolens magic flute
In the he ring.
This has been Kelp Seaworthy with
Kelp Seaworthy Reports.
The Masked " You Might Know Me"
Made his in ring debut, Mangeged
by " Gone Tour Me" he challenged
Dale B. Finer. Out classed by Y.M.K.M.
Finer sucummed to a Grall Gamers
Bearhug .
In what's said to be
A world class series of
Manuvers,
"The World's Bestest Ever"
Ulster Besputin
Verses
"Moody" Belkez Butaev
Ended at 31:00 when
Butaev used a Cattlemen's Beal
To position Besputin for the
pin.
"Big Money Grip" Dax Dollbouis
Beat Lammy Loco via submittion
With the Casters Canyon Victory Roll
0:27 (seconds)An Areana record.
The Bankday Brawler and Ghetto Suchi
Beat "Toughey"Taltron Tilmon and Fattey Fysta
In a tagteam encounter, Fysta
Was on the receiving end of a
Louisiana Jaw Jam(right cross)
And in the main event
Members of "The Roster"
"Los Natralous " Javolen Suet
And "Tangles" Themble Sommers
Went head to head with
"Gymguy "Frankie Loftsinger and
"The BostonBadboy " Bach Sistra
The bout ended in a
No DQ when the referee
From found Sommers "lyre"
And Javolens "magic flute"
In the he ring.
This has been Kelp Seaworthy with
Kelp Seaworthy Reports.
Big
A mockingbird outside my door will sing
He serenades and taunts me with his song
In early morn before alarm can ring
He sings year-round, not only in the spring
I try to tell myself he’ll not last long
A mockingbird outside my door will sing
At times his little neck I’d like to wring
Though surely he thinks I should play along
In early morn before alarm can ring
This bird sings loudly, thinking he is king
Although I beg for quiet, he’s headstrong
A mockingbird outside my door will sing
Ignoring me when I cry out, “Take wing!”
This agony I choose not to prolong
In early morn before alarm can ring
With lady birds, you’d think he’d have a fling
I fear I’m doomed to listen all lifelong
A mockingbird outside my door will sing
In early morn before alarm can ring
*Written January 13, 2019
Theory of evolution
is mocked by God
Lamb and wolf sleep together
Isa. 11:6
Left out in the cold
Silent night; my jilted star
That once blazed in cherish across her world
That once lit up her heart and twinkled her toes
Now, no longer glows
Once; upon a long time ago
A memory now of old forgotten times
A star now in decline
It lies there – dead
A death star now exploding into Supernova’s
Of hope
Hoping against useless hopelessness
That bleeds you to the core when
Drowning in repetitive
Wonderment
To choking on what could have, should have
Been
Before Him…
Before. It was just Us
Her hands, I clearly see, frozen in pantomime
Of words unsaid
They spilled across the floor like a whore
His smell upon our bed
Insanity climbing through my head
It spreads, like a disease
Only time can purge
Only the clock
It mocks
Tick tock
Tick tock…
"Write me sad"
11 September 2014
Morning mocks, evening
wars make better strive
If must overcome heels
in this roster
There are much beliefs in
everlasting live.
Pieces and splits are rigid
when alive
Devils' wraths chainless for
many master
Morning mocks, evening
wars make better strive.
Living worthy life begets
ever-live
And hasten shadows
overthrone siesta
We shall become history
when we die
Many laws and more rules
muse when alive
And must still to the
opera monster
Morning mocks, evening
wars make better strive
Surviving the tunnel
needs better life
By being grateful to man
and Master
We shall become history
when we die
There are much believe
in everlasting live
Less sojourn and final
route to Master
Morning mocks, evening
wars make better strive
We shall become history
when we die
Man Mocks
Walking in streets, hungry, hopes in dumpsters.
Social storms, norms… man mocks like monsters.
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 21, 2010
Poetic form: Crysalline
A Grasshopper mocked an Ant all the day long,
because the Ant thought to be busy and strong
And the Grasshopper thinks this all is silly and wrong.
An Ant can carry thrice its weight ,even a big, big crate.
An Ant travels far and wide, and needs no other for a ride.
An Ant works well in teams, and gets much done by the streams.
They have no King ; They have no guide.
They have instinctive chemicals inside.
They spend all day doing profitable things,
while the Grasshopper lies around the Springs.
An Ant will travel with their food in a line;
and this works very,very, fine.
The Grasshopper waits to be served before it'll dine.
By Wintertime, the industrious Ants are well-prepared.
By Wintertime, the lazy Grasshopper becomes all scared.
How will he eat; he thought not ahead? Perhaps he does not know.
Perhaps he'll humble himself , and off to seek the Ants he will go.
December 19, 2008
Copyright McCuen 2008
The crow was cawing.
Perched on a tear in the breeze.
Weeping over the flowered wreath.
Whispering on the lips of a Lilly
and lingering.
The smell of the dead doth deafen,
when depression becomes divine.
There simply is no glory left
in the empty fortunes told.
A promise had been given
and forgotten so long ago.
Mourning and the bird is startled.
I remember those feathers tumbling.
As if teasing, in a clumsy manner,
the bottom of that six foot hole.
And the dirt did quench its thirst
Then I suddenly realized,
we were in the cemetery strolling.
I was walking and you were floating.
You asked me to stay and I replied
Never has death sounded so sweet
Wiping the sleep from my eyes.
Jonathan Peter Risinger
Copyright ©2005 Jonathan Peter Risinger
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