How dare I ask to be understood
To be heard during my blues
Why would I deserve the blooms
And not the constant dooms
Whom am I to let down that tear
Claiming to have had difficult years
When all I've had really
Are cuts to my heart like beautiful pierce
What happened did not happen
At least not how I tell the way it happened
I'm creating stories in my head to look for attention.
Oh no I'm not hurt
These are my happy tears
Because who am I to become sad..
At the world, for how it had been cruel.
Oh the nerve of myself,
To ever be depressed!
1/
Timorous, and trembly hearted
Quivering, world-blown besides.
My sister in sensitivity
Relief, know. Where it abides.
2/
Sunned; and for a seaview
As sparkly eyed, Love's own
Unfathomable depth!
Both dawn and dusk facing.
A brightly sailed width.
As far all pangs from out
Cape-hung, yet still cleaved to
Dearest, your hand!
Life's ongoing procession
A peaceful dream; fanned.
Dear vanity o dear vanity
How silly do I look to thee
Arrogantly parading across Main street
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Jolly jelly-belly J.B. Pritzker
Your wife’s health you took pains not to risk her
Flew her on a private plane
While with Covid you raised Cain
Hypocrisy portrays you ~ tsk, tsk, sir
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J.B. Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, flew his wife
to Miami after imposing travel restrictions on
'all Illinoisans' and closing all schools and
most businesses during the 'Covid crisis'
of Spring, 2020.
I prefer raw dates to most candidates
Robert to Bill Gates
Watching mine to lifting weights
fewer versus more states
Some call me a rock-ribbed conservative
but they all have a lot of nerve
My day is filled with uncommon verve
in my swivel chair ~ Watch me swerve!
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Robert Gates served as Secretary of Defense
for Obama and then Bush Jr., from 2006 - 2011.
White foamy waves like a spider’s web
Rising out of the water, surrounding the point
The cliffs are darker at this time of year
No breeze today, so this is a natural spring
Irish spring, how marvelous
I wonder about the dangers of getting closer
Dare I try my feet on these giant rocks?
What if I plunge into the depths of the sea?
Would a merman save me? I stare at the point
Is it the tower of the lost civilization of Atlantis?
I want to get closer, but do I have the nerve?
I do….
Nerve
Now that you are gone, I ask myself if you
Ever loved me. You
Really played me for a fool. I must admit you have ice in your
Veins. You had the gall to convince me you
Even cared.
.
hol'lup bella
whoze
back mine
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thunduhbird
who'do i let hol'me down
so i don't fall'loff when
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tourrr thuh tennessee
hillz
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*"whoze" thuh werd ')
A recent brush with death,
makes most people reflect..
They stop and think of God,
not just give him a nod..
It's been less then two weeks
and Trump's back to nasty tweets..
True colors flaring again, slings
mud at Joe Biden.
This man has got the nerve,
"Biden's not fit to serve".
President Biden deciding not to rerun,
not enough for some Republicans..
perception’s belief…
until deception’s beneath ~
despair is bequeathed
Not all cheers come but from cloud nine,
Nor every vintage is good wine,
Nor just in fools’ fiefdom
Fools are fonts of wisdom,
Beware of man’s nerve asinine.
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Tongue-in-cheek | 01.03.2023 | epigram/limerick
Ah! The smell of eggs
and pancakes on the griddle
Olfactory nerve distributes
five pounds to my middle
I am walking along ready to take on Mrs. M’s class.
She can be a jerk, a meanie, she is a pretty big a...
Along the way I see throw up all over the hall floor.
I use my walkie to call the custodian to come to this door.
Mrs. M. walks out of her room about forty feet down.
Demands to know why I am not there. She’s a clown.
I say “I am guarding this mess so no one steps in it.”
She says “I cannot be late to my meeting,” She is such a sh….
Then she says “There is the nurse. She can take care of that.”
She gives me a quick instruction, and she’s gone, the young bat.
When she returns she begins screaming about that and this.
I don’t care if I ever again work with this mean uppity Miss.
Nerve is a mind neatly lit,
In many things neatly fit,
His best weapon Dancing Wit;
Quite a great deal of The Writ.
He knows how to with them hit,
As his rivals their teeth grit
For being made to seem Nit Wit.
A thousand brows Nerve would knit,
His strength against champions pit,
Cause them to with force down sit
All challengers in a pit.
Old curmudgeons who poke and prod
Acting like they are always near to God,
Having nothing of value to do or say
Admonishing me to kneel and pray,
Get on my nerves, and make me mad,
And when they go, I’m awfully glad.
I do not admire their toxic attitudes,
These geezers who truck in platitudes
To think you, hypocrite, know of love
Your words do not come from above!
Criticizing our country, those who serve
I say to you, “You have some nerve!”
Written September 24, 2022
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