Hearken, hear ye, what we say
O'er runways and roadways
Swirling snowflakes
are falling today
Sidewalks, slushy and slick
need new navigation
in a festive way
So, Say-Hey and Yay
All you trick-or-treaters
It's time to break out
Your Halloween sleighs!
A Happy, snowy, Halloween
to Midwesterners (USA)
:) :) :)
Categories:
newsflash, celebration, halloween, snow, today,
Form: Rhyme
How come they're not trying to ban poison
or knives or sunshine, alcohol, baseball bats, aerosols, chemtrails.
Because those things aren't the two
that protect the people the most.
Free speech and guns.
Categories:
newsflash, blessing, bullying,
Form: Prose
Claus chose Vixen to lead his sleigh this year.
Rudolph was assigned to bring up the rear.
Vixen was promoted;
Rudy was demoted,
Since he was sozzled and too drunk to steer!
Entry for Tania Kitchin's "Funny Reindeer Limerick" Contest
(8 December 2018)
Categories:
newsflash, christmas, funny,
Form: Limerick
What was that I just heard
I think it was a baby bird
The sparrow hawk has come today
To take some baby birds away
He doesn’t come to be nice
It’s all a question of life
He has his own brood of chicks to feed
And his supermarket is in the tree
He doesn’t have a qualm
Neither does he have a farm
He just happens to be calm
When he dives down and snatches supper
It’s all about him having the upper
Silent flight, hooked beak, sharp claws
Will break down the door
Bye, bye, baby sparrow, your short life was gifted for another
And so life goes on
DAMO
Categories:
newsflash, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
NEWS FLASH!!!
Yeah, I read it and hear it all the time-
But I’m sick of reading the headlines,
And I’m tired of hearing the news-
I cry for the kids and old ones,
‘cause so many are being abused.
Shootings here - beatings there,
Daily crime happening everywhere-
I cry for the elephant chained for 50 years,
I’m sick of lawyers saying, “It’s not what it appears-“
The rapist gets an early release from jail – he’s free,
Until he gets caught on his next raping spree.
I cry for the victims, it’s so terribly sad,
Has our justice system really gone mad?
A 15 year old dies retrieving her stolen phone – that’s fact,
A man, standing in a fast food line, gets stabbed in the back-
I cry for the babies left in hot cars that die,
And I shake my head and ask, “ God, Why?”
A home invasion goes awry-
A man kicks a door in and executes a family of six-
A man on his yacht dies of a forced drug fix-
All of this bad news makes me SICK-SICK-SICK!
NEWS FLASH !!!
Only you have the power to change laws,
Especially if they’re flawed-
Don’t sit idly back, ask why, or cry-
It’s with your persistence in calls, actions and letters,
That maybe life for some can be made better!
Categories:
newsflash, anger, judgement, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Newsflash
Newsflash: There will be not any Christmas this year.
Santa's elves are on strike for better pay and no Obamacare.
The FAA has grounded Rudoph. So Santa has to use Twikle toes for more light.
Santa's doctor told Santa to lay off the cookies because he won't get off the ground.
The other reindeer wants more feed because they don't like carrots.
So no Christmas this Year Boys and Girls.
Categories:
newsflash, christmas,
Form: Free verse
"EARLY TONIGHT, according to HEAR SAY, things got PRETTY UGLY when a SINGLE GROUP of HELLS
ANGELS became SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE to control during an ALL OUT MINOR CATASTROPHE at the
MICROSOFT WORKS sponsored MEXI-CALI JUMBO SHRIMP Festival“.
(in a strange way, this type of wishy-washy lingo reminds me of our lovely National news)
Categories:
newsflash, confusion, funny, imagination, satire,
Form: Prose Poetry
a toddler crawls in
bank vault-- timed to close—door shuts--
darkness—tragic cry
mom calls nine one one
drill for four hours--door opens
mom hugs child tightly
Categories:
newsflash, caregiving, childhood, confusion, life,
Form: Haiku
charmed four wives--same time;
loved each 'til her cash dried up--
charmer in jail now
Categories:
newsflash, family, husband, life, loss,
Form: Senryu
Newsflash
Nature at your door
A spectacle of wonder
Live on channel four
Raucous reporters flailing
Beneath whistling knifes
Glued eyes anesthetized
By potential loss of life
Ratings rapidly rising
Above muted horizontal rain
Complacency collapsing beneath
Just another hurricane
Clothed carcasses floating
Down raging river roadways
My God was that my neighbor
With whom my daughter plays
Excuses evacuated
As a tragedy tunes in
Nature doesn’t play politics
But it will kill your kin
Categories:
newsflash, natural disasters, death,
Form: Quatrain