The Endless Fight
My sis and I, we made a vow,
to lose all of our weight somehow.
Long months we tried; sometimes we’d cheat.
Jogging! Oh the agony of da feet!
A one-week cruise; sister noshed and noshed -
Put back half the weight she’d lost!
A month she took to put things right.
Battle of the Bulge is the endless fight!
But, I digress, we're only human.
You can only eat so much with cumin.
And the next day she made her goal.
God bless her heart, God bless her soul.
So now when we get on the scale.
Sometimes we lose, sometimes we fail.
Butt, ;) we both get tired of the botching.
Of all this weighting and this watching.
Nov. 13, 2011 for Silent One's Introduction By Collaboration Poetry Contest
One Nation
It started in one moment.
It was not expected by all.
There was a clamor, of glamour…
Among those perceived higher than others,
By they themselves.
While all across America…
Not quietly others rejoiced,
For the system was true.
Deplorables!
Fraud, backstabbing, double dealing…
It should not have happened.
How did everything fail?
That was their scream,
that was their chant, their mantra, their song.
A man was elected to office.
A good man, an honest man, a real man.
He was there to serve the people.
Not one person, but …Our Whole Nation Under God!
He was there to honor the flag.
He was there to fulfill promises.
He was there to stand by his word.
“They” beat their drums of war.
“They” pulled at their hair and noshed their teeth.
“They” made up lies and repeat, to gain power by deceit.
One nation under God, Our Father in Heaven…
We hold up our President, to you.
Bless this man, Bless this nation,
In God We Trust
Amen
Tensely polarized
Fiercely alienated
Furiously devoid of
Space and peace
By deeds unjust
By antics blatant
Short-changed
****-noshed
Orphaned
Offended
From people
To pieces
An equation
Unbalanced
Sinister motives
Documented
Grand strategies
Visible mirrors
To annihilate
To assimilate
Partisan practices
Warped policies
Of can’t pilot
Be passengers
Lost trust
Lacks shine
Lost lives
Eternal
Galvanise
Demonise
Keep on to
Put down
Till one sees
The snake’s
Nude red
Buttocks!