Hey God, you’re an awesome guy,
As you watch over us from the sky,
We know and honor you from afar,
The brightest celestial shining star
But what if you were one of us,
A mere stranger on the bus,
You would give yourself away,
Be it on any day,
By your surrounding blinding light,
Which has such intense might,
Just a visit one might say,
It would be a short stay,
So short that as soon as you appear.
You shortly thereafter disappear,
Taking the staircase to your home in heaven,
One, two, three, four five six, seven,
Realizing you have got to reset us,
A new start we need, you are all-forgiving,
Ever-lasting, ever-present, ever-seeing,
God, we know you want us to change
Throw our drugs and evil politicians away
Creep out of our self-destructing path,
For right now destruction you can only see
And Sheer chaos in its aftermath!
I used two lines from the song, not identical though ‘One of Us’ by Joan Osborne.
Categories:
osborne, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
[for Joan Osborne]
What if god was a little mouse
Just a mouse in a little house
Just a stranger and a louse
Tryin' to get the cheese.
Categories:
osborne, animal, cute, fantasy, funny,
Form: Lyric
J-ust
E-rase
S-ilent
S-pread
E-liminating
O-ne
S-tealth
B-acteria
O-f
R-abidly
N-oxious
E-pidemic
Topic: Birthday of Jesse Osborne (June 17)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Categories:
osborne, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
So farewell Keith Vaz, we don’t really mind
Whether you steered from the front or behind
But the coke was a bit of an epic fail
What’s that, you’re snorting, I didn’t inhale?
So hello Keith Vaz, you’re still knocking about
You can lock up yer closet now yer out
And maybe hang out with Osborne and stuff
Isn’t he a bit of a powder puff?
© Gail Foster 6th September 2016
Categories:
osborne, addiction, corruption, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme
This poem has been removed for publishing on Amazon in WW II in Poetry: Veterans Stories in Poetry, including my late father's who was a Spitfire pilot in the Nigeria Squadron. As it says at the end, "For free speech".
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/WW-II-Poetry-Veterans-Stories-ebook/dp/B07DGLF33G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528537495&sr=8-1&keywords=Rhoda+Monihan
Categories:
osborne, america, courage, death, health,
Form: Heroic Couplet
George Osborne’s Speech at the Conservative Party Conference 2015
Yesterday, on the 5th of October, Chancellor George Osborne said,
He was gonna give devolved powers to local councils dead;
He was gonna extend his hand to the many, the working people,
Who feel a desolation from Jeremy Corbyn’s socialist steeple.
He hit on a high note, a marketing gold, when he nobly exclaimed,
That the Conservative Party were builders fixing the roof, aimed:
Said that financial infrastructure needs checked whilst functional;
Compared the tories to builders, who have an agreement contractual.
Calling yourself builders by no means suggests you care for them,
Politics should be about giving certain benefits to not pre-condemn,
Like more time off for male parents and paid vacation holidays,
To say how much we appreciate these builders for their athletic abilities.
Do you think George is quietly angling to become Prime Minister?
His celebrity diet at the start of 2014 alludes to such a mister,
When he took to running in St James’s Park and around his home,
And now I'm wondering if 10 Downing Street he will one day roam.
Categories:
osborne, community, jobs, leadership, money,
Form: Heroic Couplet
The budget is boring, George Osborne is a pratt *
Raising extra monies by taxing this and that
The deficit is crippling, but he hasn’t got a clue
To me, the next election seems long overdue!
* the spell-checker wanted to amend prat to part. I almost went with that suggestion, but couldn’t decide which part people would assume he was…
Categories:
osborne, funny, humorous, political,
Form: Light Verse
It's rarely known but studies have shown
Pencils last fifty thousand words
Worms eat themselves if they can't find food
Now I find that totally absurd!
It's rarely known but studies have shown
Elephants can't jump, wish they could
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
I know people that applies to, or should
It's rarely known but studies have shown
Right handers live longer than left
How many people just decided to switch
Nine years longer, who would've guessed
It's rarely known but studies have shown
In Nebraska, you can't burp in church
As a matter of fact, you can't sneeze either
From some recent up-to-date research
It's rarely known but studies have shown
A giraffe cleans its ears with its tongue
Charles Osborne hiccuped 69 years
Wasps taste like pine nuts... I'm done!
It's rarely known but studies have shown
Ninety-nine per cent of these are true
But I must confess, there's a couple I fudged
Now you won't report me, will you?
©Jack Ellison 2012
Categories:
osborne, life, people, people,
Form: Quatrain