An oversize nose came near to me
sniffed about, then set me free
Clinging to the stone, grinding mine
no scandals did 'Nosy' find
Making angels in the snow.
A silly grin becomes an oversize smile.
Snoopy's now a heavenly body.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 2nd plce 2026
The wind rustles leaves against his dirty ankles.
His focus is three feet to the front at the ground.
Oversize clothes hang from his frame.
A patina of ground in dirt and grime covers a slouchy hat.
Trickles over his out thrusting grey hairs, lacquering his outer garments.
No one stops.
No one asks if he needs help.
Very few look his way.
Suddenly he stops and squats next to the road.
Drawing pictures only he can see.
Erasing the dust and drawing again.
No one notices as they pass by.
ATHENA IN THE AFTERNOON
We drove the high edge of the valley,
late summer lush green, the cobalt sky
a passing cold front with lightning and
rain threatening our day
“It’s beautiful!” I said
“Yes!” she replied like a lazy idea in red
thong sandals, dark blue jeans, a man’s
oversize shirt, her curly black hair an
elegant chaos from an ancient Greek vase
I mentioned the sky, she reached for her
purse, applied color to her face
“Yes, Honey” she said as she painted her
lips red with a narrow black brush
I said “You don’t even know…….
“Not now” she said, her black-rimmed
glasses reflecting the valley, the deepening
sky, the depth in her eyes
“Honey”, she said, “we’ll crash for sure
if you don’t watch the road and I’m really
not pretty, I just am what I am until you
look at me, then…I am….your love”
The lightning flashed twice, caught the
red ribbon in her hair
She drew a sudden breath….and leaned
closer to me
thunderstorm side wind
clip Dumbo's oversize ear
belly meadow burn
1/ 26/2021
How happy is the gentle luna!
Does the luna make you shiver?
does it?
An asteroid, however hard it tries,
Will always be huge.
Now vast is just the thing,
To get me wondering if the asteroid is big.
I cannot help but stop and look at the wooly heel.
Does the heel make you shiver?
does it?
I cannot help but stop and look at the big crescent.
Are you upset by how larger it is?
Does it tear you apart to see the crescent so oversize?
Tessa's Thighs
Hey Tessa babe come and kill me with your sexy oversize thighs! The CIA is after you. Reason: your oversize thighs! I see you in your cut down jeans. So awesomely fecking sexy.
See the curve of your tailpipe where there's no material, your table top lips tight against the fabric curtains. You need a licence for your sweetie leisure centre body. You age 170.
I know many men who want a piece of you. I do. As does my wife. How will you both be, between one another's thighs on the river? Your dear darling do not moan that you have a top body, ace thighs and no licence to use it.
I'll give you false ID so I can legally use you, be between your hot oversize cupboards my dear Tessa. You'll enjoy your pussy cat bite being nibbled and my big cockerel up your light bulb. Over and over again.
Second Shadow
Jimmy Boom Semtex
She's in love with the sound of her own voice
The pitch the tone the octave
Her one favorite topic is herself
She loves her audience captive and attentive
Their politeness is nothing short of adoration
Convinced there's no topic more worthy of the podium
She pictures herself filling the city stadium
Why else would she practice delivering monologues
She constantly craves to hear echoes of applause
Won't entertain the thought of nothing less
Imagining thunder of roaring standing ovations
She's bold she's grand she's totally delusional
Many have tried to break her but she's steady won't back down
She stands tall like a medal winning million dollar baby
She's always been daddy's girl and can do no wrong
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
Flashback to an enchanted time in my life
So long ago forgotten any trace of strife
A dogeared corner to a most favorite page
Four rainbow budgies and an oversize gilded cage
In my youth my dreams ever waiting for a sign
It was a time of drenching floodlit sunshine
Inpouring from my kitchen patio doors
The energy from bright blue skies outdoors
The bubbly chirping happiness is what I remember
It lasted on through right until september
Four rainbow budgies who could do no wrong
How I loved each one as they sang all day long
They chanted and wholeheartedly I listened
It was as if my life just glistened
The bubbly chirping happiness is what I remember
Not the sadness when rolled around the first of december
Four rainbow budgies in an oversize gilded cage
Right before my whole life was up on stage
AP: 2nd place 2020, 3rd place 2020
Submitted on September 28, 2019 for contest WRITE A RHYME ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE PET, LIVING OR NOT (BUDGIES) sponsored by REGINA RIDDLE - RANKED 4TH
He wore his big gaudy oversize rolex
Chewing on some tex-mex with his ex
Forever flipping through his rolodex
On the phone with gents and rednecks
He’d invite his clientele to a fashion vortex
On the main floor of his triplex
Where he sold suits in the annex
And quality unisex turtlenecks
In exchange for cash and cheques
When he’d run out he’d offer rainchecks
Or start showing off some fancy crewnecks
Everything to get noticed at discotheques
AP: 3rd place 2021
He looks so small
Huddled in the doorway
Curled up tightly
To keep out the cold.
Head tucked down
In oversize jacket,
Life so young,
Yet worn out and old.
His identity in the
Carrier bag he clutches
The world on his shoulders,
Weighed down with care.
Just one of society’s
Many lost children
Tossed out of her arms
And abandoned to despair.
Yet while he sits
In makeshift haven
To protect his existence
His only goal,
Fate steps in,in the guise
Of passing stranger
Whose kindly smile
Belies an empty soul....
On a lonely hillside
Lies a small body,
Abused and broken
But no longer alone,
For in the warm soil
Between trees and bracken
Mother Earth cradles
One of her own.
Chances and choices to grow
Chances and choices to taste
Chances and choices to blow and throw
Chances and choices to invest or waste
Same chances for Tom and John
Same chances for Mary and Martha
Same chances for June and Jane
Same chances for Betty and Bertha
No rivers of tears to cry
If chances you squander
No matter how much you try
To console your blunder at the sound of thunder
Tearing your overcast sky
Unless in your life you inject order
To jettison the blue lie
Thar denies the hand you play in the disorder
For which by design you crave
To reap the whirlwind you sow
Pretending your paper tiger grows brave
When it self inflicts low
Blows all the while dreaming repeating the same discredited methods
Yields better outcomes
Despite playing new music on dissonant cords
Assuming oversize claims
Fate disavows
Unless you rejig and reconfigure the path
To success which cows
Steps to reengineer your magic lath.
Remorse
A dainty dish great minds consume
On the humble horse
Small minds can’t begin to assume
In their bid to earn fame
Coveted in the confines of smallness
Vanquished, extinguished and distinguished in blame
As they claim a dose of sadness
That leaves them empty
In body and spirit
When small minds to their detriment court and escort Humpty Dumpty
In his writ
To promote megalomania
Blown oversize
In consort with the mania
Whose prize
Swells small egos
Granting them soporific succor
Upon lumbering them with cargoes
Of ravenous rancor
While the humble
In their modesty and meekness
Shamble forth and stumble
Upon vistas of boundless bliss and happiness.
OBESE
O---oversize
B---bovine brimmingly bulky
E---elephantine enormous
S---solid stoutly
E---extensively
4/14/18
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2018©
MRS. DOUBTFIRE
There once was a lady named Doubtfire
Who was known to be a real spitfire
She was a nanny
Who would spank your fanny
And still be someone to admire
Mrs. Doubtfire was a real fine nanny
Although a little uncanny
She wore funny clothes
Had a large bulbous nose
And quite an oversize fanny
21 March 2018
For the contest sponsored by Alexis Y
from the movie, Mrs. Doubtfire
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