Arrange every single drop with class,
ready to be the grande opening?
Take the chance and reveal it all.
In a splash of shade and trash polka,
silver linings are the cherry on top.
Paid the price with that blob of tears,
added a graffiti twist to the pristine.
Yanked out the picture inside my head
now it’s out there for everyone to see.
Eat it all up, let them feel your authentic.
pliers… scalpel… knife…
drat… I feel the pulse of life…
if not for my wife…
_______________________
MILs = Mothers-in-Law
A runaway S, hissed on and on,
like the Orient Express.
SSS
Thought keyboard had gone off the rails
or Howard Payne threatened a slow down.
SSSSSS
Grand discovery…kept my cool.
The letter was stuck. It hissed
SSSSSSSS
I backed up. It continued to trek
on open windows, back and forth,
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
weaving in and out. Had to stop!
To run for help would have been
SSSSS
catastrophic…so what to do…what to do
…keep my cool. Put the train in reverse
SSSSSSSSSS
pulled up the key. Apparently
maintenance is needed but
S..backspace..SSSS…backspace
at least my words are not passengers
…not one was lost…the body’s intact.
My freshman reading list is
Thomas Payne, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky
The prof is not one to pitschky-potschky
The leaders to be studied will be
Elijah Muhammed, Stalin, Castro, Marx, and Xi
I wonder why A.H. is an absentee
O, I get it -- Good things come in fives
USA, Russia, China, Cuba and Syria
Nazi Germany too busy taking lives
Looking forward to an action-packed semester
in this new course called ~
'Proud Traditions of our Ancestors'
Betty Grable and June Havner
Brought the Dolly Sisters to Life on the big screen
It was 1945
They should have both had top billing
Somehow John Payne sneaked into the middle of them
in every single promotional advertisement
I think this is a reflection of how women are treated
as second class citizens
Dolly sisters, studio, not Dolly end caps!
I loved the movie, every bit of it
but do not like the way the producers
decided to write up the billing
I am the University of Yale
Opens its door.
I am the beginning of the
Revolutionary War.
I am one of the 13
Colonies.
I am the Sons of Liberty
Ideologies.
I am the Pilgrams at Plymouth
Rock.
I am the Boston Tea Party thrown
Off the dock.
I am the day the Navy was
Created.
I am Paul Revere the midnight
Ride awaited.
I am Ben Franklin and
Nathan Hale.
I am the Declaration of
Independence in detail.
I am the Bill of Rights and
Betsy Ross.
I am George Washington he
Is the boss.
I am the making of the U.S.
Marines.
I am a patriot breaking away
From the Queen.
I am the Bunker Hill
Battle.
I am Benedict Arnold and
His psychobabble.
I am Samuel Adams and
Thomas Payne.
I am the Boston massacre
Independence gained.
I am the colonial era and
The Sugar Act.
I am the Pilgrams and natives
Made a pact.
TURBO1904
Nikki Haley, Sean Spicer,
Trey Goudy, Richard Grenell,
Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly,
Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin,
Rick Santorum, Tucker Carlson,
Rupert Murdoch, Kimberly Guilfoyle,
Ed Rollins, Eric Trump,
Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump, Jr,
Brian Kilmeade, Laura Ingraham,
Dan Bongino, Raymond Arroyo,
Steve Hilton, Kayleigh McEnany,
Maria Bartiromo, John Gibson,
Andrew Gilligan, Steven Milloy,
Karl Rove, Bill Shine,
Eric Bolling, Ed Henry,
Jared Kushner, Tomi Lahren,
Alan Dershowitz, Elizabeth McDonald,
Stuart Varney, Dagen McDowell,
David Asman, Gregg Jarrett,
Ashley Webster, Jason Chaffetz,
Candace Owens, Bo Dietl,
Judy Slater, Greg Gutfeld,
Steve Doocy, Harris Faulkner,
Dana Perino, Mark Steyn,
Leo Terrell, Jeanine Piro,
Dean Cain, Scott Brown,
Charles Payne, Jay Sekulow,
Lou Dobbs, Rick Scott,
Trace Gallagher, Newsmax,
OAN and Real America.
“Home, Sweet Home” by John Howard Payne
Home Sweet Home -Buzzwords
(Poem Sweet Home)
I’ve been to a lot of lovely places
But the poem-stead is my home.
I’ve seen a lot of friendly faces
But there’s only one place I call home.
It’s where rhyme meets with free verse
And alliteration’s free to roam.
A place where most of us don’t curse
Yes, the poem-stead is my home.
1-19-22
BUZZWORDS Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Rodrigues
There is an ob-gyn named Doctor Payne
He guarantees he'll live up to his name
When his patients groan
He whacks their skullbone
Delivers the baby plus a migraine
New dentist, he’s called Mister Payne
His image is fixed in my brain
He wore fuzzy green socks
Pink suspenders and crocs
I’m hoping I’ll see him again!
I ogled him from the black chair
His quirky clothes sure made me stare
A red latex G-string
Hardly covered a thing
The rest of his body was bare!
He polished and checked all my teeth
And revealed his first name was Keith
He admired MY gold crocs
Lace basque and red socks
We’re dating tonight on the heath!
Fuzzy socks and crocs Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Francine Roberts
06/10/21
“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess
When did you feel your
most euphoric kiss?
Was I the source
of your greatest bliss?”
- Roman Payne
Can you imagine being young again -
going back where your longings first began
when feelings – bright tulips – sprang inside you?
Springtime yearnings blossomed; they grew and grew.
Can you imagine being young and free
and getting past (at last) timidity?
While quivering with sweet desire’s delight,
first love you tasted deep into the night.
Can you imagine going to that place
which years of living manage to erase.
Could you return and once again make real
the vividness of what you used to feel?
Can you imagine love fresh and sublime?
I try to bring it back to life with rhyme.
But even when I write of it, I know . . .
bright tulips of my youth will not regrow.
Jan. 24, 2021
Some rights or your life?
The question's put to us all
What would be your choice?
We need to profile
Trading some rights for safety
Small inconvenience
To locate the nests
Of these cockroaches and to
Exterminate them
Arguing over
Our Constitutional rights
Is a waste of time
If our Forefathers
Could see us now, they would say,
"Destroy them all!"
Then we will have time
To live, to talk, to argue
To enjoy our rights
They fought for freedom
They gave us our civil rights
We can't let them down!
So called "intellects"
Who have over analyzed
The Constitution
Have caused us to doubt
What should be plain common sense
Thomas Payne would cry...
George Washington would
Be dismayed at how slow our
Nation was to act
Thomas Jefferson
And Benjamin Franklin would
Frown and shake their heads
But ghosts from the past
Can't lead us into battle
Can't save our future...
Sweet falling summer rain,
dripping off the window Payne
beauties joy it must contain
Nature’s point of view.
Solemn Autumns country breeze,
floating boasting through the trees
flutter flies of yielding bees
the sky a lake of blue.
Winters brisk temps to fall,
roses blooms hide one and all
blanket snow the sparrows call
shaded cast white the hue.
Spring bounces birdies’ song,
the world begins to sing along
a windy breeze to catch the dawn
of life to start a new.
Date: Sat, Jan 9 2016 at 5:56 PM
So sick of these Lames
Im major Payne with the purple heart in Flames
To the cradle to the Grave
This rap game my parade my arcade
Stop throwing shade
You know the sun still in his Rays
Time to Glo like I'm in Glo Gang
I'm in my Glo in my Soul Plane
This the New Soul Train
I'm like D Wade Shooting the Tre
But I won't see haters Fade away
Got these Ace of spades
These Trumps to Play
Cause you Jokers made Bane
Go insane
I'm batman who went through his phase
Now I'm on the Stage
With ginsu blades
In my Jutsu Sage
Ninetails on a Rage
Naruto with the Seal broken
Now the Seal open
I'm spitting Egypt's Ten Plague's
Yeah ima live life for Christ
Until the afterlife
So Yall goin be my sacrifice
Tupac passed me the Mic
Got the gloves from Mike
Jacket with the Spikes
Moonwalking on Ice
I see the flashing lights
Dracula had the most terrible toothache,
so he booked to see his dentist Mr Payne.
An evening appointment was requested;
as Dracula only rose after the sun had set
When Dracula walked through the door
a blast of garlic breath hit him in the face;
Dracula bit his lip as he had a huge fit
Mr Payne had forgotten his patient’s allergy!
The dentist put on his surgical mask,
whilst he removed Dracula’s rotten fangs;
Sadly for Dracula, he can no longer bite necks,
now he’s being treated for severe anaemia!
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Sponsored by Broken Wings
Word chosen – Vampire
09-24-17
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