Mediocre We Must Not Flatter
Mediocre we need not flatter
With laurels on a cheap platter:
Hero’s Effort make a matter;
A dropped metal’s heavy clatter…
“What is right” we foully batter
And Future Foundation scatter,
When save we just can The Latter
And ensure True Victory later…
Mediocre we must not flatter:
On our clothes staining mud spatter;
Problems feed and they are fatter,
Tires allowed to be flatter...
Don’t
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Categories:
platter, celebrity, future, image, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
platter, fishing, humor,
Form: Monoku
The Platter Clean
My husband likes to cook and that’s
A lucky thing for me
For I am the recipient
Of his gastronomy.
He hardly tastes what he prepares.
His culinary skills
Are aimed to please my palate;
It’s my belly that he fills.
Like Jack Sprat and his wife, we are,
Without the fat and lean.
He cooks, I eat, he clears, I wash –
Our
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Categories:
platter, food, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Platter of Delight
Oatmeal cookies green and red;
Chocolate bon-bons,
Cocoa blanket on smores bed
All candy cane striped
‘neath caramel cage
What delight
Ummm!
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Categories:
platter, appreciation, candy, celebration, christmas,
Form: Epulaeryu
On a Silver Platter
E-arnestly share time to all,
L-et them have it too easily;
I-nstead of closing your eyes,
A-llow them to open and
S-ee.
C-ome to the rescue,
A-ugust twenty-first Monday;
L-et your aid or assistance
M-ake the fret fade away.
A-im to praise and please
T-he name of the Father;
E-agerly give love to the world,
O-n a silver platter.
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Categories:
platter, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Greed On a Platter
desire, food, leadership, truth, word play,
Greed On A Platter©
I cannot say, what is there to say
Where to go, sleep, eat, or if I stay
What to do or I don’t want 'it' to stop
I don’t need to or have to eat slop
I like vegetables, meat and sour dough
I will, I want, and I see that you
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Categories:
platter, desire, food, leadership, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Poo Poo Platter
Poo Poo Platter
Five dogs in a yard is a tight fit
when you’re bending over to scoop it
the gag reflex triggered
much sooner than figured
thus adding a lunch to the poo pit
John G. Lawless
5/13/2015
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Categories:
platter, dog, humor,
Form: Limerick
Silver Platter
What I have to say does matter
I intend to serve it on a silver platter
If you think I'm gonna sit and hide
I'll have to kiss your curdled booty goodbye
Not a sleeve you can tuck away
I do a lot of work and contribute everyday
Recommend I keep an aspirin between my legs?
Maybe you outta keep your men
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Categories:
platter, history, passion, political, time,
Form: Free verse
The Platter Was Brass - Let the Music Play
Rainy evening and
the blues jump out at me!
I've heard that song before -
but not drifting through shallow walls
on Eutaw Street where the sidewalks
Have been rolled up at five...
Rainy evening
and some sly musical note says
"Close your umbrella and come on in,
no need to walk alone!"...
"No Fish Today" on the window...
Is this some kind of freaked out
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Categories:
platter, music, fish,
Form: Free verse