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Premium Member In someone else's game

We stand at our post
ready to move at a moment's notice
~ pawns and officials mere puppets



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Premium Member It is my sincere belief that --


        In my opinion, I think, I feel
        Actually, In truth, To be honest
        As for me, To my mind
        I’d just like to suggest ~
          that we eliminate 
          these pointless pests


Premium Member Precious Only to Some

Neither toy nor a plaything
time on a whim squandered at leisure
frittered for sake of burlesque



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025

A Poet Is Humanity

Artist Versus Entertainers

Philosophically well educated
Obfuscation methods in placement
Evolution from their predecessors
Thought induction with language

Interpretation may vary
Subjective and misinterpretation

Hopeful to make changes
Unleashing words as weapons
Mental landscape vivisection
Anomaly amongst the lilies
Nature appointed tether
Ideological meaning hidden 
Thunder before the rain
Yugen laced Ya'aburnee

Premium Member mush is a chameleon

"mush" means go to the sturdy huskies in the Yukon
mush made of cornmeal I fry up and slater syrup on
mush is great to use in a poem, a chameleon without a blush.
she rhymes with hush, shush, gush, lush, and definitely rush.


Premium Member Lila, at Play

(“The Night Sky”, 2014, original oil)

Lila, at Play

The world conforms to the wishes of those in it
Not necessarily to what we want
But certainly to what we need
Mirror-like in reflecting all we bring
Yielding to all we project.

And so cultures throughout history 
Create their own world view paradigms
For the next to build on
Or tear down.

The modern world is still the age of reason
Ruled by logic and mechanical processes,
But it hasn’t always been so 
And it won’t always be so.
The world as it is
Conforms, mechanically or playfully
And that depends on us.

I don’t know about you,
But all things being equal,
I’d rather live in a playful world,
Not one devoid of reason 
And immersed in magic and mystery,
But one in playful balance.

Where plants can talk and animals listen
Where sunlight heals and sings
Its ancient song
Weaving lattice bridges
To distant stars
Across time and space, mind and matter,
Linking then and now, us and them
Together.

(9/14/25)

Mabel

There once was a woman named Mabel
Who lived in a house with a stable.
She wanted a horse,
But since her divorce,
To afford one she just wasn’t able.

She had an idea for a cable 
Which might bring enough cash to enable
Her life to change course 
And she knew just the source,
So she laid her plan out on the table.

She contacted Julian Schnabel
And asked if perhaps he was able
To help her endorse,
By using his force,
Her product, which needed a label.

He agreed and how lucky was Mabel
When Amazon offered her cable!
She purchased her horse,
Which sounds crazy, of course,
But this story is only a fable.

Premium Member H is at Play Here

hedgehogs, happy birthday hats and hamsters have a holiday
having hand-held hoes has highlighted Harry’s heavy Hanover hay
hellacious heavy thunderstorms hasten the hedgehogs away
leaving birthday hats and hamsters, who happily decide to stay.

Premium Member Hi there, Stranger

Sit and buy me a pale ale 
while I regale you with 
a tale written in braille 
by a man stale in jail with 
no avail to raise bail.

Curtail the detail ~ suffice it to say
how a frail male whale wailed when
again and again failed dislodging
a rusty nail impaled in its tail.
Not to derail but meanwhile
across the vale, a snail and quail
hightailed it but strayed off their trail ~

Once all were put up for sale,
t’was the female who tipped the scale.
It’s not much of a tale but 
thanks for the ale, it was tasty. 
Inhale ~ now let's enjoy an upscale cocktail.



Lineku: 3 stanzas of 5-7-5 lines ~ each line has 5 or 7 words

Premium Member AN ALLEGORICAL MATH LESSON: Rational and Irrational Numbers

AN ALLEGORICAL MATH LESSON
(Rational And Irrational Numbers)
             
              1.
Rational numbers,
And irrational numbers,
Teach many lessons:
Allegorical lessons,
On the living of our lives:- 

                2.
We must live rationally;
Living irrationally sucks:
Swallowing life’s goals:-
That teasing “pie in the sky”,
Must be assessed by squaring 
With God’s sage divine wisdom,
And His repeating guidance:-

                 3.
Thus, always strive to be
In logical reasoning
With ourselves, and with others:-
With deception all wiped out,
And all wrong things put aside,
Always seek to do what’s right:-

Don Juan

She believed in love at first sight
was deluded and double-crossed
one more time put her heart on the line
everything she once had now is lost
never knew no one who'd dissemble and lie
stab her in the back as he looked her in the eye
made the mistake of giving him her trust
now she's all beat up broke down battered and bust
she who had the faith love conquers all
was duped deceived taken for a ride
if she knew then all she knows now
there'd be no heartbreak she'd be dry-eyed
what a charmer come to no harmer
he enticed her then sliced and diced her
he's a two-timing four-flushing freak
if anyone ever was the perfect portrayal of one
living on a diet of deception and betrayal
he's a true Casanova a real Don Juan

Noteworthy

The Tower was engineered
by Monsieur Eiffel in Paris
the Wheel was favoured
by Mr. Ferris
Michelangelo in Rome
contributed St. Peter's Basilica dome
Eddystone Lighthouse the first
was constructed by Winstanley and
in St. Paul's Cathedral
Sir Christopher Wren had a hand
the seated Thinker
was carved out by Auguste Rodin
the Taj Mahal (Mumtaz') tomb
commissioned by Shah Jahan
all roads lead to the Colosseum
started by Emperor Vespasian
Borglum executed Mount Rushmore
while Hadrian gave us the Wall
and Ferdinand de Lesseps
secured the Suez Canal
in Byzantine Constantinople
Justinian I built the Hagia Sophia
in Italy Bonanno Pisano began
the (later leaning) Tower of Pisa
the Egyptian Pharaoh Khafre
inspired the Sphinx
but in Scotland who designed
the Musselburgh (golf) Links

Nonsense Rhyme

With two left feet
he's clod-hoppery
tho' her little white porkies
are quite whoppery
as he thinks aloud
she's merely frippery
meanwhile she knows
he's really foppery
but slinking around
slippery-sloppery
in sandals she found
flippery-floppery
she came a-croppery
a total eye-poppery
yet flummoxed
gob-stoppery
he refrained
from quippery-flippery
remained on toppery
and maintained
ever chippery

On The Strip

I have bought in boutiques
on Carnaby street,
stopped in stores galore
on the Champs-Élysées,
shopped 'til I dropped
on Madison Avenue,
and, what's more,
I've been seen to arrive,
fashionably late, on Rodeo Drive,
but one thing I hate,
and doubt I'll see, or there'll ever be,
as there's not much call,
for a linear row of shops downtown,
in a small Möbius strip mall.

Tho' Johann B. Listing (1808 – 1882),
rediscovered the non-orientable surface first,
Mr. August F.Möbius (1790 – 1868)
published his findings earlier and, well-versed,
 Euclidean geometry taught he,
while, his wife, Dorothea, danced provocatively,
in pole position, at a nightclub naughty,
and, where out at night, on a fun daytrip,
paying punters paid to ogle and see,
the ever-rousing Mrs. Möbius strip.

Premium Member Action under a fall sky

chipmunks scurrying across the park
dog wants to let loose and play
~ not happening on my watch


Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025

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