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Tim and His Predilection For Popcorn

Movie popcorn Tim purchased to share
with his date, who did not seem to care
when she first felt, then SAW
him reach into her bra.
Then she laughed, “There’s no popcorn down there!”

May 2, 2023
For Tania Kitchin's A Funny Or Bawdy Limerick Poetry Contest

Categories: predilection, humor,
Form: Limerick

A Predilection For the Helping Professions

I have a predilection 
      for the helping professions
      As well, for artistic self-expression

      I'll take my leave with this confession
      Other 'pursuits' are no more than repression

Categories: predilection, depression, motivation, work,
Form: Monorhyme

Grandma's Prediction

Grandma sat in her rocker braiding her hair
Reciting Bible verses she had learned
I remember well the squeaking of the chair
Her words to me, I so resoundingly spurned.
She said, “You, son, you our minister will be,
Do not laugh, boy, for you will most surely see.”
True to her form the declaration came true 
In spite of how

Categories: predilection, grandmother, religious, wisdom, words,
Form: Rispetto

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Predilection of Dawn

The glide of the plane almost in step with my rooftop.
Visibility of blue heaven low; lookout for earthwalkers.
My bland Toyota euphoric and banded by tight forest.
The span of an angelic chorus, a serendipitous psalm.
The predilection of dawn, a tributary hawk sails on.
The silver cross shimmies and shakes reflected in mirror.
I steady it with my heartbeat,

Categories: predilection, bird, nature,
Form: Verse

A Deluge Or Predilection

Ran; they were running up the hill.
Sea was rising to level unseen
I sat in my old shabby car, 
All terrified of what it could be.

I floated in it and was stuck among branches.
The water receded, I was saved, might be.
My eyes opened to “Happy Birthday to you”,
The chorus held me in dismay.

They laughed as they

Categories: predilection, bereavement, bible, death, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Predilection

Prior to my first glance, I had no destined direction.
Reality set in after your touching warm embrace.
Each new cuddle touched off a new infection.
Darling, I shall always remember your placid face.
I was alone and withering until your first hold.
Love was not a word that I have ever known.
Eagerly your contact, reveled me from the cold.
Caring

Categories: predilection, devotion, friendship, happiness, life,
Form: Acrostic

Predilection

Love was something I wanted,
Love was something I needed,
Love was something I thought you
would give me, but love is something
I'm living without for you was not 
the one to love me but the one
to hurt me.
So now I still want love and I still
need it, but now I also fear it.

Categories: predilection, lost love, lovelove,
Form: Blank verse

Predilection Edict

If possession is nine-tenths of the law
 entirely, you're mine
   though cosmically, empirically
         we lack the ties that bind

For naught these thoughts
 escape me through the river of the day
   while every beryl and burst of you

Categories: predilection, life, love, passion, people,
Form: Rhyme