We’re fed a smorgasbord of absurd lies
It’s like watching a preposterously bad cartoon
unfortunately we can’t turn off the television
We just can’t wish it all away
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
“Bang, Bang”,
It may Feel
Sometimes, when You’re getting
Them.
A giant list,
Requests, And All,
Complaints!
Concerns!
And worst Of all Tall,
Excessive Pleas,
to be Incomprehensible.
Preposterously Useless
to the Naked eye.
Providing No
Interesting Information
as Claymation,
Is to One,
While
animation is an Art to some,
It Depends all upon,
The Jolly sum --
Of Many feeling a,
Beautiful bird
Soar,
With Painted Wings,
Fly,
Differently than,
Claymationists.
relatives said Mitch’s ideas were preposterously silly
Nonsensical I heard, about my cousin Mitch Willy
He was always entertaining though, a clever sounding cuss.
Ended up writing computer systems; now richer than most of us.
We can’t believe others believed in him, the relatives said.
He seemed crazy to us, farfetched, foolish, fantasy-fed.
But corporations ran with his ideas, and it made them all rich.
Now my naysaying relatives wish they had listened to Mitch.
Pumping Vitamin A, into my blood,
and potassium. Pretty pumpkin
mixed with berries, yogurt and silk.
Sipping the Autumn cocktail preposterously.
Potential for vigor, chilling, and best day.
Orange concoction of maturity,
or it could be called Gerber with a kick.
My baby sister would be appalled
as she often is at my fruitiness.
She almost lost her grip, when instead
of chips and dip, I craved tropical fruit,
when i was sick. Jack O is a flame -
just dessert. Orange pancakes in my future,
unless my sister locks me up.
9/29/2022
So, what would you have me write?
Dulcet words of limply lurid metaphor
stuttering staccato of acceptable alliteration
preposterously impersonal personification
drab and dreary diluted imagery
innocently innocuous innuendo
insouciantly inane sonnets
neutered non-rapier wit
squishy, soft white bread limericks
fettered faint hearted free verse
sanctimoniously soft spoken rants
devoid of do’s and don’ts, can’s and can’ts
all to fit in a box
with invisible locks
displayed on a Common
of “creative” stocks
John G. Lawless
©6/30/2018
Prepare to procure passivity in perpetual progress of personifying perfection! Puppets prefer playing pretend. Preposterously pretentious.
The sweat pours down from tank tops and t-shirt
preposterously loud screams
explode on the baseball field around them
Drink it all in for a win
that's more than a glorv of the game
by those who long for excitement
and the possibility of league's trophy...
The raucous crowd of spring
flock together their arms
flinging outrageous signals ,
with high pitched hurrah,
as bats fly off to gaily rattle,
"Oh, my! Go get 'em!" when men
become boys of spring's home run.
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12/8/2015
Contest: Oil Paintings 4 & 5 of Eve Roper
By nette onclaud
The sweat pours down from
tank tops and t-shirts,
preposterously loud screams explode
on the baseball field around them.
Drink it all in for a win that's more
than a glory of the game
by those who long for excitement
and the possibility of league's trophy.
The raucous crowd of spring flock together
their arms flinging outrageous signals ,
with high pitched hurrah, as bats fly off
to gaily rattle, “Oh, my! Go get 'em!”
when men become boys of spring's home-run!
Batter Up Contest
False deities
Ignorance plagues many heart beats
Fake feats
Woe, false deities
Impostor's dead deeds
Spreading disease
Blind zealots walk preposterously
Woe, strenuous needs
Spoiling continents across the sea
Corrupted reeds
Entangle and drown us as we sink
Woe, anchored dreams
Vain is the cup from which they drink
Bitter sips
Help me find the missing link
Woe, tainted lips
True deity
Jesus Christ,
Separates the lies you see
Who else died for me?
True deity, third eye witnesses blasphemy
Jesus Christ,
Out of all your deities,
He was the only one who died for me
Paris by Learjet
Not to be provocative with opulence would be preposterously insane
Being obscenely wealthy makes one open to more fun and games
Embrace the pompous lascivious life style with me once again
If you are going to do life, do it right, do it in flight
My Learjet is waiting for us at my private port
To transport us into heavenly delights abroad
We’ll blend right in with euro trash and celebrity types
Be a sport and grab my hundreds bundled in the carry bag
Paris waits for us in all its grandeur at Four Seasons -George V
With dinner reservations at Le Cinq when we arrive
A few steps away from the Champs-Elysees
We’ll drink in all the sites and laugh at all the mighty poor
Later we’ll play casino games endlessly into night
I always win. It is in my skin
It is wonderful being rich like me
Spending other people’s money
I can’t remember where I parked the jet
How could I forget
Created on 2/04/15 for - “Indulgence”- Poetry Contest sponsored by Shadow Hamilton
Superfluously equating the reasons for "why not",
And as the angels doth not romance,
I shall not dance,
An preposterously appropriate cheer dances with the wind,
Because.......
......It understands the value of the humor.
Pet droppings on upholstery
Roaches (they freak me out most preposterously)
Elevators that stall out 'tween floors unexplainably
Jello, most eighties music, bigots, irresponsibility
Insincerity fencing for popularity
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