Presumptuous
City slicker, soul breaker
Night hawker, headhunter
Fire starter, mayhem maker
Risk taker, maniacal monster
Forecast reader, global disorder
Bogus soothsayer, dreams slayer!
Penned: 01/13/2023
2:13 a.m.
West Palm Beach
Florida
Categories:
presumptuous, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Pending next droplet, drip mirror spherical
Rolls speedily down leaf spine, drops sluggish
Earth splatter tsunami sends ants hysterical
Stunned dusk undergrowth inherits lush nourish
Urge pink ibis mini flamingoes fossick forage
Monstera nod, almond gaps dim heliotrope
Panther threads trunks, slinky seeker of prey
Teeming technicolor butterfly kaleidoscope
Ulysses sheen self propelled pages paraded
Overtly elated to give and receive nil sage
Umbrella edges bend, rotund umbra worms
Squirm in church of curving purple steeples
Polished olive flags flap, dancefloor foliage
Rune scribes in immaculate symbiotic terms
Accord overlaps then parts, calm sequence
Your forest of frolic pays hedonism homage
Excused from the mantra of hot fate frighten
Rain redeems rotted logs in soft moss christen
Scintillating hinterland halcyon happy village
Twenty Second of October
Two Sides to every Story
Categories:
presumptuous, animal, beauty, bird, color,
Form: Acrostic
why do you feel entitled to judge me
conceited or demented
what goes on in that head
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
Posted on July 8, 2018
Categories:
presumptuous, abuse, anti bullying, confidence,
Form: Kimo
Who are these folks we call people?
For want of names drawn from hat
or drawn from lucky dip in remainder bin.
A set of folk not friend nor foe
but unknown masses anointed as anonymous.
Prescribed to be, what we want them, to be
just people, other people, strangers.
We can call them what we like.
We can say what we like about them
good or bad, happy or sad.
Our gumption in presumption
is patronising to people,
just people.
Categories:
presumptuous, people,
Form: Free verse
Who dares to be so presumptuous as to declare Nature's
wonders……flowers, trees, birds and bees……unimportant
A tree reaches forth to receive the sunlight
It's branches are welcoming of birds in flight
A flower sprinkles its scent upon the air
In order that bees may find it there
Is there a plan for mankind to make a recompense?
Cut down the tree it's more useful as a wooden fence
Birds are pollinators and dispensers of seeds
They fulfill a place to grace our spiritual needs
If bees disappear it would indeed be bad luck
Humans would then look at empty plates and say WTF?
Categories:
presumptuous, beauty, fantasy, humor, nature,
Form: Couplet
he presumes that people find him unassuming
and about his humility he keeps on boasting;
looks down his nose
at you and those
he assumes as presumptuous, as assuming !
Categories:
presumptuous, life, people, social,
Form: Limerick