lampoonery was rampant in the cemetery
Dracula’s ghouls were frighteningly scary
Halloween jokes were flying; satire was bad
witches scarce, these ghosts were deemed beyond mad
grim reaper appeared in the midst of this gloom
campfire singing commenced as evil did bloom
whistling and stomping was loud by the fire
ambiance of the night now turning devilishly dire
It's way beyond the time for the human race to reflect
and rectify the organ in the head, situated between the right and left ear lobe
Existing there are tumours cause destruction of the human cell,
we do ourselves behave as the largest cancer growth, running rampant,
cause destruction of this planetary globe
Zealots
zealous zealots zigzag
running rampant, repeating
dubious data drawn
from fallacious forums
which write woeful
tales that try to teach
lurid laughable lies
I heard there were horns on an Iowan fox.
This went around the circle of kids wearing socks.
In front of a time piece that had out of sync tocks.
The circle was strange, most nurses wore crocks.
The gossip went haywire, ending down at the docks.
Bass fisherman parked to say this on the rocks.
Beware of sharks, they are arriving in flocks.
All because a unicorn had arrived out of a box.
words 75
When words are running rampant
You just have to rein them in.
By lassoing a few of them,
At least you can begin.
They’ll buck and kick and race around,
Defiantly at first,
Especially the adjectives –
You know that they’re the worst.
But once you calm them down and let
The verbs and adverbs mix,
The nouns and pronouns may decide
To use their bag of tricks…
Releasing prepositions
And conjunctions by the score.
You want some interjections?
Hey! You couldn’t ask for more.
If all the parts of speech are caught
You don’t have an excuse.
Without a poem resulting,
You should go and let them loose.
So string them all together
And you’ll possibly succeed
In creating, from these random words,
Some poetry to read.
R is for the repeated distortions of facts,
A for press articles written with hacks,
M for the emphasis placed on survival,
P for the piss taken out of your rival.
A for analogies that never convince,
N for false narratives making us wince,
T for traditional values cast-off
That cause umpteen scholars and clergy to scoff.
L is for lovers whom I dream of all night,
E for electric bills high as a kite,
T for temptations I can’t keep at bay,
H for Matt Hancock - please God stay away!
A is for the **** he fondled intensely,
R for resigning - we respect that immensely,
G is for the government of which he was part, and
Y for the yes-men aboard that rotting cart.
Searching somewhere beyond sight,
For miens and visages propelling into quotidian lives,
With smiles,blues and not so much to cry,
Swept away every scratch of soul,
This wave not seen, not felt, not known.
Sanatorium thronged disquiet,
Medics and Paramedics taxing
Efforts reclaiming lives,
Risking theirs in face of time
Pining on hope to seize it fine.
Sun dawns again with no reminder of light,
But to know somewhere someone would never rise,
In this gloomy game of toll rise.
This Banshee built invisible walls
In these ghost towns no one in and barely out,
But far reaching to the cruise stranded out
Haunting world all around.
Eyes of dilemma filled with fright
If it would be I or the sight of slaying mankind,
Diminutive demon crept in will go away with time,
Not about duration but loss left behind,
With things unfolding beyond sight.
Laughing at every mile
In the face of civilization,
Pandemic touching horizon,
Questioning era of human immortalization
Reminding so little is known and so much to learn,
Devising tactics not only for wars alone
Nevertheless for dormant rampant foes,
Though shaped like a crown but not the crown of our lives.
Huge raffle prize proved quite a shock
A chocolate bunny in a 2 pound block
Son nibbles its ears and then its ...elbow
Dirty minds cease - this rabbit's a doe!
5/11/19
I purchased a rabbit named Brandy
By jingo, that young buck was randy
It caused such a to do
When he humped my left shoe
Thank goodness the hosepipe was handy!
HAPPY EASTER SOUPERS
3/27/18
emotions are protruding
thoughts hunting a bounty
dreams are intruding
this situation's gravity
much too substantial
to adequately express
more than the circumstantial
without willingness to confess
a lack of tangible evidence
only leads to disbelief
for me there's no defense
for you there's no relief
an abnormal mentality
forged by emotional chaos
has altered the core of reality
resulting in madness and loss
my rationality took a detour
into impulsive action
denied needs ultimately devour
reasoning's strongest faction
rain rampant
rivers of love rollicking
red roads of peace
reverberating an
remembrance
released rejaculated
into the womb
of the smiling
sea
All hell breaks loose on Halloween
Things sure get bent all out of shape
It is strange how things truly seem
It’s real dark no light can escape
Ghosts and ghouls to make their debut
All hell breaks loose on Halloween
Wizards, witches put spells on you
They’re all more wicked than you’ve been
Mummies, the scariest you’ve seen
Black cats bring superstitions out
All hell breaks loose on Halloween
Pumpkins’ faces all seem to pout
Brilliant minds all work together
They live in a world that’s a scream
Where fear runs rampant here and there
All hell breaks loose on Halloween
Russell Sivey
Age Discrimination is Rampant
By Elton Camp
Younger folks don’t think about such stuff
You will if you manage to live long enough
I didn’t experience it until after I retired
And looked for a new place to be hired
Jobs for which I was extremely qualified
My visage, interviewers suspiciously eyed
Just because I wasn’t young any more
I found that I couldn’t get past the door
Actually the money I didn’t really need
But wanted to keep ability up to speed
Computers I have taught students to use
Yet, tech incompetence some did accuse
And at one place, this young gutter snipe
Assumed I didn’t even know how to type
I was ignored or some false reason told
Not a one dared say that I was too old
But despite prejudice and unspoken jeers,
I found a job and worked for several years
DID WILL, BILL AND GIL GET THEIR PILL?
I got this great idea to invent a pill
Make is so men can get pregnant as well
Dudes walking around in camouflage
Take it and if not you get a one way ticket to an earthly hell
This pill will be mandated and mandatory to ingest
Let’s let men do what women have been doing since Eve
Let the future climb out of Walter’s womb
With little baskets to make and baby blankets to weave
So mommy is in one hospital room, daddy’s in another
And the house will be noisy for quite a while
One kid from her and the other one from him
And the dad wonders how his wife can summon a smile
Don’t all of you get it, there’s been a problem for years,
And we should have BEEN monitoring each and every birth
Because all we’ve accomplished is a problem made worse
And doesn’t everyone understand we are over-populating the earth?
© 2011.….~free cee!~
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