Two of us on a sixties hippie trip
to see if our gears would slip or mesh
innocent but wary yet wide-eyed
to the Imperial city of Marrakech
she perfumed with patchouli
me I traveled totally tie-dyed
all around was peace and love
we teamed to a tee and seemed
a fit the perfect hand in glove
but not long later it was deemed
as it was commonplace to see
in the medina not strapped for cash
kif from the Rif sellers
in the souk smoking hash
the country lacked law and order
no sooner said than escorted
back to Ceuta across the border
funny now in retrospect but not then
how when we blew out on the Sirocco
tho' we hadn't gone so far as the kasbah or bazaar
were deported without ceremony from Morocco
Categories:
rif, africa, fun, love, moving
Form: Rhyme
Lust seeping through the veins
Bleeding out great dreams
Earth halts her endless spin
To take a short repose
A hundred rivers, A thousand mirrors
Set the world ablaze
casting devoted gaze
With death conveying life’s plight
Stillness battles restless wind
Forcing noise through her ears
Images on waning paint
Shroud the light of her fate
Cracks keep widening
Battle's fury finds no peace
Men burdened to think
Drowning in heart’s dark rif
Categories:
rif, fate,
Form: Free verse
Rabat is a black pearl
Of cellophanic rainbow
Gazing upon waves that curl
And lick a shore little known.
Gibraltar is the dock
Where it steadfast moors –
Enjoying sailboats that flock
The Mediterranean course
Yet Barbary lions live
Not far, in the Rif Mountains –
Golden, assertive –
Their kasbah amid the grass.
Categories:
rif, africa, mountains, places, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Happy birthday, Rif Bolante,
Words that are better left unsaid
Are oftentimes heard from many,
As those expressions are quite bad.
Topic: Birthday of Rif Bolante (March 29)
Categories:
rif, birthday,
Form: Quatrain
THE END OF ISLAM
On the bay beach at Belyounech
Just east of Tangier
From the old whaling Station
You can see Algeciras and Gibraltar
And there on the beach look up
And see the Rif of the Atlas
With beyond them ten thousand miles
Of Sahara sand and muezzins on minarets.
The northern horizon exudes
The smells of hot-dogs
And the sounds of Pink Floyd.
The south shore on the beach
Is the end of Islam.
Categories:
rif, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Imagism
Trump Should Give Us A Break
Trump should try giving us a break;
Not have to do things for his sake;
On horizon a gift,
And him must RIF;
He definitely is nuttier than a fruitcake.
Jim Horn
Categories:
rif, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Micro-particular molecular particles whose properties carry less mass at any given time typically are airborne, only to be respired and absorbed through means of respiration.
Exhaled only to be once again; inhaled.
Trapped inside inner linings of esophageal passages.
Buoyantly escaping; light-like-quick.
Tumbling like a cyclonic feather.
Blue rays with ultrasonic transfers of unconditional compromises shine light on this symbiotic shrubbery.
Rif-raf relief is a resulted byproduct or so-called "nuisance dust."
Unequivocal numeric figures comparable to such matter, couldn't positively identify with no such indication.
The previous possession will remain under further investigation.
Breath in.
Breath out.
Tumbling airborne once being transferred or transformed.
De-composition turns flesh into bone, leaving behind symbiotic shrubbery; discarded rif-raf.
Rispired and absorbed through means of respiration.
Exhaled only to be once again;
Inhaled.
4-21-15
10:08pm
Ironic Zinc.. .
Categories:
rif, fun, senses,
Form: Free verse
Dry Tears In Each Eye
I wonder what if
I were to jump off a cliff
Was caused by a RIF.
(RIF is reduction in force.)
Not meant to offend
What I really did intend
Message start to send.
Must help others out
Tell them what God is about
And remove all doubt.
It was no surprise
God to occasion will rise
Dry tears from your eyes.
If God has been so great
Why are many people late
And then such a big scare
When asked to offer a prayer.
Interesting.
James Suspicious Nutritious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
Categories:
rif, allegory, analogy, inspirational,
Form: Haiku
Showers light or hard
bring cleansing and a pause
to your current ritual
forcing amnesia of your flaws.
A gift from up above
to remind your of your love
to lay back and paddle back
to memories you don't speak of.
Rain rain stay all day
pour so we are forced to be
glued to our habitat
relaxing drinking green tea.
Stable in our stance on life
our own decisions based to fit
current situations that
permit growth without rif raf.
Nothing sudden, nothing feared
Past is gone, you renewed your life.
Layed your body over coals
Future predicts no surprising strife.
Categories:
rif, nature
Form: Rhyme
Teacher’s malcontent
With Legislators dissent
Ground breaking event
By Robb A. Kopp
Categories:
rif, education
Form: Senryu
Oklahoma State
Reduction in teaching force
Legalized gambling
By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX
Categories:
rif, education
Form: Senryu
(I got the idea for this poem after seeing a mean commercial that R.I.F. made.)
What you're doing is nasty and cruel.
You're insulting my friend because he dropped out of school.
You called him a moron, an idiot, and a pinhead too.
You'd better apologize or I'll beat the hell out of you.
Tears come to his eyes when he hears the words that you use.
He's a human being and doesn't deserve to be abused.
Dropping out of school was a mistake.
But you cruely insult him and that's something he shouldn't have to take.
If you insult him one more time, I'll make you pay the price.
If you're considering insulting any other people who dropped out of school, you'd
better think twice.
Categories:
rif, angst, education, people,
Form: I do not know?