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squeezed like a lemon

And being told of my financial state,
I grit my teeth poor as a rotting board,
I feel like a lemon squeezed, I dont feel great ,
Please dont sink my ship while I am aboard.;

And news like this,my guts squirt out lemon juice,
I am being squeezed dry -feel I want to die ,
Financially speaking I need a truce,
A lemon squeezed no taste I want to cry,
Life with no zest is not life its abuse,

I play by your rule book most of the time,
A financial respite would make things right
My life would be like sweet wine and sunshine,,
I ask for little we need not have to fight.

Life is a quacking duck ,news rules some luck,
Your help pleases me and I  never get stuck.

THIRST

The thirst for power
And control has change
The country, the rules and 
The rule book has been
Thrown out of the window
Now the blinders are off

Arms To Fight Our Mental Health

Why don’t they teach you in school 
all the different ways of people 
the narcissists need to control 
their treatment that turns cold 
the manipulators need to hold 
separating heart from soul 

We do not see evil deeds until it is our time to bleed 
the tricksters lies to deceive, the rule book they will never read, 
emotional blackmail or coercion killing the dream of the person 
the tattletales fictional version always depicting who is the worse one

Because those who don’t play by the rules 
don’t stop until you’re miserable 
teaching what’s not taught in school 
so you learn after the fall 

Mental health is on a scale 
success as easy as the fail 
yet with no method to tell 
behaviour heading straight for Hell 

so in this world made of people 
we cannot detect what’s lethal 
taught things which we have no need for 
psychology is what we should teach more 

Armour up our mental health 
protecting us from someone else 
just some knowledge there to help 
so we see evil deeds in stealth 

A radar to protect oneself 
armed to save our mental health

Any Rule Book

The pulse of freedom 
runs beneath my skin;
I won’t be confined 
by any rule book 
that I did not write;

Making it law 
won’t make it right;
Current culture 
really needs change;

One’s enough 
for a seed 
to catch wind;

Unite 
the whole 

world.

Living Like Thoreau

He lived in his own way with his own rule book
Thoreau needed only a bit of paper and a sharp pen
We admired his woods, his violets, his bubbly brook
Moving me to the country? Please tell me when.

Corrupt

Who is the master in this frivolous farm?
Crystalized chaos should cause some alarm.
Irrational ideas with no common ground,
Stifled by silence and its deafening sound.
Superior smirking with falsified pride,
Deceit of the rule book, which we must abide.
Glorified garbage, manipulation intact,
Forces at work amid the attack.
Crippling calmness disguising the deed,
Menacing caution that one must concede.
All-encompassing threats from the master at hand,
Conforming to pressure with repeated demand.
Ready to enter, the sheep tightly packed,
Pledging assurance, the odds are well stacked.
Damned are the stock with nowhere to go,
Just a floundering farmer with a poor cattle show.

03/07/2022 
Keeper of the Flame	
Edward Ibeh

Rulebook

we look
with anchored  heart
rule book

sail boat
in lock and key,
both float

let's go-
want to say yes...
said no.





12th April 2020
Sponsor	Joseph May
Contest Name	Finding Your Musette

A Struggle Some Time of Life

Good intentions gone unseen
Is it just coincidence
That all my intentions have gone unseen.
It doesn't matter what I do
There's always a distraction to intervene.

As it messes with the rule book
Exceeding Boundaries in its lifes pathways.
I can't remember a time of certain reassurances
That have helped me through dark days.

When will God call out to me
& answer me in prayer.
When will I be free from pains defeats
And be returned with the best of care.

I've dedicated all my lifetime
To helping others on their ways
So why must I be cruelly punished
And released the pressures of my dismay.

So now I'm contemplating
Which way in lifes path to turn.
But I'm restricted by my boundaries
As the wheels of fate decide to churn.

Be it which way I venture
My path will carefully be tread.
For fear of committing the same sins committed
From past experiences in life ive plead.

BY ANNA SABRINA TATE 24/10/2019
© 5 hours ago   lifes • travels

Lifes Cruel Intentions

Is it just coincidence 
That all my intentions have gone unseen. 
It doesn't matter what I do
There's always a distraction to intervene.

As it messes with the rule book
Exceeding Boundaries in its lifes pathways.
I can't remember a time of certain reassurances
That have helped me through dark days.

When will God call out to me
& answer me in prayer.
When will I be free from pains defeats
And be returned with the best of care.

I've dedicated all my lifetime 
To helping others on their ways
So why must I be cruelly punished
And released the pressures of my dismay. 

So now I'm contemplating 
Which way in lifes path to turn.
But I'm restricted by my boundaries 
As the wheels of fate decide to churn.

Be it which way I venture
My path will carefully be tread.
For fear of committing the same sins committed
From past experiences in life ive plead. 

BY ANNA SABRINA TATE 24/10/2019

Intelligent Design

INTELLIGENT DESIGN

What goes up should always come down
The reason laws of physics have shown
What takes birth should someday die
The reasons in rule book of biology lie.

Nature functions within its own tenets
Life floats like cloud of changing facets
Dreams we make the storm surge they face
Some live, some blow away, we can’t trace.

We toil and try to take life wherever we want
Can’t reach the goal for the bridges get burnt
The wrecking reasons we can’t reckon at all
That’s when we hear sound of fate’s footfall.

Mind likes to fly on fragile wings of free will
Shape of life it can’t change or configure still
Unsure if it’s an artifact of intelligent design
Or fated expression of coded ancient gene.

March 8, 2018.

Guy Advice To a Friend

You tried to win her over
with dark chocolate and daisies
Passion on beds of clover
always works with the ladies

So why her indiscretions
She revealed it with a sigh
You didn't ask the right questions 
the rule book doesn't apply

See beneath all that glitters
her cool choreographed style
It's not hidden in twitters
try looking beyond her smile

Her love you cannot purchase
She can sense if you are fake
Do not play on the surface
dive down deep into her lake

Once she's truly discovered
surely passions will run deep
The depths of her uncovered
whispered secrets you must keep

She'll give you what you wish for
there is magic in her soul
If you just reveal your core
together you will be whole

Don't ever try to change her
that person she'll never be
If you try, she'll leave for sure
for that girl needs to be free!

Contest: "Men your advice to another man on females"
Sponsor: Brenda Chiri
Written December 18, 2018

Gotta Have Guts

Gotta  have   guts   to   fall   and   rise, 
To buck the trend and wrest the prize,
To   thrust  your  life   in  hands of mates,
To believe in self, tempt the fates.
Each day  give yourself a surprise.

Night's dark mantle leads to sunrise,
Rise   from  the  dust   with  this  surmise. 
Cock a snook at life if it grates.
Gotta  have   guts.   

When you are down and life's not nice,
It's  up to you  to   add  the  spice. 
Play  not  as  the rule-book states;
You'll  grin   when  you  knock   at  the Gates.
Heed   well  these  words ,  those  of the  wise :
Gotta  have   guts!   

~12 Jul 2016~
syllables checked via www.howmanysyllables.com

Best Rondeau Poem - sponsored by Laura Loo

Rondeau Rhyme Scheme: AABBA-AABC-AABBAC
EIGHT Syllables in each line except the 4th line in second stanza ( C ) and the last line in the third stanza. ( C ) They have FOUR syllables and is the repeated refrain from the first four syllables in stanza one

A Manual For Brides

Here, I wrote a bridal guide,
A rule book for future brides,
No matter if you're fair, fat and wide,
 Or not, here's some dependable asides,
First, keep degrees and jobs up to date, 
With some mates you can't relate,
You never know when the rats will turn,
To being a doormat, is what to spurn,
Keep some getaway money set aside,
This is important in a bridal guide,
Always update your roadside assist,
Without that, car bingles can get you miffed,
Ditto home and car insurance too,
Note these well, I say to brides like you,
Never take drugs if to Bali you roam,
Then you definitely won't be coming home,
Herein,  I wrote a bridal guide,
My rule book for brides like you.......

Do Have Difficult Time

Do Have Difficult Time

What I want to do most are always my do's
And all of my don'ts I do not like to use
There is no excuse for doing any of them
Whether it was a her or had been a him.

Don'ts to me are simply never worth using
From fans may be receiving a bunch of booing
According to rule book don'ts they will forbid
So why by some people are they still did.

Doing don'ts are considered to be a crime
Have become habitual when done all the time
Some were completed season after season
And at all could have done for no reason.

Some don'ts are performed by Donald Trump
Who gives out gas like they do at a pump
Becomes more then you can stand or bare
And had eventually turned into much hot air.

This same situation can also be related
To balls under-inflated and egos over-inflated
So which one of these two do you prefer?
With neither of them will I ever concur.

James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
RiverSea Plantation
Bolivia, NC

Magic Beans

These magic beans come from a place 
on the other side of the rainbow
Some are good some are bad 

Red of course it the power to make someone fall in love with you
Blue has the power to take all your sadness anyway
Black has the power to take fear away and make you brave 

These are not the kind you eat
You put it in a drink make a wish 
Wait for the sparkle and it may come true 
 
The rule book saids to be careful what you wish for 
The most special bean is the mystery favor 
What is does for you is always a secret

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