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Please Tell Me: A Response to the Film 'Grown Ups'

Please tell me it’s summer every day of the year.

Please tell me that Aerosmith plays from the sky.

Please tell me that heaven’s a basketball court.

Please tell me that everyone’s life has a point.

Please tell me that no one is ever alone.

Please tell me that dying is easily explained.

Please tell me that broken birds get back their wings.

Please tell me the tooth fairy isn’t my mom.

Please tell me that people are just as they seem.

Please tell me “I’m sorry” is always enough.


Please, Adam Sandler, you loveable lout,

Tell me that everything always works out.

Signature Becomes Autograph

In my subconscious mind turning with time into 
a fertile field in the fond landscape of flourishing youth,
long before corrosion of crumpled confidence started, 
I planted the sapling of a tender tree called ambition, 
nurtured by passion it grew to feel the touch of the sky. 

In my aspiring mission I wasn’t confused in the core, 
in life’s arena I fixed my focused vision on the bull’s eye. 
In wild winds blowing across the times' rough topography, 
the seeking arrow didn’t deviate from the aimed course, 
I achieved the goal I set for myself, and sealed the fate. 

The travails of uphill climb couldn’t contort my resolve, 
for pleasant surprise awaited me on the mountain peak, 
where morning sun’s golden rays tinged feathers of fame 
that got attached to my flamboyant name, and I knew,
if I were famous my signature would turn into autograph. 

March 4, 2021
Contest : If I Were Famous
Sponsor : Joe Sandler

If

 
If I were a famous poet quite well known,
I hope that I would be a poet humble;
that I would be an inspiration for all.

That the pages of my poetry reached all,
my writing awards I accepted humble;
and that my fans would say her kindness is known.

Even after death my name and words are known,
and in schools my poetry would still humble;
people would purchase my books not one but all.

 "And all visit a humble poet's stone . . . known."

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February 18, 2021


Poetry/Sestina - Trinita (non metrical)/If
Copyright Protected, ID 02-1330-533-18
All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France

Written for the Standard contest, If I Were Famous
sponsor, Joe Sandler, Judged 05/22/2021

Fourth Place

Musing On Being Famous Or Not

Butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers 
Wound up famous in a nursery rhyme 
Plied their trades, were movers and shakers 
Remembered from a long-forgotten time. 

If I were famous, would it be for naught, 
For some great deed, or something I wrote? 
Should I aspire to the political scene, or not, 
Perhaps on the big screen, for a notable quote? 

Would I want a monument built in the square, 
Have my name celebrated on a special day 
To have such aspirations, I would say “beware!” 
If I were famous, I think I would say... “No way!” 

Makes me think I should not aspire to fame 
But only to be remembered by foes and friends, 
Who may, after I am gone, invoke my name 
How fondly I would hope, well, it all depends. 

FIFTH PLACE WINNER
Written February 13, 2021
For "If I Were Famous" Contest
Sponsored by Joe Sandler

If I Were Famous

if I were famous
as seen through eyes of ego
I would laugh loudly
for ego is illusion
belief in it delusion

18-February-2021

Written for: If I were famous poetry contest
Sponsor: Joe Sandler

Fat Cat Pat

rat a tat rata tat a tat 
there was a fat cat named pat
who fell asleep on a mat
woke up to tat a tat tat 
or a sound something like that
found out it was made by a rat
that’s why the tune was flat
cause a rat can’t meow like a cat
rat a tat rat a tat tat 

01/17/2021
Written for contest Tongue Twister Challange
Sponsor Joe Sandler

Tongue Twister

TONGUE TWISTER

        Fantastic fun on scholastic enjoyment
        assessing accessing accepting accent,
        pointing permitting possible permutation,
        claiming cunning clever combination,
        sorting syllables on restricted selection
        yielding rough tough pronunciation.
        Neither fumbled nor jumbled being wobbled weak.
        No boredom, speak random speedy quick.  
                                                              
       Talk faster ignoring protester.         
       Wrap teeth and tongue to entrap
       Ralph Malph’s mouth agape
       bombarding bewildering audience
       with competence, confidence   
       and coinciding Tongue- Twister.

  01/11/21
                                                 Third Place

  ' Tongue Twister Challenge'  Contest by Joe Sandler

Tongue Tanglers

To write a tongue twister is not funny mister
I just don’t know where to begin
There’s one that I’ve written with which I’m quite smitten
But I’d had a very large gin...

Workers wrinkles worsen when wind worsens winters worst weathers

If your decision is instant derision
I guess I should try it again 
So here is another, I pray to my mother
That your words will not cause me pain 

Working writers write written works: Writing workers write workers rights

But too many choices in too many voices
Might just leave some of you floored
So I think one more is plenty before
I leave every one of you bored...

Fierce forest fires frazzle thrushes feathers

So, okay, I’ll brave it and say that’s my fav’rit
I hope that it tangled your tongue
But if that one didn’t but one of them did
It means that my song had been sung

P.S... Freds frozen fingers feed thread through first


7 January 2021
Contest: Tongue Twister Challenge
Sponsor: Joe Sandler

Amazing Alligators Antagonize

Amazing alligators antagonize anyone’s annual anteaters
As antelopes arrive at the annual annulment.
Annoying Aunt Amanda alleges all anticipation awful.
As anticipated Abigail Alliwogger assassinates anteaters.
Anointed antonym annihilates Aunt Amanda and abdicates
Amazing alligators announcing annual anteater’s annulment.


Written 1-04-2021
Contest: Tongue Twister Challenge
Sponsor: Joe Sandler

Scribble Scrabble Strudel

Say this fast ten times:
                 
                 
                SCRIBBLE STRUDEL SCRABBLE SCRIBBLE STRUDEL




                                       January 02, 2021
                         Tongue Twister Challenge Poetry Contest
                                     Sponsor: Joe Sandler

A Dreary, Fairy Dreamer

Mates, we had a cheery literature teacher,
Who told tales and looked more a preacher 
Than a teacher, and here's a tale he told 
About a bald male whose talk sounded bold.  

This man's not real but a phantom in fiction  
Whom our preacher wrapped in flowery diction; 
This man’s dirty that his teeth hated toothpicks; 
He was naughty that his pet topic was politics.

This man had a dream, a dreary, fairy dream:
To try selling seashells, sitting by a stream,
And write a republic and form a dreary system.  
Mates hated his customs but greeted his wisdom.	


Jan. 1, 2021
Tongue Twister Challenge Poetry Contest
Contest sponsor: Joe Sandler 



Inspiration from my poem: “A Dreary, Fairy Dream” published in 2016

Tongue Twisting Fun

 
Down deep, in a dark dreamy dream,
wandering a wispy, winding wilderness, where
sounds stabbed at silence; roaring, rumbling raging,
my tongue twined, twisted, turned, twirled, and tongue tied . . . 

________________________
December 30, 2020

Poetry/Light Verse/Tongue Twisting Fun
Copyright Protected, ID 12-1317-490-30
All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France

Written for the Standard contest, Tongue Twister
sponsor, Joe Sandler, Judged 01/22/2021

Sister Sarah Sucks

Sidney spots spiteful sister Sarah secretly sucking
sticky strawberry swirls, and sarsaparilla spirals 

Tongue Twister Challenge Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Joe Sandler

12/30/20

Susie's Sunny Summers

Susie Smith spent several summers swimming salty seas
Surfing seemed safer than slippery slopes on snow skis
Until susie was swiftly swallowed by swells of super size 
and several sand sharks startled her in a shocked surprise
Susie Smith still spends sunny summers on sandy shores
shooing away seagulls that steal her scrumptious smores
Susie searches for sea shells and starfish in shallow shoals
squealing as sudden summer squalls soak her as she strolls




December 30, 2020
Tongue Twister Challenge
Sponsored by:  Joe Sandler

Sandler the Handler

 Joe Sandler states that he can handle 
An ample band of verbal vandals.
Scanning a slew of scrambled samples, 
Joe soon grows grudgingly disgruntled. 
Top trophy goes to Mighty Sandler 
For Tongue Twister triumphant handler. 

December 28, 2020

Contest: Tongue Twister 
Sponsor: Joe Sandler

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