Deafening the score for spring break,
set off by the harp’s gentle voice.
That pas de deux of give and take,
a fever pitch played with such poise.
There are so many twisted toys
that masquerade as gentlemen.
Soft banter that clamors a choice:
do you want cheap or a bargain?
Categories:
score, emotions, feelings, spring,
Form: Other
You win the game
You hit the score
But then again
You want some more
What you achieved
Soon gone to past
You can’t retrieve
It wouldn’t last
Another time
Has come again
You’re not in line
You’re not the same
You’re out for lunch
You’ve had it all
You’ve come to crunch
Its not your fault
Your day is done
Its overdue
And when it comes
You know it should
That winning lot
Was it the goal
But you forgot
Forgot it all
Dementia came
And brought release
You play no game
And what was this
Is just absurd
That has no name
Your life’s reward
Was it a game?
Why not forever
And for more
Never for never
Score for the score
And this is it
No more excuse
Now its complete
You’re proud to lose..
Categories:
score, dark, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The bartender strolls from one
end of the counter to the other.
She makes small talk with regulars
who watch NFL games on screens
and a college basketball game
plays on another.
For each touchdown scored
mugs are raised.
Fans analyze every run and play
and the day unfolds.
while the bartender pours beers.
She says her boyfriend and dog
are at home.
A man at the end of the bar
pays his tab.
A woman from public housing
pushes her walker and sits
in their midst.
She’s come in to watch Cubs games
and she’s here again
although baseball season is over.
Categories:
score, baseball, basketball, culture, football,
Form: Free verse
Life is like score
After the jotting is done
There is next to come.
Categories:
score, appreciation, life, sports,
Form: Senryu
Nowadays people keep track of all the wrongs so they can hold it over your head
Categories:
score, life,
Form: Monoku
robust lyrics
winged-voices blest without angst
no pressers
pleasure and glory of God
winged-voices soar without war
a morning score
no bombs, no television
unflappable peace
no reporters in trees
paparazzi unheard of
joy of joining
in the singalong-chirping
with lovely weather
no choppers to ruin tweets
the twilight birds asleep
Categories:
score, angst, bird, freedom, peace,
Form: Verse
Score Brings us Too;
Feat's Jesus Move;
Loud, Loud, Now, Now's The Sky!
Score Brings Us Too,
Feats Jesus Move;
Loud, loud's, an S.K.Y.!
Categories:
score, appreciation,
Form: Ballad
His miser boss
Went out for a toss
When the MD knocked his door.
He plummeted down
To save his crown
When his senior asked for more.
His hair had grown
on his chest
On his back as well down south.
Where nested in peace
There hung two bees
His tongue got stuck in his mouth.
The doc came up
Once or twice
To run his regular tests.
His BP down,
His wife in town
He lost his killer jests.
He crossed himself
and prayed to God
His taste for wine was lost.
The honey bees
made merry cheer,
His company bore his cost.
Then one fine day
they stopped his pay,
No wife no son no home.
He saw a man
without a shawl,
All hurled and curled in snow.
With nothing to lose,
the bees long gone.
He poured his drink once more.
The only coat,
he gave in zest
To the man and settled his score.
Categories:
score, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
I had an offer to play a game of scrabble online
There was no chatting in the room to give me a sign
about whom my worthy opponent could possibly be
but we were well matched by the score, I could see
Assumed it was a guy from the name he was using
My Mistake was his screen ID, and I found it amusing
I'd been Southern Lady for years. No need for a change
Then, he made a word that made me feel a bit strange
My forehead and brows furrowed as he played 'heart.'
It was a triple word score to which I added 'break.'
On his very next turn, I frowned when he wrote, 'lady.'
I was suspicious. Something about him was a bit shady.
Caution warned me to be careful, but I stayed and played.
With twenty-two points on his turn he wrote, 'persuade.'
Could it be that his words were hidden messages for me?
I was being silly until he added honey to the word, 'bee.'
It's what he called me during the years we were married
The thought that it was him left me anxious and harried.
My heartbeat was racing, and my apprehension was riven
until on the board he wrote, 'sorry' and I added 'forgiven'
Categories:
score, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
I want you to come to me
With all the reasons good.
With nothing much to worry about,
Less to be misunderstood.
I want you to look at me
With love and care and hope.
I want you to read my eyes,
Where words find little scope.
I want you to be heard 'midst all
And spread the dew of love.
I want you to be happy with me,
Though much is thrust from 'bove.
I guess am not wrong after all,
In chasing my dreams long born.
I want you to be a part of this,
My heart's no room for scorn.
Give me a break for a while,
I want to be alive with you.
In laughter, party, participate,
At times am a lot bit screwed.
I love to see you tenderly work,
With passion etched on your frown.
I want to hear your breath release,
Satisfaction and music around.
I give no word of mine I know,
You held a better score.
I want you to touch my life--
Leaving me to wait for more.
Categories:
score, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Three performers enter the room.
Two children.
One adult.
The children stand like two scarecrows in a rice field.
The adult takes a can and sprays the children;
careful not to miss a spot.
The children put their hands down and prepare to exit,
The adult whispers,
“they’re everywhere”.
(Author's Note: This is a Fluxus event score)
Categories:
score, art, caregiving, children, urban,
Form: Free verse
bird at evensong
a note on a wire
random as rhyme
Categories:
score, bird,
Form: Haiku
In the whiteness of your body
is an untouched blank staff-
I poet write notes of passion!
Categories:
score, allusion, appreciation, love, romance,
Form: Light Verse
He had as a friend met Remy,
Now, he is his sworn enemy:
On seeing Remy would withdraw,
Race towards any exit door,
For if Remy did, sword could draw:
A full fight or half of it sure!
A friend suggests "Buy St Remy
For your Remy Arch Enemy:
It should wounds heal and clean the sore,
Cold water on scalded heart pour.
"Good ideas we pick or ignore;
At my finance this one would gnaw"
Still he should settle any score:
No headway use teeth and jaw!
The seeds you planted shall grow
The seeds you planted shall grow.
I saw the ones you did sow,
I think that's what you should know.
You don't cocks order to crow,
The twilight to shadows throw
And you can't tell River "Flow".
Down the grasses in farms mow.
They're weeds: much worse than snow.
When you do this lines you toe.
If you fail wait for the blow!
Tell others I told you so.
Categories:
score, allusion, conflict, courage, violence,
Form: Rhyme
With no end in sight and a year has passed.
Kremlin won’t admit their forces are gassed.
So they keep their foot on the wrong pedal.
Exhausting their labor and supply of metal.
Playing chicken with a globe full of enemies.
Moskow wealthy saw their accounts freeze.
Peaceful banks are refusing to aid and abet.
Forcing the powerful elite to do a full reset.
The world has endured enough nonsense.
The ICC is asking Putin to start his repents.
They issued his arrest warrant for crimes
Of atrocities against children many times.
Abducting and trafficking them into Russia.
Dealing low blows to their parents in militia.
Doing this thousands of times at his request.
Kidnapping hostages & executing the rest.
Without a conscience targeting defenseless.
Forming Barbaric creatures to be tasteless.
Now justice is being served by The Hague.
To put an end to this insane Soviet plague.
We should see Nuremberg Trials part two.
To see the bastards brought their hell due.
Ruining cities deserves equal punishment.
Payback earned for their missile rains sent.
Categories:
score, anti bullying, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
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