in my dream last night
saw two scoundrels in black house
and old dirty mice
Categories:
scoundrels, allegory, analogy,
Form: Senryu
Two birds like mischievous teens
skipping, giggling as they cross
the pumps, dodging car scenes
through the oily and Oldsmobile dross.
Scoundrels living loud in their little world
chirping along, rippling through grime,
gabbling as they kick the can, twirling
and uttering in incoherent rhyme.
Oh the crime of poetic injustice,
those bobbing teeny hoodlums -
their imagery without substance.
No alliteration nor allusions.
But the human takes notice of the couple,
just too cute, their slim legs and beaks
skimming through the rainbow puddle
with sputtering tweets, puttering in the grease.
Categories:
scoundrels, bird,
Form: Personification
The day is dying
The half-moon is faltering
In its nocturnal crawl
Across the gloomy sky
As the sleepy village goes to bed
Under the inky dark African sky
Stragglers are home-bound with trepidation
From another day of disillusionment
Lonely drunks lost in alcoholic world
Stagger home on the sandy paths
Boastful about feats known only to them
As the alcohol ebbed with their fading dreams
In the barricaded walls of wealthy mansions
Glittering outwardly and lit by obscene chandeliers
Lay looters and scoundrels of our commonwealth
Wide-awake scared stiff of night marauders they have created
As the gulf between the leaders and the led continues to widen
The day of reckoning has come for African predator overlords
Like Macbeth they have murdered sleep
They shall sleep no more
Categories:
scoundrels, allusion, anger, betrayal, change,
Form: Free verse
Hunter
Deadly scoundrels
Waiting with argus-eye
Living benthic
Lunger
Breed of the dreads
Bull, tiger and great white
Attacks Epic
Sea dogs
Of threat displays
Meat eater they all say
Ravenous shark!
WRITER: OLIVE_ELOISA
APRIL 16, 2014
12:59 PM
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Categories:
scoundrels, animal, dog, fish, sea,
Form: Verse
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The navvies were round knocking on doors
They had some tarmac left and they could get more
Yes we needed the drive and a path
But we weren’t going to be in, that was the first laugh.
We trusted them and listened to what they said they would do
They would weed kill the ground and add hardcore too
The day they arrived we would be at work
But they promised crossed hearts they would not shirk
We arrived home to a fantastic new drive
Their promise they kept, is was a surprise
Until one week later a dandelion grew
It stuck up green leaves through the tarmac so new…
On investigation we made a tiny little hole
To find we could lift the path in a roll
No hardcore or weed killer we had for our money
Just a path we rolled up… looking back it was funny.
© 19/08/2012
Tarmac= Black Top
Navvies were Irish Gypsies
Categories:
scoundrels, funny,
Form: Quatrain
dirty rotten men
scoundrels robbing rich pay poor
dressing rather smug
Categories:
scoundrels, funny,
Form: Haiku