The weather got cold. He went out on the town -
a duck bought a new jacket of down.
He made his selections. His shopping bag full -
a sheep bought a new coat of wool.
He swiveled his head. His eyes went down the rack -
a crow found only suits colored black.
Categories:
selection, animal, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Relation molds
Hearts not people
Hold feels for life.
Mix emotions
Makes oneself holds
Feelings not war.
Peace with other
Good people sign
True love of life.
Absence of hate
Devil's irate
God's victory.
Categories:
selection, feelings, peace, relationship, spiritual,
Form: Than-Bauk
Hold your nose and cast your ballot
~ for, uh, whatchamacallit
Categories:
selection, humor, political, word play,
Form: Couplet
Big fish eat lil fish
Refuse to elaborate
Went away freely.
Categories:
selection, engagement, life, perspective, strength,
Form: Senryu
Being not in the college,
Not means I will not engage,
I don't need some revange,
From you we need changes.
I have missed those patience,
When people ask you question,
How yourself trying to explain,
On your side to join.
I wish day to remain,
But won't come back again,
Time quickly it has gone,
Today you have got won.
Am feeling about those noise,
Shouting while touching their nose,
To who failed their propose,
Who were known as oppose.
Categories:
selection, 2nd grade, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
The world is so cruel
Future belongs to the top
Rat race is the rule.
Categories:
selection, life, strength, success, world,
Form: Haiku
Selection day we have no voice,
selection day a lump’s in my throat;
Selection day two court jesters
argue over the final straw;
Selection day we are not ready,
selection day just the beginning;
Selection day we’ll wait in line
wondering and wishing for hope;
Selection day we have no choice,
Any option is just a delusion;
Selection of burgundy or oily blue;
Why can’t anyone live with purple?
Selection nonexistent in a rematch,
lightning isn’t supposed to strike twice;
Selection day mimics a time bomb,
selection day anticipating detonation;
Selection day on pins and needles
waiting on our country’s buzzword;
Awoken but yet forsaken this morning,
Selection day we have no choice.
Categories:
selection, america, emotions, feelings, political,
Form: List
Gravely digging the grave digger digs
holes for souls; waste pits plotted
earth soils clogging
Collections of bones for storage and mind
Disposal in disguise
Many a form, Goldfinch alike, are left
in place of death; laying spent, shrivelled
dishevelled, colours still abright
I wasn't going to dig a hole so I left it
where it lay; no-one will dig for its soul
No grave digger digs such a small pit
No respect, no clogging, no digging
Instead the finches are left
along with the Linnet, the Thrush, the Owl
and the Crow; destined to be sucked back
into nature's cauldron
to go wherever birds go
Categories:
selection, bird, death, nature,
Form: Free verse
Stop talking about revolution, revolution
It's not like winning the lottery, the ‘election’
When a real revolution is on the move
Nobody, nobody can stop it.
Stop, stop, quit, and quit being hypocrite it
When a real revolution is on the move
Nobody can stop it. Election
Will never be synonymous with selection.
Revolution is about drastic positive move
It is about real and natural change for the nation
A revolution is about optimism in a fair election
When people can vote freely for a better condition.
Think! Use your brain and your God-given imagination
For a better world, for fairness and better comprehension
Sop being hypocrite. Nobody can stop it
When a real revolution is on the move.
Copyright © June 2020, Hébert Logerie, all rights reserved..
Categories:
selection, corruption, integrity, mystery, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Love's Selection
The word love is carelessly spewed,
Overused, misused, and abused.
Its connotation is attributed
To a sex object exhibited
And treated uninhibitedly.
Beauty defined gives the impression,
That it’s the outward appearance
Intended to shape one’s perception,
For choosing in matrimony,
Regardless of consequences.
Different sexes with expressions
And their need for gratification
Lean toward infatuation,
Because emotional eyes can deceive
And influence one’s selection:
When physical lusts of attraction,
Impede the mind’s comprehension,
Resulting in flawed situations;
Rather than seeking combinations,
That make living enjoyable.
Categories:
selection, love, marriage, together,
Form: Verse
Character matters addressed by the Kings,
By attitude adjustment - repentance of sin,
From heaven and earth with prayers for the dream:
Love is the standard, not the color of skin.
Society ever closer since the cross and the speech,
Elections - selections - the dream’s coming true.
Honest acknowledgment confirm it in fact:
The colors that matter are Red, White, and Blue.
Celebrate harmony, peace, and our likenesses:
Immeasurable benefits packaged in loveliness.
Categories:
selection, america, anti bullying, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
RANDOM SELECTION
closure
of a series
with
indicators
ill defined
difficult
yet
a precise
comparison
deliberate
but
ambivalent
cursory
etched&
described
posed
then
manipulated
as a
supposed
priority
in a
particular emulation
of frontal
similarities&
combined elements
THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived
Categories:
selection, poetry,
Form: Other
If I have to receive rejections, you would think I could at least get the kind of rejection slips that I would like to get. Here are a few rejections that I haven't received. Yet.
"Unpalatable!" --Gourmet
"Try our Fiction Department." --True Story
"Too padded. Trim it down." --Weight Watcher
"No! No! No!--Positive Living Magazine
"Sorry!" --Good News Magazine
"Indigestible!" --Reader's Digest
"You've missed the mark!" --Guideposts
"Doesn't suit our needs." --Gentlemen's Quarterly
"Out of step." --Military Review
"Clean it up!" --Good Housekeeping
"Not relative." --Family Circle
"Not our style." --Glamour
Categories:
selection, humor,
Form: List
From the golden lamp a genie emerged
For a thousand years he had been submerged
Said, 'I can give you vast wealth
Or I can give you good health'
But either one by itself is a scourge
Categories:
selection, health, irony, money,
Form: Limerick
SELECTION IN THE POETRY CLASS
Sometimes teacher selects a student to explain
His grey ignorance of the text -
These verses are tiring, confusing, puzzling?
Guilty, he mentally shades in the last lines
Having never read them during lesson.
Eyes fixed on task - memorise, memorise.
He rises very slowly,
Like a plant growing imperceptibly taller.
Or a cripple not yet introduced to
Divinely miraculous medicine.
Or a defence counsel finding his feet
For his summing-up in this difficult case –
Subtle arguments, shades of grey.
Everything is just black and white in Alabama.
24 April 2021
Categories:
selection, allegory, allusion, angst, miracle,
Form: Free verse
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