Shake Up Poems


The Shake Up


    Special Counsel will run the United States?
Are they the Puppet-masters or more stooges?
Will we see the ones who hate America, 
first hand?
We know Joe will not make it, that Kamala 
cannot fake it.
Distraction from Putin affirming the Deep State 
plus (CIA) runs things.
That they blew up Nordstream.
Chance for Obama to shake the tree 
and get timely figs-figured, cured.
Is it tit for tat, as Somalia's Omar is censured.
Now Kenya's boys activate their
wondertwin rings.
Election doubts waiting in the wings.
Categories: shake up, art,
Form: Prose

Premium MemberKeep the Change

Changes in weather are mostly to cold.
So much harder to do as we grow old.
When done, we regret not doing it sooner.
Dillydallying, a renowned late-bloomer.

Change is oft forecast as a gentle breeze,
Refreshing our spirits, setting at ease,
Offering rewards of a brighter dawn,
With lives uplifted, with good hope reborn.

But change can be fierce, its tempest untamed,
Shattering the foundations, leaving hearts maimed,
For the quest for self, leaves others behind,
Well beyond what changes you had in mind.

What's forgotten is changes' daisy chain.
All the forget-me-not strung out to blame
You for the chain reaction that change brings
With its bunch of unintended bad things.

Remember that in the change are keepsakes,
That can get blitzed to pulp in quakes and shakes.
Categories: shake up, angst, change, relationship,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberPeople That Shake Up the Buzzards

If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hated him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

                                           William Faulkner

we know who they are
do we  L - O - V - E  love them
could be
all the buZZ
we are after
becAUse
they shake our insides
out, make us think,
make us shOUt
others join in the madneSS
raLLy the cause
pick up pitchforkS
grab the torch
foLLow your lead

why is it dark?
who shut the door?

7/21/2022

Not aimed at anyone. Just came to my mind. Enjoy!
Categories: shake up, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShake-Up, Break-Up and Wake-Up

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
  received a little shake-up
when in '68 they turned on
  'Abraham, Martin and John' *

Moses, Muhammed and Jesus
  No longer seem to please us
'Environment, Equity and Energy'
  Causes now spiritually seize us

The U.S., Britain and France
  a ghost of a NATO alliance
The mantle of peace they don
  faced with China, Russia and Iran


_________________________________ 
*a hit song by Dion de Mucci about
 Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr.
 and John F. Kennedy



        February 14, 2021
         '3 Poetry Contest'
    Sponsor: Anthony Biaanco
Categories: shake up, change, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberCosmic Shake-Up In 2006

So sorry, Pluto! You cannot be deemed
		“ninth planet” anymore because there’s been
		a redefining that eliminates
		you from the list of planets. Since you’re kin

		to the remaining eight, you will be called
		“dwarf planet.” This downsizing of the list
		must be a blow to your esteem. Please know
		some people will be shocked, and you’ll be missed!
		
		You’re really little, smaller than some moons!
		There’s no choice; you must be reclassified.
		So much has changed since your discovery
		in nineteen-thirty. Science can’t abide

		your presence on a list where you just don’t
		belong! It’s sad to strike so hard a blow
		on one far from the sun and always dark.
		Your time is up. Now, off that list you go!

information from nineplanets.org and solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/Pluto


Date: October 8, 2017

Contest Title: The Cosmos

Sponsor: Thvia Shetley
Categories: shake up, change, planet, science,
Form: Personification


Premium MemberShake Up

Illness
casting shadows
over a persons view
making or breaking them slowly
shake up.


25/06/17
Categories: shake up, health, sick,
Form: Cinquain
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