Short Booked Poems

Know
How I go oh you
Love
Lord...

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No room at the inn?
Should have booked earlier then....

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In wish books they’ve looked 
Santa is already booked ….
Turkey’s not yet cooked...

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I gripped the handle as I handled the grip
And tripped on a book as I booked the trip....

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BOOKED ROSE
PETALS CRUSHED FLAT
REMEMBER





Entry for Pretty Little Lunes Contest...

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he booked his holiday
once on a hill station
or nearest a ocean,
to enjoy healthy breath
to unload the tension of a job...

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I really should'a read the fine print,
when I booked this trip.
Now, thanks to salmonella,
we're all stuck on this ship....

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Hugh Hefner booked tickets out West
To discover whom God had blessed
One night at dinner
He saw the winner
Miss Apache Medicine Chest...

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goodbye
lovers embrace
the woman cries

flight booked
departure soon
last look

unsaid
words in poems
instead


Photo 1
April 21, 2021...

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Sweeping out corners
Of memory’s attic, I
Rediscovered self;
Scrap-booked heaps of my life-tales;
Age has stolen so many....

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Eleven minutes till dawn
more time to spend loving you
how could I be so lucky
let the dawn pass us


Part 2, Fully Booked
06/24/2016
Eleven Minutes...

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As your heartbeat echoes mine
we dance to the ocean tune
in slow anticipation.
Tender is the night. 

---------------------------------
23 rd June 2016...

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Silverado truck and F-one fifty Ford
Went on a date but both got extremely bored
Chevy made a wheelie and Ford promptly booked
Date didn’t last as long as the dinner we cooked....

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two meet in night's quiet space
its stars spin bright as hearts beat
a world entered love unfolds
lips welcome a kiss

Contest Part 2 Fully Booked
6/22/16
Tender is the Night...

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He booked a weekend in Utopia 
and took a book to read;
his granny said,'It's nice but very dull -
a thriller's what you'll need!'

written 14th November for Constance's U contest...

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There was a young jockey from Ireland 
Booked to ride the race horse, grey diamond
he wanted to be seen
painted grey diamond green
and kissed the Blarney Stone for Ireland.

15/03/2017....

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I’m telling you this, it’s no rumour -
Some people knock my sense of humour 
So I’ve ordered a cab
To take me to rehab
With poetry I’m a late bloomer!

5/14/18...

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as harsh toil drains existence
the loft of moontide invites
sweet assurance from eve’s flit
cradling my  own space


Part 2, Fully Booked for nette onclaud
Tender Is The Night  6 June 2016...

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If a poet who hails from Chicago
Booked his poems on a trip with Trivago
Would his wit and his charm
Cause the site fatal harm
Get the soup placed under embargo

John G. Lawless
©2/17/2023...

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cloud gazing after rainfall
I drink the moist, fragrant dew
a crystal blue spectacle
of wide-eye rapture


Part 2--Fully Booked Contest
Novel's Title--The Bluest Eye
June 14, 2016...

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.
my
wife and I
made some time
last week to have the
buried or cremated discussion
................................
apparently I'm booked in
next wednesday
afternoon
....

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They booked the restaurant two for tea.
The giraffes turned up promptly at three.
              They were way too tall you know. 
              The roof was too low and so,
They used the window to gain entry.
...

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The last of snow had fallen
It's slushy underfoot
Cars in the dirt keep going
With radios on mute
The northwind close its tour
Plays final show today
The nearest dates I’m sure
Are booked by spring to stay.
...

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blood of fury desecrates

youngsters maimed by household strife

till church gongs ring of mercy

---love offerings pledged


Contest: Part 2 , Fully Booked
War and Peace
For nette onclaud    23 June 2016...

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their tempers were volatile
two seconds is all it takes
to turn loving to hating....
their hearts still entwined

penned 23 June 2016

contest fully booked 2

Book title used  War and Peace...

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