Short Courthouse Poems

Hopefully this is the last time I see your face. One last time that I'm on this place. You drug me through the mud, head hung in shame you made my name a disgrace. I just want peace from this pace, a smile returned to my face. Love in a warm heart. Life isn't hard its an art!...

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Watching dimples three piece proudly strolling past
Another judicial gladiator of theirs to mark these times ?
Silken bunny butts with pom poms short skirts a brief case
Prairie dogs circling his courthouse licking at stains from white....
Cloaks in black robes her pagans silver badge the creature takes it's stand....

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The sanctimonious tabernacle; where the desolated tongues confess.
The covetous, unwed beds are hungry, exuberant anatomies get undressed.
The biased courthouse; where many admissible lies rattle but hardly unfold.
The lewd jail cells are full, innocent bodies, minds, and souls loathly probed.








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People often talk about 
the heat and torture of hell
I'm currently living in one 
with the only excitement here daily
is the Courthouse Bell

Politics hidden like a stitch
People wearing costumes camouflaged
to look like the rich

Last names worn as a badge of fame
Fake celebrities walking amongst
the poor people
While their banking accounts are the same...

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In the lobby of the courthouse
People’s demeanor
Are such a telltale
Casual and comfortable
The secretaries
Determined and debonair
The lawyers
Focused and unperturbed
The judges
And then the others
With scowls on their faces
Nervousness and concern
The weight of accusation
The slow ominous pace
Of being led directly
To the slaughterhouse



posted on July 16, 2019...

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My nude statue stood on the courthouse lawn

     Cast in bronze it caused most folks to yawn

          I stood there so trim and lean

               Even pigeons left it clean

                    I woke and thank goodness the bronze was gone

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
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Placed No. 2 in John Freeman's "Compromising Dreams" Contest - July 2010...

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The lawyer-witches 
watch over the villages.
Each an agent
delegated by a different god.

(One boy threatens another
boasting that his father 
would beat the other's up)

On behalf of their clients, 
the witches dance about the courthouse,
legal argument
for the distant and silent heaven-dwellers 
who stand by to witness.

Such is justice
in noisy paradise,
always dangerous
from bugs, tigers
and war....

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And then... It all went black...

 It's kind of funny as I look back...

Everything all for not...

Learning nothing I was taught...

Losing it all on a whim...

Drowning because I refuse to swim...

Sitting in the courthouse lot...

I had never considered getting caught...

I look over the endless sea of regret...

Over the beaches of mounting debt...

I'm self-made and self-lost...

I've been cashing checks but now know the costs......

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((Haiku))
Love seems endlessly
Then stalactites stalagmites 
Divorce comes for sure


((Limerick))
She walk down the isle smiling in white dress
In the courthouse in black dress, what a mess
Lovers dancing on the sand
Divorce and money in hand
Got her money's worth, who laughs last laughs best


((Couplet))
The guy thinks he can outsmart the girl
The girl knows after divorce she owns his world




~Divorce Club~
Contest for :  (Destroyer  ((Poet...

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My love said to meet him at three
where steaks were the best that could be, 
the chophouse.

I waited a long time and then
checked his firm before searching in
the courthouse.

Maybe drinks with clients for biz?
I checked a fave place for this, his
posh clubhouse.

Nothing, was he up to no good
somewhere no man does as he should -
the dollhouse?

There, I saw my beau kiss Miss Snow
so now he is found in Fido's
cold doghouse.



... CayCay
May 14, 2020...

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