Short Endorsement Poems

kick the endorsement
throw it obama's way dude
feel like him?look like?...

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~ Frustration, first-rate ~

 Plan-free poem penning produces
     enthusiastic 
        endorsement

 Carefully-crafted couplets
      ~ collapse...

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handsome like the Marlboro man
I stared at the old lady, thinking it was funny
then I met him, a handsome jackaroo
jillaroos would come out of the woodwork now...

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Too busy writing
to care if you listened
Space there before me,
live ink on the page

To say it just once
with no echo to follow
Questions—unanswered
endorsement prepaid

(The New Room: November, 2021)...

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He is a quick learner, his brain is mighty.
Chet learns swiftly, and he is completely tidy.
He is not hasty, does not make irrational decisions.
Buying this story hook, line and sinker from his Uncle Missions....

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there was a young man from Seville
whose wife's voice was chillingly shrill
	he said please shut up
	he’d more than enough
sending him looking for advil!

(caveat: no endorsement of product intended)...

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A fresh diagnosis,
waiting to die

Time now unmortgaged,
foreclosure in sight

The documents present,
endorsement unsigned

Appraisal—reprisal,
the path freshly limed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)...

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Running from themselves,
the shadows broke away

Light newly orphaned
with no endorsement

Tracks of remembrance,
forgotten and bare

Space filled with emptiness
—connection denied

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)...

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Taylor's pretty swift, a single cat gal with grit
A brash gust of fresh air with verve drive and wit
Swifties exude grand elation
So goes Swift, so goes the nation!
Scared of big yeller bullies? Not one damn bit...

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Forty years of turmoil…
the top of the heap
The head of the table,
but nothing has changed
Consensus of endorsement,
accolades of exhaustion
Whose tracks have long faded
—regret in the wind

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)...

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To hell with your endorsement,
how false opinion reigns
My words to seek a higher realm
where spirit is reclaimed

As critics in a barrel,
the bottom layer is yours
To hum and drum reflected yarn
—self-serving au du jour

(The New Room: June, 2022)...

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eleven engrossed esteemed Eastern elves elected Evie, eligible electric elk. Embracing her enthusiastic, energetically evasive elusiveness, enabling enchantment to engage, enhance and excite extra enthusiastic electoralelk endorsement to electrify elfish election....

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Johnson's bed with Trump isn't chaste
A waste dump that's sticky with paste
Mike's endorsement bet
Is an enormous threat
That sump pumps can never erase

Author's note: For those unfamiliar with USA's government, Mike Johnson is the current Speaker of the House....

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nature
                      ordinary, typical
         conforming, assimilating, adapting
essence, disposition, assistance, endorsement
         providing, maintaining, supporting
                    indulged, nourished
                             nurture



Date created: 12/06/2021...

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These are chicken eggs?
My husband stared at me.
“I thought so.”
They look different.
“I got them at the store.”

With that endorsement, I cracked one.
A tiny dancing dino whirled onto the table and stopped at the sugar bowl.
“SUGAR!” she yelled.
I stared at my husband.
“You want to open the next one?”
He left the room, fearful now as there were two women in the kitchen....

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Start looking outside your frame of reference
  for that which stands you alone

Stop longing for praise or high endorsement
  things only borrowed or loaned

Start feeling those words you preach unto others
   no longer idling yourself away

Stop blaming the time and the message it brings
  —for those excuses that keep you ‘at bay’ 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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