Short Gossiped Poems

Two neighbors gossiped over an electric fence and were shocked at the news......

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had
then didn't. Wisped
somehow... or gossiped...
or distracted to Utopia's version
of cockroached virgins stained
glassy through
windows tight enough
for
what?...

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There was an old vandal in sandals,
Who spread about rumours and scandals,
And it seems a mistake
That I baked her a cake:
She gossiped and kicked out the candles.

For Carolyn’s birthday contest...

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Little old man, lived in the front pew,
                           Praying his beads and singing his hymns with virtue
                     While at home,  he gossiped and construed about everyone
          Brazen he’d go down to the saloon and have a few and argue about his view


© Eve Roper  4/16/2015
Forgot to submit
Contest Name : What Is Your Hypocrisy
Rubaiyat Form
Sponsor : Justin Bordner...

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Pretend Marriage

  As kids we'd chalk a house plan on the street
  and pretend to be grown up families, parroting
  what we saw in our parents raising us, their kids.
  We smoked cigarettes and had happy hour at night.

  We entertained our friends and drank and fretted.
  The women gossiped and we husbands talked work.
  We all grew bored and decided to never grow up.
  Rain erased the chalk but we'd glimpsed our futures....

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Called, 'Woman of Shame'
Living life as she knew how
Men secretly desired her,
Women - gossiped; jeered
No one offered true friendship
Not one cared to ask her why.

Stones gathered in hands
The good 'Rabbi' intervened...
He who has no sin, he said,
Please, cast the first stone.
As each one stole away, he turned,
"Go in peace and sin no more".
~*~

Note:  For the "Ancient Song" Contest
Sponsored by Rick Praise...

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The foxes came to call
On a late winter visit

The males name was Clive
The females name was Bridget

They arrived as you and I
Were sitting down to sup

You kindly called them
To the door and asked them what was up

They had the news that no one knows
A tasty bit indeed

We gossiped long into the night
All from that tiny seed

And sent them off with foxy bags
Filled with bobs and bits

The little bird that to them
Carried the word

Alas got none of it...

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