Short Lamely Poems

Remand


A desperate prisoner
Out on remand
Am I
Till sentence do us part
On her hand 
Lamely hung;
Inconsiderate
And
Irascible woman’s
Husband-
Suspect of love
 Treason
(Heart’s betrayer)
Defying reason
To forever wear garb
In a wrong season.


JM

05th January 2014...

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Age is but a number
The encumbment one often disagrees 
its better written in the parody of French
were the realisation is not so grand
cheating in knowledge
at 59 
I can say time has lamely gone fast
Yet my lounge needs a lick of paint
To allow the Sol to replenish its soul
Small responsibilities carry me way...

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Blame game players sigh and lamely cry,
“Not my fault” each time plans go awry.



Date: November 15, 2020
entered in Brian Strand's Du-O Your Two-Line Poetry Contest       HM


Date: September 23, 2021
Contest: Your Best Rhyming Couplet
Sponsor: L. Milton Hankins

January 20, 2022
entered in the Bite Size Poems #33 Contest        placed 2nd
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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Dependent


How long will you lamely follow
Determined to eat and to swallow?
Should you run away from toil,
Who will fill your pot with oil?

Not as dependents (mouth agape;
Greedy and garrulous as an ape),
But, as a benefactor in this land
Who, to toil, employs his hand-

Whose arm and back is trained
To badly twist but never sprained!


JM	

02nd February 2014...

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That Winter night, he slipped on ice
and, sobbing, lay there in the snow;
he feared he'd catch another cold.

He couldn't stand but felt so cold,
his hands and feet had turned to ice;
he shivered, covered by more snow. 

He looked just like a man of snow.
Oh, to experience such cold!
He lamely struggled on the ice.

He died on ice and snow, so cold...

written 21st February for Charles' Tritina contest...

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