Short Mortifying Poems

brief walk with new beau
for every step I take, "THPPTPHTPHPHHPH"
most mortifying

9/29/2023...

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Dreams skips in reality
If your eyes are unclosed
Yes creature from morality
Never-knowing as you doze

While you are fast asleep
Vengeance of all despair
During nighttime creeps
Entangling your hair.

Mortifying your world
Corrupting very sly,
Making one fine curl
You inactive as it ply

Be very tend 
Don’t sleep to deep
Or keep your eyes closed
When you’re fast asleep...

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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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I have some amazing collections!

The moon, dark lacunae etched all over,
Broke pearls strung on failed ideas,
Hideous rocks, amassed from my life's path,
A worn-out journal and it's mortifying pages.
The crowds that I always go against,
My unique dancers, shaking a leg with me at times,
And every perfect morn I start by
A waggish baboon that awaits in the mirror to laugh at.



K.S.Lakshmi...

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