Short Plenipotentiary Poems

Would that we had a plenipotentiary
    (Would that we knew what that was)

  Perhaps we'd empty the enemy's penitentiaries
    ~ by the end of the twenty-first century...

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Here's the job for you

 "Plenipotentiary" ~

Nah.  Been there.  Done that.




 Note:  Not an entry in the 
           'Exploding Laughter 
                 Contest'...

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I don't remember ever applying to be a plenipotentiary
    But now that I am a septuagenarian
      I realize that this is precisely what I was meant to be
        ~ A septuagenarian plenipotentiary...

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KISS OF DEATH

full-bodied wine

felicitous lipstick

smile glistens in goblet

gregarious sips

~

rogue wave

of purple grape

plenipotentiary drink

steals Juliet’s kiss

11/4/2017
Rick Parise’s 8 Line Poem Contest
Theme: Death...

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Validate Spring with its plenipotentiary pollen.
Green sawdust all about the ground, car and porch -
Shaken free from the jocund trees with budding leaves.
Before the season’s even warm, they’re all in.

The celebration of pubescent branches causes us
Below to agitated fits - eyes water, nasal drips.
Still we admire the fashion of pinks, whites, and greens.
The youths, so lovely in their resurrection dress.

3/21/2023...

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E-nvoy extraordinary
D-oes what's best for the nation; 
U-nder the Lord God's guidance, 
A-id is brought to fruition.
R-epresentative of the country, 
D-ealings are made with another; 
O-verseas Filipino workers will truly be in proper order.

M-inister plenipotentiary
A-ccredited to alien government
N-aturally ranks between
A-mbassador and minister resident.
L-egate is sent as messenger to meet the task of an emissary; 
O-fficial agent to accomplish the job of envoy extraordinary....

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