Short Protocol Poems

The use of alcohol
Is a health protocol....

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Protocol is like time
that is fixed for me
and you
it is preferred....

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the best protocol 
for flying a white flag 
is to hang it
on a stiff erect stick...

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Poetry is
The melodic glue that
Holds and resonates 
The humanistic fabric of mankind...

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Protocol may deny you opportunities,but arise to the occasion and challenge.
You are the only beautiful soul to shine with life....

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"Don't panic! Just pretend you're dead
and he won't even know you're there!"
"Seriously? And just who in the world
gave you that advice... the bear?"...

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tribute to a departed soul
as protocol demands
a forum to connect
with relatives and friends
murmuring insincere nothings

oblivious to the widow’s tears...

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Hickory dickory dock
Three mice climbed Grandfather’s clock
Grandpa struck one…
The others could run
and
Clearing concussion protocol
Will compete again next Sunday 
...

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S-tandard
H-ygiene
E-rases
R-abidity's
Y-ucky
L-ink
L-etting

P-rotocol
A-bate
S-ilent
C-ontagion's
U-nknown
A-ilment

Topic: Birthday of Sheryll A. Pascua (June 19) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Sea school is fraught with fear
Of bloodthirsty sharks' sneer,
Governed by jungle law -
Might of the mammoth jaw.
One only protocol -
If you slow down and stall,
The winner eats it all!

March 15, 2022...

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M-orbid
A-nd
R-abid
K-iller

J-ust
U-ses
L-ethal
I-nfection
U-ntil
S-trict

E-tiquette's
S-tandard
P-rotocol
O-bliterates
S-ilent
O-utbreak

Topic: Birthday of Mark Julius Esposo (June 16) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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When there’s infection
Due to pandemic,
Follow the rules of
The health protocol,
Without a complaint.

If there‘s a threat
Of deadly grime,
Wash off the dirt
With alcohol.

To avoid
The illness

Just wear
The face -

Mask....

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Badmashaan category VIP Protocol
Money game currency goal
Original sims fake authorization
Arms, Ammunition, drugs, RDX
Underground business no Tax
Strong network street Power
Agency support Control Tower.
Motto. Business is Business....

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love follows no protocol
and cares not for etiquette 
which is the knowing that steers
continuous consciousness correction
it is a state of no-mind of course 
where ego identity disappears 
whereupon all that is, is

bliss effervescence ...

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Sixties Manson Beatles Connection

Helter
Skelter

Seventies Know it all

Lippy
Hippie

Eighties Favorite Pet

Yuppie
Puppy

Nineties Kyoto Protocol

Pollution 
Solution 

Two Thousand Twelve Election 

Barrack
Back



Footle Fun Contest

First attempt at this form....

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Just because I remained silent,
trust me it still happened;
Adjust to make it all bearable
robust so emotions are monitored;

Talk is cheap so I just wander away,
chock it up to the writing on the wall;
Knock but I simply won't answer;
Padlock and avoid a dance of protocol....

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S-afety protocol and policy
A-im to end the ordeal; 
R-estrictions and standards
A-re made for us to
H-eal.

D-irt and grime in our hands
A-re abated by alcohol; 
Y-ou and I are health-conscious, 
O-bserving the safety protocol.

Topic: Birthday of Sarah D. Dayo (June 03)...

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Leaving behind excuses,
the reasons close at hand

No longer distracted by the ism’s of truth,
or what protocol demands

Living outside the fences,
no longer looking in

The horizon waiting as my dreams set sail
—safe harbor there within

(Bryn Mawr College: February, 2020)...

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President Donald Trump
Such a discourteous chump
Walked ahead of the Queen
This audacious gaffe should NEVER be seen

****According to Royal protocol, it’s considered rude to show your back to the monarch****

Clerihew Contest
Sponsored by The Name Forsakes Me

7/22/18...

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R-epel the enraging enemy, 
U-sing the pandemic protocol; 
T-he terrible threat is erased, 
H-aving been killed by alcohol.

S-top the crowned contagion, 
T-o uncover the mystery; 
O-bliterate the opponent, 
N-egate the enraging
E-nemy.

Topic: Birthday of poetess Ruth Stone (June 08)...

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P-eople
E-lsewhere
R-emain
S-cared
O-f
N-otorious
A-dversary
L-etting

P-andemic
R-isk
O-f
T-he
E-nraging
C-orona
T-hreat's
I-nvisible
V-irus
E-ventually

E-vade
Q-uarantine
U-ntil
I-ntensive
P-rotocol
M-akes
E-veryone
N-otably
T-riumphant

Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Among the many "services" provided to Bubba Clinton by his moll,

Was the delivery of pizzas by Monica, a most unusual protocol!

A stain mysteriously appeared on her lovely DRESS OF BLUE!

Was it cheese or pepperoni? Bubba insisted he had no clue!

Entry for Anthony Slausen's "Blue Dress" Poetry Contest...

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He had announced, “My dad’s ill, expected to die.”
In my pastor’s jacket, I slipped some wherewithal.

Watching him don his coat from a pew nearby,
hands in his pockets, he found unforeseen windfall.

Staring at its contents, three times he wiped his eye.
It was thanks enough - pay it forward protocol.

April 8, 2020...

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Only A Fool for Trump Horn Limerick

Only a fool for Trump did fall
Pretends to think that protocol
Is method we have to use
Whether like it or not or want to abuse
Everything did want to dispute it all.

Jim Horn

Saw one last piece of cereal
in cereal bowl. Only soup is
in a soup bowl. Remember 
John B's Sloop?

Jim Horn...

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Among the many 'services' provided Bubba Clinton by his moll,
Was the delivery of pizzas by Monica, a most curious protocol!
An intriguing stain was once discovered on her lovely dress of blue!
Was it cheese or pepperoni?   Bubba insisted he had no clue!

Entry for Tania Kitchin's "Celebrity Or Famous Person Clerihew" Contest
(21 March 2019)...

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