Short Slicked Poems

no moon shines tonight
rain slicked pavement gleams under
the street light nearby...

Read More

striking cityscapes
a focus of symmetry
in slicked surroundings
wet with salty tears
escape in views
solitaire existence; crowded
path to the unknown
follow at your own risk...

Read More

It's the year two thousand and sixteen
Many years since I was a rambunctious teen
With slicked down hair
It was devil may care
Surrounded by young fillies so peachy keen...

Read More

slicked hair
black leather jacket
ultimate bad boy of the fifties
James Dean
cultural icon
Rebel without a cause
dead at twenty-four
starred in only three movies
recognizable yet today...

Read More

School is in session, and we are all spiffed with shine.
Our hair is slicked back, we are scooting in free and fine.
Laughter is prominent as we see our school friends once again.
By two-thirty we are clock-watching, will this day ever end?...

Read More

those drudging blues
spat upon by smudging greys
pulsating with suns
sinking tendrils
rains might has bent each leaf head
and from its benevolent praise
nights perfume cloud
slowly infiltrates
rainbow slicked petrol inked puddles
show echoes of stars that were..once...

Read More

Slicked back panther of pride
News of the town in which you reside.
Fall to the ground, gently but swift
Release your ego to fly quickly adrift.
Muddy your palms in the wake of the morn
As the person you were is carelessly torn.
Crawl to the well and give her your due
The bird that now walks forgot how he flew....

Read More

coffee best describes
papa joe's essence for me
coffee kisses- YES

fertilizer stink
paternal grandaddy smell
famous tomatoes

noxzema only 
for miss toby before bed
shakey hands slicked up

but then grandmama
whew! peach cobbler first of all
sweet corn, pot roast, ham

oh man, those fried pies
blackberry and peach goodness
beautiful mem'ry...

Read More

fresh linen
and jasmine
gently caress
the air

sheets whisper
to the floor,
with abandon
searching lips
find an orb

traveling fingers
part the way
legs jelly
and feet tingle
the lighting rod
is stroked

all sane movement
ceased, tremors pass
into the centre of desire
shuddering I am loosed 

a ragged breath
lifts wayward hair
slicked in lust
and splayed 
I wished
I had a smoke...

Read More

This fashion is in, that one is out
    narrow waists with baggy knees
  Wide lapels and razor-thin ties
    Who knows what will be

  Slicked-back ducktails 
    top off muscle t-shirts
  hoping to attract
    coy smiles from a skirt

  My friend and I dress real dumb
    bowling shirts plugging Bazooka-Joe gum
  The girls see us, giggle, and flee
    Who knows what will be...

Read More

Old pallid lady seen here,
frail from cold,
snow-slicked roads,
sluggish old woman, 
a young guy,
stopped, whispered,
I'll lend a safe fist, 
life is an unwinnable battle?
guide the trembling feet,
and was proud of his strength and greet.


Written: July 24, 2022

Short verse inspired by pictures Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Lisa YY

Link C

40 Words...

Read More

under the moon and murky alleyways
i roam with rats the mean and rain-slicked streets
a private eye, taking whatever pays
i search for her, whose husbands bloody sheets...
paid me to find her and his rich receipts

with-in the fog was smoke like fog in air
from her short cigarette and sinful glare
the light from lamp poles blinked; our bullets blew
a man was dead from our brief love affair
and briefly bullets both inside us grew...

Read More

Early morning, took my walk
Before the rising sun.
On the rain-slicked city streets,
I was the only one.

Not another soul in sight,
The sidewalks all for me,
Which felt like post-Apocalypse
And I a refugee.

It isn’t very often
That Manhattan seems so stark,
Accentuated by the rain,
The wind, the hour, the dark.

At least, on several corners,
Glowed an all-night deli’s light,
Assuring me, despite the void,
That things would be all right....

Read More

Listen to poem:

*Image of I'm Letting Go So I Can Be Free by Pinterest.

Relinquish

A blossoming beauty breathes
beyond bothersome barbs beneath,
A humming harbinger hurriedly
handling honey hallmarked its host,
A sunshine stretch steamingly
of bodies special slicked spilt skins,
A solitary star secludes a sky
set love's sights are surely smitten.
     
2022 July 20
*2nd Place*
A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2022 July 22...

Read More

Global comfort risk adverse hesitant
         Company pauses before launching investment
         Robot arm responsive reset to turbo
         Fills tanks in fish farm where millions will grow


         Oyster opens to slime slicked pearl 
         Brave imbiber swallows storm sky striate urchin
         Rocked on troughs, crest of ocean
         Covers dubious with smooth smile caviar lotion 





            Second of February
                Source Funds...

Read More

Fox, finches and fireflies fluttered out of the woods
Into a clearing that cleverly chose species of these three
Faeries, elves and gnomes watched as closely as they could 
It was time for the annual musical mystery forest jamboree

Who will be the winners? The badgers asked the rest.
Curious sailors and pirates came in from beyond the docks. 
Racoon and muskrat slicked their fur down to look their best. 
Whoever it is, they will have trouble winning the crown from Fox....

Read More