Winter is cold but pretty.
Makes it easy spotting my cat Midnight.
Counting the days till Spring.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
To err is human, to forgive take mine,
A mistake is a correction in reverse,
Think positive and you will not blow a fuse,
If you love fresh grapes, then you will hate sour wine,
Don't cry over spilled milk, unless you were under it,
13 is bad luck, especially if you have 13 pork chops and fourteen guests,
When angry, don't increase your volume but increase your knowledge, it's rain that grows flowers, not thunder
To see a rainbow, you have to live through a storm
My older brother was always smarter than me and he's a moron
FINALLY,
Iliescu, oldest woman at 67 years old--short of a week--gave birth.
Date: 08/25/2019
shortlist... thirty-three
add eight... forty-one... if right
nineteen need checking
for indeed some well done
amended might easily win
The day I turned the big 5 0
My friends all said to me
You got to make a Bucket List
Of things to do and see
So, I sat there on my cozy couch
With pen and pad in hand
And wrote a hundred things I'm sure
No one would understand
The first thing on the list I wrote
Was simply getting High
I'd score some Marijuana
and give that weed a try
Now It's been ten years later
You would think I had some fun
And probably went through half my list
But, I'm stuck on number One
So it's clear---this is a work of fiction---lol
I thought that you were different
I might have been wrong about you
I took you as someone who cares about me
You mistake me for a fool
I may not be on your short list
In the top one, two or three
But I have a lot of patience
And I’m there when you need me to be
I was always watching your back
And help you when I can
But what you have given back to me
I really don’t understand
It’s not that I am needy
Or expect you at beck and call
But ignoring and being indifferent
Is not what I deserve at all
You need to look a lot deeper
At what I have given here
And be a little more attentive
And be a lot less austere
It won’t take that much time for you
Just treat me with a little more care
I will always be in your corner
When you look you will see me there
Crosswise
crystalline
& monoku-
fulton,footle & ps
cinqku
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