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Cream in the sausage

We know the secret to winning
The sweet fennel sausage with
sweet relish and eggnog yeast rolls. 
The toll of the roll
with caramelized onions
The dungeon were the tomato's
Ripen is scrubbing
Perfect lettuce ooh the sweet relish
Is it delish love your relish
Peggy rolls takes the tolls to another
Level
Sausage sammish and fries damn I 
Love your sandwich
Oniony buttered rolls
Like a grill cheese sandwich
I am in love you know
I gotta have it
Tickle me
I am your fool
Staula
The perfect fool
Cheese me up
To a whole new level
Feenl sweet
A seductive devil 
The spicy red  pepper flakes
Oh foo goodness sakes
We gotta good thang
Going on
It's my song


Won't stand a chance
Music by
Galveston Sweetie
Food by "Greasie" 
Courtesy of
Soothing Sounds
And by "Hot LOVER" 
OF SHORTIE RICO LLC. 
and the Sounds of
Black Music On nc.

Premium Member In My Dreams

I miss you with each passing day
                                   I see you as the sun begins to rise;
                    Through the breeze, I can hear the words you used to say,
                                    When shadows fall and evenings nigh,
                                    Of you I dream, as I close my eyes.








Date: Feb. 23, 2022
For: A Brian Strand Shortie Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
Placed 1st in contest

Premium Member It's Life

The more you traverse, the less it seems.

                    Though, at times the terminus looks nearer,

             Never-ending it is…

     It’s Life!





A BRIAN STRAND SHORTIE Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
Date: 23-02-2022


Premium Member Japan Surrenders

*Image of Japanese Elm Tree by CBC.

Japan Surrenders

Japan's crimson sun disrobes a dawning night rise sky,
An elm tree parasol's her coral samurais while they lie.

2022 February 22
*1st Place*
A BRIAN STRAND SHORTIE
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2022 February 23
*2nd Place*
Bite Size Poem No.37
~~Line Gauthier: Judged 2022 March 01

Premium Member Just For Me

I dreamt last night that it was summer
            and I was in a sunlit lush green meadow
where flowers were swaying in the gentle breeze
       and I was sitting beneath an ancient tree, listening
to birds tweet a symphony just for me ...

_________________________
February 22, 2022


Poetry/Free Verse/just for me
Copyright Protected, ID 02-1432-972-22
All Rights Reserved, 2022, Constance La France


Written for the Standard contest, A Brian Strand Shortie
sponsor, Brian Strand, Judged, 2/23/2022

First Place

Premium Member Nightingale Sings

I am a Nightingale…
Singing a song of lavender dreams and hopes, 
Under an ultramarine canvas 
Blending turquoise sky and sapphire ocean, 
Twilight moon flickering ribbons of love, 
My audience - the pearlescent clouds, gleaming stars, 
Souls with a poetic heart!




                 Taken from my Poem " Writing Unwraps My Soul"
                         A Brian Strand Shortie Poetry Contest


Premium Member While Sky's In Slumber

winking moon
behind saffron clouds
playing hide-and-seek
with the stars
and me




21 February 2022

"A Brian Shortie Poetry Contest"
Sponsored by Brian Strand
1st place

Premium Member Blessed Love Affair

Blissful to share with the needy ones’ welfare
Hearts that care engage in blessed love* affair.

*1John 3:17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

February 11, 2022
1st place, "A BRIAN STRAND SHORTIE" Poetry Writing Contest 
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 2/23/2022.

Premium Member Psalm 65:11

The Lord crowns the year
with goodness. Paths overflow
with new abundance.


January 28, 2022
entered in Beata Agustin's Newness Senryu contest      placed 2nd


February 22, 2022
entered in Brian Strand's Shortie Poetry Contest     placed 1st

Premium Member First Touch

blooms, bashful maidens
bowing down timid and shy
at first macho touch

Placed First
 A Brian Strand Shortie Poetry Contest

Premium Member Mist of Misery

When noxious nights are moonless and dismal days sleazy, 
to walk life through the morbid mist of misery is not easy.

______________

September 27, 2021
For A Brian Strand Shortie Contest

Premium Member Good Gollie

Bink & Gollie...
they're so jolly!
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bink's a shortie
Gollie acts 40!
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Best friends forever
nothing can sever --

not outrageous socks,
nor tripping over rocks;

not difference in height,
nor temporary spite;

not either family tree,
nor lack of royalty;

not crippling stage fright,
nor setting Fred alight;

not withholding pancakes,
nor stretching out in backaches.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

No misunderstanding nor folly
can ever break up Bink & Gollie!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

(Based on all three "Bink & Gollie" books together;
by Kate DiKamillo, Alison McGhee, and Tony Fucile)

Premium Member Wind Chime Soul

The child within us weeps at marble headstones 
pallid wilting flowers dark plume wreaths scatter 
harpsichord of heartbeats waltz on grey day plot  
wind chime soul petals float past afterlife clouds.



Contest : A BRIAN STRAND SHORTIE

Sponsor : Brian Strand

Premium Member She's a Short Spoken Woman

She’s a short-spoken woman he told all.
She’s short-legged? I asked, not at all tall?
Short-sighted? Another yelled from a wall.
She’s a shortstop? My uncle yelled from a stall.
She wears shortie nightgowns was the next call.
About to see a short temper on the man with the doll.

Spike

Spike is my name as I stretch and yawn on this beautiful sunny morn
Poking my nose through leaves and debris I sniff the sweet Spring air
Inside my den I hibernate through winter’s cold away from harm
Kaleidoscopes of colour and warmth permeate my prickly skin
Enough of sleep I need to eat ~  hear my tum rumble as out I tumble


Written: 28th March 2019

Contest: Writing Challenge 
Sponsor: Dear Heart
5th place

Contest A BRIAN STRAND SHORTIE
Sponsor Brian Strand 
N/A

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