I can’t imagine
how painful it is to
be God.
Trying your hardest
to make a beautiful painting,
only to have the characters
you created complain and
mock the world around
them.
Why does God let bad things
happen to good people?
Pretty sure you’d walk
away from the canvas too
if it spat back and criticized
you.
But perhaps,
in his silence,
he waits,
hoping we’ll learn to
appreciate the
masterpiece.
And after he
suspects we’ve endured
enough punishment, he’ll return
to add an additional layer
of paint.
We call these added colors
miracles, and they renew our
dwindling faith.
Categories:
slack, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
I must have promised to diligently strive
to get up each morning by half past five.
Drink my java, watch the news, keep
things quiet and let her snooze..
Wash up at our bathroom sink but keep
the faucet trickling so she gets a full drink..
Serve her a chicken pate dish, never meat
and seldom fish..
If I'm met with defeat offer a few temptation treats.
Brush my tresses and her hair, bless her with
a St. Anthony prayer..
Once the sun is fully up, let her out to strut her stuff..
When I forget or show some slack, I'm actually snubbed
by my very own cat!
I'll be sticking with this cat's agenda, heaven forbid I
might offend her..
Categories:
slack, appreciation, cat,
Form: Light Verse
Jack loves to recline on his back
Especially when he's in the sack
He says to his bride
D’ya fancy a ride
She exclaims, your todger’s too slack!
Jack wanted to give her a thrill
So swallows a little blue pill
It works, way hey hey
They’re bonking all day
He’s happy and satisfies Jill
1/18/20
Categories:
slack, humorous,
Form: Limerick
“Stop pushing so hard”
“I can't take the pressure”
I heard someone say
just the other day
“I really feel that
I should do this...
but I'm pulled the other way”
As if we are caught
in a web of our making
all tangled up
in each others strings
Twisted and manipulated
into certain duties
when our efforts
would be better spent
on more important things
Judging, demanding
not understanding
we all have struggles
we don't always share
And sometimes-
just sometimes
we need understanding
a fragment of empathy
compassion or care
So lean back, stop pushing
stop pulling those strings
and exercise some feeling
and kindness it brings
Cut each other slack
and loosen the tension
for we are all struggling
to just keep our heads
Yes, gently throw down
a few extra life-lines
for we are all hanging
by various threads
Categories:
slack, encouraging, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
One cent, two cents,
Nickel and dime
Two bits, four bits,
A dollar this time.
Ship me a grasshopper
Do me a crime
Fly like a whippoorwill
O'er Anaheim.
Categories:
slack, bird, flying, fun, money,
Form: Rhyme
I am so sick of all the negativity
Moaning is their best activity
I am so tiered of all the sad faces
Its like they lost all their races
Anger everywhere, no piece at all
Ten, one, one, I have to make that emergency call
When I look all around me
Destruction is all that I see
They are wondering around soulless
They are acting out, being heartless
Existing but they are not alive
In their current state they wont survive
Hey you, what's wrong with ya'all
Time to wake up and play that ball
Forgive amd forget
Have no regret
Start living your life
Stop stabbing the knife
Get piece in your mind
Start by acting kind
Your life will improve
You know its the right move
All those grudges, just let it go
Let the better you grow
Happiness is something you make
But not something you can take
Let the sun come back
Get your life back on track
Categories:
slack, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Out you GO!
And don't COME BACK
For last I CHECK, you was talking SMACK.
And you were probably smoking CRACK
and because of that, I don't want you BACK.
And nor do I have to have your BACK.
And so, my dear, looks like you are on your own.
And why is that? for I am not HOLDING BACK.
And nor do am I going to cut you some SLACK.
For everything I do; also say, goes BACK to you
and also, of how you ACT; also do.
And so, my dear, I hope you got THAT JACK?
Because all what I said to you is based on FACTS.
Categories:
slack, abuse, betrayal, bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
SLACK TIDE
moon draws
back slack
high lows
collide
new address
to compress
I digress…
seas glide
as shores
abide
waves hide
then
subside
unpack
draw back
stress-smack
hide-crack
I assess
undress
and
digest
cast aside
this
great divide
worldwide
deep
inside
© Kim van Breda—17 August 2015
Categories:
slack, metaphor, sea,
Form: Imagism
Wouldn't you know it
don't tell me you don't ever
feel this way
after lunch, particularly
on Sundays
I find motivation lacking
just want to veg out
even have a sleep
but usually the phone rings
just when you're in
that limbo state
where the mind lets go
and the daydream ideas flow
good and odd inspiration
for poems
off the wall
the doorbell
jolts you
back to reality
ahm
where was I
or where am I
oh yeah
this is my
Sunday Slack Attack.
Categories:
slack, fantasy, freedom, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Do you know the guy
who works his rear
right out of his jeans??
Then I have a tale for you:
This is my town---na -na--na---na!
Crack Police on the scene
{Ordinace --crack slack}
In pursuit perp.,
with K-9 crack sniffer,
Jack Rabbit Russell.
Tracking exposed crack
via baggy butt or belly
by apple strudell overload!
Also can be rendered
crack slack via no thought shopping!
Sentenced to one week in the crack house!
Gives crack patrol
a whole new meaning
***Watch out in your small towns!! There are new ordinances forbidding baggy pants
or skirts below the natural waist---HELLO PEOPLE!! Where will the madness end??
What next --fine mothers for breast feeding in public?? The working dad with a little
moon shine?? Absurd!! ABSURD I SAY!!
If your girls or boys fall out of those baggy pants---I WILL LAUGH MY GUTS OUT ALL
OVER 'EM!!
Thanks to my hubby and son for a little poetic humor advice!
Categories:
slack, funny, philosophy
Form: List
What kind of erroneous stink drifts so heavily in this 5X5 home
We have constructed with mud and sticks
I sleep with feet piercing through the front/back door
The cicadas are nesting between my toes up to my nose
The morning has slung its unnecessary burdens upon the scion tendrils
Shooting from earth cracks in the garden
For those with phloem, it is certainly time to address photosynthesis
Take it or leave it
Like it or not
My hands are coated with the dreams of someone else's ghetto parking-lot perfume
I rub weeds on them over the place mat/front porch
In attempt to remove the added waft
So singing to the little birdies that shat on my car long before my departure
From vertical to horizontal
Kinda makes me feel a little more like bathing in the estuary
Once again
Categories:
slack, life, people,
Form: Free verse
It comes around again, and again,
it hits high and it hits low,
a steady run,
and then it comes around again,
and again,
it sets your toe to tapping,
and then your leg,
your whole body,
and then it comes around again
and again.
You can stay there sitting, analyzing
like some stupid mainland haole,
and then it comes around again,
and again,
and your reserve starts to go
along with the rest
of your body,
and it comes around again
and again,
it hits the highs and the lows,
it makes a run,
and the tears start to flow,
and you know,
that where ever you go,
when it comes around again
and again,
you wish you had never left,
never left.
Categories:
slack, sad,
Form: Blank verse
forgive me lord for not being there
forgive me for not taking the initiative to care
please fill the gap between us two
i want to really, really know you
i've separated myself with substitutes of you
it's just me and you and the two of us can make it through
heart to heart you know i love you
now it's time to do what you've called me to do
wasting no time and settling for no less than the best
i'm so hungry for the manifestation that i'm taking no rest
every time i think about your plans both known and unknown
my heart sings and eyes twinkle
i must continually remind miyself of the goal
never to stop or look back
'cause we're taking up no slack
Categories:
slack, time, me, heart, time,
Form: I do not know?