The Brown Grizzly Bear is so called,
not for its grizzled hair, grey-tipped
but because it is truly grisly, horrible!
(Ursus arctos horribilis)
This brown bear is gruesome and deplorable.
The amber Pizzly Bear is so called,
not for its swizzle stick.
but because it is a hybrid bear,
a Polar-Grizzly cross,
(Ursus maritimus × Ursus arctos)
The ash-grey Koala Bear is not a bear at all,
though it's nice and teddy-bear cuddly.
(Phascolarctos cinereus)
But the 'arktos' in its genus name, means 'bear'.
Its been wrongly named from the start,
the 'ashy-grey' pouched bear.
So there you have it!
Three bears, caught breaking and entering,
slagging off the language.
Categories:
slagging, nature,
Form: Free verse
It passes
But not in the quite
Of a slagging snail
It does, just not without scars
It sweeps along with our icons
It comes,
Like a hailstorm and cyclone
Burning flames and washing floods
It roars like it has a life
But it passes
Categories:
slagging, anxiety,
Form: ABC
*****
restless sleep... the nightmares..
i shut my eyes some-wheres.
to find myself upstairs...
gasping... gagging...
in a darkroom hidden...
i felt as if chidden...
was I in a midden...
my guilt... bragging...
thinking I was dying...
face wet... i'd been crying...
my eye's felt blank...prying...
voices slagging...
she won't catch us again...
she's no room to complain...
how many cried in-vain...
and her blagging...
kept for to long starving...
bad thoughts they were starting...
but glad to be parting...
picture tagging...
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3/22/18
Picture This - Poetry Contest, sponsored by Joseph May
Categories:
slagging, nature,
Form: I do not know?
Pushing Your Morality
Pushing your morality like a drug.
A street drug without effect.
An addictive placebo.
An open invitation to dine with scum.
A street drug without effect
That you suck through a straw, providing
An open invitation to dine with scum
In some fast food alleyway.
That you suck through a straw providing
In-depth philosophical integration
In some fast food alleyway
With the synapses blinking like neon.
In-depth philosophical integration
Slagging to a child's mental playground
With the synapses blinking like neon...
Off and on, off and on, off and on.
Slagging to a child's mental playground
While the traffic thumps and pounds
Off and on, off and on, off and on.
Like the pain of a debilitating migraine
While the traffic thumps and pounds,
I stand alone with my head hanging low.
Like the pain of a debilitating migraine
I struggle to see the difference between the sky and the earth.
I stand alone with my head hanging low.
An addictive placebo.
I struggle to see the difference between the sky and the earth, as you
Push your morality like a drug.
Robert Denton (November 2014)
Categories:
slagging, depression, poverty, psychological, drug,
Form: Pantoum
Horns blowing; noise
everywhere,
Screeches of brakes,cars
trapped,
Drivers and car owners raining
abuses and slagging each
other off.
The warden waving his hands;
Stood in the middle of the
road,
Religiously performing his
duties.
Workers, traders,
teachers,students, everyone's
hurrying,
Each taking the slip road to
avoid been late.
Categories:
slagging, urban
Form: Free verse