… Oh Yes…. Your Stinks Too!!!
We all know at least one…
The person who self-aggrandises, intent on making others think, feel, and look less than… while falsely building themselves up to be more than…
They remind me of the story, The Emperor's New Clothes. The king obliviously marched around town and down the street with smug self-assurance. Not only does he believe his clothing is grand, people should fawn all over him… his doesn't stink.
He needs a child, a voice that's heard, to say… “he thinks he's all that and a bag of chips… BUT, his stinks!!!
We all need that child's voice to state the reality around us.
No matter who a person is or does, how much wealth they have, how well-known and famous, how envied…
No one can escape, everybody's stinks!
Sherry Barton
May 10, 2024
Categories:
stinks, humor, hyperbole, integrity,
Form: Other
It's too cold for angels to fly up here,
It's too windy to raise a fire.
Explosion?
I don't know her.
And she doesn't care who or what she destroyed.
Life is just like a shard of frozen gold,
Coveted most when it cracks and ends.
Pardon me for being so bold,
But in the end even beauty here stinks.
Categories:
stinks, age, beauty, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Reading feels like a chore, a heavy weight,
But it sharpens the mind like a blade.
Books cause boredom to take over
But wisdom is a flower that grows.
Pages flip, leaving me wishing I was doing something else.
But my brain is developing more and more.
Though each crinkly, dusty page is taking away my joy,
I know that reading will make me grow old.
Although my excitement is not present for reading,
I know that I will benefit from each black, bold word on the page.
Categories:
stinks, 10th grade, anger, art,
Form: Free verse
Her skill sets though narrow,
are tried and tested,
she has the tools to navigate around
our reality without going belly-up.
Occasionally, we swim together
through the same plastic castles,
both observing
a suitably awkward silence,
for we both understand
that God has long stopped speaking
through the mouths
of those who are supposed to clean
our tank.
The murk now distorts and divides.
Scales fall from our eyes,
yet we dare not speak in bubbles
anymore.
However, the great and unknowable,
still guides us,
though we often wish
we could decipher the meaning of:
"A fish rots from the head down."
Categories:
stinks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Everything stinks, nothing smells, as smell is the province of the nose and stink the invader of such provincial boundaries.
Categories:
stinks, word play, words,
Form: Monoku
There is a reason poetry is scary,
because so many experts will say.
In order to write a poem correctly,
you must do it exactly their way.
If you google ‘how do I write poetry’,
you will end up with a million hits.
Each one of them saying something different,
it’s like picking the corn out of…your teeth.
Categories:
stinks, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
poo, just another
name for what some call 'do do'
that stinks up the loo
Categories:
stinks, humor,
Form: Senryu
When Janice ate fish on the quay,
Next morning her pee smelled fishy,
She said Oh MY God
My pee smells of cod
Fish odour I did not foresee!
05/23/21
Categories:
stinks, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Stinks In Jinx with Kinks
Categories:
stinks, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
This poem stinks
Write, scratch, think, scream
Just blink, thoughts gone
Contest: Any theme Than-Bauk Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Charles Messina
Written: 01-31-2019
Categories:
stinks, funny, writing,
Form: Than-Bauk
I know a fine lady...Nina Parmenter
Whose contest one day...I did enter
I accidentally let out some gas
From the cheeks of my...
Oops, a stinky lim, I now have...to present her
Make me actually LOL Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Nina Parmenter
12-14-2018
Categories:
stinks, humorous,
Form: Limerick
I boldly go where no-one has gone before
I will suffice
I will damage
I will element
I will dangerous
I will suffice
I will damage
Good Luck!
Categories:
stinks, caregiving,
Form: Bio
JESUS IT STINKS IN HERE
I’m telling you, man, church really makes no sense
But that ain’t nothing new
Why do you think they burn incense,
And call a row of seats the “pew” ?
© 2012…copyright PHREEPOETREE…~free cee!~
Categories:
stinks, religion,
Form: Quatrain
When the home team has a five to two lead,
a dependable bullpen is what they need.
In the ninth inning, they want three outs more.
A relief pitcher has to shut the door.
Losing the lead for the team is crappy.
The hometown crowd will leave unhappy.
Such an incident happened the other night.
The events that transpired were a bizarre fright.
The “closer” was expected to deliver from harm.
However, he incurred spasms with his arm.
Unavailable, other pitchers took the mound.
Not one competent pitcher could be found.
The bases became loaded before we knew it.
All the runners scored, and the home team blew it.
The fans were sitting there dumbfounded and staid.
Six runs crossed home plate before the final out was made.
Therefore, the home team lost, and that was history.
Unfortunately this season, it has happened too frequently.
Categories:
stinks, loss, sad, sports, home,
Form: Rhyme
This poem stinks.
It doesn't rhyme
It doesn't do anything
It has a little alliteration
well...
it will have some
because that's the easiest poetic element to incorporate
and if it didn't have any poetic elements
it would not be a poem
but would be prose with
randomly
inserted
carriage returns...
(are carriage returns extinct?)
and that would be dishonest.
This is not a lying poem.
That would be oxymoronic.
It's a stinky poem.
And when I finish writing it
I'm gonna print it out
and tear it up
into little bitty
teensy weensy pieces
(if I have enough patience to get that small)
and flush it down the commode
so it can join all the other
excrementally effluential essences
(note the alliteration)
of all the other stuff that stinks
almost as badly as
this poem.
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was just diggin' through the archives and this one made me giggle and reminded me that I've places to go and people to see and mustn't procrastinate longer because the LAST MINUTE approacheth
Categories:
stinks, on writing and words,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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