The sneaky, slimy, slithering, squirming snake silently sat shamefully,
Stupendously-stumped.
The seated, sizzling, sneaky, slimy, slithering serpent still stupendously-stumped,
Squirmed slowly searching signaling scents.
With no stopping the squirming, silently-sneaky, slithering, shamefully-stumped serpent searching sign, the snake slithers sizzling surround sound.
Only with punishment, the slithering, slimy, silent, shamefully-stumped serpent stops sin-searching.
Now, be a bumble bee, buzzling big bumble bubbles and not a sneaky, slimy, squirmy, sin-searching, soul-scary, shamefully-stumped surround sound serpent-sizzling, sazzling, skimmed-scaled snake..•
Sunsets
Beyond doubt I’m sure there could never be
Displays as lovely as sunsets to me
Changing kaleidoscopic shades of red
As sun descends to rest his drowsy head.
God’s evening scene at its glorious best
We upon earth are stupendously blessed
Sky is most picturesque at eventide
While world awaits moon and stars energise.
Though at times grey clouds blot out the sunshine
Because it’s raining somewhere and that’s fine
Downpour of rain’s vital for revival
Creatures of earth and mankind’s survival.
So whenever there’s a stunning sunset
The artist with His colourful palette
Paints the sky in the most delightful way
Treasure for pleasure at close of the day.
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24th April 2023
Stupendously, I walk a straight line, a mile high, across the tight rope.
Following my death-defying performance, I shower, slip on the soap.
11/27/2021
YOUR FUNNIEST COUPLET EVER
Sponsor: L Milton Hankins
Everybody owns an office,
Though not already swiveling its chair;
Everybody, custodian of some promise,
To think differently, simply unfair.
The yet-to -be jangling -the keys to -it
Isn't to be dismissed as unfit
Between Mr. Dalton and Lady Eunice,
All repositories of some gift
Before their last breaths have it surface
If not stupendously, more than a bit.
Galacticly heavenly, imagine Jupiter, kryptonite lunar moons
Sliding between celestial blue and dark moody skies
Wherein lived a Dragon who incredibly, loved snow
Fell in love with a fairy, millenniums ago!
Began courting daring Evelyn fairy gorgeous,
She was, declared his love thunderously, universe knew,
Of his eternal love for this immortal being,
Who toyed with snowflakes, flirting, but never ageing.
Stupendously, Translucently, universally, vigilantly, willingly,
Love zoomed towards a forlorn dragon and fairy,
How and where would they find constant snow,
Obvious, teleport to Antarctica did this damsel and beau.
Entering Competition : Alpha Lines Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May
02/08/2021
If I pretend, for just a few minutes,
Everything happened like it says in Genesis
I will tell myself God was not always good
He could, in fact, be sometimes malicious.
A paradisiacal garden our good God plants
With a stupendously enticing but forbidden tree
Laden with fruit his children were not to eat
Lest they die, they were told, as we soon see
But Adam and Eve knew nothing of death
Neither thought of dying's finality,
So, they ate the luscious mouth-watering fig
And death became the fate of humanity.
Does this seem the right thing for God to do?
To tempt his naïve, unassuming creature
Leaving us humans in death's firm grasp
Forever and ever … far into the future?
Fascination is peering into a dazzling diamond shining like chrome
Imagining what the finished product will turn out to be,
In what sort of golden setting the stone will likely find a home
Whether the precious jewel might someday accompany me,
Or be sealed away in a museum under an imposing glass dome.
Such is the fate of many dazzling gemstones discovered in the rough
Fashioned by the skilled cutter into a stupendously stunning piece
Only an oil-rich baron, or reigning royalty, would have enough
Money to buy it.Perhaps, someone who owns an island in Greece?
A fellow like me could not even put up a believable auction bluff.
TWELFTH PLACE WINNER
Poem written on November 24, 2020
for Emile Pinet's Quintain (Sicilian) poetry contest
I am a new you when I drink
Amazingly witty; almost too witty for myself
Charming to the utmost degree
I would ask my friend
But they are gone now
Because they cannot take my magnificence.
I am truly the royal Canadian queen of America
When I drink.
I am the Pharaoh of Egypt’s right hand sergeant at arms.
I am the cat who invented cream.
I am all that and more when I drink.
If you leave how will you understand brilliance?
Man I am witty! Spectacular! All of that plus to bags of chips.
For some reason, when I drink I become the best me
The best of the best of the best of the best me.
Man, I feel powerful right now.
I am truly stupendously awesome!
Sure. Hit me another.
Why do we hate, I often wonder why?
It spreads like a virus, causing our soul to calcify.
Expanding stupendously, as far as your eye can see.
Cornered in time, triggering its inhabitants to plea.
Love thy neighbor, is it really all that hard?
Refrain from following awry masses, stop playing off someone else's card.
It's time we make a change my friends, worldwide.
Start living for each other, instead of choosing a specific side.
Lead by example, constructively engage each day as we all should.
Stop focusing on only bad, and refocus on all that's good.
Expand your mind, try putting yourself in another's shoes.
There are two sides to every fence, each with different views.
There’s nothing finer, in a sense,
Than certain words in present tense.
Words which are incredibly,
Etched on your mind indelibly.
Immaculate, petulant, magnificent, sinew,
Incredulous, superfluous, to name just but a few.
Sacrament, procrastinate, intestate - may seem,
Draconian, Dickensian, obsolete, obscene.
Gratuity, embouchure, gnaw with silent 'g',
Juggernaut, cantankerous, words which I must decree,
Are remarkably, stupendously, fantastically sublime,
And should be used magnanimously, each and every time.
Biblical, whimsical, statistician, brie,
Words which are surprisingly, absolutely free.
Insatiable, perpetuate, onomatopoeia,
Existential, exemplary, words you shouldn’t fear.
Exponential, candid, xylophone or muse,
Malign versus benign - never to confuse.
Reptilian, gazillion, fragility, beguile,
Elucidate, excruciate, go the extra mile.
Psychopath, pedestrian, sesquipedalian,
(That last word I must admit is somewhat alien),
But never doubt, you have some clout, with words that randomly,
Demonstrate, accentuate a sense of liberty.
I can tell by the night
It will soon rain
It's almost here
I can sense it in the air
The rain sprinkles the young dawn
In minutes the rain is gone
I absorb the atmosphere where ever i am
I can tell by the night that the next day
Will be breathtaking
Time wanders through the hour glass we all
Watch the sun wake
I see the horizon with it's colorful crimson bold
With the wind at my back in the lilac fields
Walking with the breeze
see the horizon with it's rosy smile
My.... Isn't it grand
Stupendously smiling at the land
We are aesthetic in our congregation-
promotionally enthusiastic to see the next outing,
our outcroppings stupendously aligned to the demotion of the great race's need for participating eloquence,
Einstinien men and women we are...
Holding key facts at stake for the live's of those who cannot agree with us,
sending the signals,
eluding the cops, and of course...
never forgetting the fallen.
They are speaking wildly,
we have their farce continued,
they are breaking at the rims of the galaxies,
we are just catching them!
So adorn to adorn-
recalculate, and so go home to be born,
extrapolate every digitization before ending the alimony and diving to your depths-
because what's first came next.
Stupendously brilliant beyond compare,
This is how Mr. Right views himself,
Though intellectually disabled beyond repair,
He has fame, fortune, and great health.
When he decided to take up the thespian craft,
Handsome with a chiseled body of course,
But upon the stage, he'd make others laugh,
He would throw things about using brute force.
Alien he was too good humor it would seem,
When someone told a joke he would anger instead,
While everyone else would be laughing with screams,
And though he would deny of having a big head.
He swore he never drank or took drugs of any kind,
Addicted to himself Mr. Right was doing fine.
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Your one hand holds the bowl of golden wine
Your chin and cheek redden in olden desire
In your eyes are shadows of the hillside pine
In your glances exposed dance of fire
Of my wine cup animatedly full to the brim
I am careful not to shed a drop on floor
In our restive eyes sparkles the impatient dream
The Huns and Vandals about to break open the door
In your chest you have stored the frozen ocean
I know I have had the key to the coveted lock
And the charge to set them free in splashing motion
For a while the time pauses in our passion clock
The maddening twirl you send out from the corner of your eye
Is too much for my folded fountain keep its poise
I can see the beautiful breaches in your cloudless sky
And then the awesome surge from both the oceans turquoise
Some miniature tremors of cracked blue time in brain
In consequence gushes of pink flood and the ruinous rain
All boundaries breaking down and nothing and none to help
A fleeting annihilation of the stupendously crushing self
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June 21, 2016
For the contest : That is sexy
Sponsor: Lewis Raynes
speak softly soothe skeptical soldiers.
solicit sages solemn solace sombre soliloqy.
silence sinister speakers speaking
spiritless slogans spiting spightful signs
sift spontaneous sincerity signaling sooth
switch stuborn stupidities superflious supplications
supply superior supplications seeking Soverigns succor
search subtle subversion spreading such syphilis
silently subvert singularly subtle saboters
stimulate stern stewartship, stifle stinginess
spurn squawkers spurious spouting
stymie stylish subdivisions
sing songs signifying single sole solidarity
stupendously swing swift swords
stand strong stoic stern stealth
show splindors spiritual side
send special supremacys silver sight
such suitable sufficent spontanious souls
sow signals sought selflessly since salvation
savor Saviors salutory silence
seek sanctuary since sacrifice
so sacred so sadistic
saith saints suffering sagas
save sordid self searching sealed soul
sence sensation salvation shores
shun satans six six six
smell smoldering sinners smitten
solitify salvation seeing single source
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