Suspected Poems

A misstep detected
His image affected
PR staff directed
Positive spin injected

The slip-up rejected
An opponent suspected
To torture subjected
The slander corrected

Unanimously, as expected
The President re-elected
Foul play unsuspected
Threat now deflected...Read More

"A smile on her face and a gleam in her eye,"*
I suspected that she was going to lie,
Uncaring dishonesty often occurs
In collaboration with beauty like hers,
So easy for a goddess to stupefy.

So little that she cannot justify,
With many a deliciously...Read More

What do we share and why do we share? Thoughts or actions I mean. They are sometimes very intimate , very embarrassing or they can just be an outlet for a confession to the right ear. In my world, I...Read More

Today I hoped to achieve something great,
Something many would consider a heroic trait,
Giving plasma to those in need,
With the hope that the doctor's treatments would succeed.

Taking me back after a two hour wait,
I realized there were some things which they...Read More

She had the utmost prettiest of pretty things
Ruby bracelets, broaches of garnets, diamond rings
Some looked up to her because of her fancy clothes.
Who these thinkers were providence only knows.
I waited for her to make her move, not yet impressed.
She was...Read More

...To prove his point he even opened his shirt,
laid bare his sternum so our blades could stab,
but we were all frozen by what we’d heard,
the worlds just sounded so utterly mad.

He believed he was possessed by Genghis Khan?
And that the...Read More

Your smile has faded
And your eyes no longer see
The things that you loved
And what attracted you to me

I see only now
Your disappointment and hurt
And your adoring voice
Is now angry and curt

It is now as I’ve suspected
The beginning of the end
No...Read More

Pain

Trying to check my email today
I sit at my computer when I
Suddenly feel shards and rays
Up from my feet sharply pry

I rush for my pills to stop the awash
Of pain that I had not expected
It came on so fast that...Read More

“I-I-I’ll have a blue Christmas without you”*
I sang mournfully, for I’d never been so blue!
I was lost, wandering the streets, and moaning.
Then a kindly villager heard my groaning.
I suspected he didn’t like my singing.
So what! The relief I sought he...Read More

Solomon’s secretive solemn sassy sensuous servants and songbirds
Solicited serious Somalian solutions simultaneously with South African,
Southeast Asian, South Dakota, and South America.  Squiffy, squirmy
Spiny specialized swordfish sent spiraling soon soared with sticky, 
Silly starfish wearing stiletto heels.  Surfboarders supposedly...Read More

A mob gathered in a flash
Chanting God's name
They lynched one dead
Suspected of eating beef

A mob gathered in a flash
Swinging in bigoted fervor 
They hung two by a tree.
Accused of smuggling cows

A mob gathered in a flash
Swords flashing in hands
They slashed...Read More

Last night I had a most disturbing dream,
One which had an insidious theme.
I still felt its presence when I awoke,
Feeling once more an odd lack of esteem.

I dreamed I was lying beside a stream,
Watching women of beauty supreme,
Their long hair...Read More

Mysterious masks.
Motives suspected.
Whispered invitation.
Dance confirms intentions.
Low hanging Venetian fog
floats through narrow streets.
Distant music from St Marks Square
drifts to rooms above.
Feelings unmasked.
Gondolas rock softly....Read More

Relationships are hard,
As soon as you think you can trust someone they remind you to keep up your guard,
Therefore you should always remember in this game of life to NEVER show your cards.

Relationships are scary,
You never know what secrets will...Read More

The blast of his words unexpected.
The spoil underneath t’was suspected.
“I can’t ring the bell.
I’m buried in hell.”
The bones of the tape were projected.

10/17/2019

A NEW Halloween Inspired Limerick Poetry Contest
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Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
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III.
“We do not know how we missed them,”
he said, his voice becoming said.
“Hundreds of them, some big, some small...
the heavens all seemed to go mad.

“Some struck hard into the oceans,
and tsunamis scoured the coasts,
the ones hitting land threw up dust,
and...Read More

H-E-L-P!!!     N-e-e-d     s-o-m-e      b-o-d-y!!!...
Spouse booby trapped husband!!!

Homicide courtesy munch
house zen by proxy
immediately suspected hunch
police, K9 corps, and ambulance
nearly lost their lunch crossing over divide

yellow crime tape
cordoned off...Read More

No lentil beans before bedtime unless...
(alternately titled: unrelenting flatulence)

Ya wanna count bajillion sheep,
but tween gluteus maximus powerful
natural gas explosions during sleep
(ass suspected source) – courtesy missus
she served me lentil beans piled outsize heap

sinister been off fish shunt ploy
spouse I may...Read More

There I was in the early 70's, a college student and counselor
At a Billy Graham Crusade in Chicago. I was a part of an altar team during
Altar assignments. After completing the altar work, it dawned on me that just
A few...Read More

Making my way through the Dollar General hoping to get an economy pack of Thank You cards to send out to all the people who had just given me expensive gifts  

(Not really; I was there for cheap cosmetics),...Read More

I must say that it was a very mild and doubtful assumption because I could not understand how and why a spider would allow himself to become trapped in his own web.  That is why I was compelled to...Read More

“I think I’ll go out,” the husband said.
The wife let it slide for about a half hour.
Then she asked, “Where are you going?”
There was no reply, so she walked into the living room.
Immediately knowing. 

He had sneaked out, being careful...Read More

Eleanor looked down at St. Peter’s and smiled.
“More visitors today,” she reported.
Her angel mentor smiled.

A scullery maid in life, 
Dead at the age of forty-four,
Eleanor had never suspected she would become famous

Best day of my spirit life 
When those two...Read More

When Cultures Collide

Where the river ends
And ocean begins;
Cultures collide
And history’s tide,
Erases a way of life
For the indigenous people.

St. Lawrence Iroquoians
Welcomed the French,
To the shores of ‘Kanata’
At Stadacona;
With ceremonial greeting,
Exchanging gifts and ideas.

But only riches of the land
Are considered worthy:
Natural habitat...Read More

she pips in fear for lateness like her peers,

hauteur cloaked with reticence,

her-boo-boo-vague, though walled around and palpable

official Narcissist disguised in rude affronts

Bravado of naughtiness in candour yet tacit

 

“Free me to free me”, rants in melancholy

as  ignorance upsets sorts...Read More