Shopping during the winter trying
to keep my hands warm by placing
them in my pockets but how can
I carry my purse walking down
lake shore drive the horse carriages
stroll by the geese taking a dive
thee old men playing chess
hot chocolate being served yet
my hands are frozen that's when
I noticed a warm pair of faux muffs
with fleece and down insulation why
perfect I thought the cost were a bit
pricey but my hands are totally warm
now winter is quite brutal nothing like
hot chocolate to make you forget about
just how cold outside it really is today
[Jenna recently described Santa’s job spec. I said I fancied
the job… and then Tom killed him. Well I couldn’t take that lying down!]
[[by the way… say ‘chance’ like you’re American, unless you are American,
In which case, say it like you’re you]]
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So Santa is dead or so it is said
Tom C left Soup Creek to ‘put him to bed’
It’s a cold hard truth
That up on the roof
‘You’re taking a dive,’ he angrily said
Mr Red’s vacated his position
I will step up with one precondition
I want gin not brandy
And if I get randy
An elf-ess with no inhibition
What is Cunningham's hidden agenda
Did he hope he would be a contender
He ain’t got a chance
My ass fits the pants
Mr C is a bare faced pretender
But this is a time of goodwill
And warm hearts in spite of the chill
This note that I’ve found
Says free drinks all round
And Tom C is paying the bill
Ukraine's army is battle-ready, battle-tested
The rest of Europe's forces, merely rested
None have fought in many a year
Them fighting Russia moves one to tears
Defending Ukraine is NATO's best bet
with its tough-as-nails army
and the fierce will of its people to survive ~
thinking Poland or France can lick Russia is blarmy
Zelensky's warned you as much, Western leaders
but you've all chosen to be cheerleaders
The blood's on your hands for taking a dive
if nobody in Europe is left alive
I have been thinking about
And in the end started to shout
“This is my private thought!”
My mind wanted and sought
Then caught
Deciding suddenly to halt
Realizing something was at fault
After swimming in the fantasy pool
Visions teasing and cool
A dream filled with images black and white ending in color
Romantic stimulating coupled with a lover
Could I have reached a goal?
Turning nothing into gold
Or was this a pending nightmare
Ready for a scare
Secured having everything
Treated like a theatrical king
Due to the way I sing
Suddenly I wake
Feeling like something went into me like a stake
Reporter reported I was a fake
Retreated to my Momma’s home
Sat there with pie all alone
Not answering texts on the cell phone
This is what I am thinking about
Fame game I needed to get out
So, they ate me alive
Knowing I am just an entertaining Idol taking a dive
Called a honey in the hive
With talent and buzz
World knowing who I was
For a second minute or hour
I was a pop star celebrity with power
SHIVERS UP THE BACK
Taking a dive at an amusement park,
He was taught to notice the arc of sharks.
Stay out of their way,
And don’t try to play.
For a shark’s misdirection’s their earmark.
6/2/2018
Remain Alive and Still Survive
Stock market was stable not taking a dive;
While here in America would remain alive;
Always nurture,
Favorable future;
With hope and dignity continue to survive.
Jim Horn
Sure sounds pretty promising to me.
Now I do hope it is likely to happen.
Jim Horn
I am relieving my anxiety by trying to
maintain a positive attitude while also
encouraging you at the same time. You
can always break in to my poetry at
any time. I have never been a lawyer
at anytime during my life. I will also
put this in my Facebook account.
Life Beyond The Deep.
Way down deep at the bottom of the sea
where life was busy, as busy as could be.
When the earth was sleeping the oceans were alive.
They say night time is the best when taking a dive.
Way down deep amidst the coral reef
there were fish as big as horses with very sharp long teeth.
Then shoals upon shoals, of all shapes and sizes.
Lobsters and crabs and crabs in disguises.
There are sharks big and small always looking for a meal.
Sting-rays, jelly-fish and the electric - eel.
Oysters and star-fish swim along the ocean bed
and in between the seaweed there are fish that like to
hide their head.
And all this goes on while your
in your beds fast asleep
When you think all's well and quiet
there's life beyond the deep.
To see the sun come up.
To see your love show me the way.
To dance and sing from day to day.
To see the waters flow and the leaves turn to gold.
I live.
To watch what's mine turn yours.
To get heartbreak from taking a dive.
I Live.
Each time I raise.
I Live.
To see the nights go by and
to see my time to fly.
Can you just imagine
what I'm feeling?
I Live, I Live
just because He gives me
one more reason to.
I will not die
I will survive
I feel alive
I'm sick of this dive
Tomorrow I'll strive
To feel alive
And escape this dive
Just to survive
Feeling so alive
I shall strive
And I must survive
To play music live
Like bees in a hive
We must fight to survive
And try to stay alive
Not taking a dive
We are alive
There was a soul-searching
after a negative assassination
tearing my past, my future.
Beneath the burden
lies the mountain of bail-outs.
You don’t feel whole
in shadows of countings.
The borders were breached
for lavish darkness
alive under the full moon.
Was it a flight risk in a swan
lake, when you were
taking a dive to pluck the
erupting fire of indictment.
Satish Verma
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