Getting down the chimney, Santa got stuck
Belly got tautened while trying to duck
All over smeared with black soot
His face got dark like his boot
Rescue force came to move him in a truck
Dec.19.2022
~ Placed First~
A Funny Santa Limerick Poetry Contest
Sponsor- Tania Kitchin
Syllable count- 10, 10, 7, 7, 10
Categories:
tautened, celebrity, christmas, dark,
Form: Limerick
My planned conversation with him had to die:
A man wanting to focus on his arrived pie,
For it actively loosening his tie,
His hands washing to disengage some dye…
Then saw I a tautened muscle of a face,
Who didn’t seem he would off race;
Rather, simply keep me at arm’s length
Or his lips seal as I waste verbal strength…
A hopeless, helpless hunger for more information
Continually lengthening a maddening duration.
”So, Russia is stronger than US;
No need now to US send our S O S ?”
A half-hour-old disquieting knowledge
Of Russia’s Weapon of Last Resort,
American teeth attacking and setting on edge
And The Congress just choosing to go to court!
Oh God! US militarily second to Russia…
I just could guess one thing it would usher…
But… But Tiger in most things dwarf A Lion,
And the Biggest Lion rather a Medium Tiger?
Yet Lions not Tigers Linked with God’s Zion
And a Lion sleeps with a Tigress for a Liger?
Categories:
tautened, anxiety, conflict, people, war,
Form: Rhyme
Beauty beoynd infinity
Letters swirl around me
Each letter bears itself me before
like a twisted trondao
The blackened clouds above
shoved by visible wind
sometimes some times
other times smite
Which word to write is right or rite
Those lines i have lost
The gentle scrape of buttered knife on toast
That tautened skin of shoulder as teeth begin to bite
The peach stream dribbled down her perfect chin
Her perfection is my only respite
until our eyes next meat
Categories:
tautened, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Where does this wind blow in from,
where has it been, what has it done?
Vanes it twisted, clothes it flapped.
Fog and smoke palls blown away.
Sails it tautened, eagles soaring supported.
Blow-ins are welcome with hair bedraggled
clothes disheveled, flapped to tatters
For the wind makes being untidy acceptable,
especially when facing upwind right in the face of it.
The wind will drop soon, and die away, begone
leaving the parade to stand easy.
Categories:
tautened, wind,
Form: Free verse