"Forget-me-not are the best parting words said in silence amidst sunset's climbing shadows," ... by The Poet.
My Forget-me-nots my pretties
soon it will be my time to part
this simple life that'll be for not.
I'll idle a bit drifting for awhile
it'll be our dawn to cherish talk
won't be a tempest in a teapot.
For the life I must leave behind
is not only mine but all of you
for my life comes the afterlife.
... I prayed that each of you
be planted in Heaven's garden
there'll be no need of tending
care but merely time for talk.
I'll say words seldom heard,
REMEMBER, life there will be
forever, here is only for dying.
Why? It's rooted to thy name.
(later that evening)
Hi my pretties, my final hour
cometh, I say Good Night to
you here and Good Morning
up there. Forget-Me-Not, a
name our World to Echo ...
Twosome at loggerheads.
Tempers flare now and then!
The referee nowhere...
To be found; good heavens!
Tempest in a teapot.
Trouble in paradise;
The state of their union.
Submitted for...
Pleiades T Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kim Merryman
Syllables checked at www.howmanysyllables.com
Date written: 04/25/2021
The Barbie Doll Flap
By Elton Camp
A group of folks are raising hell
Asking a fat Barbie from Mattel
Should a doll be impossibly thin
Or preferable to have a double chin?
Seems to me that what we’ve got
Is the classic “tempest in a teapot”
A girl won’t be traumatized either way
For it’s just a thing with which to play
A doll as a model she won’t seek
As an ideal for her own physique
Should Mattel make a Barbie fat
There’s little consequence to that
This flap never should begin
Next will it be an enormous Ken?
Shame on those who try to insist
Common sense they have missed
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