Painting with eight tentacles is Sloth
With seven paint brushes in his arms
And one tentacle holding a fix it cloth
Painting away his sadness, doing no harm.
What has happened to octopus one asks?
Why does he need to concentrate on a painting task?
His family has disappeared, and he is terribly sad.
This was told to us by his father, mother, brother and dad.
Categories:
tentacles, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Rhyme
He is out to spread his tentacles
In the face, of combative obstacles,
And dying to end through a tackle
Any unacceptable spectacle
Between The Rickety and The Ramshackle:
Busy roads he’d started their channels,
Hateful robbers sealing off their tunnels,
Corrupt judges replacing with panels,
Supported subsidy showing with funnels,
Filling stations without towels obliging flannels
Bottled water for user of runnels
His love for dogs at their kennels...
Determinedly spreading his tentacles,
All the wrongly jailed breaking their shackles!
Categories:
tentacles, care, change, courage, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
From Moscow to Kiev
It is not too far.
Putin wants to be
The new Russian Czar.
The Russian ballet
In Moscow's Bolshoi
Became a death dance
In Putin's war convoy.
Sanctions are sweet bullets
Never punish bad behavior
Always hurt innocent people
Never believe any nation's saviour.
Tolstoy, Gorki and Dostoewsky
Great works they wrote.
Putin's future biography
An odious bloody note.
Categories:
tentacles, anger,
Form: Quatern
There once was a gal named Sue
So ugly she belonged in a zoo
Had extra long tentacles
That apparently were edible
When added to your homemade stew
Categories:
tentacles, silly,
Form: Limerick
There are realistic limits to my vision,
but not to emotional vistas I see
that tighten my heart with tension.
I desire horizon limitations of safety
to aid my hope, peeking tentatively.
Pics of us in random sequences
flood my mind with snapshots,
drowning pragmatic frequencies.
Still, reality vibes screech love rot,
demand I gulp heartbreak’s knot.
Souvenirs of love flash soft tentacles
clutching my own dreams as lure
to hook my need on insanity miracles.
Curse my weakness leaning on false cure.
Damn my hollowed out will to endure.
... CayCay
February 2, 2018
Categories:
tentacles, heartbroken, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
There once was a gal named Sue
So ugly she belonged in a zoo
Had extra long tentacles
That apparently were edible
When added to your homemade stew
© Jack Ellison 20015
Categories:
tentacles, silly,
Form: Limerick
Tentacles Of My Heart
Sweet tentacles of my heart
When will you send your best?
Where will you begin to start.
Your memories sear my mind,
Never could you yield
treasures false in light
Or hope impossible to find.
Feelings set in high praise,
love deep in its birth
touch forever to keep
gifts with eternal worth.
Robert J. Lindley , 10-11-2014
Note: rewrite of a much longer poem
I wrote as a young man..
A heart once searched for its place
got lost in life's race,
Found another sweet destination,
from hope's greatest inspiration.
Categories:
tentacles, appreciation, blessing, change, desire,
Form: Rhyme