Spiteful words spoken can never be unheard.
AP: 1st place 2026
Time can be most unforgiving.
Once wasted you can't get it back.
Living with regrets is wretched.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Ah, the innocence of youth
to recapture it, forsooth
Pursue new kinds of pleasures
~ ditch the gin with vermouth
The spider spins in earnest
To foreshadow some effect.
A solitary sort of fellow...
Deserving of respect.
If a spider's life has purpose
And in Nature... pulls its weight.
Think twice upon the moment...
You raise a shoe in haste
The End
Friend, you are rich here.
But, are you rich there also?
Please, ponder upon.
My Credo is my Slogan
I'm proud to own a blowgun
If you deny me this, my right ~
You might lose your sight
Six of one,
half dozen of the other
Which do you want
my bartering brother?
Make a wise tribal decision,
as to who will be
your soulmate lover
Let not the dowry
color blind your veil vision
One is very, very pretty,
the other is so doubly cute
Is your 20/20 desire
on a splitting Adam/Eve pursuit?
So be spiritually
doppelgänger discrete
This double blessing offer,
I won’t marital repeat
One is very, very pretty,
the other is so doubly cute
Whom would you wish to see
in the nuptial mirror —
Standing next to
your Zulu bridegroom suit?
before you do
or mistake
its never to late
to do whats right
ALWAYS
THINK TWICES
Take a breath just pretend to light a cigarette
Mind your every thought so that you'll not regret
Avoid a tactless comment that might go south
Remember ~ a fly does not enter a closed mouth
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Decision time is up,
a once-over review
prompts déjà vu,
a pause to think twice through.
For thinking once
is merely enough.
Don’t say the words I do, when the real truth is that I like you.
Don’t place your feelings after, you will never get the happiness that really should matter.
Don’t play dumb and not listen to what your conscience is trying to prevent, cause your life can be filled with non other than deep holes and dents.
Don’t worry about people’s happiness instead of your own, pain and sorrow is the condition you will be in as you continuously mourn.
Like fire we rise 'pon the breath of the dawn.
Eager and burning, our futures unclear.
Valiant as the lion, tender as the fawn.
Unpredictable embers with passions so near!
Yet, time is a line we are doomed to traverse.
We find ourselves marching melancholy roads,
flanked by bright crystal and hailed by verse,
still, the end is apparent; see? There it abodes.
At last comes the gloaming, the fire chokes out.
We fed on our ashes until they were gone.
Our bodies are frosted, there can be no doubt:
Rich pathos- our plead can never go on.
Forevermore, then, in our palace of ice.
We will lie, in the darkness, and never think twice.
9 August 2017
Written for "Eight Word Challenge-3" contest, sponsored by John Hamilton
M-any times in one's life
E-very decision is made;
R-esulting in dark choice,
R-ays of the sun then fade.
I-n twenty-fifth November,
A-nother chance you'll take;
M-oment to enjoy or not, be sure to make no mistake.
S-ometimes in our judgment
A-ll is based on our eyes;
R-ight one is not seen
E-ven if we think
T-wice.
We know about our ancestors
Playing monkey tricks are easy
Some may get fun out of those
But, we have evolved afar
Then, why should we go back to jungle?
Hey, Rising Sun! Enlight, the doomed souls
18.05.2017
There was a time in years long past
We thought good taste would always last
Adults were neat in proper dress
Now all has changed, they look a mess.
Shorts cut so high we’re now aghast
Tops cut so low, breasts holding fast
Not much is really left to guess
You best think more, not wear less!
First impressions most always last
It’s too late now, the die is cast
Hoodies, baggy pants don’t impress
That sloppy look won’t bring success
For with your image you’re typecast
Don’t let your future be bypassed!
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