To Wit, To Woo
There's a lot to be said
for silence
but you won't hear it from me
I'm satisfied tongue-tied
as the less said the more I see
and even if the point is moot
'tis a wise owl
who don't give a hoot
YY UR YY UB IC UR YY 4 ME
(Too wise you are too
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Categories:
tongue tied, bird, fun, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Tongue Tied
For the winter carnival bundled up,
frozen breath adds to anticipation;
Steaming cappuccino filling my cup,
the vertex of this warm celebration;
Eliminate the need to be grown-up,
tonight enjoy a childhood fixation;
Indulge yourself in a ferris wheel ride,
an event leaving you all but tongue-tied.
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Categories:
tongue tied, celebration, emotions, feelings, winter,
Form: Ottava rima
Tongue-Tied Dispatches
In the realm of self-interest, a curious soul,
Could not adhere stamps, sans wit owning a role.
His tongue, like a rover in arid terrain,
Lingered on whimsy, a scoffing refrain.
Precision eluded, in blindfolded dance,
Tongue franking an effort, missing each chance.
The stamp, a library of lore unbespoke,
His tongue still meandered, lost in each stroke.
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Categories:
tongue tied, fun, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Tongue Tied
Whenever my speech simply stalls
meet one of my biggest downfalls;
They have been built high by curveballs;
Forgive my walls, forgive my walls;
It’s so hard for me to confide,
I know that there’s nothing to hide;
It may leave me on the outside
a bit tongue tied, a bit tongue tied.
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Categories:
tongue tied, emotions, feelings,
Form: Monorhyme
Love From a Tongue Tied Lover
You lie besides me deep in sleep.
Moonlight beams light up your face.
I stare at the dark contours of your face,
your lips slightly apart, breathing softly in sleep.
I whisper in your ear, softly, kindly, sweetly:
I love you dear, you know not how much.
You stir, you sigh, and softly say:
repeat again what you've just said.
What can
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Categories:
tongue tied, love,
Form: Free verse
Tongue Tied By Spring's Splendid Scene
Sultry scents saturate spring's splendid scene,
forsythia mists, flavored freshness careen.
Lover's lilac blooms boom youthful as green.
Lattice lace drapery veils Anne the Queen.
Hyacinth's honey sweetness sifts so serene.
Sky's cyan ceiling is swept and polished clean.
Wire fence winding ivy privacy screen
opens to garden secrets once unseen.
Expansive as a planted magic bean,
grandiose garden greenery grows to glean.
3-18-2021
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Categories:
tongue tied, beautiful, creation, earth, flower,
Form: Monorhyme
Blank Greetings Card
I have things I want to say,
But lined up in my mind
Are a hopeless football team of words,
Who’ve arrived all anyhow, the fools,
Hung over, bootlaces undone,
With no real idea or notion of the rules
Confusing one another, indifferent,
Just fools, willing to give up the game,
My good words with good intentions,
Facing the empty field, the open
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Categories:
tongue tied, birthday, christmas, easter, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Tongue Tied With a Tiki
Tongue Tied with A Tiki
What I did was to take off my tiny tiki,
And what is left on body was my bikini,
Told by tone,
A party thrown
On an island where men are a Meany.
Jim Horn
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Categories:
tongue tied, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Tongue Tied
So I wanted to say
Something nice
To brighten your day
But my tongue
Got tied from
Your beauty
And all I could say
was hello
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Categories:
tongue tied, america,
Form: Free verse
Tongue-Tied Mumbling
tongue-tied mumbling
of an anxious mind
unable to think clearly
unable to speak freely
nervousness overtook
the mind creating varying degrees of
inconsistent interpretations that
clouded my better judgment
causing many indecisive decisions to be made
creating many a foot in month statement to be uttered
this became the way in which i interacted
with you
could not
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Categories:
tongue tied, feelings,
Form: Lyric
Tongue Tied
Tongue Tied
Knots and twists,
Coils upon coils.
What a mess you make of me!
How do you do this magical force
To make me feel so strange
Yet excited: a nauseous excitement:
Reveling in utter bliss.
I want to bask in your emanating presents.
If you give me anymore butterflies,
They’ll escape with a frenzy of giddiness.
Keep making my heart skip a beat—
Just give
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Categories:
tongue tied, anxiety, cute love, devotion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Tongue Tied Forms
Haiku do to you!
Senryu come over today?
Wear Kimo and Lay?
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Categories:
tongue tied, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Tongue Tied
Ping,Pong,Pang;
Zing,Zong,Zane,
Sink, Shank, Shock,
Out Of Mi Mind,
Crazy, but Out Witted,
By A Double turned, trim
Peeling thought,
I can't make sense, Totally
Lost among that,
Bing,bong,Bang;
Thang, cause another
Straight shooter,
gave it away, but
Only shoots mi disasters,
play ground, Cling, clang,
clung, goes the rock,
inside my brain,
Ding,dong,Dang;
I'm gone, and stoned,
out of mi Gored,
but Sex Ready,
Cause you,know
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Categories:
tongue tied, adventure, funny, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
tongue tied, on writing and words,
Form: Haiku
Tongue Tied
I've been working on working this out,
finding ways now
just to open my mouth,
to repair and relay all the words I couldn’t say to you
and make you see that it’s not easy.
Before, I'd ground these teeth down to gum
fighting a battle logic says couldn’t be won
between tongue versus cheek, when it’s best not to speak
'cause nothing
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Categories:
tongue tied, angst, growing up, lost
Form: Dramatic Verse
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