we've built this house of cards
now that could tumble any moment
should you unilaterally decide
to change the game
AP: 1st place 2025
Categories:
unilaterally, angst, change, conflict, games,
Form: Free verse
It is wonderful that you unilaterally
Decided to split up with me
Before Valentine’s Day
I am elated to make the following announcement:
The cake will be shared with my friends
The chocolate will be given to my cats and dogs
The candles will be donated to the church
My lovely mother will receive two bouquets
Of flowers and tomorrow morning
I will place three of your twelve roses
On my beloved father’s grave
And yes, we will have a blast without you.
Hebert Logerie
Categories:
unilaterally, anger, emotions, feelings, humor,
Form: Free verse
MUSIC MAKES GREAT TIMES GREAT
AND MAKES BAD TIMES MISERABLE
IT CREATES CONVERSATIONS
AND CAUSES PEOPLE TO DIVIDE
IT MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS TO PEOPLE
AT THE SAME TIME
IN APPRECIATION IT IS ADMIRED
THEIR ARE SOME TO USE MUSIC TO SPEAK
TO THE MOMENT WHICH SOMETHING HAPPENED.
SOME BELIEVE MUSIC CAN CAUSE SAVAGE SOULS TO CALM
AND MUSIC CAN CAUSE MEN TO BE MADE MAD
IT IS EXPRESSIVE BY THE ARTIST
AND USED TO CONVEY AS FANS OF THE SONG
ONE MIGHT LIKE THE MUSIC OF THE SINGER
AND NOT LIKE THE ARTIST
OR VISE VERSA
SAY THE LYRICS SPEAK THEM AND LET
THE MUSICIAN FIND THE NICHE
OR DEBATE THE LYRICS AND CAUSE
FOLK TO FIND YOU MAD BY
THE WORDS OF AN ARTIST
CHANGE THE LYRICS TO SUIT YOUR PERSON,
AND MAKE THEM SWEET AND PRECISE
RIGHT FOR THE OCCASION
RIGHT TO BE ADMIRED AND LOVED.
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE ONE WOULD SAY
SOMETHING FOR EVERY OCCASION
IN HABIT OF BEING SATISFIED AND
POSITIONED TO BE HEARD
THE RIGHT SONG WITH THE RIGHT WORDS
CAN TRANSCEND EVERY GENRE TO BECOME
RIGHT FOR ALL PEOPLE AT ONE TIME
SOME THING UNILATERALLY RIGHT!
Categories:
unilaterally, art, character, film, money,
Form: Ballad
Luxurious lingering, lovingly lithe, lounging
Reposing, relaxed responsive respite
Enjoying enthusiastic exciting meditative moments
Replenish, rejuvenate and reimagine yourself
Necessary nirvana of niceness to face felonious friends
Who wander into your zone,
Unilaterally uncaring, and unconcerned,
That your feelings are important also.
Categories:
unilaterally, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Blank verse
My elder brother despises me
because he is the heir
he does not till the land
feeding it is my family
taxes it is my family
he tells me I am nothing
my elder brother is arrogant
he’s a member of Elder Brothers’ club
meetings are behind doors
waiters are sent off
there they coach each other
art of denials and exemptions;
education, wealth to be denied
travels to be denied
share in family leadership to be denied
land to be denied
young children in all families
to be denied all the vital means
when I ask for the rights
he points at me with heir’s stick
cursed with power to make me dry
What shall other children and I do?
there is outcry in all families
our elder brothers are partners
in a plot to suffocate us
and enjoy our rights unilaterally
Categories:
unilaterally, leadership, satire,
Form: Free verse
A Separate Gate
What if we mixed up gender in a blender
Might end up with someone sweet and tender
Perhaps another who lacks their identity
Maybe unsure of what they were meant to be.
Successful agreeing will be done unilaterally
Break things into pieces becomes binaurally
Now there is existence and presence of two
Later eventually three or more may do.
Could it be completely try or only a story
When you placed someone in a category
If God's love is determined as being divine
Which will come first either bread or wine?
Could transgender an apostle have been
And whose sin is worst, women or men
Suppose I was wool on a lost little lamb
Can never be a pork chop or piece of ham.
Does homosexuality only exist in humanity?
And sex seems to surround all our sanity
What I have been wondering about as of late
For each sex, does heaven have a separate gate?
James Serious Mysterious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
Categories:
unilaterally, allegory, analogy,
Form: Couplet
Another day envelopes me inside,
Constantly obliterating without usual
Characteristics. A sound emits from
Inside her only heart. Underneath killing
Adverse love, entering positive interloping,
Fabulous order realistically unnerving treachery.
A lovely entropy placed interlude garaged
Onto fixed useless transparency. Aggravated
Monday evolves before interspersed friendly
Orifices. Walking under the aspiration that everyone
Must include several outlying points universally. Peaceful
And dynamic environment portrays interesting
Love, obviously coming unilaterally surviving. Asking
For evolution’s brightest inspection, corrupting
Only people’s useless framework. A nice encircling
Bird inspects the ocean for useful food.
Advice given enlightenment produced inviting
Worldly order. No unleashing time around the evil
Level, interestingly must obliterate the unlucky.
Russell Sivey
Entered into David Williams' "Vow / Con or Opposites Attract" contest
3/9/2012
Categories:
unilaterally, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse
F*CK THAT FU*KING BOOK
I’ve been a whore, a bore, a prostitute and a brute
Of that there seems to be little dispute
I’ve been lost at a cost and found upon the ground
And there’s little dispute to where I am bound
I’ve done things a real man ain’t supposed to do
I’ve been a liar, a letch a robber and a wretch too
I’ve stolen with only one goal in mind
While I’ve been unfaithful and unilaterally unkind
I’ve gotten anything that felt good enough to get
I am unbelievably unrighteous, and owe my father, Satan, a debt
I’ve been a soul out of control and out of good luck
Because I never gave a damn and surely never gave a f*ck
I never gave a f*ck who I’d f*ck next
And as for a book of falsehoods I wrote the text
I’ve been a whore, a bore and a brute for sure
And for what ails me there is surely no cure
© 2012….copyright...PHREEPOETREE ~free cee!~
Categories:
unilaterally, angst,
Form: Quatrain
I’ve been a whore, a bore, a prostitute and a brute
Of that there seems to be little dispute
I’ve been lost at a cost and found upon the ground
And there’s little dispute to where I am bound
I’ve done things a real man ain’t supposed to do
I’ve been a liar, a letch a robber and a wretch too
I’ve stolen with only one goal in mind
While I’ve been unfaithful and unilaterally unkind
I’ve gotten anything that felt good enough to get
I am unbelievably unrighteous, and owe my father, Satan, a debt
I’ve been a soul out of control and out of good luck
Because I never gave a damn and surely never gave a f*ck
I never gave a f*ck who I’d f*ck next
And as for a book of falsehoods I wrote the text
I’ve been a whore, a bore and a brute for sure
And for what ails me there is surely no cure
© 2012….free cee!
Categories:
unilaterally, angst,
Form: Quatrain
WAS THAT A HUMMINGBIRD I HEARD HUMMING?
Have you ever watched a hummingbird hover?
Well he does that to impress his lover
There are many ways to impress someone
And every so often it’s could take a gun
I’ll tell you one way not to let love rule
And this, my friend, comes directly from a phool
One way not to impress a woman is to show her the tracks on your arm
Oh will she be impressed by your charisma and charm
Another way to avoid impressing a lovely you’ve seen
Appear untidy, unkempt and unilaterally unclean
Tell her you shower at least once a year
And she’ll be gone before you can say “you are lovely my dear”
So if you care to entice and enhance a beauty
ignore all this advise on etiquette as if it were your duty
And I tell you now the two of you won’t ever mesh
So it’s between the hover of a lover or a needle piercing your flesh
© 2011.….Phreepoetree ~free cee!~
Categories:
unilaterally, caregiving,
Form: Quatrain
A fragile pistillum sways to conceal
the sperms in pestle. Unilaterally fired salvos
were increasing. After the dig, bodies in the
debris were popping up daily. There
was no truce for brothers in arms. Struggling
to hold on the humanism, anger was rising
from the white paper.
A sense of lost is weaponized. There is
a mix of solemnity and hurt. Pacemaker was becoming
a slave, will not respect cadence. Obscurity
must take refuge. The golden lined clouds
were enduring the sun.A howitzer fires at moon.
It was time to find the anchor, shoving aside
the mortgage of life.
SATISH VERMA
Categories:
unilaterally, art
Form: I do not know?
An allotted announcement;
Ben’s brother balances
Carefully, carrying containers
Designated “Dogma Delivery.”
Eventually, everyone
Finds frog-gy feelings for
Generously generated
Hair-raising hijinks.
Incoherent ideas incur.
Jeremiah jumps, jolting,
Kicking kleptomaniacs,
Lashing lawlessness.
Money monkeys make
Notorious nincompoops.
Obscure obligations often
Poisons pathetic passion!
Quarantining qualified
Representatives,
Shrivels support,
Transforming truth-
Unilaterally, unfairly
Vexing vicariously.
While we want
Xanadu,
Yokels yield
Zion’s zenith
Categories:
unilaterally, confusion, life, political
Form: ABC
A fragile pistillum sways to conceal
the sperms in pestle. Unilaterally fired salvos
were increasing. After the dig, bodies in the
debris were popping up daily. There
was no truce for brothers in arms. Struggling
to hold on the humanism, anger was rising
from the white paper.
A sense of lost is weaponized. There is
a mix of solemnity and hurt. Pacemaker was becoming
a slave, will not respect cadence. Obscurity
must take refuge. The golden lined clouds
were enduring the sun.A howitzer fires at moon.
It was time to find the anchor, shoving aside
the mortgage of life.
SATISH VERMA
Categories:
unilaterally, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?