Ingrate
...Ingrate by Adejola Joseph
Ingratitude of an ignorant
A daylight robber and abuser of opportunities
An ingrate is a time waster
A simple murderer
He doesn't appreciate
And when he does it is fla...
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Categories:
waster, allusion,
Form: Free verse
My Nature
...Poem writing paper waster. That's my nature.
For some, there is more inside life's closed doors,
but I'll stay a bore in my habitat of poetry....
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Categories:
waster, perspective, poets, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Ultimate Time Waster
...If you are into time wasting,
Sooner or later you will find yourself flicking,
Although in the in the early days of TV there were reasons for stopping,
As there were programs that were quite excit...
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Categories:
waster, addiction, allusion, blue, cancer,
Form: Burlesque
Echoes of the Heart
...Echoes Of The Heart
Did I hear you say you had another busy year and didn’t have time to visit me ….were you too tired….too busy to stop by and say hello as you drove past my house….was the time not...
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Categories:
waster, absence, abuse, addiction, angel,
Form: Free verse
Slowly Dissappearing
...Why is it that people think that they are going to live forever?
When a child is born into this world,
It’s a precious moment,
We are filled with so much happiness and joy,
People say that whe...
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Categories:
waster, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Oh, Mothballs
...Oh, meaty mothballs!
as opposed to mothy meatballs
Alternatively - slobbering sloth-balls!
instead of sloppy moth-calls
Stupid refrigerator!
as opposed to dumb incinerator
A...
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Categories:
waster, new year, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
He Who Loves Here and Now
...History is a loudmouth dunghill hen,
Who so hid hind it were left to cavil,
He who loves here and now’s a happy man.
Past, a flightless bird, primes its wings in vain,
A dodo buried under sn...
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Categories:
waster, happiness, history,
Form: Villanelle
Shallow People
...Pretending and false,
no one knows them at all,
disguising their faults, their views and their thoughts,
using fake personalities in untrue realities,
talking their way to delusion insanity, ...
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Categories:
waster, people,
Form: Rhyme
Resolution To Too Tooth Thou
...Resolution To...Too... Tooth... Thou..
(house sand zero, and own nine)
Wine hot ja... jes... justa bead devout
boo... boos...booze hound 'n
frog git (hic cup) bout...
new yea ears rez: hill lo...
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Categories:
waster, adventure, assonance, character, humorous,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Love
...You can't be seen yet some have seen you,
You are an enormous, influential feeling.
You fear nothing yet you fear hurt. it is said with you world can be conquered, you are a precious gift
You are...
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Categories:
waster, absence, anger, beautiful, best
Form: ABC
Big Issue
...Here once again he pesters me, steps into my world where I’m set
fair, imposed upon by his misfortune, extravagance forced to regret.
He always seems to be around, whichever street or square I w...
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Categories:
waster, abuse, drug, identity, irony,
Form: Rhyme
Oga At the Top
...Oga at the top
Then you open your mouth
Like bullfrog in the muddy pool of your career
In the myopia of your great vision
You vomited manifesto which we in turn swallow
To provide jobs for those...
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Categories:
waster, abuse, betrayal, corruption, hilarious,
Form: Free verse
Going To Sea
...So ya want ta sail, me hearty,
and ya set ta see the world.
Just sign away ya life, Jack,
and stow ya gear forward.
There's room enough in foksel
for the bloomin' likes of you,
we'll put ya rig...
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Categories:
waster, boat,
Form: I do not know?
Tv Rambles
...The couch potato sits as he did long ago
Since video killed the radio star and
Hands that do dishes
The box in the corner
An ever morphing capitalists dream
Long since and now
It peers at us wi...
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Categories:
waster, memory, , memorial,
Form: Light Verse
The Abstract Coin
...Gone forever, the used ones
Never can it be set aside for future use
As food, fuel or money can be
Can it be stored like a pea?
Like a large swift river
Ever flowing forward
Neither can be s...
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Categories:
waster, mother son, time,
Form: Rhyme
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