I close my eyes, a white elephant near,
Sparkling like marble, bringing you here.
On his back, you shine like a star,
A prince so handsome, no one can compare.
In a land where dreams softly fall like snow,
We run through the hills, moving slow.
I’ll touch you like sunbeams, warm and bright,
In the moonlight, you glow more than the night.
No scars on your skin, just a radiant glow,
In your purple shirt, you steal the show.
You’re a destiny to me, but more than that,
A prince of my heart, where love’s at.
Together we’ll dance in this magical place,
With love in our hearts, in a warm embrace.
You deserve the world, my sweetest dream,
Forever together, we’ll make life gleam.
In a land where dreams softly fall like snow,
We run through the hills, moving slow.
I’ll touch you like sunbeams, warm and bright,
In the moonlight, you glow more than the night.
The Super-rich
Wealthy people, rich men
find sitting on a heap of money only
is not fulfilling
Therefore, many wealthy men dabble in
something else, like car racing or dabbling
in gift cards promising a large sum of money
For the "richest man in the world" interest
is political, helping to shape the future
Elon Musk is the person who thinks he has
made the right choices, helping Trump
His adoration for Trump, based on the hero
worship and not about sound politics
He is an ingénue that makes him take side
even when he might be chasing
a white elephant.
Then again, should he succeed, he will get
blood on the tooth and dream big dreams
Since he is not born in the USA, change
the law and become president of the USA
In his mind, he is a wizard, a dreamer
who has had his fantasies come true
Since he tends to be autocratic
behavior might end up in the fascist camp
That is not what I wish on a potentially nice
person, like Elon Musk
Lemon tinted phase
gilded skyline blown
by ethereal fused mist
eager bard imbued
opal dream flotilla
beyond tarnish while
flash point chariots
of gleam-well canvass
astir or astern perforce
taunt a hued vase
porcelain image fest
for stoic earthbound
soul’s cry parched
stoic migrant famish
sapphire plume ray
bounty veridical
pink chalk sketch
granule blush pots
pearl beam spur
to jumpy pilgrim
white elephant garb
drifter’s lull prone
metre of skewed
and barren glib
dull tossed aside
rambles and brambles
from cerebral quartz
grey quirky quill
nose twitch petrichor
glacé smelt rain
lava veined fillip
fervent fetal floe
ignited indigo inkling
as noonday nuanced
glance en dash
away from orange
peel cloud skies
toward spring rush
urban junction fare
as founding cue
for zeitgeist driven
western world eden
The value of books
Late afternoon, the sun has left the terrace and is in the back throwing up dust before reluctantly slinking west and sinking
into the sea beyond the seas.
The townscape is charming red-roofed dwellings among the many trees that are deep green this time of the year.
Near the sea are two big edifices, One has luxury flats on top for the people called the “jet-set” It is where scrawny women live
on lettuce a day and Valium.
Next to that house, a white elephant, a skeletal hotel that
was abandoned when the would-be owner went broke.
In the calm bay two small cargo ships of uncertain age riding
the anchorage waiting for the morning, it baffles me how these old ship makes money, two bags of rice here and a barrel of wine there; perhaps they fish and live healthily
but I do hope they have books, if not the lacuna of empty time must be heavy on the mind.
When I was a seaman, I read hundreds of books to pass the time
some rubbed off so the time became useful, like automatic learning.
Facing mounting pressure to do
What you really don't want to do?
That's easy as pie; holler a firm no!
Saddled with white elephant unasked for?
Say no and quickly return to sender!
The cackling devil tempts you
With enticing bait,
And threatens dire consequences
Should you reject it? Just do. Say hell no!
Beat him at his own diabolical game;
Make him taste his vile medicine
Should he tell you to dance for him.
Yes, it's funny to tell him lies, my chum.
Just tell him..."I'm sorry, I've got two left feet!"
Date written: 09/27/2021
Christmas
parties are great!
This coming Friday is
a fun event for the teachers:
the swapping of strange or amusing gifts -
a White Elephant Gift Exhange.
Also we’ll have potluck -
yummy food for
Christmas.
Dec 9, 2019
By my family I was never wanted
Must've been the mouth,the brain that they hated
Living is such a sin I'd have to die to be celebrated
After all I live with these freaks,so how do I remain unaffected?
Even when I'm there my presence remains uninhabited
See,I've met better people
They dress better,look better,have better
But they're always intimidated
I wonder why cause I'm just out-dated
Everything they have was handed to them on a silver platter
Yet I have to work my way up the ladder
All the words they know are bland
What they read and write is simple
Like simply made for the simpletons
quite simple to read
so these simpletons believe it
simply cause they're simply
Simple
No matter how better
They claim to be
They can never knock down my ability
Cause writing is my capability
And to them writing is an inability
I hold no accountability to how
they react to my personality
I'm also simple-yeah,simply the best
And if you don't wanna burn,you better get used to that reality
I may be a white elephant to my family,
But to you,I'm your own worst enemy
Christmas time.... known as "the season for giving"
Now let me give you a piece of my mind:
Everyone talking about what they want for Christmas
Fancy toys,gadgetry, jewelry and what ever else can fit under the tree.
But let me tell you what I DON'T want for Christmas....
I don't want violence
I don't want war
I don't want famine
I don't want terrorism
I don't want oppression....
But this is all that some will be receiving for Christmas.
Tolerance to inequalty amongst each other has become humanity's
global phenomenon...the human race victimizing it's own kind.
Supposedly having superior cognitive processes.
But no cognition is given to the white elephant called inequality.
So let me bring you up to speed,
regardless of your wealth,race, age,gender or creed.
If you have a superiority complex based on any of the above,
take that useless complex and give it a shove,
then turn to your neighbour and give him some love.
Christmas is here
The family is gathering for the holiday cheer
We should all be excited
Completely delighted
We are all invited
To the bowling alley again this year
For a few good laughs
And lots of good beer
Where nobody naps
With open taps
Little ones doing laps
Music blasting
Lights flashing
Teenagers dashing
Pins smashing
White elephant laughing
One big Christmas celebration
With plenty of family medication
Grandma's feeling the holiday sensation
All of us living these positive vibrations
Hope we all will be there this year
So well done
I believe I can speak for everyone
This holiday event was so much fun
Christmas with family, you have nothing to fear
Always a blast with so much cheer
We should make it a holiday premier
Darrell & Lola have truly spun
This memorable day for everyone
Nothing like sharing a holiday meal
How getting together with friends and family
Really makes your soul feel
Together with loved ones priceless
Be sure to seal
This special holiday deal
That will fulfill
Everyone's Christmas thrill
It is ok to think small if you have a big bucket.
It is ok to think small if you know how to paint a big picture.
It is ok to think small if your horizons are expandable.
It is ok to think small if you can still see the moon.
It is ok to think small if you don't always work alone.
It is ok to think small if strong on multiplication.
It is ok to think big if you see value in small things.
It is ok to think big if you can look down as well as up.
It is ok to think big if you pay small due diligence.
It is ok to think big if your steps are sometimes small.
It is ok to think big if small details are part of your big picture.
It is ok to think big if you can work with fractions.
Thinking small does not a small mind make.
That is achieved by looking at only small screens.
Thinking big does not signal a white elephant.
That is achieved when a small piece of the puzzle is left out.
It is only when small and big learn to shake hands,
That mistakes fail to appear.
Attention all voters
Who love a great scam
The Republican Party
Now welcomes flimflam
Republican healthcare
Fell apart at the seams
Through an absence of facts
And a surplus of dreams
Republican planning
Takes a decade or two
To discover what's missing
Is an average IQ
American healthcare
(Most expensive on earth)
Will not save your life
But destroy your net worth
So enlist in a Party
Where the money rolls in
And believe those in Congress
Can spend it like sin
No pilgrim had healthcare
Play the cards that you've got
For, "I am the President,
and you are naught!
Reality is hard to replace
our white elephant is a disgrace
she parks herself wherever she places
usually taking up needed space
in the old days she would win a race
now she'll barely outrun a turtles pace
kids use to play on her face
on her trunk their hands would trace
upkeep we still embrace
her past is hard to erase
through the hands of time she lies in God's grace
through our hearts we loved our old faithful ace
and now the time has come to part waste
the deed to ole rusty bomber is in the brief case
soon her ashes will be placed in the family vase
when the setting sun covered her tears with lace
as the tow truck took away ... her final breath
... reality is hard to replace
3/18/17
Someone, or Something, Replaceable - Poetry Contest
Would you even know I was in the room though blind to me would you at least reach out touching a part of me what would you feel knowing I will never forget I white elephant on a pedestal or maybe pink you think seeing the elephant the first time 12/9/2016
Almonds encased in hard red candy
Brandy from snow white walnuts
Collateral damage to the left front bumper of the sled
Dietary restrictions on anything considered a spice
Everything more often wins the day
Francesca left her pie though (no one will eat that)
Gluwein, go get it, we need it now
Hysterical colors spin all around me
Illicit behavior may well be tolerated though only after 10pm
Jellybeans are being shoved into orifices now
Knives are being put away for the safety of everyone here (especially Dwayde)
Lathering up all the kid's faces now to resemble tiny maniac Santas
My mother is making tea
No one will drink
Octopussy is playing in the background
Phantasmagoria bread pudding
Quickly tell me who ate all the bread pudding
Round them up and shoot them
Seriously
The only thing I ever eat is the bread pudding and everyone knows it
Unusual cravings now
Vertical with help from the wall
Waiting for someone named Misty to return from her car with her white elephant
Xenon purple body
Yuletide clopping going on inside my head
Zesty reds streak across the insides of my eyelids
Greedy Secondus Satan!
Down with Satan, Demon, hyena, python
Who have much money swallowed?
Whose swollen belles are but bottomless pit?
Must we sink more and more money into the abyss?
Or use the Argus eye to fish what’s amiss?
Bloody Secondus Satan!
Butcher, most bloody Chair Satan
Butchari, most brutal Chair Satan
Our beautiful centre is strangulated
Turned into white elephant jungle
Cannibals, scavengers therefrom overfeed.
Deceptive Secondus Satan!
Why wrap and carry cows round the waist?
How long will last this 419 parasitism?
When will end 4 man romantic egocentrism?
Though, day of reckoning is running fast
Can transparency probe your devious past?
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