A poetry contest! With multiple prompts
Now here’s our big chance to shine
What new delights will our poets write?
I wonder, will they outrank mine?
Themes include: letters, fast food,
coming home, shelter, sleepless nights
crumbling, curiosity, power outages too
So much potential! So much we could write!
I’m filled with -curiosity-
about what splendid new poems this’ll birth
I’ll submit mine, with a wink and a rhyme
and a cheeky hope it might come first
A smile and a wink
a wink and a smile
Does the wink infuse
the smile with guile
Or is it augmentic ~
to a smile sincerely authentic
One day I'm in the Post Office the sales lady comments "your hands are rather large"
So I respond for my height I also have big feet
Ooh !! She replies we'd better not go there
You really should try to be much more discreet
I really am quite puzzled
If there's some misdemeanour I'm sure that I am innocent
I describe the conversation to my dear beloved wife, she is much more up to date than me
and thus she tells what the postal mistress meant
It refers specifically to the dimension of your manhood
Hell! Now I'm feeling rather silly
You mean it's all to do with dimensions of my willy ???
Wee Willy Wink ran starkers through the town
Upstairs and downstairs he forgot to wear his night gown
The man in the elevator pressed every floor,
Then grinned at us all like he'd settled a score.
"I'm practicing patience," he said with a wink,
"And testing if anyone's close to the brink.”
We stopped at floor two
he hummed a tune,
At three, he tap-danced,
at four, howled at the moon.
By seven, he'd fashioned a hat from his tie,
At nine, he was teaching the buttons to fly.
When finally we reached the twenty-third floor,
He bowed like a maestro and waltzed out the door,
Leaving us stunned in that small metal room
Wondering if we were the ones to assume.
did that bunny just wink at me?
her husband rolled his eyes at Lee
She was always imagining crap like this
Just then he heard a gentle hiss
A Kansas rat snake showed him a tongue cup
It made the hair on his neck stand up
the bunny gave him a paw in the air
Did he mention this? No, he did not dare.
.
don’t smile
‘cauze like thuh
tiger
it’s uh
smell tuh me
wooof
i mean
((roarrrr))
,)
If brevity is the soul of wit
levity the key to longevity
be the humour in it
and
tho' we may be one link
in the chain but a blink
in the big picture
the grand scheme of time
here today and gone tomorrow
on the brink I like to think
(whenever I can)
as the world's revolving
I am a wink in the never-ending
ever-unfolding evolving of man
so
as time flies
on a one-way ticket
never to return
I light my candle at both ends
while I have one to burn
Wink
With a wink the cactus on
the front porch influences me to
give/supply rotting fruits to
moths.
I'm writing on your heart with a faint ink,
you have to look so close without a blink
to understand you must really think
and when you do, alas, you must then wink,
how from the milk of love you made me drink
with my glass not making a single cling.
I saw where you were sitting
Was looking through my hair
I doubt that you took notice
But I knew you were there
Short glances given quickly
My eyes locked on your face
I wanted you to watch me
Moving with my bass
I winked one time on purpose
See it? No way you could
But down beneath the surface
I was hoping that you would
What a wink signifies is oft-mysterious
even in jest, ultra-serious
Heralding the existence of mental telepathy
potent bond of intimate weaponry
.
i know only
your allow
and what you said
when i
mine
i remember only
what you allowed
and what i heard
you'll remember
forever
.
when hern chin
lifts
to
an up
down
soon to bid
another farewell, yet,
you've already unearthed
a smidge of sad longing
buried too deep within
to excavate.
as our sizeable distance
kept stretching apart like a rubberband,
first came
your reassuring smile
when you
turned your head
to look at me one last time,
and with that smile -
before slipping out of sight -
a careful aim
directly at the center
of my heart;
just one wink.
ah, so you knew it was
precisely what I needed?
it's torturous
watching you depart;
with a piece of heaven
to cling to...
gently,
gently,
ever so gently,
you pull me back from
the precipice of melancholy.
Written: September 23, 2023
No 1243 New Poem Only Sponsored by: Brian Strand
A Quintain CArPe DIeM
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I've been looking for a lover day after day,
Some are fresh, others are of stellar sway
Horses may be led to river yet not told to drink,
Do not apply if the fresh mare erotically wink,
Alas, she will have him sip or just sink in a blink
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