Wrangle Poems

People in the Park

Every age and shape and size,
Dressed in jeans or dresses,
Wearing varied baseball caps
Or showing off their tresses.

Sporting shades or complex tats,
Earrings all a’dangle,
Backpacks, bags of straw or skin,
Kids they need to wrangle.

Speaking tongues I do not know
With accents not quite local,
Conversation mingling with
Some jazzy sounds, sans vocal.

We sit on benches near a band,
The music cool and gentle,
With melodies familiar and
A little sentimental

And watch the people passing by,
The weather adding pleasure
To such a perfect New York day
And one that I will treasure.
Categories: wrangle, people,
Form: Rhyme

MORBID-19

MORBID-19


Gain of function?	*
Fauci says it's fiction **
So without hesitation
I embrace salvation

First shot

Globalist propaganda
What's their agenda?
Trusting the media
I welcome mRNA

Second shot

Side effects appear 
Should I mutineer?
As I wrangle my fear
The next jab I cheer

Third shot

Again they stab my vein
I feel an intense pain
Clots invade my brain
God I invoke but in vain

Fourth shot

Am I being foolish?
Swimming in a Petri dish
My free will I relinquish
One more dose to finish

Fifth shot

Now and forever
I am a cadaver


Notes:
* Gain of function (GOF) is research to make a pathogen x10 to
	x100 times more dangerous than normal.
** Anthony Fauci; infectious disease expert, director of NIAID,
	funded Coronavirus GOF research in Wuhan lab in China.
Categories: wrangle, funny, humor, irony,
Form: Quatrain


Premium MemberBack to the future

Went searching for good enough and discovered it can only come from within myself
So I went back to the future in a DeLorean to try to pinpoint when things began to veer off track so I could alter time to put them back

It took a few trips after realizing I couldn’t quickly flip the script
Started by slowly chipping away to release the image I was trying to portray
Then pivoted to rewiring my circuits to help wrangle my inner circus
The process pivoted me from my head to my heart which granted me a fresh start

But it was only after I made the choice that I was able to hear a new inner voice
It started as a whisper but turned into a roar that I could no longer ignore
To wash over me to say what had been so tough, that I can relax and rest easy now since I am good enough
Categories: wrangle, encouraging, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Prismatic Self

'I think, therefore I am!'
I write to bang and clang,
to play with words, cast spells.

Wrangle and entangle readers,
with thoughts dredged from memories,
resonating, reverberating within selves,
aligned on shelves, waiting to join in.

An audience of thinkers shaken not stirred,
by the clang and jar of poetic,
rhythms, rhymes, images and ideas.

Rendered with razzmatazz and syncopation,
in the written words rendered,
improvised, and concocted in a group session.

On a stage, on a page,
of prismatic selves, 
jamming and jarring,
banging and clanging,
jangling with Mr Joe,
in worn out shoes.

Afraid, 
that no one is listening, or 
that no one,
really, truly, bluesy cares?
Categories: wrangle, creation, poetry,
Form: Free verse

My Mind is Out of Order

my mind is a jumbled-up mess,
it thinks it’s a game of chess,
with pawns in a line,
and knights in a bind,
it’s chaos, but i must confess.

it ponders like cats in the night,
chasing things just out of sight,
with dreams in a chase,
and thoughts all misplaced,
it’s nonsense, but it feels just right.

so if you catch me in a tangle,
as my scattered thoughts wrangle and mangle,
just laugh with delight,
and join in the flight,
where logic and silliness dangle.
Categories: wrangle, me,
Form: Limerick


Premium MemberTen Lines From Ten Poems

The entrance of Spring, seasons well the vibrancy of greens evolving greener.
Age was hers and time was ours,
Love is the verbs blossom as roses scented reserve suite line composes,
Time marks a question measured to wrangle,
Gemmed Ivory and Ebony, host o'er our bejeweled Pearl.
Ships neither sink nor swim in tranquil Springs
Seas calmness...falsely trains expert yachtsmen,
Lost lamb hopes his roll's called up yonder ... as his last words read ...
Words that stem from the heart seldom a mind,
Good hopes and goodwill--righteousness succeeds,

Sanctuary
Carpe Diem With Heart
September Reflections
Diaphanous Dichotomy
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear Parody
Voice of a Silent Crib: New Poetic Form - Tearassonancenet
Walk The Tightrope
Nearer My God to Thee, Be A Cross That Raises Me
Poetry Soup Main Fixings: Words
My Afterthought's My Goal
Categories: wrangle, beautiful, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDiaphanous Dichotomy

A rainbow or counterflow … symmetry,
Time marks a question measured to wrangle,
Quantity taxes or pay quality.

First, the chick or egg, begs the novelty,
Harmony and anarchy vie tango,
A rainbow or counterflow … symmetry.

Highs and lows, trials on trails that Odyssey,
Couples meet ... kneels, and fingers … betrothal,
Quantity taxes or pay quality.

Germane proportionate necessity,
Bidders will empowerment substantial,
A rainbow or counterflow … symmetry.

Blind contends, an object than rivalry,
A contest midst, wins or lose, a gamble,
Quantity taxes or pay quality.

Observant confident, sees victory,
The keenly bid, competitors scramble,
A rainbow or counterflow … symmetry.

Won prize stashed, slips by geniality,
Bewildered notes calm, auctioneer’s gavel,
Quantity taxes or pay quality,
A rainbow or counterflow … symmetry.
Categories: wrangle, celebration, confidence, destiny, dream,
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberSuper Soupers

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Super Soupers wrangle rhymes
 into verses quite sublime
Taming wild-eyed metaphors
 into iambic strophes galore
Lassoing doggy ironies
 with clever lines, entendre ease
Galloping alliterations
 corralled by personifications
Silencing cacophony
 with gentle mooing euphony
Bucking wild imagery
 herded into symmetry
Stampeding loco thin illusions
 bulldogged into chutes of allusions
Bad hoss herds of assonance
 saddled for a dressage dance
Bucking broncos hyperbole
 Juxtaposed by analogy
Anaphoras on loco weed
 settle into quatrain reads
Super Soupers let words rip
 in rodeos of craftmanship.
Categories: wrangle, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberUnshackled Musing

Freedom to think, freedom to give'
Can't pay for Love 
Why do we wrangle and sieve?

From scales, un-shown we'll never learn
Within prisons of opinions
Our sensibiltys so  burn.'

Offerings of idols, some eat it up.?
Oh so many ape and preen!
When will we see? We bought a pup?

Can humanity ever leave this shore?
On-load raise a sail strong and sure.'
Sharing valid resources, good lore; and more.'
Categories: wrangle, appreciation, assonance,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Membercat astrophes

The pre-dawn rang
as cat choirs sang
in waring gangs
sharp and rank
before they sprang
with claw and fang.

Isn’t it an overweening piety
to think that diverse cat societies
would address conflicts more politely
observe more cultural propriety
and politic more peacefully and quietly
than our own species, which behaves violently

Are we not, in part, their masters?
Don’t we war for goals we’re after?
Aren’t some of our leaders practically gangsters?

Does any species author more disasters?
Humans are - frankly - alpha-predator bastards.

If the language of cats, we could unscramble,
and into their feral dialogs we could wrangle,
perhaps we’d see that they’re just following our example.
Categories: wrangle, cat, conflict, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUndone

sneakers twisted over hydro wires
co-joined 
dangling from tied laces
tracks to an unhappy ending

a runner's castoff
erasing the scourge of a race lost?
an overhead tale of something snapped
when expectations erode

forlorn scuffed shoes
undone by some soul
weary of ownership
fused to the wrangle of wind
where secrets shake
heavenward
till summoned back to ground

this unburdened rejection
on a current for altering it
an indifferent toss losing its grip
when laces fray
gnarled by friction
an ending
like depleted affection 
with nothing neatly laced up
Categories: wrangle, environment, imagery, loss, places,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWalking

Walking on eggshells
Tight lipped
Uncertain of every word spoken
Least the tempest
Will be released  

Roaring
Waves splashing
Wind storm blowing
Boat rocking
Turquoise water falling

Aimed for shore
Making no headway
Two feet forward
Three feet back
Capsizing imminent

Apocalyptical 
Which way will it end
Will there be a future
If I wrangle in emotions
And keep a chain on tongue  

Nothing can harm
Wherein there lies
The Holy Spirit
Who my strength
Provides

Always remember
Like in the song of old
Peace, be still
Peace, be still 
Peace, peace be still! 

finis'
Categories: wrangle, abuse,
Form: Free verse

Virtuoso - Crater Wrangle Minichu

On specific night, the moon shows part a story
With sliced light's slant on key rock,
By at odd interests' solarity—

The cold rock fires back
Through lumped scars mixed in as minerals;
From behind, dark side's show, light lack.

Haunted angles
Sun spangled
Rankled

On specific night, the moon shows part a story
Through lumped scars mixed in as minerals,
Rankled.
Categories: wrangle, angst, deep, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme

Be Careful of Skirt and Shirt

in wheel missing cog
Trump had been an under dog
brain like lump on log

never will want here
hope that he does disappear
part of a bum steer

could tell by the thunder
a bus Trump was caught under
one more big blunder

will commit a crime
Trump never has been on time
did write a poor rhyme


Trump had day in court
missed paying his child support
sold all of us short

has been a real pill
when Trump wiil veto bill
head hit window cill

Trump in each essence
never had any pleasance
mangled many pheasants

opponents strangle
many deals Trump will wrangle
things together tangle

Trump did tare his shirt
He has put us on alert
put his hand up skirt
Categories: wrangle, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberOut My Window

children chalk sidewalk bricks
in fresh colors of bravado, pinks, blues, reds
rhythmic brushing
mystic threads merging, 
handled meticulously
 
child pedigree to erase the bland
on splashed bricks, laced up in color
hope that blooms out with jelly-roll laughter
in late summer ripeness
like pieces that fall in chess game slumber 

outside my window
midst the stammering wrangle of life
children kneel 
handle strokes of plump chaulk
like a wash of offerings
for a different world, coming
that lurks 
       in the rattling rain of October
Categories: wrangle, autumn, child, childhood, color,
Form: Free verse

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