Yanking Poems

Turning it on

...Isn't it transparent
how the water always looks the same
- life is wet!

Still, the tap (US faucet) gets stuck at times
tight, stiff, trapped
a spanner (US wrench) may be required
for the loos...

Traction Stornello

...Now I have been forced into this position,
I hate having to change my plan of action.
Left to start this ball rolling to gain traction. 

This demeanor so commonly full of poise,
I detest the us...

Haunted Cemetery

...

The other woman I was not the other worldly one I was 
with sexy strut she came she did this is what I ghastly did 
with a ghoulish voice I spooked and thwarted no applause 
no I never did for...

Redeem

...Waves shimmering in the sun's ever glow. Toes buried in sand, searching for an answer within shells and broken glass. Digging her fingers into the earth. Twisting, pulling, yanking, screaming. She ri...

Maybe

...Making him your one and only
After his unfilled promises.
Yanking out those treasures of love
Brought out from closet cornices,
Even though he's your turtle dove....

Please don't be late for the world's greatest escape conclusion

..." O I had a dream just late last night, when all the clouds were darkened
and they did not give forth their light.  When suddenly the sky split into
two different parts and a bright cross appeared ...

Yes

...YES

Yesterdays remembered
You know the feeling well
Yanking on the bell rope
Youth giving way to age
Yoked to the passing years
Yearning for how it was
Yet now, maturity...

Natural Soporific Narcotic

...Natural soporific narcotic

Recurrent suicidal thoughts 
vaingloriously wend along winding road
within windmills of my mind
(o'er a death cab for cutie weeknd)
yakking, yanking, and yawking zea...

Politesse Pleases Me

...Politesse pleases me...
thank you very much
for letting me clutch
your attention courtesy
sharing following thoughts
thru reading my poem analogous 
to invisible electronic, 
fantastic, kineti...

Feelings For My Father

..."Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older
they judge them; sometimes they forgive them." Quote by Oscar Wilde

When I was young, I know I loved my dad.
Mom says I even pulled a ...

Lord God, You Are My Master Teacher

...May 13 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 20-22

Key Verse – Job 21:22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE...

Nicky's Knickers

...Her knickers are frilly and red,
she wears 'em except in her bed,
she's known in the town
for yanking 'em down,
and whirling 'em high overhead!

written 12th May for Tania's limerick contest...

When Vitamin and Medication Bottles Became Plaything of the Missus

...When vitamin and medication bottles became plaything of the missus

Mental health of yours truly
heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitor named fluoxetine (Prozac)
aside f...

An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a Misanthrope

...An image of the netherworld envisioned by a misanthrope

Mein kampf fraught re: 
emotionally/psychologically challenged 
impossible mission to cope
compared to classmates, I felt like a dope
an...

Getting a Hair Cut

...As a small boy
the barber would sit me
on a wooden bench
placed across the armrests
of his chair. 
Mirrors in front and behind
imprisoned countless copies
of me stretched out 
as far as I cou...

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