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Renegades Foreva

Renegades Foreva!

Renegade teenage rage babes 
thinkin’ they all grown, all knowin’ 
when they seedlin’s barely sown
bleedin’ teenage angst with teenage crankst
always rhymin’ and mis-timin’ some poetry-crimin’  
mis-mashin', diss-bashin' 
word-clashin' song 
heard on some half-sappy, sex-happy, 
yap-rap, smack-attack vid 
made by some brotha who’s just anotha 
angry angst-ridden 
wannabe gangsta kid

With a street beat
they be hummin’ or singin’ along
repeatin’ the deceit 
not knowin’ curse verses 
are just plain wrong and mostly maligin’   
while grownups in earshot 
takin’ all them swearshots
wishin’ them words had sweeter rhymin’ 
or that kids be more discreet 
would take their claptrap, 
no-class, crass-crack lyrics 
and just tweet ‘em or mime ‘em

But if ‘dults could go back, meet themselves
when they was punk teens 
fittin’ into pre-shrunk his or her hunk jeans
listenin’, partyin’ to poppin’ rockin’ 
unusual musical junk boy band scenes
and lettin’ out star-struck 
super-charged
groanal hormonal 
no-one-could-understand gland screams    
then they’d be amused ya know, 
might change their views ya know 
cause remind ‘em not so pristine 
when child and ‘dult they was in-between

Kids always lookin’ to find 
who they are and who they be 
imprisoned involuntarily 
in their youthful penitentiary 
no matter what century they be from you see            

So if  thinkin’ rap sucks cause 
it’s just no-class hurls and low-class slurs 
then fire-up that flux capacitor of yours, 
head back to yo’ past and meet yo’ younger him or hers
see your own rebelling mis-teen-stakes 
then rapping notions you might reshape
or rapping judgments remake
or least maybe now tolerate new-age teenage
rapping outbreaks and in-yo-face ear-quakes 
realizin’ that come whateva or wheneva
that all teens now, before an’ where-eva 
will evamore and eva be 
natural renegades foreva! 

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Temporary Inslamity

Temporary InSlamity
                 

Two a.m , still awake, gettin’ leg-shakes 
Gaggin’, burnin’ on my mis-slam-stakes 
Tryin’ to win some judge judy’s hot damn 
Thank-you-ma’am for hosting this con-slam-test 
As I sling slam sludge like hogs in a hookup ham-fest

Just a small-time soul slammin’ junkie motha
Hopin’ this funky slam betta than  at least  one otha!
Didn’t know when I started tho… 
Twenty-five crappy lines could sentence me 
To prison time for petty poetic crimes bro... or should I say brotha….

Cause this fussed-over cussed-over rhymin’ over-doses
Ain’t no Gun and Roses, hell it ain’t even close-es
More like prosetry psychosis 
Induced by late-night deep hypnosis
 Where am I???  maaannnn.. time to be poppin’ some more no-sleep no-dozes

Hope the Judge J. rules summarily
That I suffered temporary in-slam-ity illiterarily 
Or had an unnecessary ca-slam-ity vocabularily 
And no matter which way judge rolls, just so she knows
I didn’t write this slam ma’am… this slam is writing me (very eerily…)

So Judge Judy of poetic tort, appealing to your phoenetic court  
Don’t abort this sham of a slam to the sordid slammer
Order it posted where it can be toasted on glam slam site Instagrammar  
Cause tryin’  me,  fryin’ me over crimey slammism
 Means death of ode age in poetical prison… 

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Love's All I Need

Love’s All I Need!

Winter snows melt away
   Awakens sleeping things   
Mother nature starts to play
    And I too with my swing
    Cause golf comes out in Spring!

Amid ablooming flowers
      At Master’s, golf’s big scene
Did golf for several hours 
      Living out my dreams
      To play Augusta’s greens!

Three stroke lead on seventeen
      Victory now was nigh
When did my chip careen
      Into water ‘twas nearby
      Off a Monarch butterfly!

Short putt to win the match   
     All grew quiet, not a word
But victory, it was snatched
     As startled when I heard
     Loud screeching from a bird!

Golf’s such a cruel cruel game
      I've given up thereof
At tennis taking aim
      Won’t need no blasted club
      And tennis least has love!    

       © 2014 all rights reserved

           written May 10,2014 for
A Spring Day in English Quintain Free Poetry Contest
  using words Spring, green, butterfly, bird and love

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Elusive

ELUSIVE

Puppy love’s kiss when I was thirteen
First time a butterfly fluttered by me

Learned all the cheers of the cheerleading team
When next did the butterfly flutter by me…..

Cause one of those cheerleaders my special she
                   GIMME A B!
for the Butterfly that fluttered by me…  

Went off to college to get my degree
Again did a butterfly flutter by me…

Math degree earned plus matrimony              
Sei bellissima butterfly fluttering by me             

As my children born, each one a beauty
For each did a butterfly flutter by me

Alone once again, yet hopeful I be
by and by that the butterfly flutters by me…

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Written for Butterfly Contest

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January Designs

January Designs 

            resolution time
 last year, waist did not decline             
         this year less I’ll dine    

            resolution time
   last year, love I did not find
      this year she'll be mine

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  for January Two Haiku Contest

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Achooo

ACHOOO!

         tissues, Claritin 
   Spring is in the air again
  ah.. ahh.. ahhh.. achoooo!


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Wedding

WEDDING


     Crowded room    
              Nervous groom  
                        Subtle glance     
                                    Heartbeat’s dance…..  promises



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All In

ALL IN!    
 

     Soul's caress       
               Heart's undress   
                            Bodies melt        
                                      Fate's cards dealt  ...  JACKPOT!!!  


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Vanished

VANISHED  

                                        Where traveled all the rhymers?
                                    On this Earth seems they've dispersed!
                                      Did they leave and travel skyward?
                                        Did their rhyming bubbles burst?

                                           Perhaps they're all still here
                                          But rhyming poetry accursed
                                   As penned words vanish... then reappear
                                          In a parallel rhyme uni-verse!


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