Posted on July 4, 2020 by joem18b
Posted on June 27, 2020 by joem18b
our duty, to save
those in danger.
to be brave,
helping a stranger.
the surging wave
traps a man
in a cave.
we do what we can.
they say we gave
all we could give
and went to the grave
so that he could live.
for Saturday Mix – Rhyme Time
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Posted on June 20, 2020 by joem18b
the human weight on
this worn planet warns us all
not to wait or else
for Saturday Mix
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Posted on June 6, 2020 by joem18b
absent men produce
new species but present men
destroy those species
for Saturday MIx
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Posted on April 4, 2020 by joem18b
received a wire.
the news was dire.
there was a fire,
flames leaping higher,
with help stuck in mire
that clutched every tire,
making us shout why’re
the roads not drier
like they were prior.
nobody to hire
for help to acquire
except one liar,
a bogus friar,
in the past a flyer.
every chicken we own,
now a fryer.
for Saturday Mix – Rhyme Time
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Posted on March 28, 2020 by joem18b
wide the gate i pryed
in the fence of the mete
that kept the lions in their pride
from our cattle to meet
thence to convert life into meat.
for Saturday Mix
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Posted on September 28, 2019 by joem18b
far thunder mutters
uneasy flutters in the trees
i flip my butt, hack
for Saturday Mix Sound Bite
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Posted on September 23, 2019 by joem18b
The tree was pulled down and the birds lamented over its dead body.
But hang on; birds don’t lament.
Maybe a dove sounds like it’s lamenting but it just wants to mate.
Birds hanging around a fallen tree are looking for something to eat.
The thing is like a cafeteria, what with its bugs and fruit and so forth.
You and I might lament a little because that’s what we do.
More likely, though, we’re the ones that pulled it down.
Believe me, if birds lamented fallen trees, they’d be a sad bunch.
If only from all those Christmas tree lots.
for Saturday Mix
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Posted on August 16, 2019 by joem18b
more garbage more crows
please don’t shoot the messenger
it’s our fault not theirs
for Mad About Metaphor
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Posted on March 3, 2018 by joem18b
two men
their tension
freeze melt freeze melt
a billion lives
East and West
hang upon
their whims
For Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie
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