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wordvango Apr 2017
My three daughters and I
Spot, Blue and sweet Timex,
live within the walls
of this Verona like  apartment,
Missy, the Black Lab who played nursemaid
to these three I believe, aided and abetted
sweet Timex's foray.
I, a Capulet, truly love my daughters
but easily fly into rages,
wishing a fair and providing man for them,
not the hell of the Montague clan,
namely bighead. Bighead roams the streets the alleys the back woods
no earnings or propriety,
no means to his unmatted fur,
his wild houls in the night, testament.
The nurse then, on a late night, asked to go out.
I tired, got complacent and out timex flied!
She returned a week later,
not the young kitten, playful,
but a Cat, with hunger in her eyes.
Spot and Blue, still are eager to discover the outsides,
Probably filled in on all that is there,
by Timex. And she no longer plays.
She even meows different now,
seems to meow
O Bighead, wherefore art thou Bighead!
Paul Butters Aug 2017
This is not poetry.
No embracing the wonders of the universe
Or deafening you with rhetoric.
No apple blossom aromas
Or vistas wide and clear.
No Romance or wisdom,
Just a pint of beer.

My small talent for words
Came from Mum and Dad,
And I take no credit for that.
If only I had read more,
Instead of being a brat.

My ego is exploding,
I’m ever the bighead.
Couldn’t care less about my critics
And sleep easy in my bed.

For once I’ve started rhyming,
That’s a change for me.
Prefer to be unshackled,
My verse just running free.

It’s time to hit the pub now.
I’m only here for beer.
But I’ll be back again to type,
Never have a fear.

Paul Butters
From Notes made back in early May. (5\5 in fact). Dedicated to a drinking pal of mine who stubbornly refuses to read any poetry because it is ALL "meaningless gobbledygook words"!!!
Safana  Nov 2021
Demonstrate
Safana Nov 2021
The light is white
And life is a white
But there is a bite
In life there is kite
And also some elite
Hate to play the kite
feeling bighead, spite
They pretended sprite

Beneath have prostrate
As in the sky demonstrate
What will nature filtrate
If there's no commensurate
Or to take wing to propagate
The equality to generate
All genders accumulate
Waiting for oral translate
Merriam Webster
An Encyclopaedic Britannica Company

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wordvango Jan 2017
to all my titos come of age
you speak words I understand
stand at the door wanting out
howl at every moon
need
to recreate
I get that
but I'll be **** you
may pull the blinds down
climb up to the top of the window
look out
at bighead
or whatever feline stud
is out there
arch those backs when I pet you,
it aint happening,
girls
sandra wyllie Nov 2021
a rose
into a vine of thorns
plucking all the petals off
in a bed of scorn

You turned
a snowflake
into an icicle
hanging on the eaves
falling as the leaves
daggers of steely deeds

You turned
a robin’s nest
into scrambled eggs
by breaking all the shells
you said you meant well

You turned
an azure sky
into darkened grey
rolling in the clouds
cutting the sun’s rays

You turned
a bright green grass
into acrid straw
turning a bighead
on all the things you saw
Letitia Adair  Apr 2020
Untitled
Letitia Adair Apr 2020
Before you came into my life I was working on MYSELF. Letting go of the things I didn’t want and working towards what I did want. I thought I had my goals figured out. Boom 💥 I’m hit with the unexpected, another person I grew feelings for over time. It was fresh it was new and it was needed. Fast forward I’m falling in love ( not wanting to) I’m pregnant and my life has drastically changed emotionally . I’m okay with it... but the change happened so fast I am still playing catch up. Apart of my self growth was learning how to listen to understanding and learning how to put my ego aside and lower my temper. I’m very hot headed and I have a way to go. Please understand I’m very smart and I know my actions and how they affect other people. I’m working on it. I just have to learn to make that adjustment in my attitude before words come out versus after. Once I’ve t’d off then I’m like **** maybe I should have done it another way. But while I’m one track minded and I just want to apologize for how I’ve handled situations when we are talking. There’s a better way to get my point accros but what I say is what I mean it’s just a better way to say it. I’m learning YOU specifically everyday. Each day I learn something new and each day I grow to love something new about you. It’s apart of a relationship. As we go on there will be things I don’t like that you do, it’s normal but I will ALWAYS be able to admit when I’ve fallen short or when I’ve messed up. I do not mind apologizing for my doings. Just understand some situations may take longer than others simply due to I like to fully analyze the situation and where I may have gone wrong or where you have and how it should have been it’s just how I am. Don’t think I’m ignoring the situation or too bighead Ed to communicate. I love you I’m happy with who I’m becoming but you met me in transition and so there are still so pieces being rearranged.

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