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92 · Feb 2021
Perfect Poem?
DENNY R ALLISON Feb 2021
BE YOU,
BE TRUE.
Disclaimer: although I have never seen this in print I can not believe someone has not used it. I came up with this while imagining the perfect poem by my standards. 1. The work must be put in too make it rhyme. 2. Use as few words as possible to get your thoughts out. 3. Connect With your feelings at the time. 4. Try to make it Interesting to those who might give up their time to read it.
89 · Sep 2023
So Long Pirate
DENNY R ALLISON Sep 2023
Jimmy, was the Worlds,
      Great Gimmy.
88 · Mar 2024
Gift?
DENNY R ALLISON Mar 2024
The ability given to humans
      To hold,
Has given comfort, strife,
       and marvels untold.
88 · Oct 2023
Bed Time
DENNY R ALLISON Oct 2023
Now I lay me down too sleep,
   I pray my pills, the pain,
      away will keep.
May I slumber a little before,
   the spouse puts down the book,
     and begins to snore.
May my coverage, hit the spot,
     not to cold, not to hot.
May I make it through the hour of wee,
     without having to get up
        and ***.
May I add to that, the neighbors
        dog doesn't, see a cat.
At my age, any bedtime
        wish list, I make,
          I must add,
             that I, "awake".
88 · Feb 2021
RHYME THYME
DENNY R ALLISON Feb 2021
DO YOU REMEMBER THE FEEL:

THE PULL OF THE FISH AGAINST THE REEL.

GETTING THE RIGHT CARD ON THE LAST NIGHTS DEAL.

THE CLANKING ROLLERCOASTER AS IT CREST THE HILL.

WHEN YOU AWAKE AND REALIZE THE NIGHTMARE NOT REAL.

YOU STEP OFF THE CURB AND HEAR TIRES SQUEAL.

YOU FIRST HEARD OF CHRIST SUFFERING UPON THE HILL.

THE CRUMPLING OF PAPER FOR LACK OF SKILL.
This is an exercise or game I enjoy. I give myself a first line then try coming up with rhyming lines. I'm putting it out here because this morning I encounter a rhyming poem historical quiz I enjoyed. So in my lame attempt to further the popularity of rhyming I would ask You fellow poets to send in a second line. All I asks is that it rhyme with the word "feel". I suggest you write down a few and send the best. Feel free to use the rhyming words I have used. I hope this is enjoyable to some if not I'll leave a last one . " of wasting your time reading this spheal "
88 · Mar 2022
Hard to watch
DENNY R ALLISON Mar 2022
Those who poke the Bear,
    do they realize what, they do there.
In their cruelty, do they even care,
    of the mounting danger, and beware.
Who will get the blame, if claws bare,
    And what responsibility does the watcher share.
87 · Jun 2024
Speech
DENNY R ALLISON Jun 2024
You want to reach? Don't Preach. Teach!
86 · Feb 2021
Sometimes
DENNY R ALLISON Feb 2021
Sometimes from the pen the words must flow,
   and I must simply let them go.
Hoping only that they shine,
   more than the blank paper they left behind.
85 · Oct 2021
OLDER THAN I'VE EVER BEEN
DENNY R ALLISON Oct 2021
As I begin my poem, holding my pen,
I realize when I finish. I'll be older than I've ever been.

Is this really the best way to spend my time.
Trying to connect to another, with my rhyme.

Perhaps the worst thing that I really do,
is stealing the finite time, that belongs to you.

Oh, the  size of my inflated ego.
To do this insult, to someone, I don't even know.

For this I hope you'll forgive my sin.
For now, you're older than you've ever been.
85 · Dec 2023
Examples
DENNY R ALLISON Dec 2023
Those who have, lived the pain,
       Most qualified, to explain.
85 · Jul 2024
Mesdames, Sirs, and Curs
DENNY R ALLISON Jul 2024
More that's said:
       With fewer words.
More likely:
       Remembered,when heard.
84 · May 2022
I LOST
DENNY R ALLISON May 2022
I lost you, in the dark of night.
   You said, something no longer right.
I lost you, in the sunlight of day.
   You said, you couldn't go on this way.
I lost you, truly from the very start.
   You said, I unable to give my heart.
I lost you, realizing now what it cost.
   You said, I would feel the loss.
83 · Aug 2024
Me \ We
DENNY R ALLISON Aug 2024
The thoughts, the composition,
  is all Me,
on the take, of my lifespan
   as I see.
Destined to float alone unseen
   in a digital sea,
unless it finds a connection,
   with a We.
81 · Jun 2024
Memories Begin
DENNY R ALLISON Jun 2024
Loss of a friend,
  a life chapter end.
80 · Sep 2023
Except for This
DENNY R ALLISON Sep 2023
Don't you just
      hate it,
Everything now,
      so complicated.
Inspiration be, a smarter than me, new T.V.
80 · May 2024
Around it Goes
DENNY R ALLISON May 2024
Does anyone else
     know the feel,
of sleep interrupt,
     and words lining up,
for the poetry wheel?
80 · Jul 2024
Democrazy Core 07/13/2024
DENNY R ALLISON Jul 2024
A young man, on a
    building top,
      meets his fate.
Uniting a divided
     nation, in
        their hate.
As agent of a
    failed assassin's
       plot,
or inept shooter, who
    missed, the head
       shot.
"AGAIN"  Prayers and sympathy, to the victims and family,
who's fun, undone, by a gun.
77 · Feb 2022
So it goes, with prose
DENNY R ALLISON Feb 2022
Pen is moving, anxious to start.
   Will it translate what's in the heart?
Ink is now, beginning it's flow.
   Staining the paper, with what comes from the soul.
Lines change into letters, forming the words.
   Will they be the ones, that want to be heard?
Sentences follows sentence, after a time,
    are they conveying, what was held in the mind?
With the final period, laying down the pen.
    Till the need arises, to begin, again.
69 · Jul 2024
P T As
DENNY R ALLISON Jul 2024
Preachers:
  only sow,
    the path,
      they know,
        and how you:
            must go.
Teachers:
   show where
      faiths, and
        knowledge,
          reside,
          and the answer:
               you decide.
67 · Oct 2024
We knew, So few
DENNY R ALLISON Oct 2024
Earth's history of humans,
   spans ages,
Yet individually, we get,
   so few pages.
In this time, so few, we
   get to know.
The rest, just flakes,
    in our blizzard, snow.
67 · Apr 2022
The light of good or evil
DENNY R ALLISON Apr 2022
I hope every Man, Woman, Child, Organization,
       and Government knows.
For better or worse, the light that shines behind it,
        Determines now big, it's shadow grows.
64 · Mar 2024
Being = meaning?
DENNY R ALLISON Mar 2024
Forever the march
   of numbers go.
Endless the universe,
   it seems so.
Finite seems life,
   do we know?
Without sentient beings:
   does it matter though?
61 · Jul 2024
Fond of Dawn
DENNY R ALLISON Jul 2024
Sometimes with my
  little eye I spy.
The glories of a
  morning eastern sky.
58 · Sep 2023
So Crisp and Clear
DENNY R ALLISON Sep 2023
Doctors and lasers, have
    returned to my sight,
A vision of my world,
    so focused and bright.
Oh how, I wish that
    they could find.
Something that worked
     as well, with my mind.
55 · Oct 2024
Heavenly Advice
DENNY R ALLISON Oct 2024
This time of year, I think, what would
   my Grandmother do?
A staunch Republican,
    thru and thru.
We walked her precincts
   together, a long hike,
Proudly, wearing, the buttons,
   "I like Ike."
Yet, Jesus was her strength,
   and guide.
With her former party,  
    would she still, side???
She was known as "MOM" to everyone in my large Family, my moral guide. still today. My Grandfather known only as "POP" never voted.
I asked him once, the difference between, Republicans, and Democrats?
He said the Republicans, took your money and gave it to the Rich, and the Democrats took your money and gave it to the Poor. "But they both took your Money!"
54 · Mar 2024
Why's
DENNY R ALLISON Mar 2024
Genocides,
   Both sides,
     Hostage Prize,
       Tunnel Spies,
         Rocket Skies,
          Towns Demise,
  Hunger Rise,
     Leaders Lies,
      Religions Despise,
       Anger Flies,
         Trade Plies,
          Government
            Tries,
             Reason Dies,
                God Cries.
51 · Jan 1
Good Vibe For "2025"
Well wishes, to all who
   survived, another trip
     around the Sun.
Hope it was filled
    with, health, wealth  
        happiness, and fun!
And it continues, for You,
      and "Yours" in the
          "New One
              Just "Begun".
42 · Jan 3
"Fright"
When "Inspired", he pinned
  His "Poems" to the poetry
    "Site".
Taking  "Much" pleasure,
   when unknown readers
     gave a "Like".
The "Vision" came,
      to him one "Night".
Telling him he,
      Would "Live" till
          He got it "Right".
He, "Still" had the
     " Need" but
          kept it "Lite".
The " Years" went by
    the "Body" experienced
       much "Blight".
Now, desperate he
  "Realized" his
       "Plight".
He was "Cursed"
     when he picked
        up a "Pen"
         and, "Started" to
               "Write".
35 · Dec 2024
Thanks Alot 🎄
DENNY R ALLISON Dec 2024
Heroes, this time of
   Year, not hard
        to Spot.
Ringing a bell, over
     a red ***.
Getting a toy, for
    an unknown, Tot.
Passing out food
   In a parking Lot.
Dipping out a dinner
  filling and Hot.
Supplying a needed
  sleeping Cot.
The heroes, who have
   serving the
         Have- not.
Still, a great Country
    we've, Got!

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