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Oh mindless beings bow low before my superior art For I did have a poetic **** In that rippling tearing noise I detected beauty and artistic poise Because the **** was I and therefore art Who of thee could even start To view the art in a morning **** Thou art lesser beings, an artless mob Whilst I are a poetic god Men bow their heads, doff their caps In the presence of I Oh Oh Oh Art in a **** penned by I Even Shakespeare could not compare with I
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Jun 18, 2014
Jun 18, 2014 at 3:38 AM UTC
Oh Oh I Sense Art In A ****
THEME: INJUSTICE A Duet by: Hassan B. Hassan(Mr Sophy) Opeyemi Fuad (Gemini) ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 An unsung warrior I am One that serve his homeland Now left to wallow in shame Betrayed, with no treacle - To my broken esteem What an injustice!! 👈Gemini👉 We doff our hat to them Rubbing and cleaning it with their hands We attain them the power But they all create new edition No to injustice!!! 👈Mr sophy👉 Preserve the nation's flag Yet, thrown into cell Never to see the sun rise merry-ing with Legless rats An unproved innocence Government's injustice 👈Gemini👉 The baby cry out when put to bed The dog cry out when given birth to But we all cry out when the molecule changed But no reaction took place Why? Let Justice reign! 👈Mr sophy👉 I thumbed down, on the papers Still, my worth doesn't count I served the government With my heart and soul on the platter Staked to uphold their stand But wronged, injustice!! 👈Gemini👉 We put down our lives to save theirs Yet they flow us with their power Oh!what an injustice fox government with fox Power Justice reign!!! 👈Mr sophy👉 Thou did nothing Than bruise our humanity And rub it on our fresh wound, With pepper of your injustice Oh, an insolence!! Despite our sacred deeds 👈Gemini👉 Indigent we are today richer we are tomorrow They are to keep the flag flying Yet they make the flag vapid No to injustice! No to fox government Justice we want!! 👈Mr sophy👉 ©Pen of a true Gemini ™ ©Mr Sophy ™
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Jun 19, 2020
Jun 19, 2020 at 4:38 PM UTC
A Duet
THEME: INJUSTICE A Duet by: Hassan B. Hassan(Mr Sophy) Opeyemi Fuad (Gemini) ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 An unsung warrior I am One that serve his homeland Now left to wallow in shame Betrayed, with no treacle - To my broken esteem What an injustice!! 👈Gemini👉 We doff our hat to them Rubbing and cleaning it with their hands We attain them the power But they all create new edition No to injustice!!! 👈Mr sophy👉 Preserve the nation's flag Yet, thrown into cell Never to see the sun rise merry-ing with Legless rats An unproved innocence Government's injustice 👈Gemini👉 The baby cry out when put to bed The dog cry out when given birth to But we all cry out when the molecule changed But no reaction took place Why? Let Justice reign! 👈Mr sophy👉 I thumbed down, on the papers Still, my worth doesn't count I served the government With my heart and soul on the platter Staked to uphold their stand But wronged, injustice!! 👈Gemini👉 We put down our lives to save theirs Yet they flow us with their power Oh!what an injustice fox government with fox Power Justice reign!!! 👈Mr sophy👉 Thou did nothing Than bruise our humanity And rub it on our fresh wound, With pepper of your injustice Oh, an insolence!! Despite our sacred deeds 👈Gemini👉 Indigent we are today richer we are tomorrow They are to keep the flag flying Yet they make the flag vapid No to injustice! No to fox government Justice we want!! 👈Mr sophy👉 ©Pen of a true Gemini ™ ©Mr Sophy ™
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you said you didnt love me anymore. yet your face tells everything everytime we steal glances of each other. how your cheek grazes my eyes, burying every sinful lie within each and every moment. you try to hide your feelings inside and pushed the love i gave to you that you denied. i see light in your eyes, darling. now why couldn't you just let it be and see how you truly mean to me, see the countless times, the consecutive tries of trying to make you mine again. now darling, i'm waiting for you. waiting for you to take me back one more time. i just need one try to prove to you that i was worth it all the time. and i dont know why youre fighting back the truth and burying them with distinctive lies saying that i never loved you and you never loved me too and that we were never meant for each other but deep down you know it wasnt true. so doff your pride and don a smile, run to me with arms open wide and accept me back with the love that never once died.
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May 20, 2018
May 20, 2018 at 1:09 AM UTC
beyond a shadow of a doubt
Ha-Ha, Joker's laugh, wildcard coyote dances a maniac tango, joking in the midst of elemental chaos-- giggling at the lava, way hot watching the castle's mortar dissolve, doting the cacophonous crumbling symphony akin to Amadeus. Ha-ha, joker's laugh, wildcard coyote ignites a spliff with incandescent embers, smoking-- up under falling stars getting higher than the Himalayas and more enlightened as the midnight parades off into a translucent, steaming ashy bayou, hoping there's a bite to eat before the heat waves doff the darkness completely into blinding, hokey sunbeams reflecting in snow, that cuckoo tune never lost, Ha-ha, joker's laugh from that wildcard coyote.
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Mar 9, 2015
Mar 9, 2015 at 12:03 AM UTC
Trickster's Mind Garden
I much admire, I must admit, The man who robs a Bank; It takes a lot of guts and grit, For lack of which I thank The gods: a chap 'twould make of me You wouldn't ask to tea. I do not mean a burglar cove Who climbs into a house, From room to room flash-lit to rove As quiet as a mouse; Ah no, in Crime he cannot rank With him who robs a Bank. Who seemeth not to care a whoop For danger at its height; Who handles what is known as 'soup,' And dandles dynamite: Unto a bloke who can do that I doff my bowler hat. I think he is the kind of stuff To be a mighty man In battlefield,--aye, brave enough The Cross Victorian To win and rise to high command, A hero in the land. What General with all his swank Has guts enough to rob a Bank!
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Bank Robber
Rue the unlettered nugatory inequity of insensate dishabille narcosis and the insouciant clandestine ravish perverse of durance's constraint. AUSTRALIAS CODE GREY IS A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION. MENTAL HEALTH ARE RAPISTS. PUT AN END TO FORCED INJECTIONS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS UNCONSENTING SEXPLOITATION OF THE MENTALLY ILL!!!!. NO FUNDING FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND THEIR ****** REGIME!!! MENTAL HEALTH LAWS ARE MENTALLY ILL!!! ''the pride of women will never be laid in the dust"- Gaelic Proverb. MENTAL HEALTH ARE RAPISTS. LYING ******* ****** DOGS!!! SAY NO TO BUTTOCKS INJECTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nov 9, 2012
Nov 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM UTC
Mental Health Doff.
He's part artist, part alchemist, but a full-on con, self-professed with post- graduate degrees in mixology and the god-given sense to know which smoldering home remedies will catch fire (give or take an occasional legal glitch). His healing pitch is grifted on the easy comparison of queasily lowered brows to their indistinctly raised betters. You'll doff the scoffing face as he pulls back a masking caparison, and your fever gallops hotly hoof-in-mouth with an uncontrollable itch. Tinctures, colloids, salves and potions, they all have twisty caps, blithe boxes bubbling over with hypnotic patterns fashioned to cure your urge to avoid his futility. First'll come the ****** then the crumple followed by purse strings loosening. Don't consider it capitulation. His assortment of fluid manipulations bear a singular branding at 100 proof, and after the recommended daily dosing (two jiggers with each meal), you'll feel you're **** erectus made sapient.
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May 23, 2010
May 23, 2010 at 8:15 PM UTC
Mix me a fixer upper
The Race An injury in sophomore year caused me to miss the springtime meets. I was sitting in a cast while my teammates won their heats. I am no brain, I can’t sit still No chance I’ll ace the S.A.T. But medal wins in track and field could mean a scholarship for me. Near Lewis is a cinder track- an oval of a quarter mile. So I come here to do my laps And dream of victory for a while. A short fat man goes jogging by In sweat drenched shirt and navy shorts Gasping, like a fish in air, fleeing from his mortal thoughts. I doff my sweats and start to stretch I take no chances with this knee. Soon I’m feeling good and loose, it pays to warm up properly. A tall thin runner, strangely pale, About half of the track ahead I‘ll pass him like he’s standing still Then he’ll be chasing me instead. I pass the jogger right away The pale runner, though, moves speedily I pick up my pace a notch Just as quickly so does he.. I stretch my stride, he does the same And gains upon me steadily I thought that I was chasing him It seems instead he’s chasing me. I never raced this guy before At any of the local meets He appears to be as old as me But his gear is “thrift shop” quality. Sure enough, he’s gaining fast. I dig down for a last reserve I didn’t think I’d lost a step Bad news, if it’s true, for me I hear his foot falls close behind And vainly try to stay ahead I turn my head to see his face It is the face of one long dead. The ghostly winner makes a turn and passes through the gate and chains The cemetery lies beyond That holds the urn with his cremains “You saw him too” the fat man gasps- “I thought that he had come for me” I knew he only came to run I recognized the ghost you see. “Tommy Miller was his name School Champion back in 63’ .He died crossing this finish line an aneurysm in his brain.” Unfinished business binds him here A restless spirit, more than most, The race is ever to the swift The quick are beaten by a ghost
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Dec 21, 2011
Dec 21, 2011 at 5:21 PM UTC
The Race
The Race An injury in sophomore year caused me to miss the springtime meets. I was sitting in a cast while my teammates won their heats. I am no brain, I can’t sit still No chance I’ll ace the S.A.T. But medal wins in track and field could mean a scholarship for me. Near Lewis is a cinder track- an oval of a quarter mile. So I come here to do my laps And dream of victory for a while. A short fat man goes jogging by In sweat drenched shirt and navy shorts Gasping, like a fish in air, fleeing from his mortal thoughts. I doff my sweats and start to stretch I take no chances with this knee. Soon I’m feeling good and loose, it pays to warm up properly. A tall thin runner, strangely pale, About half of the track ahead I‘ll pass him like he’s standing still Then he’ll be chasing me instead. I pass the jogger right away The pale runner, though, moves speedily I pick up my pace a notch Just as quickly so does he.. I stretch my stride, he does the same And gains upon me steadily I thought that I was chasing him It seems instead he’s chasing me. I never raced this guy before At any of the local meets He appears to be as old as me But his gear is “thrift shop” quality. Sure enough, he’s gaining fast. I dig down for a last reserve I didn’t think I’d lost a step Bad news, if it’s true, for me I hear his foot falls close behind And vainly try to stay ahead I turn my head to see his face It is the face of one long dead. The ghostly winner makes a turn and passes through the gate and chains The cemetery lies beyond That holds the urn with his cremains “You saw him too” the fat man gasps- “I thought that he had come for me” I knew he only came to run I recognized the ghost you see. “Tommy Miller was his name School Champion back in 63’ .He died crossing this finish line an aneurysm in his brain.” Unfinished business binds him here A restless spirit, more than most, The race is ever to the swift The quick are beaten by a ghost
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It happened tonight I dare not clap Haggis the cat slept on my lap watching a film on the settee Denise was sitting next to me he strolled along looked at my pants though "oh well, I'll take a chance." A stroke and a pat I doff you my cap Haggis the cat slept on my lap
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Feb 6, 2011
Feb 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM UTC
Haggis the Cat Slept on My Lap
i am a partying in the street ya know i have got my chips and coca cola that is radical i want to be happy don’t you ******* know steve and bill and doff and jill went up the hill to try to catch a party spirit and really party on i liked thew mates i had when i was young they are pretty cool, but i am moving on and so should they yeah that is the way of the world i hate tony abbott that is my opinion, please don’t lock me away he is just a loser can’t ya see everyone is partying in the clubs ya see so mr conservo, get out iof this place for i am the man to boot you out on your *** mr abbott everyone says party party party and forget about the little smarty who come in your life, ***** with your wife yeah partying is more fun than that yeah, i wanna rock and roll all night, and drink every day, a bottle of coke and don’t you doff it down for you to choke party party party get down and ****** party dudes let’s get on with the show, even if it shows partying is fun for people of all ages, yeah mate yeah
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Jul 15, 2015
Jul 15, 2015 at 2:28 AM UTC
partying is fun, better than listening to conservos preach
Vermilion skies pass me by and into the night the chasm opines an imagined Ferris wheel at a carnival turns contra against smothering bindweed, is this a metaphor for confusion ? a turnaround of sorts and with a habitual doff of my hat I bid to draw this recurring dream to an end, the naked view now seems surreal. Should  I then hear the adjacent marching feet of others surrendering their names in juxtaposition.
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Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014 at 4:50 PM UTC
Sit well
In Neverland - never to grow old never to marry that sweetheart never to have children and grandchildren nor watch hair thin and grey. Full of derring-do - more dash than discipline lanky and loose-limbed they swank and saunter not like soldiers at all no doff the cap humility to the old rules and distant monarchies. From a newly stolen world hardly secured or steady with itself lodged on the edge of a vast continent clinging to a rim of turquoise blue. Now cramped in the pock-holed sores of ancient lands richly bone-dusted from time to time. Waiting for the fight to end to go ‘back home’ ‘over there’ to farms and factories; schools and stations. Still there - left behind in the archipelago of cemeteries as far as Fromelles, Pozieres, to Bullencourt and Paschendaele in fields of beetroot and corn, fields bleeding red with poppies beside the Menin Road at Ypres in bluebelled woods of Verdun in the silt of the Somme on the plains of Flanders in the victory graves at Amiens Monash’s boys - the lost boys cried for their mothers begged for water screamed to die hung like khaki bundles on the wire. Commanded by Field Marshalls who never went to the fields, who played the numbers game in a war of bluff and bluster, who never touched the dirt and slime, nor waded through the ****** slush of broken men and boys, never waist-deep in mud and sinking, wounded and drowning in that shambles of a war Wearing dead men’s boots and shrapnel-holed helmets tunics and leggings splattered and rotting with dead men’s blood and brains Some haunted boys came home knapsacks full of secret pictures, old rusty tins crammed with suffering breast pockets held their grief wrapped in shroud-shreds. They brought their duckboard demons to the world of peace Gas-choked fretful lungs still brought the caustic fumes with every breath exhaled and from every pore the death-sweat of decay. But most boys were lost boys lost forever in that no-man’s land that Neverland of lives unlived. © M.L.Emmett
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Nov 10, 2015
Nov 10, 2015 at 12:32 PM UTC
The Lost Boys
In Neverland - never to grow old never to marry that sweetheart never to have children and grandchildren nor watch hair thin and grey. Full of derring-do - more dash than discipline lanky and loose-limbed they swank and saunter not like soldiers at all no doff the cap humility to the old rules and distant monarchies. From a newly stolen world hardly secured or steady with itself lodged on the edge of a vast continent clinging to a rim of turquoise blue. Now cramped in the pock-holed sores of ancient lands richly bone-dusted from time to time. Waiting for the fight to end to go ‘back home’ ‘over there’ to farms and factories; schools and stations. Still there - left behind in the archipelago of cemeteries as far as Fromelles, Pozieres, to Bullencourt and Paschendaele in fields of beetroot and corn, fields bleeding red with poppies beside the Menin Road at Ypres in bluebelled woods of Verdun in the silt of the Somme on the plains of Flanders in the victory graves at Amiens Monash’s boys - the lost boys cried for their mothers begged for water screamed to die hung like khaki bundles on the wire. Commanded by Field Marshalls who never went to the fields, who played the numbers game in a war of bluff and bluster, who never touched the dirt and slime, nor waded through the ****** slush of broken men and boys, never waist-deep in mud and sinking, wounded and drowning in that shambles of a war Wearing dead men’s boots and shrapnel-holed helmets tunics and leggings splattered and rotting with dead men’s blood and brains Some haunted boys came home knapsacks full of secret pictures, old rusty tins crammed with suffering breast pockets held their grief wrapped in shroud-shreds. They brought their duckboard demons to the world of peace Gas-choked fretful lungs still brought the caustic fumes with every breath exhaled and from every pore the death-sweat of decay. But most boys were lost boys lost forever in that no-man’s land that Neverland of lives unlived. © M.L.Emmett
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For I understand, now, That it was not love: It was merely my mistempered; Beshrewed list, For what is só scarce In this marred world: She, Is oft misused and no one descrys thee engrossing forfullment she gives: Like a mantle of a paramour, On a flesh penetrating night... Marry! My heart feels tossed on the abstract, For I was overturned with the conceit Of being Your Thisbe... Your Trojan princess... Your right-hand-lady... But Sir, My heart, now Desires but one thing: To be announced as one's kindred And be loved as a kingsman I am content, in faith! Let us lief love With a love, greater than love, And may we build with flint On the foundation of vestal love. Let us be one another's bier When our bodies brine; Ghostly anchor... Pilot in the bailful pestilence; Crotchet in woe; Behoveful paramour to tell aught to Without the conceit of neither being cast by Nor discreet; Aqua vitae dram in languish... When thát day abroach I shall anon be aught... Do aught for thy... When thát day abroach I shall doff All inadequasies... And love you Invariably!
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Jan 10, 2016
Jan 10, 2016 at 2:43 AM UTC
La' Pace
He’d go to the Square each afternoon And sit on a bench, near me, The one that stood in the shaded gloom Of a brooding maple tree, He’d roll his brolly and doff his hat And scatter his bits of bread, Then when the Keeper would tut, he’d say, ‘The Starlings have to be fed!’ He’d watch them come in a darkening cloud And scare the sparrows away, Then sit and listen to what had risen At this loose end of the day. He’d sit and nod, and he’d take it in As if he could understand, This Starling patter that passed as chatter Concerning the world of man. I never once saw him take a note Or even record the sound, He didn’t acknowledge the presence there Of anyone else around, He totally focussed on what they’d say And **** his ear to their cries, Then nod and smile in the strangest way And shake his head at their lies. Then after dark he would walk the park And head for the studio, That one dim lamp on the outer wall Would show him the way to go, And once inside you would hear him slide On up to the microphone, Where he’d tell his tales of success and fails In a drawn-out monotone. But you never felt a part of the tale You were always shut outside, Peering in from a ledge or bin With a window open wide, Then sometimes you were looking down On the action from on high, It could be from the bough of a tree Or a wing in the azure sky. He must have muttered a thousand tales Of brooding, joy and despair, The type of roles that would feed the souls Of the folk who listened there. They were light as vim, they were dark and grim They were sown like seeds in the night, And at the end, a beating of wings As a bevy of birds took flight. He entertains through the winter months With a new tale every eve, But stops as soon as the Spring comes in, As the Starlings begin to leave. They all return to their northern climes With their tales to their Viking den, While he will wait on the same park bench For the winter to come again. David Lewis Paget
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Apr 28, 2015
Apr 28, 2015 at 11:08 AM UTC
The Starlings Have to be Fed!
He’d go to the Square each afternoon And sit on a bench, near me, The one that stood in the shaded gloom Of a brooding maple tree, He’d roll his brolly and doff his hat And scatter his bits of bread, Then when the Keeper would tut, he’d say, ‘The Starlings have to be fed!’ He’d watch them come in a darkening cloud And scare the sparrows away, Then sit and listen to what had risen At this loose end of the day. He’d sit and nod, and he’d take it in As if he could understand, This Starling patter that passed as chatter Concerning the world of man. I never once saw him take a note Or even record the sound, He didn’t acknowledge the presence there Of anyone else around, He totally focussed on what they’d say And **** his ear to their cries, Then nod and smile in the strangest way And shake his head at their lies. Then after dark he would walk the park And head for the studio, That one dim lamp on the outer wall Would show him the way to go, And once inside you would hear him slide On up to the microphone, Where he’d tell his tales of success and fails In a drawn-out monotone. But you never felt a part of the tale You were always shut outside, Peering in from a ledge or bin With a window open wide, Then sometimes you were looking down On the action from on high, It could be from the bough of a tree Or a wing in the azure sky. He must have muttered a thousand tales Of brooding, joy and despair, The type of roles that would feed the souls Of the folk who listened there. They were light as vim, they were dark and grim They were sown like seeds in the night, And at the end, a beating of wings As a bevy of birds took flight. He entertains through the winter months With a new tale every eve, But stops as soon as the Spring comes in, As the Starlings begin to leave. They all return to their northern climes With their tales to their Viking den, While he will wait on the same park bench For the winter to come again. David Lewis Paget
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wake up I shed these skins that are not mine open your eyes I doff this mask, shake loose these subtle facets break free I, the marionette all strings cut shall here-aft dance for no one Judge my masks, I am safe behind them
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Dec 7, 2010
Dec 7, 2010 at 3:17 PM UTC
Unmasked
Come and feed Opalescent mouth Come break bread with. My kith and kin Seek to join. You can doff your. Hat and sit, yes, they're in The parlor. Is the Parthenon But my clan is borrowed From the Coliseum. Come and see 'em. Ranged in chair by Height. To bite, Now you can go in to The table but only along. One side as Leonardo Would suggest. Our featured feast begins with mother's grin. But ends with wiping father's ****** chin.
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Feb 7, 2010
Feb 7, 2010 at 6:31 PM UTC
Ma and Pa
Once upon a millenium I  scrawled in awkward letters Straining for an undiscovered profundity Not so different From an upright creature Some ages past Who stroked upon An empty page With what he thought Were poignant truths And monumental metaphors Like uprights love to leave So as to titillate Their future discoverers While stretching unabashedly To be a candidate Future philosophers will doff With certain validation For unique truisms..... I am recorded here Wow, I said admiringly To myself In my true language Hey, dat's sump'm Eat ya heart out, Aris
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Nov 10, 2010
Nov 10, 2010 at 6:39 AM UTC
I Am Recorded Here
In Neverland - never to grow old never to marry that sweetheart never to have children and grandchildren nor watch hair thin and grey. Full of derring-do - more dash than discipline lanky and loose-limbed they swank and saunter not like soldiers at all no doff the cap humility to the old rules and distant monarchies. From a newly stolen world hardly secured or steady with itself lodged on the edge of a vast continent clinging to a rim of turquoise blue. Now cramped in the pock-holed sores of ancient lands richly bone-dusted from time to time. Waiting for the fight to end to go ‘back home’ ‘over there’ to farms and factories; schools and stations. Still there - left behind in the archipelago of cemeteries as far as Fromelles, Pozieres, to Bullencourt and Paschendaele in fields of beetroot and corn, fields bleeding red with poppies beside the Menin Road at Ypres in bluebelled woods of Verdun in the silt of the Somme on the plains of Flanders in the victory graves at Amiens Monash’s boys - the lost boys cried for their mothers begged for water screamed to die hung like khaki bundles on the wire. Commanded by Field Marshalls who never went to the fields, who played the numbers game in a war of bluff and bluster, who never touched the dirt and slime, nor waded through the ****** slush of broken men and boys, never waist-deep in mud and sinking, wounded and drowning in that shambles of a war Wearing dead men’s boots and shrapnel-holed helmets tunics and leggings splattered and rotting with dead men’s blood and brains Some haunted boys came home knapsacks full of secret pictures, old rusty tins crammed with suffering breast pockets held their grief wrapped in shroud-shreds. They brought their duckboard demons to the world of peace Gas-choked fretful lungs still brought the caustic fumes with every breath exhaled and from every pore the death-sweat of decay. But most boys were lost boys lost forever in that no-man’s land that Neverland of lives unlived. © M.L.Emmett
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Apr 25, 2016
Apr 25, 2016 at 5:44 AM UTC
Monash's Lost Boys
In Neverland - never to grow old never to marry that sweetheart never to have children and grandchildren nor watch hair thin and grey. Full of derring-do - more dash than discipline lanky and loose-limbed they swank and saunter not like soldiers at all no doff the cap humility to the old rules and distant monarchies. From a newly stolen world hardly secured or steady with itself lodged on the edge of a vast continent clinging to a rim of turquoise blue. Now cramped in the pock-holed sores of ancient lands richly bone-dusted from time to time. Waiting for the fight to end to go ‘back home’ ‘over there’ to farms and factories; schools and stations. Still there - left behind in the archipelago of cemeteries as far as Fromelles, Pozieres, to Bullencourt and Paschendaele in fields of beetroot and corn, fields bleeding red with poppies beside the Menin Road at Ypres in bluebelled woods of Verdun in the silt of the Somme on the plains of Flanders in the victory graves at Amiens Monash’s boys - the lost boys cried for their mothers begged for water screamed to die hung like khaki bundles on the wire. Commanded by Field Marshalls who never went to the fields, who played the numbers game in a war of bluff and bluster, who never touched the dirt and slime, nor waded through the ****** slush of broken men and boys, never waist-deep in mud and sinking, wounded and drowning in that shambles of a war Wearing dead men’s boots and shrapnel-holed helmets tunics and leggings splattered and rotting with dead men’s blood and brains Some haunted boys came home knapsacks full of secret pictures, old rusty tins crammed with suffering breast pockets held their grief wrapped in shroud-shreds. They brought their duckboard demons to the world of peace Gas-choked fretful lungs still brought the caustic fumes with every breath exhaled and from every pore the death-sweat of decay. But most boys were lost boys lost forever in that no-man’s land that Neverland of lives unlived. © M.L.Emmett
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Merry Christmas and all that Do put on your tinsel hat Humour does not go amiss To one and all blow a kiss. Rules are for some - not for all Well! this is quite a close call Remember to doff your hat Aye, the Queen can greet the cat. Twinkling stars and fairytale Flying carpets never fail From all our eyes drop the scales Re-mix and spare the details. Living in a "Wonderland": My eyes can feel grit and sand Like floating in outerspace With a mask across my face. Earth has had a thorough shake The world is due a re-make We'll see what lands on the top For success, failure or flop.
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Dec 26, 2021
Dec 26, 2021 at 8:11 AM UTC
Happy New Year!
We'll bid her goodbye in September Her time for leaving is our decision We'll cast a last motion of recission Twill be first rate blotting out this member Her team hath been a truly awful crew Our nation cannot bear their governance We require a mob with better guidance She's got all persons in a right old stew Another three years of her we'll not stand The polls say she is on an outbound trip New policy directions will be grand We'd prefer she wasn't captaining the ship To a fresh government our hats we'll doff
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Nov 10, 2013
Nov 10, 2013 at 12:01 AM UTC
Hats We'll Doff (Italian Sonnet)
The Seamstresses of Baltimore had done their Country proud. Their Flag, upon a staff of wood, Defied The British rounds. Fort McHenry and her men alone stood in the way of a squadron of the British fleet in good King George's pay. All through the warm September night We saw red rockets glare. And when the morning sun arose our banner was still there. The tale might have been different One of death, despair and blood- One shell had hit the magazine but it proved to be a dud. A lawyer and a poet on a truce ship in the Bay gave voice to the emotions that filled his heart that day. So when you stand and doff your cap and sing his song I say, let history become memory in a simple, subtle way.
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Mar 16, 2013
Mar 16, 2013 at 10:55 PM UTC
At Twilight's Last Gleaming
Loghain is the lyrical artists voice He has to be the artists choice His words are read throughout the world Though they do make the fresh milk curdle He only has *** with the lights turned off And never will he his pyjamas doff Never to his socks remove As his lover is subjected to poetic abuse The time then comes in his ecstasy When Loghain shouts with vervant glee Enough woman enough of this It was fine for the thirty seconds that it was stiff I now must pen about this act My worldwide following expects more crap
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Jun 11, 2014
Jun 11, 2014 at 3:28 PM UTC
Loghain
Cats make me laugh, the selfish gits, They prowl through life, not taking **** We humans are just staff, to them, Our independent feline friends, Standoffish, surly and downright rude, Very fussy with their food, They change their minds just like the wind, Very often gourmet food is binned, And then they stalk into 'their' house, And disembowel some poor mouse, There is one thing you must never oughta, Try to wash your cat in soapy water, The outraged cat will then go wild, You will then know the devils child, On the coldest the winter nights, Cat approaches, purring, right? Jumps on your lap with kneading paws, But one false move, you'll feel their claws, You can never ever own a cat, They own you, now that's a fact, Our intelligence they have surpassed, They've worked out how to lick their **** One thing deserves a generous pardon, They at least crap in neighbours gardens, I cannot help respect these beings, I'd never wish to hurt their feelings, And so I for one will doff my hat, Towards our Royal highnesses , the cat.
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Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 5:41 PM UTC
Cats rule
I'm writing too much. I really don't brag! I'm on a ****** Full on writer's jag! I know I should stop Or at least slow down, But I'm having such fun! Why should I frown? I'm writing so much I guess it's not fair, The poems I write Just don't go anywhere! But I don't want the laurels I don't want to trend, What diff does it make To me in the end? There are many times When my muse doesn't stay She packs up her baggage For long holidays! So should I keep notebooks? For these wintery ruts? Store my poems up Like a squirrel with nuts? If I kept a notebook It'd sure get right fat! Cause, folks, you inspire! It's as simple as that! So here I am. Poets, what should I do? I certainly don't want to alienate you! If I stop writing And posting them I'll set aside notebooks And take the cap off my pen. I'll just keep up The ideas seized I won't be so eager And wanting to please... So here I go My hat I do doff! I'll be a good site friend... ... and just toddle off!
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 8:34 PM UTC
Shooting Myself in the Foot