'Short Rondeau', (Corrected) ~ Thanks, Merlin! Options

[JustDaniel]

Your lesson writing short rondeau
is, First decide the closing line,
then open with it in a show
that you are someone with a spine

who won't lose focus in the end
because you're writin' while you're dressin'.
be sure the shortie here has penned
your lesson.

[Larry]

that’s “shorty”

The shorty penned here has a sure
but simple form which one must keep
so all the Short Rondeaus endure
and benefit writers who leap
from regular Rondeaus. The change
is difficult but if you’re smart
you’ll twist a phrase and rearrange
the short.

[JustDaniel]

To twist a phrase and rearrange
the words a bit is what we do;
to others it appears as strange
and often make a hoop-di-doo

about our writing, but who cares?
Our rondeax come with rais-ed fist
that causes multimillionaires
to twist!

[Larry]

That cause is multimillionaires
who have agendas of their own
and squelch the politicians cares
with money voters don’t condone.

New laws are passed that fit their need
by writing in a hidden clause
and there are none who dare impede
that cause.

[JustDaniel]

The pants you wear cannot impede
the liquid that resides inside;
with age some shorts become in-peed
and that's a fact that's hard to hide.

Long shirts can cover many things
like wet spots that your wee-wee plants
and bulging guts your body brings
to pants.

[Larry]

The guts your bulging bodies bring
to gyms is fat which stays in place
and everything just seems to cling
then you might liposuction face.

Your choice of swallowing those chews
of pies or cakes and favorite cuts
can be left off if you can use
the guts.

[JustDaniel]

Leave off devouring all those pies
and cakes and pastry till you burst
then eating anything your eyes
desire like you've become accursed.

If you can simply shut your mouth
when you see that you've had enough
you'll watch that fat that hangs down south
leave off.

© MLeeDickensson 2017

[Larry]

Down South your watch that’s fat and hangs
to parts which you might think are safe
below your belt will cause some pangs
when swinging like demented wraith.

Your vest has pockets you should use
for golden chains; the word of mouth
is shorten it. You won’t abuse
down south.

[JustDaniel]

Abusing short folks isn't cool
on days like what we're having here
unless you throw them in the pool
if they don't have a drowning fear.

In cut-off denims, weather's fine
and in the pool your dwarf cavorts;
your scissors were not out of line
abusing shorts.

[Larry]

Your sisters were not out of line
with words to put you in your place;
in fact, intentions were divine
as though they came from God’s own grace.

Experience with boys your age
helped them to raise you; one of His
with hopes of one more pristine page.
Yours is!

[JustDaniel]

Pristine describes my page these days
since nothing there appears at all;
I've tried to write in many ways;
my muse's engine's in a stall.

At times a word or two contains
research, but then they fall between
my thoughts, so paper now remains
pristine.

[Larry]

Safe Keeping

My thoughts on paper now remain
within a box that’s sealed, air tight
to ward off fire or moisture’s stain
and safe from degradation’s plight.

Although technologies afford
with cloud or disc that can be bought
a safer way; that box will hoard
my thought.

[JustDaniel]

A Safeway grocery store is where
we shopped when I was very young;
In junior high I dropped in there
in back to see what they had flung.

I'd never eat what wasn't wrapped,
like cookies they and thrown away.
When I was done, went home and napped
safe way.


_{P.S. I never really did that; it never occurred to me!}

[Larry]

Fountain of Youth

When done with naps and home I went
into the woods where I commune
with nature when there’s just a hint
of Autumn in the air. Too soon
and Summer’s heat burns up the joy
as animals hide from the sun.
Refreshed, I feel like a young boy
when done.

[JustDaniel]

Fountain of Youth?

Ah, refreshing... he drank from canteen
after time on the trail; he drank more,
and though it was not cold, it was clean
since he'd gathered it fresh from the shore
of the mountainside stream on his trek.
Now a pain in his groin was enmeshing
his nerves all the way to his neck...
Ah, refreshing.

[Larry]

Nervous Rex

His nerves way up into his neck
were sensitive when he was young
so fearlessly said, “What the heck!”
when on patrol; way out among

rice paddies and the jungle heat.
Respect for everyone who serves
was not the norm and pills now treat
his nerves.

[Larry]

Pilloried

My pills now treat the maladies
of age and time, cholesterol;
and my blood pressure does not please
the doctor that I have at all
so now I have to take great care
to hide them from kids seeking thrills
for they’re expensive. I don’t share
my pills.

[JustDaniel]

Heavy Debt

It's so expensive, I must cut
away some pounds from off my hips
and also off my gut and butt.
I've eaten too much chips and dips
and haven't exercised at all.
My therapy is quite extensive:
stretching, pushing on a ball...
and it's expensive!

[Larry]

futility

You’re pushing on some balls that stretch
those muscles which you’ve hardly used
until it seems like you could retch
and your poor body feels abused
but you persist in exercise
to lose some weight, gain younger tone;
shed inches from your waist and thighs
you’re pushing on.

[JustDaniel]

Waist and Waste

My thighs and waist are out to shape
so every exercise is pain;
if only there were some escape,
but I must do each rep again.
My muscles left some time ago,
so they will not return with haste.
It doesn't take too much to show
my thighs are waste.