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 Dec 23 11, 14:48
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 Creative Chieftain  Posts: 11,384 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in.  |
Keep your shirt on as well as your pants
lest the reader look at you askance. Water will not avail by the drop or the pail to brainwash you before the last dance. ·······  ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner       |
  
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Dec 28 11, 06:13
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 Ornate Oracle Posts: 18,578 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
I don't shower for folks to look on,
and I hope you will take the baton and join in our race to clean up this space for writing that clean minds may spawn. very Lightly, of course, Daniel 
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Dec 31 11, 01:22
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 Laureate Legionnaire Posts: 3,446 Joined: 16-October 06 From: UK Member No.: 298 Real Name: Alan McAlpine Douglas Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori/Eisa/loads of old friends |
DOWN AND DIRTY
This, your "writing that clean minds may spawn" is a bore, to be met with a yawn please do not seek a cure for limericks impure to kow-tow to those minds too too high-born Alan ······· ······· |
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Jan 3 12, 12:09
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 18,578 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
A Tutu who's highborn's no Boer
South African dwellers abhor. The Bishop is kind, will challenge your mind to positive, activist lore. Original first line, with typos: A Tuto who's highborn's no bore ······· ·······Slow down; things will go faster!
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Jan 4 12, 09:57
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,384 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
Who’s this Tuto whom you give acclaim?
Is that Archbishop Desmond of fame? Man of peace, he just might want to put up a fight if he read someone had changed his name. ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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Jan 9 12, 11:27
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 18,578 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
A typo is easy to do;
one look, and you'll see I made two. Corrections I've made ere memories fade and folks will forget I made do. blushing sLightly, Daniel 
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Jan 10 12, 09:36
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,384 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
I knew Tuto 'twas typo before
I'd replied, but the thing I adore is the twist at the end of line one; I just grinned. Didn't see that one coming Señor! ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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Jan 10 12, 09:50
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 18,578 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
I will blush with a hesitant bow
at the thought that I've shown someone how to laugh at a thought they hadn't first sought in reading a poem with stiff brow. ······· ·······Slow down; things will go faster!
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Jan 10 12, 11:45
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,384 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
No stiff brow I allow when I read
a limerick that is slick. To succeed, read to self, never speak. With your tongue tucked in cheek a stern visage just might make you bleed. ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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Jan 10 12, 13:14
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 18,578 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
May no one ever bleed when they read
[though I think I succeed if they've peed] when I Lim'rick I've writ -- though I freely admit to misleading my friends to misread. ······· ·······Slow down; things will go faster!
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Jan 10 12, 15:28
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,384 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
A Limerick of ambiguous slants
that obscures the true meaning, supplants what some readers, astute, ascertain with a hoot. Others have no epiphanic chance. ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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Jan 10 12, 15:42
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 18,578 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
Epiphanic 's a hard word to fit
in this meter without losing wit... but I do get your meaning... yet fear others' leaning too far t'ward the beckoning pit! ······· ·······Slow down; things will go faster!
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Jan 11 12, 09:46
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,384 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
Is that “Pit” what their calling a school
where the students now sleep, text and drool? Let them lean ‘till they fall on their face. I would call that the best way to cleanse the gene pool. ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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Jan 11 12, 10:25
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 18,578 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
Oh, be careful of students from Pitt!
If you dis them, you'll likely commit unforgivable sin. The battle they'll win; their Panthers devour you and spit. ······· ·······Slow down; things will go faster!
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Jan 11 12, 10:51
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,384 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
Panther spit, to me, is somehow gross.
To be eaten or left comatose by a big hungry cat would negate a post that might make smiles from what had been morose. ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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Jan 11 12, 11:16
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 18,578 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
Making smiles with our posts is a goal
whether Santa is leaving us coal or he chuckles so loud his belly's a shroud... then we'd Mrs. Santa console. ······· ·······Slow down; things will go faster!
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Jan 12 12, 09:42
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,384 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
Being bad does not count if you're blessed
by a priest after you have confessed. Men like trucks or a gun, boys want toys to have fun, but girls want COAL that's highly compressed. ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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Jan 13 12, 08:22
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 18,578 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
A diamond's forever, they say
and I've found it to be that way-- the savings, that is, goes up in a fizz-- and now I've no time to make hay. ······· ·······Slow down; things will go faster!
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Jan 13 12, 13:03
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Creative Chieftain Posts: 11,384 Joined: 15-June 07 From: Springfield, Louisiana Member No.: 446 Real Name: Larry D. Jennings Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Just wondered in. |
"Making hay is not easy", he said;
when I asked an old farmer named Fred. "If you're old, you get tired and with age, uninspired whether talking 'bout field or the bed." ······· ·······When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Kindness is a seed sown by the gentlest hand, growing care's flowers. Larry D. Jennings MM Award Winner |
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Jan 13 12, 14:41
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Ornate Oracle Posts: 18,578 Joined: 2-August 03 From: Southwest New Jersey, USA Member No.: 6 Real Name: Daniel J Ricketts, Sr. Writer of: Poetry Referred By:Lori |
But what if he's talkin' 'bout money?
He has a good time with his honey but tired from the field he finds he must yield the checkbook... an' now he gets noney! ······· ·······Slow down; things will go faster!
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