Cutting Words

Cutting Words 

Vladimir Kush

Together we'd once dance

Words would tease and prance, 

Sweet around your lips 

As we coiled and embraced, 

Touching and caressing with finger tips, 

Sweet honeyed words were spoken, 

Genuine, full of promises and emotion, 

Words composed from the heart, 

Of  a heaven together, our start !

Now we seem poles apart, 

Your words hurt, cut, 

Straight to the heart 

Chopping and dissecting, 

Our life, it's direction, 

Your vocal pen loaded with venom,

 The only words written now are for loves requiem!

Submitted to dVerse Poets Poetics whose theme is layers 

Mice And Men

Mice And Men 

Photo In New York Times Jan 23rd 2012

We the mice run around play nice,
Sniffing out a living
Scurrying about, forever giving,
To them the men who tax us again and again,
They who can't lose,
Even when they've been accused
Of
 Lying and cheating,
Squandering
Our resources,
Which then forces us
To limit our heating,
Change our habits in eating,
Move our location
Affecting our nation !

We the mice care for our young,
Nurturing and feeding,
Limiting our breeding,
While them the men receive big bungs,
FOR
 Lying, deceiving,
To brainwash us into believing ,
 Their excuses and lies,
We should give them our vote,
Cause more strife, raise human anxiety,
  As they further bankrupt and demote, 
Our Society ! 

Submitted to Gooseberry Goes Poetic  whose prompt was to pick a headline from the New York Times

Submitted to dVerse Poets Open Link Night where poets share 

Suffrage

Suffrage 

Certain  acts of impropriety, 

Were never accepted in polite society, 

Silliness did surely reign, 

Women brainwashed to abstain 

From 

Sex, drugs and rock and roll,

Till the one appeared with a big fat, bank roll. 

Married and imprisoned in bricks up on the hill, 

Disallowed from mixing with folk from the mill, 

Boredom and curiosity surely did reign, 

From 

Scrubbing floors, doing chores, 

Till crushing their socially ideal Amores 

Then in time, a belly full of living life, 

Presents more duties for the obedient wife, 

Motherhood and expectations did surely reign, 

Of 

Nappies, sleepless nights and restrain, 

Then that cycle would be repeated again. 

Free speech, Free love became the norm, 

The time was ripe for women to transform, 

Choices and freedom did surely reign, 

So

Societies silly impropriety became arcane.

Letting women use their judgement

And their brain !

Google Images

Submitted to dVerse Poet Poetics where the theme was Boundaries 

Nonsense A Go Go

                                        

Nonsense A Go Go 

In the middle of the Congo,

Lives a very hairy mango 

Who strums upon a human banjo. 

While the ultra slim thin rhinos 

Dance a street dance fandango, 

Circled by short legged flamingos

Screaming house, playing bingo!

Waiting for the mummified Pharaoh

To tiptoe through for a tango,

All partying together in their tropical a go go !

Submitted to : Imaginary Garden With real Toads whose prompt was nonsense rhymes !

Street Dancing !

For today’s Poetics, I invite you to consider the visual art of Fernando Botero as an inspiration for your word-painting.

While searching the internet about this painter I came across this mural which is situated in Medellin Colombia as I have an Interest in Street Art I thought this fitting for my choice !

Street Dancing 

Placed in Fernandos town of birth 

A  reproduction of one of his painting full of mirth 

A couple larger than life 

Presumably a man and his wife 

Dancing with gay abandonment 

Overfed or very affluent, 

In today.s society 

This would surely be an impropriety, 

The couple would be stick thin, 

Airbrushed out all double chins, 

But would the world me amiss 

If as a painting this, we chose to dismiss, 

We'd miss out on the colour and  gaiety 

 The beauty of such immense booty!

Submitted to : dVerse Poets Poetics

Bandit of Love

Bandit of Love 

Street art by Aida Gomez
 Berlin Germany 

The bandit of love 

will stamp on your feelings, 

He'll make your heart feel crushed, 

leave your senses reeling, 

He 'll charm you 

and speak in a soft serenade,

Promise you forever 

before he runs and throws a grenade, 

Blowing your world apart, 

while crushing your heart, 

Feelings become tangled and mangled, 

You feel physically restrained, strangled, 

You need to douse the lust, 

Relearn, live solo, adjust, 

Kill the fire!

 Feelings, emotions

 need changed, rewired, 

For the bandit of love has wheeled his art, 

Stamping,crushing and breaking your heart !  

Cool Mountain Cats ( Childs Lit )

Cool Mountain Cats 

Figures available at Woolpets


Conrad a crazy cool cat,
Thought he was so cool,
He'd race down a mountain,
Without going splat.

Chemmy the sno bunny
Offered him advice,
She told him to turn,
  Watch out for ice!

Conrad who always  knew better
Skied downhill straight
Down, down
He flew till it was too late!

Conrad the crazy cool cat,
Had not listen 
The mountain was icy and steep 
He landed at the bottom in a heap
A sore and meowing splat 
Conrad the embarrassed silly cat 

Chemmy the sno bunny, 
Snow plowed and turned,
Skied down and returned,
Again and again, 
She felt such a thrill
Conquering the hill! 


 So who was the coolest cat on the mountain 
That day ?