Taking the Bull by the....
You say the world is my oyster
I’m afraid it’s just the prairie I find
The high pitched squeal of a neutered bull
at the hands of what we call mankind.
Now they occupy my fork and I’m ready
But my thoughts wandered as I dined
...maybe his name was “Eddy”…
you...
Me, I give a Rants Us.
by Jellz
I came upon the forum bored
For answers to my questions
To find out if the world out there
Had any useful suggestions
They came from far and also wide
To offer up their thinking
Of fixes for my troubled poems
Quick answers without blinking
The answers they...
Shelter during the storm
by Jellz
Heavens fell drenching
I Couldn't Stop the Rain, but
you my umbrella
were there to watch over me
while I cried a thousand tears
Death of an Apple Tree
by Jellz (who else would it be?)
I saw them coming
those tree fellers
Paddy, Mick and Sean
and they were packing steel
Paddy shook my trunk
until knocked unconscious
by the falling fruit
Mick rendered himself comatose
from slipping on the grounded mess
Sean, meanwhile...
My Point and I do have one
by Edward Scissorhand’s Poetic cousin
(Edited by Jellz Fisher)
Tapping sounds upon the keys
Bemuse me while I think
Mess ensues from what I’ve done
A veritable flood of ink
I should have left the caps on
My nibs are spewing juice
With pens instead of fingers
I’m...
FRANTIC
By Jellz Fisher
Blithely, blindly writing
writhing fingers key the board.
Smashing, crashing through
creative barriers of muses,
choosing to ignore your pleas…
“These are not the words I choose,
they chose me!”
Sin, it's spooky how alike we are sometimes....