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Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2793375-Make-Me-Giggle

assassinating antelopes
are going through our cantaloupes
and wild, unruly wildebeest
are coming at us from the East
I dread the day that cheetahs
express a will to eat us
but luckily hyenas
have not yet heard or seen us

Author notes: wc 40 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2793381-Assassinating-antelopes

the year I was born
not to toot my own horn
is considered a great year for port

that wine, though it's sweet
and is quite a treat
is drunk slowly, and after the torte

and so I have been told
in a manner quite cold
so I wondered if it was in sport

that I'm sweet, in small dozes
otherwise it imposes
and so limit, at most, to a quart

the pond reflects the world above
a brightly colored mirror
the city landscapes that I love
are shinier and clearer
in the inverted images
than in my real life
those marred by endless scrimmages
absorbed by endless strife
the water filters, keeping just
the beauty of our plans
when all we've built had turned to dust
untouched by human hands
the ponds will still reflect the world
unaltered and pristine
and campfire stories will be told
about what might have been

Author notes: wc 81 Photo from RichPointofview

she waits there, for the tide that lifts all boats
the rushing water comes, and soon she floats
but in her mind, she wanders, just how high
the water needs to be for her to fly

Author notes: AN: photo thanks to bryangoff.com https://allpoetry.com/contest/2793260--388-MAX-6-lines---PHOTO-is-prompt

the Bill of Rights was paid in full
there's no refunding British Rule
and the protections, so hard won
be it religion or the gun
are not to be reversed or cut
the union is what we've got
as a result of compromise
a change so radical, unwise
threatens the freedoms that we cherish
the country won't survive, it'll perish

live as you wish, let others be
for what are we, if we're not free

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2793257-Thoughts-and-Issues-on-2nd-Amendment

I asked the Pope of my religion
by email, text, and postal pigeon
Pope: will you call out as a crime
these so called poems that don't rhyme

oh sure, a rose is still a rose
but surely these, at best, are prose?
more likely, random word collections
vying in vain for our affections

the Pope soon answered me, as follows:
though gift-less, not for them our gallows
to err is human, to forgive divine
though I suppose I could support a fine

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2792938-Blessed-Be-the-Meter--Blessed-Be-the-Rhyme

dunking Krispy Kremes
taken to extremes
my greenbacks
for Starbucks

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2792933-Brevity-caption-this

there, standing among withered wheat
they long to hear the children's feet
as those stomp, running, round and round
the howling wind's the only sound
that interrupts, but down beneath
they sense the gnawing termite teeth

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2792842-Surreal-images-66

my mystery novel required a McGuffin
my table -- a plate with a half eaten muffin
I thought to myself -- surely this one will do
unfortunately, that half's eaten now too

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2792831---Muffin-60-Words-or-Less--

crisp one hundred dollar notes
sing to me
all about the benjamins

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2792859-haiku---100

the taut strings of your heart
feeling passion's strong tug
post impressionist art
but a hug's still a hug
brought it home -- so symbolic...

but she wanted a Pollock

Author notes: image from pinterest