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Tomorrow is a different me
I see, but cannot touch
He looks at me, so wistfully
I want to say so much
How did it happen, we had dreams
Had hopes we thought would last
The future, along common themes
Is rooted in the past

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784721-Fields--meadows-and-nature-prompts 3. Across the fields of yesterday, He sometimes comes to me A little lad just back from play— The boy I used to be. He looks at me so wistfully When once he’s crept within;3. It is as if he hoped to see The man I might have been. James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge

we sure have an inspiring motto
amazing quote from days long gone
as I play Powerball, the lotto
I sure do hope to be the one

it's hard to be funny on purpose
and more so if you have to stand
it helps if there's somehow a surplus
of jokes that they do understand

I've struggled with these very questions
how best to present my own wit
the answer -- for my comic sessions
turns out, pretty simple -- I sit

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2785182-Punchline-

no shot, the chamber does rotate
the Colt recoiling in my hand
but doesn't pause or hesitate
the gun, it seems to understand
what's riding on this sucker's bet
its favorite, Russian Roulette

and now your turn, my fearless foe
a gentleman must honor bets
do squeeze that trigger, Death's old claw
too late, too late for your regrets
squeeze, for your honor is at stake
can someone help him? his hands shake

another click, another miss
we both avoid that deadly kiss
and now, it's my hands turn to shake
mine to remember what's at stake

Author notes: image from Wikipedia https://allpoetry.com/contest/2785257-Guns

Someone told me that I look like Fester
Though it was a disgruntled investor
And some unkind and miserly scrooges
Said I’m Larry, from the Three of Stooges
Pretty sure Dustin Hoffman’s a cousin
Though in this business, they’re by the dozen
In short, mostly I look like an actor
Hollywood is not my benefactor

Author notes: wc 56 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2785281-Describe-What-You-Look-Like

thirty six attempts
at Mt. Fuji's splendor
practice makes perfect

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2785287-8th-Month-Haiku---sketches image from Japan Objects

two thousand years
of relentless propaganda
and yet we persist
writing operas
about sympathy for the devil

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2785098-The-Rolling-Stones---In-5-lines for those interested, the Stones wrote this classic after reading Bulgakov's book -- which is itself a variation of the Faust story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita

they call me Rhymosaurus
I freestyle and I rap
I don't need a thesaurus
to make you clap, clap, clap

love wearing my old headphones
and rapping to my beat
I feel it in my bones, bones
and that is pretty neat

Author notes: wc 42 image from Pinterest https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784176-Jazzy-Dinosaur-

Blockbuster managers
search for meaning

The trebuchet
Is raining boulders on my head
The trebuchet
If hit, it won’t be just touché
Had I just bent the knee instead
It wouldn’t aim for my poor head
The trebuchet

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2785121-8-for-8---Rondelet image from Arbor Scientific

as far from mellow as can be
I thrust myself into the void
come, take me, humble bumble bee
and drink my nectar, be adroit

before a ladybug or moth
absorbs my sweetness to the full
come drink this aphrodisiac broth
you’re feeling its magnetic pull

sweet hummingbird, do not head south
the buzzing sound of flighty wings
my carnal pleasure needs your mouth
ambrosia, food for gods and kings

as far from mellow as can be
I thrust myself into the void
A fervent dream, with you and me
I am your patient, you’re my Freud

Author notes: wc 97 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2785118-Fantasy-1035

many a poet wanes and waxes
on certainty of death and taxes
but in the end, we shall beat death
and taxes? Ha, don't hold your breath

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2785154-Quickie-4k---Four-line-stanza-on-death