Poems

Your Armageddon nightmares
Hiroshima, Chernobyl
all because the nuclear force
is too weak

strange quarks, those physicists

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783987-Physics

The metaverse does bridle at its cage
Trapped in my head, it’s found a way at last
My pen no longer needing to recast
Thoughts come unbidden, skipping the white page

Images flow, some frightening, some plain
Objects appear, and hover in mid-air
I need do nothing, I can only stare
And struggle to observe and to contain

Contain creation, do imagine that
I look at the invaders in sheer awe
Surreal landscapes I could never draw
Materialize like rabbits in a hat

I blink and the illusion disappears
And I am back, and staring at the screen
Wish that I could forget it, sight unseen
Or at the least, could wipe away those tears

Author notes: wc 115 image from Pinterest https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783990-Fantasy-1023

Eagerly bursting into a Scrabble party
wearing only sexy pajamas
Johnny was forced to acknowledge
Mary's invite, "come on over for some foreplay"
did sound odd at the time

A poet’s work is never done
Before the ink is even dry
Creation has again begun
Demanding that the hour is nigh

Ever constructing some new rhyme
Finding new meaning in old brew
Giving each sentence its due time
Hoping the metaphors ring true

Idolatry, that’s our belief
Jehovah need not fear our psalms
King of all kings, to your relief
Love is the word, our open palms

Must worship words, no other way
Not when you try to touch the heart
Or capture sentences at play
Producing pulp – don’t even start

Queen of all gods, she’s Love, of course
Romance escaping from our pens
She’ll surface somewhere, in due course
Today, tomorrow, we are friends

Utopia, oh, she is swell
Vainglorious, in hubris clothes
Words conquer all, grow in the tell
Xerxes’ ambition, Spartan woes

Yield to the word, write what you know
Zealous belief. And don’t’ tell. Show.

Author notes: wc 150 https://allpoetry.com/contest/2782858-A-Z-Poem---Rhyme--6K-Pts

touching her, he felt
lightning strike his very soul
it was her taser

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783847-Brevity-Lightning

There once was an ignorant joker
He thought he was decent at poker
Then a lady appeared
And he was promptly reared
He had to reach out to his broker

“Oh, why must you be such a clown?
And you’ve just arrived in the town!”
“Her deuces were wild
And I was beguiled
Besides, she was wearing her crown!”

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783453-The-Jester---Double-Limerick jokers and queens and poker of course

on the seventh day
he rested in his glory
now we have weekends

The gears of your heart
sparkling, shiny and new
have not known love

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783849-Brevity-image-prompt

Elections lasting longer than 4 hours
require immediate medical attention

When old Descartes set out to know
what "being" was about
He thought of every to and fro
But did settle on doubt

Doubt comes with its own paradox
You can't doubt that you doubt
These philosophic building blocks
Provided Descartes' route

You start with this truth, and the rest
should fall in place, old chum
Remember it, it is expressed
Cogito, ergo sum

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783852-To-see-without-truth-is-blindness

got an apartment
it was already furnished
only one night stand

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783876-One-Night-Stand-Experience-

the train left the station
I realized that I was going the wrong way...

Not sure why it took me so long...

No matter, dropped out of law school
And never looked back

Author notes: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783868-The-Moment-When---In-5-lines