Merit was my childhood drug and top scores were my fix - rapture was a perfect ten, kaput a sorry six!
inspiration: Mark from
Numb and Number
Tag: humour
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image: Sportskeeda
inspiration: PASSWORD from
don’t hold your breath
fitting tighta than they usedta all those glad rags that this rooster swanked and swaggered down the street in hug him snugly since he's eaten ice cream daily from those days when once upon a while he wowed 'em now they bet he'll burst a button
image: 123RF
inspiration: fashion from
https://randomwordgenerator.com/
Glimmerick
Let's promise the moon on a stick, equality coming real quick - voters won't ask every tick of that task, leaving bones for eggheads to pick.
image: Pinterest
inspiration: Level from
Message to Minors
Today’s word was less than inspiring. I even had to look up what it meant.
My subsequent struggle to make some sort of sense, let alone come up with anything semi-entertaining, has resulted in a slightly finger-wagging tone. And its title turns the poem into a snooty little moral homily.
Picture a six or seven year old gazing uncomprehendingly at a fully-laid banquet table …
forks & knives lead separate lives - apartheid rules their drawer duels - when at table alone unable - running in tandem eating's less random
images: Gentleman’s Gazette & Reddit
inspiration: flatware from
The one that got away
Messages from submerged sources angled at my deepest wishing - inbox crammed with clickbait - so I left a note that read Gone Phishing!
image: TED ideas
inspiration: Mail from https://randomwordgenerator.com/
public interest
presshounds gather around scene of celebrity kilt malfunction
image: Times Higher Education
inspiration: pack from
a nomad in cyberspace 