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Thursday, August 17, 2017

Men Will Be Boys






a flood of fear
descended upon the earth
when the boys
challenged each other
threatening our peace

bigger is not better
so put them away chaps
and play nicely
in the rumpus room
anyone for table tennis?

Midweek Motif Poets United

6 comments:

  1. I'm cracking up here, trying to sober up (because this IS SERIOUS), but that photo in combination with the poem is priceless.

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  2. Table tennis I am for that. Love this and the picture is indeed priceless like Susan said. Thank you for sharing this Rall!

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  3. Oh my goodness, this is the perfect illustration for my poem "Mano a mano" which I wrote for the Quadrille challenge, which says, in part, "two deranged world leaders
    who drank from the poison well of power
    engage in a juvenile game of mano a mano,
    their missiles phallic symbols of their
    insecurities in their game of “mine’s
    bigger than yours.”
    We were certainly on the same page, were we not?? lol

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  4. Ah, that photo says it all! A frightening situation really...but it seems, on the simplest level, they are squabbling over who has the largest! (I don't think t will win.)

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  5. The poem reminds me of China that's dangerously intoxicated in a war game with India. That pic is hilarious.

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  6. Very funny! And that is what it is...two boys trying to measure who's is bigger.

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