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Stress Marks
by Ronald W. Hull → (All Poetry by Ronald W. Hull)
Friday, June 3, 2022 Rated "G" by the Author.

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Just a little fun over life's little stresses.

Blue Jean Stress Marks Photo by Hoai Nguyen Stress Marks Do you have a lot of stress, Bub? Does it show in the lines on your face? Those lines that you're paying to erase? Well, relax, have I got a cure for you. Make sure that you always wear blue. For those lines don't like that hue, at least for the way you feel about you. It's all a matter of what's in your head, unless you are already dead. And then, it don't matter at all, cuz, undertaker makes you look good in bed. Do you look in the mirror and snarl? Do you feel you didn't go the extra mile? Have I got a cure for you, Bub, tomorrow. It wasn't that pregnancy you had, it was all that good eating went bad. When you realized that you were getting fat, took that crash diet, just the latest fad. But I guess it's just part of your nature, you wear stress inside your genes. So you might as well wear it outside, on your stressed brand-new blue jeans. Copyright 2022 © Ronald W. Hull 6/2/22 You can read and print this poem at my website here.
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Reviewed by D.T. de Bruijn

Reviewed on June 24, 2022

hopeful words for the fat ones among us. jeans do make you look young!

Reviewed by Mary Patterson

Reviewed on June 20, 2022

A UNIQUE PLAY ON WORDS. Stress Marks are here , there , everywhere, even when we don't want them to be. Loved the poem!

Reviewed by Jms Bell

Reviewed on June 15, 2022

'STRESS MARKS'...SHOW UP IN THE MOST UNEXPECTED, BUT VERY VISIBLE PLACES. WHAT'S GOOD ABOUT THEM IS THAT THEY ARE 'UNIVERSAL' SO, THEY BLEND-IN PRETTY WELL AS WE...PRESS ON. GREAT METAPHOR, THANKS RON. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed by Ed Matlack

Reviewed on June 5, 2022

Jeans stress marks,
Most come from where one does of their jeans, park,
Keep them ironed or otherwise well cleaned,
Gives you something to do while in your house, quarantined!

Good write as always, Ron

Reviewed by Rebecca McKeehan

Reviewed on June 4, 2022

I sometimes look at pairs of jeans in consignment shops and wonder to myself what stories they could tell!

Rebecca

Reviewed by Poets Soul

Reviewed on June 3, 2022

I enjoyed this play on words that had a wise message. I enjoy your works.
PS

Reviewed by T. Wignesan

ALL Hail, Senor Don Ron, Sir ! Glad to know H.N.'s back to give you HELL minus stress. At least, now, the homestretch will be paved with tell-tale stress marks to guide you over the bed of roses.
Even if your artificially constructed lines and rhymes don't do you justice as a supreme AD critic, your "gamesmanship" in bearing with us all DOES. Thanks ever so much for that ! Let me say it now and here before I, too, disappear: You are, indeed, one of the MOST - if not the MOST intelligent person - I have ever come across ! Well, you know the rest...

Reviewed by audrine max

enjoyed your poem, Mr. Ron. best partner for breakfast.

Reviewed by Sandie May Joyce (Sandie Angel)

An intriguing poem, Ron! But even young people would wear their stress marks that are very visible to the eyes. I remember when I was working in the Customs office, I had to sign up one investigator into the system. I often thought this woman, who had a face full of wrinkles, was a lot older, so I was greatly surprised when I asked her for her birthdate to be put into the system as security that she told me her age was even younger than I was.

I was really surprised, and I knew I went out of line when I tilted my head to look at her strangely. Hahahaha!!! - That was quite rude of me!

Then suddenly, I looked at her hands, which only resembled a young woman's hands. They were smooth without any wrinkles. So I realize perhaps she just got extra lines on her face.

Sandie

Reviewed by Felix Perry

Ain't it the truth as my kid used to say. Love my old faded blue jeans and things do seem to slow down a mite when wearing denim...flashback to the sixties? Good write Ronald.
Fee

Reviewed by Mark Lichterman

Stress Lines: At my age now, stress lines do not matter, as a matter of fact, like Sargent chevron's on a sleeve, they are a sigh of survival... in extremely stressful times.

Good one, Ron
Mark