Poem: Sprinkle on the Top
A grey day With grey thoughts Comes to a sudden stop The world softens As snowflakes fall A blanket of white From out of the blue Festive decorations Delivered with a flair Out of thin air Life With a sprinkle on the top
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Poem: What Divides Us
Climbing up Too steep to go straight up Winding back and forth Striving Struggling To arrive at the peak The summit The ridge The divide But only for a moment Before descending down Too steep to go straight down Weaving back and forth Gliding Careening A drop of rain falling To the east of the …
Poem: Rhymes with COVID
Where is the rhyme To lighten our time? Bison, antelope, and cattle Cloven-hoofed, hollow-horned ruminants The Roman romancer Of Metamorphoses Penned elegant elegiac verses The science fair rocket Too optimistic A slide rule When you need a calculator One quart would do But you drank two A tube on the river Went by you just …
Poem: The Perfect Mask
What’s the perfect mask? It covers my mouth It covers my nose It’s a welcome layer When the winter wind blows It’s my ticket to dance class, The movies, the store It obscures our faces But I don’t care anymore What’s the perfect mask? First, it was one mask Then, it was two Now with …
Poem: Somewhere warm
Somewhere warm And cozy And safe On a frigid night Somewhere peaceful And comfy With dignity It’s everybody’s right
Poem: Snowed In
I was so busy packing When the first flakes fell I saw the swirling flurries But I told them, go to hell Today’s my moving day I will do it, yeah man! A little snow won’t stop me I have a perfect plan But the snow kept falling And the temperatures too Oh, you won’t …
Poem: Kitty Everywhere
Kitty in a basket In a box, and on a purse Kitty on the keyboard Walks and writes another verse Kitty tiptoes on my front And walks along my back I think I spot a kitty’s tail Behind the grocery sack Kitty bounds up to the counter Then hops up higher still She nearly bumps …
Poem: Maybe, it’s ok
Rushing, forgetting, confused, panicky My heart is racing I wake from a frantic dream The sky is clear and bright My thoughts are not I’m late I forgot to do something I don’t have enough… Another voice creeps in, seeps in A soft sound I strain to hear It tosses out an idea An offhand …
Poem: Nomad
Nomad So glad