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regulate your breath just so
rise and fall not slightest swell nor
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wssst! a bull’s eye! sweet as cocoa
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If Need Be/This Time/Lean On Me
In the commissary where I work, one priority is Speed. The restaurants want their prepared food, and they want it pronto. They will take Pretty Fast over Pretty every time.
This page is like that. I just had to get it done, and polishing it up would have cost me hours. Other pages will demand finesse; this one does not.
If Need Be
In a tough entangling web
It’s a time when your hopes ebb
Fear and hopelessness presage
Finding rescue–Draw that page
..
This Time
Take a number mon petit
Halve it with your bread and ghi
Infinitely numbers teem
Setting pace and mood and theme
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Lean On Me
Let’s help each other grow and bloom
Engaging in opposing doom
And new horizons come to be
No nastiness that we can see
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In the word balloons:
He: We NEED this…
She: …and it is Nice.
She: Tea & Ghi time!
He: …the Tripod…
She: …is mightier than the Stick.
He: Now let’s go…
She: .walking uphill…
They: …into the glorious sunset.
Sun: Crazy kids!
true LOVE real
Here is a syrupy, sappy, cartoony glimpse at romantic love. Cupid fires a barrage of love-arrows at a couple who is already kissing. Cupid gets undeserved bragging rights because the love was already there. What a devious creep Cupid can be!
true LOVE real
there’s a sleevéd heart to wear
romance comes for two to share
ultra-laved in buttered shea
eh, laissez entrer le Soleil
I don’t know what Shea Butter is, but it must be good stuff, judging from all the advertising, so I laved. Mostly I needed to rhyme a word ending with A and a word ending in L.
The last line roughly translates from the French as “What the Hell, let the sunshine in.” Cheers!
Monthly Renewal
Change a month & catch a Thrill/Sketch a drooping Daffodil/Plan some stuff you never do/Don’t be scared–it’s only New
Monthly Renewal
My O my, the Calendar has flipp’d a fresh page over
Out goes August; in September; cooling may ensue
Nonetheless the night sky now includes a blown-up Nova, ‘n
There in Horsehead Nebula some brand new stars are due
Here on Earth’s September we obey unwritten law
Let the lightning flash & thunder growl with sis boom ba
Yay for fresh new months that well reward our wherewithal
Menagerie
Menagerie
Making friends again with clay
Efferversced your mood today
Notwithstanding sky-so-gray–
Amplified that riff-strewn sound;
Gotten butterflies astound
Everyone with what you’ve found.
Raise a glass to absent friends.
Iridescent dusk descends
East to west where rainbow wends.
Chess Queen & King (triple acrostic)
Chess Queen & King
Choose quickly be brisk &
Have uncials no-risk
Entreaties slice pi
So genies benign
Slide nonesuches; sing
a bitch/bemoan (a to z acrostic)
a bitch
bemoan
(the things that you say when you’re there all alone)
see stuff
deride
(on the sarcasm sea ne’er-say-wells well abide)
egads
eff this
(it’s best to stop bitching and walk drive or kiss)
.
get out your new groceries
have a hereinafter
indicate your pleasure with a
jaunt of
kitschy
laughter
make a
naked spectacle
of
perishable
quests
rigorize
some
tangled
use of
varicolored nests
double you and toss on plate a fine and
extra me
why? hey, why NOT? let us scrap our
zealouslessness–BE!
Brute Force (acrostic)
Behold a thug who lusts to gaff
Reduce redact and ravage so
Upload depletion unto chaff/Sheer
Tyranny. It’s ABC
Extermination’s nigh. Best flee
BLOWHARD
Befitting the Almighty Poo-BaH
Logorrhea mixt Brew & Hoo-HA
O Logic fleece & Truth deteR
What Crimes unearthed in Spoken WorD
My Improbable Valentine
It is my good fortune to see this lovely woman almost every day. She slices turkey and ham, and I slice tomatoes, and we work across from each other in a gigantic kitchen, preparing foodstuffs for airport restaurants.
Her name is Kendra, and somehow it has become part of our workday to say “It’s good to see you” to each other, first chance we get. Yesterday there was more, though. I told her that for Valentine’s Day I was offering custom Valentine poems to any of my female Facebook friends who wanted one. Kendra smiled and suggested that I do one for her.
So yesterday I did. Here’s what she pulled out of the envelope on her break today:
Inside is a custom-made Valentine poem:
K is for Keeping your calm in the storm
E is your Eyes so dark-chocolatey warm
N is for Numinous–magical, bright
D is Delightful, a so-welcome sight
R is your Rich Voice of velvet and sun
A is Adorable–you’re #1!!!
And, you know, Friends, she does, they are, she is, she is, it is, and she is. This is one of the easiest Acrostics I have ever written. The words just leaped out as I thought of my friendly, consummately professional, drop-dead-gorgeous co-worker, of whom I am quite fond.
PS–she kind of liked the poem. 🙂
One with Clay, Image and Text 