Do you do drugs like drugs do you
Painting highs as cowslips low yellow meadows, buttercups & wattles waltz by lil posy primroses. But poppy wants her opium Mary Jane her green Salvador does dilly dali painting plants…
Read MoreDark knight
Let the dark speak its comfort in the arms of the night. Gallant whispers lay the cape covering my fright. Be the hush of quiet Genteel be the hands that…
Read MoreTrees beg to be heard. Where time lines and ring barks. The old dog and bone.
Read MorePirate Pete
Pete the pirate, a master of fails. Once, he dressed up in top hat & tails, said he’s off with his shank to drill a hole in the plank But…
Read MoreShadow limerick
There once was a deep little shadow without any body to follow He got in a muddle Fell in a puddle & now he’s a little bit shallow
Read Morepsalm love
Wrap her prayers A magic ribbon to tie the light A Möbius amoeba in the sea of dementia Knot not knotted an unraveling thread Which she held in her palm…
Read MoreSelf contained
It’s a blue bottle baby & a piece of the sea. It’s the sting in the tail one never forgets. Washed up abandon, at its lowest ebb. Sorrow preserved long…
Read MoreI am a riddle
I am the jangled nerves of waiting. A dispassionate white room cold. I am an ever present fear and a much dreaded departure. The loudest wailing prayers and sobs, a…
Read Morewriting woes
I’m walking down that road, the rocky one, sure that I will fall and afraid that I was never on the road at all. But merely, a bystander a refugee…
Read MoreLabels disable
25 #NaPoWriMo You want put a label on me Awhile wearing tickets To ride like everyone Hot blows your wind and foul When you hide your flaws By making them…
Read MoreI heard you the first time
23 #NaPoWriMo Revving engines Sky plane soar Horns object to chicken play Blinds twitch n silent sight Balls thud, Thud, thud Range o bells Ding, dong door Cacophony of senses…
Read MoreJust saying…
13 #NapPoWriMo “How many times have I told you?” How oft the ears don’t listen The teller curses When the rain falls light From a burning sky Hundreds and thousands…
Read More“the homeless haibun”
12 #NapoWriMo “haibun” A paper man crumples Cold eyes skirt & seek the sky. Deaf to his hunger thinking only that it’s Thursday, or maybe Friday, must have a barbecue.…
Read MoreDon’t list me
7 #NaPoWriMo No tag tied to my name The plans of mice n men Just get up and do Let the analysts earn their pay Some other when, far away…
Read MoreLine breaks
6 #NaPoWriMo Daily decision Poetic pause Impact thinking Line break dancing Doing the limbo When & where Draw the line Longer or shorter Breaths held In the spaces in between…
Read MoreBand Names
#NapoWriMo Band Names Electric Elastic Fiddle Folk The Triple Trumpets Drumstick-n-stone Dungareedoh Synthetic Slithers Belt up Dunkin Disco Voila
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