Thursday, November 11, 2010

Sweet 'n' Sour

I remember

Mom had a habit
Of enticing her
Granddaughter into the store-
Room where she’d ply

The kid with all kinds of sweet
Whatnots till she was caught
Red-handed by a red-
Faced son who thought

She was trying
To pull a fast one
On the sourpuss dad
Who had all but forgotten

He once had parents
As sweet as she was.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Lullaby of Birdland


Our darling

Sweet bird of youth
Has turned in

To a dark gray crow cawing on
A blackened limb.


ΤΡΙΑ ΠΟΙΗΜΑΤΑ/TRES POEMAS


My thanks to Mario Domínguez Parra for translating three of my Greek poems into Spanish and sending them to the prestigious online poetry magazine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico(UNAM); if neither Greek nor Spanish is “Greek” to you, you can read them here.


Tuesday, November 9, 2010

AAHH, The IMF!

A poem adapted from a classic moving picture starring Archilochos, Aristophanes, Hitchcock, and The Hellenes in flight from the clutches of despicable harpies desperate for a piece of the action!

Monday, November 8, 2010

Huuklyeand Cinquor on the Light at the End of the Tunnel

Hallelujah, brethren!
I tell you things

Just keep gettin’ better
And better—

Ain’t no stopping that gravy
Train headed our way, just

You wait and see.

Moderator’s comments: Okey-dokey, Huuklyeand, we poor, stranded, unenlightened masses get the picture. We have to wait in this here dark passageway till the second coming of The Super Chief.



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