Sunday, November 29, 2020

Critical Poetic License

Happily ever after, 
Do not write as if 
 
Your life’s a third-rate novel 
Where you end up 
 
Reading a biography 
You could’ve lived without. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Memo Writ To A Fare-Thee-Well

Don’t forget— 
No matter what you do, how 
You do it will always come back 
To let you know how you did. 
 
 

 

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

A Poem Should Be (22)

Lightheaded but not 
At all incongruous— 
Like a grotesque
 
Metallic bird lunging head- 
Long into the sound 
Barrier banging against 
 
Your tin ear till 
You can hear yourself 
Heading for another universe 
 
Eons 
Of light 
Years away. 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Playing For Keeps

We know 
How diverse verses come and go— 
 
The easy ones quick and eager 
To show their facile faces; the hard ones 
 
Hard at work while hiding, keeping 
Those hard-won profiles low. 
 
 
 
 

 

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Discriminating Behavior

 
Like eggs gone bad, unsavory 
Politicians on their way 
To becoming rotten to the core 
Maneuver straight to the surface 
When immersed in a pot of water; 
Taken for granted and yoked 
To one another by dumb gravity, 
Their out of it constituents stay hale
And hearty stuck to the bottom. 
 
 

 

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