The Poetry Marathon

Would I Could

Like Pegasus Fly

Filled With Such Joy

Like Light In The Sky

Would I Could

Like Minotaur Roar

Finding My Way

Like Never Before

Would I Could

Like Medusa Stare

Turn You To Stone

Like I Don’t Even Care

Waking up

Under water…

How can I now breathe?

Sparkly colors

Surround me.

All upside down…

How can fish drown?

Not me.

Frogs!

Each wear their slimy raincoat

Throwing rotten tomatoes

One mystery evening

Through our yard of steam

Towards jars of fireflies

Suddenly perculating

Green jumping elbow

Too fastly closely

We children run in wonder

How did they find us?

(pitter pats gentle cats

always in my mind)

(there was a time two rats of mine

became live cat tv)

(last dog i’d say: please sneeze away

aaah~chooo she did with ease)

(sweet screaming squirrel without tail

father killed from freeze)

(white mouse went on pocketwalks

then one day jumped away)

(rabbit chased all neighbor cats

fast across green yard)

(pretty turtle ate bologna

’til mother sent him lake splash free)

(orange fuzzy hampsters twice

into walls went running)

(first pooch named after The Fonz

survived bullets through his tummy)

(sister’s bird sneaky attacks

quick kitty ~poof~ feathers)

My soul sings like fire

When we sway to the sound of my song…

An old proverb comes to me~

Those who wish to sing

will always find a song

Oh, how I love to sing!

But you are long looonng gone…

SO Hot Outside!

I gently touch

The blues and reds.

Beautiful

Swirl of purple.

Surrounded by a sea

Of peachy~pink.

Do I feel yellow creeping in?

Perhaps I see some green?

Not yet time

For skin to show.

Put on my turtleneck

Good to Go.

I hate yellow.

Eeeeeeeek!

from sleep

I wake.

tickles

In my throat.

imagination?

~GULP~

Let us prey…

Sweet Spring by e.e. cummings

“sweet spring is your time is my time for springtime is lovetime and viva sweet love”

my man tasted sweet

we once had a spring

i knew what love is

because of your

days and nights of time

he knew what love is

oh my!

is it time?

what for?

he left me in springtime

i know what real pain is

where once there was lovetime

and?

my sad heart cried viva!

we once were a pair so sweet

i miss my love

do I dare?

(she whispered)

                       (to herself)

i feel SO weirdly funny…

<<she gently began to nudge>>

<<& scooch>>

if only it weren’t so dark in here!

            pin

                  prick

                        spot

                                of

                                       light

~wriggling~wriggling~wriggling~

                          …tender wings sooo soft…

a flurry on the next warm breeze

Adventures!!!

(((my sweet butterfly)))

you cannot stop

the will of a cat

you dare to try

they’ll swipe or they’ll scat

you cannot stop

your heart how it flows

you close your eyes

furry kiss on your nose

you cannot stop

from soon getting more

you start with just one

find yourself then with four

you cannot stop

all the wet on your lawn

you lie on it sobbing

when they are all gone