Carnival of Ghouls (Valkyrie) Perplexed by the spectacle frightening, The dreary masses experience enlightening, Punishment for lives spent crying, self- entitling, I step forth from the shadows with sharp senses heightening. ‘Roll up, roll up,’ my carnivalesque display to appease, Your dreadful need for expressionistic…

He doesn’t keep things forever. Not pets nor people, Christmas tree bulbs Nothing is an heirloom to him but his mirror image and triple length self publications. He’s a tricky throw awayer with his darting eyes, his clever lines “Oh, you didn’t want that, did…

Fruit Lifes natural source of endorphins. She hands me a bowl of assorted fruit   Food is her love language.   Oreos Black and white sandwich cookies, cream-filled and delicious with milk. (Even though I’m lactose intolerant). She knows that’s my favorite.   Sour and…

Last night I went to heaven. I met a man that whispered your name like a prayer. They tell me I’m destined for hell with a frown painted face. I tell them I have been living there most of my life. What’s another night? I…

Hour Eight – Gigans must be 16 lines in length with seven stanzas (each stanza is separated by a line break). It goes couplet (two lines), tercet (three lines), couplet, couplet, couplet, tercet, couplet. The first line is also the eleventh line, line six is…

As I was walking outside I ran into my neighbors, an older couple. The lady pet my dog and said she liked his big head. I do too. The bottom tip of the state, away from the cornfields but not away from the nothing and…

Cooking seafood is a treat Making Lobster sweet Dropping sauce Sipping tequila in a kitchen discrete. copyright(c)2022 Roxann Lawrence

I’m seven and you’re nine, And I don’t question, nor wonder why. You’re a precious view of summer, A sunlight, A lily or sunflower, You’re my forever and ever. In my everyday, I see it through, You are my greatest color hue. My lovely light,…

DOG loyal, friendly petting, fetching, snuggling compadre, companion, servant, lackey clawing, scratching, creeping finicky, aloof CAT     ****A diamante is composed of seven lines, where Iines 1 and 7 have opposite meanings, and are typically one word nouns, although concepts or phrases are sometimes…

DogSpeak #7 Nothing Better Bacon bacon bacon we love bacon bacon treats bacon kibble bacon gravy on bacon potatoes bacon in/on/with everything bacon! You humans are odd bacon raw but never crisp bacon crisp but never raw bacon strips warmed over but we don’t care…