Tenderness is her soft whiskers against my skin, precious is her nose near mine, She sits as I open two books read a chapter from each. Her kisses start my day.
Category: Miscellaneous
Umbrella
Shield me keep me covered with protection I have grown weary of rain
Wheelbite
Scorpion pose, on the neck Feet thrown forward behind the head sculpted perfectly comet being tighten trucks next time
Decades of Decay (Hour 18, A Four Square Poem)
Decades of Decay Beaten Bloodied Blackened Broken Rage Unchecked Hatred Unspoken Together Trashed Rancid Rotten Forever Lost Future Forgotten ****A four square poem has four stanzas of four lines each, where each line is only a single word.****
A Second Breakfast (Hour 20)
My doctor is a bore Frets like a mother hen The fuss? My weight Who will deny me those late night raids in the kitchen while the house slept? those tippy-toe moments as I hear a door swing- pause silence Oh, dad, I just…
Shimmer
Dangle a nebula around my neck. I will carry her. I will carry you if you’ll let me. Take this white dwarf. No, take it. A gift. It’s okay to say yes. Lean on my rings. You are safe. Comet of the last decade will…
#21
I’m just pissing in the wind over here
Practicality
“Come in, she said I’ll give ya shelter from the storm..” – Bob Dylan I have never had much use for umbrellas keeping rain at bay as antithetical to a poet as sunscreen to a snowman I need no portable canopy except for thoughts let…
Lagos, Nigeria (Hour 19)
an urban contradiction of the sane and insane coexisting in an asylum called city by name of a concatenation of smells expensive perfumes fighting sosorobia¹ body odor hiding beneath the aroma from mamaput¹² factories belching pollution competing with paraga³-drinking drunkards- staggering is the…
Poem 21
her mind is a mystic umbrella protecting my soul from the raining pain of my past.