24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
Small and soft
Quick and sharp
They can love deeply
But hate deeply as well
They like to be the center of attention
Unless you give them too much attention
Or try to pet them too much
Fickle loyal creatures these cats
Yay one more typed up. I writing everything in a notebook before posting. So I had to write up a few quickly before I started posting to get caught up again. But I now am (just one more to post).
From window pots to garden plots
forgo the cemetery, for if you’re wise you’ll make your choice
trees, flowers, fern and berry
We have recomposition and Capsula Mundi
because we are more civilized
We choose rebirth straight from the earth
over metals that won’t soon die
Our concrete jungles weren’t friendly, our carbon footprint we be-moan
now some of us have found a way to give back the life we have on loan
You’ve seen it in the alleys, in the broken bottle mess
You’ve seen it in the subways, and everywhere’s else, I guess
Our streets are much too crowded
Buildings codes eschew
We dreamed there was a better way,
I’ll bet that you did too!
Nature finds a way, you see the flowers poking through
the cement of the broken sidewalk,
That flower could be you!
Upon a new horizon your future will not waste
decay is not a fail-safe that complies post-haste
With a promise of release
from rust and ranker in the cold
You’ll rest with perfect peace
in gardens made of light
when you choose
our sweet respite,
a field of kindly eldritch delight !
A single thought
lingers
unattached
and then it floats away
A thread
weaves words
and people
until no one remembers to water it.
Then it quietly fades away
A train of thought
whistles,
calls you aboard,
then swoops you off and on
to a new adventure.
I’m off to buy a ticket!
And now
Just me and you
Without hesitation
Nothing in the world but us
Me – You
Insane
The joy I felt
The way you looked at me
No one mattered but us two
You – Me
I live
I love, I give
Everything is for you
You are my life, you have my heart
Always
One would think he should glow and shine
If you meet him you would guess shadows are his
But then he makes a lamp shine
And that’s when you see
He starts glowing down deep
And then the light spills from him
Almost like it was waiting to escape him
Woo two more to type up and Im caught up again. I did forget to say the last poem I found my own prompt just like this one. Sometimes you need something else to get you going.
For the simple cost of amusement and protection
I get a home, food, entertainment, and a servant.
I am amused that they think that they are my owner.
Not one time have I ever had to scoop their poop.
It’s a good gig, though.
Worth it for me to be loyal.
I love them. I think I’ll keep them.
jj2019 2019 Poetry Marathon
How you so delight a child?
Crawling there in smartness.
14 legs and 4 antennae.
Navigating darkness
Sniffing for a pal,
Armored for a fight,
Rolling up into a pill,
Roly Poly might.
The city roars far below with a savage metal rhythm,
And on the sidewalk it’s casual cannibalism
As men devour and bury each other to survive.
But here, home, vines twine in cages and pots
And dream maybe, in a vegetable way,
Of places beyond my metal cage home,
To where the fog isn’t smog,
And the animal cruelty and claws
Are without the human bite.
The bus stops beside the concrete footpath,
The rain thunders down on the grumpy teens,
Who were forced out of bed at 7 a.m. by their damn alarms,
The town has been engulfed by a thick fog,
The weather warning was the first thing I saw this morning
I get off, my school shoes immediately absorb the water,
I let out a low grumble, sipping my coffee,
It taste like dirt,
At least my day can’t get any worse,
I text my friends first,
Tell them to save me a seat in the canteen,
They stand more crooked than a wall should
They have crumbled and fallen
Those great walls that once towered
Now bowing to time
Like the lords to their king once here
These ruins just a shadow of the past
Soooo I thought I had set an alarm to get up again and work on these. But either I turned it off and stayed asleep or someone in the house turned it off on me. But I’m still going and I didn’t miss the end of the whole deal. So I can catch up and sleep once Im fully done.