I hope…
I hope…
I hope that I get moved into my apartment
before the end of this month
I hope that I get things done
at work before I get kicked out
I hope that I manage to earn my degree
within the next three years
I hope… I hope… I hope…
Disappear
I used to disappear
Characters that would help me
A world that I found better
Kinder
More like the one I wanted to live in
Soft chairs
Piles of books
Hot tea
And understanding partners
I still wish I could disappear
She Iz
God keeps me when I feel I cannot be kept
He loves me when I feel unlovable
God curbs my appetite when I am ravenous
She lifts me when I falter
God iz a cool breeze when the temperature iz scorching
He iz the answer to my unanswerable thoughts
God jumpstarts me when my battery is silenced
She fills my tank when I am on empty
God restores my soul cuz He iz my all in all
My Garden Hour 19
Within my garden
grow Palms
of every kind
Wizened and old
twisted by time
The stoney path
is lined complete
with moss from
Irish moor and land
Above my head
hang hibiscus’s lush
every color on
every strand
A bench made of
century old cedar
so one can sit
instead of stand
Pizza
While Anthony Bourdain can be quoted,
“I don’t know if bar-b-que is the road to world peace,
but it’s a good start.”
I would also like to submit pizza as another avenue
The combinations of sauce, cheese, and toppings
are almost limitless
Fine dining could charge $50 per pie
while the corner shop asks for $2 per slice
The food of kings and teenagers
Appropriate for any celebration
and welcome at any meeting
The ultimate temptation to college students
Everyone is equal at the pizza table
Round like the table Arthur set for his knights
We come together for food, friends, conversation, and debate
Until the box is empty
1 / This Is How It Finds Us
This Is How It Finds Us
after Diana Khoi Nguyen
blue ruffle out on the bay
breaking briefly around one reef and
another
snagged
white shoreline rushing
and receding
with It. How the juniper
rattles and loses
its buttons
and we think we don’t move
a fiber if we’re still
in our big wooly coat
Life’s Kaleidoscopic Hour 18
My life is full of color
a rainbow hue of joy
At night as light recedes
so the colors melt away
I prefer the bright yellow sun
to the darkness of the night
A myriad of visions
to dance before my eyes
The night extinguishes
kaleidoscope’s radiant art
I await the morn impatiently
to return its colors to my eyes
An art of it’s own
Mandala skies, shades of blue, purple and green. Paisley stars are painted over the mountains. As above so below the roots of the pine are meant to grow
In the shape of DNA
Everything is connected
It’s just beautiful
Seeing geometric
It’s a useful tool
Be open to new perspective
Listen and learn
Give
And earn
Be at peace with all
Self control is a must
And even when you fall
you still need to trust
She is dead (Prompt)#Hour 5
She is dead,
My tiny little potted plant
Her leaves scattered
Just below the loft
Dry and lifeless she lay
Dead stalk shivering
As the wind swayed
The loft so high
Oh! Who could have done it?
I glared angry at the sun
You must have scorched
My poor plant to dust
Oh! Who could have done it?
I swore at the dripping hose
You swamped my poor little thing
Flooded her roots
Oh! Who could have done it?
I accused the harsh winds
You shook her tender stalk
Till she bent
Oh! Who could have done it?
I raged at the storm
Your lightning struck her
Little spirit out
Oh! Who could have done it?
I screeched at the pot
You suffocated her growing spirit
Stunted her to death
Her leaves rustled
As if greeting me for one last time
I could hear her whisper
But where were you?
Hour 6: Death comes as the end
It has atlast been proved beyond doubt
That earth is flat
What a victory for our flat-earth societies!
As the president of the world’s largest flat-earth society,
I had the privilege to be the first
To peep down and look what lurked underneath
Bursting with self-importance, I looked upon the round-earth societies
And looked down
What I saw gave me a heartattack and I tumbled down to my death
Alas! I could not tell the flat earth
What I see…