24 Poems ~ 24 Hours
A dainty restaurant
located at the twenty-first corner
is always bustling,
people grinning and chortling.
Seasoned salads and spiced up turkeys
decorate numerous wooden tables,
everyone digging in instantly,
knives and forks clattering.
So warm and utterly cozy inside,
waitresses, jolly and motherly.
Each step inside leads to
a safe haven of sorts- one for both mind and stomach.
Sleep awaits me with baited breath
Drowsiness encloses me
Twitching eyelids and sluggish moments
I fight away slumber’s fingers.
Dreams- a multicolored kaleidoscope
Anything is possible
Even the most bizarre
The night is for sleeping.
Dear Tooth Fairy,
My name is Sam Jerry
I know you must be incredibly busy
But I can’t help but be tizzy!
You see today I lost my first tooth!
It’s an incisor according to Ruth.
And thus, I couldn’t sleep tonight
Since, I tossed and turned in delight.
I hope this reaches you
And maybe, just maybe you will take my tooth too?
I will try to sleep with all my might,
With hopes that you’ll visit me today midnight.
Love,
Sam Jerry Sondove
Dan the fireman
told me he was made
for three things:
to play baseball,
put out fires,
and fuck.
But he left
ball and bat
at home
and there is no smoke
in this bar.
t began in the year nineteen hundred and twenty,
With many Indian tribes working just to earn a penny.
They set up their tee-pee homes,
And let the sheep, cow, and buffalo roam.
But then one terrible day,
The government forced them away,
From the lives they had lived everyday.
This is what started the tribes hard trip,
Down a long and winding trail they whipped.
Across the timbered hills and open prairies they went,
Marching through the flat wilderment,
Through the green grass and open spaces they progressed,
As the tribes were very depressed.
However, they could not stop for a long rest.
As the tribes endured the long hard struggle,
With many lives lost during the hard, cold, frost,
The tribes’ faith and hope were never lost.
During difficult times, tribes turned to each other,
To love help, and support one another,
Suddenly, a breeze blew through the trees,
As they marched down the trail, it put them at ease.
Many people put up a brave front,
As they searched for deer and elk to hunt,
But many others continued to fight,
To the surviving children, this was a fright.
For they did not understand,
When they watched a common man,
Die right before their eyes on fruitless land.
Over time, the journey did pay off,
Out west they cleared land, and built the haylofts.
A whole new world where livestock was plentiful,
Churches were built to confess acts that were sinful.
Schools were built to make the children’s future bright.
it was a time when people chased the impossible dream,
And, they worked together as a team,
To make glory and hope the promised end,
Of a Long and Winding Trail, my friend
At the diner
I order the same food
every time
I eat breakfast
any time of day.
Pancakes, eggs over medium
and bacon
and a cup of co
I once met a man with fifteen cats.
My policy is even one deems
a man untrustworthy.
So, I told him all my secrets,
he didn’t tell a single one.
I met a woman with a serpent’s tongue.
Her truth sounded like lies,
and mothers guarded children
even as she swung from garden noose.
I met a gypsy with the third eye.
Carnival coins and half truths
her speciality
–and birthright.
Abandoned by caravan, old and blind,
her milky eyes had seen too much.
I met a pimp brokering love.
Street corners and every flavor
his calling card. Self-proclaimed
lifetime bachelor, kept a wife
and three kids two states over.
Thread, long and red,
tied these people together.
And I, one hand on string,
one feeling its way in front,
felt the string pull from seam,
so we all wandered the space
where time has no dominion
and names have no meaning.
Mister fox trotted
A bear scrambled ahead
The little girl ran.
Agile and cunning
Like the forest’s big bad wolf
Red Riding Hood trails.
Her bear protector
Sniffing for a honey comb
Guiding and guarding.
As I rise to the occasion
Wings full filling all time, matter and space
to embrace the universe
i dip from the moon’s glow
and caress the milky way’s threshold
to cover her whole land and sea
skies unfold 5 fold
1 – 2 – 3 – 4
5
water earth air fire
balance
Lover nurturer and Queen
ruler of all things
goddess in the final hour
pride vindicated
like Phoenix out of the ashes
coming to claim
what is already in me
reign supreme
goddess in the infinite hour
~ism
Make sure your shoestrings are tight
As you walk through life
Taking it all in stride
One step at a time
The beauty of life can’t help but enthrall
Moving along without the trip and the fall
Take it in stride as you take in it all
Avoiding lifes wayward call