The Poetry Marathon

Crane

Peaky

Leafy

Heady

Beady

When the dinosaur awoke, they were still there.

Is life just a game of tennis

Your serve

Play till 6

40-40

Love all

If I ever won star baker

There’d be no more hills to climb

Does my cat think about me as much as I think about her?

sometimes I think yes

sometimes

sometimes I think no

I don’t think it’s possible to forget a face

But you could be surprised by one

A long passed relative staring back at you

As you mindlessly flip through your digital albums

Expecting memories of trips past or saved recipes but

Seeing instead your ancestors looking on

Remembering how you taught them things

Like what the Internet was

And how you pretended to love meat when they cooked you

Cheeseburgers

How she painted and sculpted every day

But only portraits of long dead authoresses

Or cats with human faces

While he peddled rigged arcade games in giant warehouses

And gave you porcelain dolls and monkeys that played piano on strings

All of this comes back

With a swipe on a screen

As you looked for what to make for dinner

Никогда не думала что

Абсолютно всех, кроме

Бублика

Обо меня думает, каждый день

К закату, где

Орла

Ввела скандал

Blunt must go!

A quotation found on the pages of Agatha Christie

A murder mystery with no motive

But that’s absurd, the other characters shout

How can you have a murder with no motive

How can you seek comfort from the pages of a book about bloodshed

How is it that this is my only place of peace

There’s a chicken named after me

Not the kind that you will ever eat

The kind that will cluck around and lay eggs when she feels like it

Did you know that chickens can live up to 20 years?

I’ve heard that my chicken grew faster than the rest

She’s very photogenic

One day I’d like to meet her

Is there anything better than enjoying a donut on an outdoor deck on a balmy Saturday morning

no