Thoughts that sometime...rhyme

The gray-haired hags perch on the edge of a stool trembling hands slam quarters into the ever hungry slots, a vulture feeding it’s young would be more fair to gaze upon. Squinting eyes blink against the smoke curling up the half ashen cigarette sagging from a mouth long ago void of any true... Sign in to see full entry.

A black cat’s howl arches it’s back and rides a broom over the moon. Things flutter just out of sight it’s Halloween the frightful night when ghosts suffuse up through the ground then on my door they do pound. I know what would tame them and if would sure be handy had I not forgot to buy some candy. Sign in to see full entry.

Another day the earth has spun From shadow To sun As it always will And always has done. But when this ride stops, Some will not get off, Their time will be done. We see the empty seats and we think of them And the empty pool where they used to swim. The dusty wind swirls leaves Rustling like a... Sign in to see full entry.

My biological clock Ticks when it should tock My hips click When I walk. I think the hourglass That measures my life Is seeing the bottom half Slowly gaining on the empty half… Grain, grain, Rain, rain Every day A new pain. My biological clock’s Hands refused To be pushed back The daylight left... Sign in to see full entry.

The sick green glow Of my watch backlight Allows me to tell the time Even at midnight But I still don’t know Where I am in time. I look at the device Strapped to my wrist The numbers there mean something I suppose More than 9:05 pm On a Wednesday night But I don’t know what It is, they keep changing... Sign in to see full entry.

As I sit down to tickle the ivories of my mind I’m never sure what I will find. If someone comes to re-posses your half-pipe Let them take the upper half. Two weeks ago I started eating string cheese, I’m already up to rope cheese, no strings attached. I ate a logic biscuit To sharpen my mind Just a... Sign in to see full entry.

I think their name is fred Tell me they aren’t normal Voices in my head Because they are normal voices Only in my head Says fred. They sigh the things I feel When a spring day makes me kneel On bended knee Because any other knee configuration Would be ludicrous. To a kneel They feel. fred told me a... Sign in to see full entry.

My mind is in a situational stew Do I Or do I not, know what to do? The boss is away And I am in charge Doing something neither one of us has done I don’t know if I’ve lost or won. Text messages perplex me But then I got one That said My son and his wife Are expecting their first baby And now I have... Sign in to see full entry.

Forward looking I face Standing on the edge Of my Dali clock Draped over a tree limb. Time, Warped runs by Sticking it’s tongue out At me I don’t know why. I can never catch it And if I did What would I do with it? Extra time doesn’t fit You can’t get away with it. Really Forward looking Into the... Sign in to see full entry.

No messages on my phone It seems I’m alone Even when I’m not home. Sign in to see full entry.