Thoughts that sometime...rhyme

Scribble as I might I cannot paint the sunset I saw tonight. Starting pale and orange, it filled the skies and also my eyes. A closer look later as the colors deepened and nature’s brush strokes lit up the cottonball sky details linger long in the mind a good sunset is hard to find and harder to... Sign in to see full entry.

Poems are dreams on paper Multicolored events embellished in black and white. Time stretches, reality fades out then back in stronger than before or after. In poetry the impossible becomes a household world and we can fly underwater or swim among the clouds with a candy cane for a snorkel and... Sign in to see full entry.

It’s raining dogs the cats are howling at the moon not a dry eye in the house on the hill of Jack and Jill. George fell down and broke his crown. Nancy Pelosi let her backbone slip and broke her hip. Go into the army it is all too “sir” real get a gun kill anyone especially Jack and that damned... Sign in to see full entry.

Olde Pictures Folks standing proudly by their cars. It was a modern world then, rendered in black and white. Here’s an Uncle and an Aunt. Now all the family standing stock still. Over heated in their finest clothes none daring to even pant. It was a far off world then young men preparing to go to... Sign in to see full entry.

The shrieks of children to and fro on the swing have long since fallen quiet. Echoes of a mother calling the family to supper, long ago mute. bare fencposts point accusingly at the empty sun-baked house “it was you that made them go” “No, No” the house whispers, loneliness rasping it’s throat “’twas... Sign in to see full entry.

I crawled into a dream, it was warm and comfy, I think I had been there before and as I snuggled in the real world began to disappear it was all beauty here no nasty people, nothing to fear. I licked an ice cream cone made from the sweet parts of life until my tongue became the color of the sun and... Sign in to see full entry.

I stepped out into the void nothing underfoot no safety net on my own. It’s a bit uncomfortable, falling falling but then you get used to its weightlessness and start swimming windmilling your arms and legs and then a scream sticks in your throat as you see the ground rushing up at an inexorably... Sign in to see full entry.

All alone lost in a crowd no one hears though I talk out loud. Everyone is going to where everyone has been it is so quiet here in the awful din. Too many people who can count them all? No one pays any mind no one at all. Do what you want no one has time to care if you were in the country anyone... Sign in to see full entry.

One Llama, two Llama are you from Alabama? No, no, you human twit you’ve screwed up the pronunciation just a bit. You can go to New York and ask any Farmah our name really only rhymes with serious drama. Photo of my neighbors curious beasts. Sign in to see full entry.

The rarest of days The giant blue orb o’erhead prescribes the perfect arc here in the north too. No clouds have left their mark not one raindrop has found a place to park. Days like this we don’t usually see we are pretty far north that’s how it is for me. Most every day has a cloud involved at... Sign in to see full entry.