When what I wrote is hard to read,
the crowd goes, Whoa, not touching that.
Perhaps someone should intercede
to edit out the ghoulish splat.
It’s not clear why my mind goes there;
the childhood fever might be it.
My mother often voiced despair,
but I prefer macabre wit.
Beneath calm seas, menacing kelp
ensnares the otter fleeing Jaws.
My wife’s convinced I should seek help
to find the underlying cause.
Though I in earnest sometimes try,
the animals just seem to die.
Categories:
abra, animal, horror,
Form: Sonnet
Abra a porta
Na vida ou nos negócios,
na década que se vai
naquela que chega
sempre abra sua porta.
Abra a porta para o planejar,
abra a porta...
Nenhum sonho fique
do lado de fora.
Do escurecer ao dia claro,
sonhe e seja tudo,
rosa de mil pétalas
aberta na sombra.
Quem se multiplica
não sofre o vexame
de só ser uma pessoa só
do cair do sol ao sol a pino.
Categories:
abra, business,
Form: Free verse
Abra e Feche
Abra você mesmo as portas
de cada oportunidade.
trancando fora as
as virtudes negativas.
Virtudes negativas
são como oportunidades indesejadas
só porque elas aparecem na nossa porta
não significa que eles têm o direito de entrar.
Pratique a virtude da Doçura
iluminada de alegria e de gratidão
carregada de humor
alegria, gratidão e humor
formam as primeiras virtudes da pessoa empreendedora,
e, quem sabe, a origem de todas.
Categories:
abra, business,
Form: Free verse
A hearty bowl of soup's a meal
Add a salad side -- great combo deal
Doctor said to this, nothing holds a candle
~ for getting rid of those love handles
Categories:
abra, food, motivation,
Form: Light Verse
Abra a porta
Hoje e sempre;
Abra sua porta
à imaginação
planejada em detalhes.
Hoje e sempre,
Nenhum sonho
fique do lado de fora,
Faça agora o que tem que ser feito.
Hoje e sempre,
Multiplique,
Quem se multiplica
Inspira e não fica só!
Hoje e sempre
Ame o que faz,
Faça agora,
Faça com amor!
Categories:
abra, business,
Form: Free verse
Para viver com sucesso o segredo
é abrir as mãos:
deixar escorrer sem avareza!
Para viver com sucesso o segredo
é abrir o coração
para compartilhar
sucesso.
Para viver com sucesso o segredo
É estar pronta para sobressalto:
ah, abri as mãos e o coração,
só tem a ganhar!
Entretanto,
Nada, por mais que eu fale ou escreva;
nem o branco fogo do trigo
nem as agulhas cravadas na pupila dos pássaros
te dirão a receita.
O segredo é estar pronta,
Faça um pouco mais,
Hoje e sempre:
É o único caminho!
Categories:
abra, business,
Form: Free verse
Drip, drip
Drip, drip
Melts the soiled soul onto
A dusty field of abandon
Fenced in by human limbed pickets
Yanked from the graves
Of broken hearts
Skeletal branched silhouettes
Clatter above the bloodless
Hole in the ground
The Ravens hide in the shadows
The shadows hide behind stone crops
The crops provide bountiful skulls
What is the illusion without a live audience?
Who, or what heard the solemn incantation of
Abra-Cadaver?
Categories:
abra, death, horror, magic,
Form: Free verse
He is a master of illusory feats
From out of nowhere he pulls a parakeet
After doing that
He then pulls a rabbit out of his hat
From out of his palm things suddenly appear
As if they came out of thin air
His audience looks in disbelief
As he pulls a bouquet ( from his sleeve)
Abra cadabra are the words we hear
As his lovely assistant disappears
Then he waves his magic wand with flair
And suddenly she reappears
He can tell you the card you picked
It's just a part of his magic tricks
He can put things together that he took apart
But he just cant mend his broken heart
He waves his magic wand so debonaire
Wishing that the one he loves will appear
"Abra cadabra" he says again
And his tears fall down like rain
He can pull rabbits out of hats
But the master of illusion cannot bring love back
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Categories:
abra, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Abra cadabra alacazam
Where is Mary’s little lamb?
Lost in cyber space somewhere.
Finding friends without a care.
Behind the doors of the castle wall
There might be a prince standing tall.
A place to love, a place to fall,
It might just be a free for all.
Abra cadabra alacazam
I raise my staff, fireball in hand.
Hear my words, dear little lamb.
Adventure lurks in cyber land.
Real world living might be fun.
But cyber friends are number one.
Understanding hearts are flung.
Upon a hope, dreams are hung.
Wait…
Abra cadabra alacazam
Please get rid of all this spam.
I cannot read my writes from friends.
Spam bombardment never ends.
A flash of light through the cyber world,
Seeks my mind with every whirl.
I must delete when much is hurled.
It’s much too much for this old girl.
© June 7, 2011
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
Inspired by Poetry Soup Member Contest: Magic Words
Sponsored by: Leighann Anderson
(But not entered because I wrote in the wrong form…it was fun!)
Categories:
abra, science fiction
Form: Rhyme