The sauerkraut did it!!
Added that twinge of flavor
To the ham bone and its remnants
Collided with the Kielbasa
Soothed the pre-softened
Veggies of unknown origin.
It simmered – long and aromatically
Accomplishing acceptance
Easing the assimilation
Of a distant garden’s
Forgotten fields
Into a unified feast.
Thus, we sated ourselves
On its blended mysteries
Marveled at the soup’s ability
To change, yet stay the same,
Invite each shade of newness
To infiltrate its wholeness.
It was called “Ma’s Sour Soup”
And it was the sweetest bowl
Of tender care we ever ate.
Categories:
aromatically, family, food, life,
Form: Free verse
Aromatically whisking towards leopards bane
Waltzing, being careful to avoid the touch
Hither here step, toe, heel, a scrumptious pain
To tango with the devil's helmet, vomit, double Dutch
A vermilion distillment, a sleepy smile
A foxtrot coalescing with foul swoons
I cannot touch these, a reaction volatile
The rise up, seen once in a blue moon
So it's a rise down, a paddle turn
I can't wait to spend eternity in an urn
These violent delights have violent ends
Caution to the wind, carefully descends
Landing softly, a bed of poison
Swallowing, ever softly
Categories:
aromatically, judgement, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
I was a child, naive and care free
A soul of great curiosity
Then strong spirits poured into me
Seeped away with my purity
Siphoned my will so slowly
Drowned my heart in self-pity
...Showed me the way to misery
I was a boy without clarity
With no good sense of identity
Then a burning bush spoke to me
Dazed me aromatically
Consumed my prosperity
Changed me into a zombie
...Perverted my reality
I was a young man growing empty
Searching for some reciprocity
Then a bitter boy seduced me
Caught me with such intensity
Drove me to insanity
Stripped me of all dignity
...Made me my own worst enemy
I was a grown man filled with envy
Loathing my imps of atrocity
Then a black horse slammed into me
Tied me in reigns of sorcery
Drew out my dark fantasy
Taught my flesh true agony
...Put the masochist within me
Categories:
aromatically, addiction, heartbreak, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
beets and brussel sprouts
were really on the outs
sprouts got spoiled
beets got boiled
—aromatically challenged louts
Categories:
aromatically, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Let me speak of great love:
"Love!" no consonant can procure--
No vowel can lyrically form
Into lips and eyes so fair,
Dare I use the word divine
When proclaiming mine?
Yes! My love is all of these--
And adjectives numerous more
Than leaves,
And flakes it takes to white
The vast countryside,
And stars one counts when ribbons
Of stars unfold and
The dazzle of the heart cries
Out: "No other will do, no beat
Of life will pursue unless
There is you!"
I breathe a whisper love
Then shout,
My love exploding out--
Comes forth, such amorous rage--
Beyond poems,
A heart poured out
Running off page:
Not as buds--slowly, eloquently define,
Or as grapes aromatically refine,
But as stormy sea
Rushes to shore
My love thrust is this
And more…
No--my love has no face--
For this is not her grace--
A body such as she
Yet have I to find
For all are in my mind--
For all reveal some special way
What alone a throbbing heart
Can say--
What alone heaven
Has yet to share,
What alone
Mortal hearts have yet to bare--
For such love as this
If for others I would deem
One must never have
But always dream….
Categories:
aromatically, allegory, allusion, heart, love,
Form: Free verse
SPRING!!!!
I stepped in it this morning
soft squishy, tracked it into the house
SPRING!!!
Mud, ice crusted, glistening,
steamy, warming in the
mirage of early sun.
SPRING!!!
Aromatically composting
Autumn’s neglected harvest,
SPRING!!!!
Worms aerating the soil
playing tug-o-war
with early birds
SPRING!!!
Crocus and Jonquil
Opening Day
SPRING!!!
Hats and jackets
celebratory decorations
swaying in the breeze
SPRING!!!!
Princely kiss awakening
Sleeping Beauty
3/13/2016
submitted to – Spring – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Catie Lindsey
Categories:
aromatically, spring,
Form: Free verse
Aromatically enticing
Under a crisp, gray sky
Tightening my breath
Unyielding cold air rushed by
Melodically the birds
Nonchalantly they head
South they fly
Impatient is the cold
Sneaky and quite bold
Geometrically the flakes shine
Obviously prematurely
No sooner we have snow this time so damn
Early
Categories:
aromatically, autumn,
Form: Acrostic
Father once told me
darkness is absence of light;
spaces void of sight.
Fall is marching near,
stealing the identity
of the oak and pine.
The leaves surrender,
responding to gravity;
strewn like scattered chords -
Individually,
specks of changing emotion
watching from below.
The tremulous night,
suspended in a moon beam;
unshielded, alone.
Hues of green dispel,
replaced with burning orange
and delicate brown.
Aromatically,
summer invokes departure,
fixed in memory.
Categories:
aromatically, absence, autumn,
Form: Haiku
Sitting here, waiting for a clearing breeze ,
in my forest of endless trees,
and responsibilities.
It never came, the restless surge,
from deep within, the stormy siege
that blows the top off Carpe Diem.
A cup of tea and a magazine,
the traces of her lemon scent,
that rises aromatically.
I never thought to look for that,
Within my maze of discontent,
A kind of serendipity.
The little things, that’s what I meant
Like the traces of her lemon scent.
Categories:
aromatically, love, remember,
Form: Sonnet