Leaf dies in air
Trees going bare
Death stalks the woods
Of those athletically good
Sweating summer heat
In games where they compete
Never do they cheat
Being honest and true
Acting cool
Laughing fools
Champions determined
Life lessons learning
Decision final and confirmed
Hardware issue no longer a concern
Northern success exposed
Confederates propose
Move inside
Red lights will guide
Scores made
Making the grade
Finally, a trade
Check signed, saying paid
Shutting mouth
Going south
Community warm
Staying in University dorm
Will make this undergraduate program a winner
Before the all-inclusive meal plan dinner
Then off to the library and study
Learn how to make, investment money
Earning a degree, that is what is funny
Since making field goals really wasn’t a realistic thing
Along with not being able to sing
But books in print
Will hint
Proper direction
After securing academic protection
HELLO SO CALLED FREE WORLD.!! Canada is a
Crown country...So is Australia..For the time being!
Melbourne was put under house arrest for twelve
Months..! For no crime whatsoever..Think on this!
Where is the fair governance?? Is there a valid one?
In Britain the originator of colonial law, Caroline
Farrow is under survaillance for speaking her thought
Jordan Peterson is being shoehorned into a programme
Of so called ( re education ) these people don't know
One another I presume.? What are we witnessing in
The case of the large sized lady shown in sports illustrated
What are we suposed to gather ? Its a sports publication
Are they a beauty magazine? Well I suppose in academic
Summation yes.' As you need a slim and resiliant body
To compete athletically..Yes?? So sports oriented peiople
Would intuitivally think a more leaner body more attractive
To compete, that then affects perception overall, whether
I or whoever sees the wider senario of beauty is not relative
In this context.! Which brings us too, why this cover page
In a sports oriented publication? Or was it just an entrappment ploy.? In both cases what is going on.?
Roller skates
Roll smooth
In circles and orbited figure eights
Gliding great with the rhythmic moves
So quick
So slow
So cool
Ice skate
Aerodynamically
On icy floors slick and wet
A ballet on a frozen slough
Beautiful blades
Upon delicate
Crystal blue
Rumbling wheels
Radioactively
Alive with pumping legs that reel
Forcing friction like a mad banshee
Athletically willed
Heart rate
Speed kills
January 15, 2020
Double Dactyl Poetry Contest
Sponsored by William Kekaula
Winter rhapsody, the snowflakes ascending slowly,.
Reaching the rooftops and houses.
Winter rhapsody, pedestrians in their winter clothes,
Warm caps snowsuits ,coats and boots,
Winter rhapsody, a horse drawn sleigh riding through the pioneer village,
You could hear the jingle bells.
Winter rhapsody the athletically dressed skiers zooming down the hill,
Toboggans and sleds, parents and children delight.
Winter rhapsody, a walk through the deep snow,
The air fresh and clean,
Winter rhapsody,,building a snowman called Frosty,
Making snow angels in the fresh snow
Winter rhapsody, snow forts and snowball fights,
There are many winter activities.
Winter rhapsody,, the resorts where the parents and children,
Live their dreams and appear in elegant fashions.
Author: Gwen von Erlach Schutz.
Ethereally, breathtakingly beautiful
Miniscule your faults no compare
Maddeningly, temperamentally playful
Athletically challenging flair
Essentially charismatic though guileless
Monumental in your achieved goal
Motherly manifestations you bless
A spiritually progressive soul.
They were prominent days,
Guided with a traditional excellence.
Athletically exceptional and parallel,
As a man and a woman.
Silent partners of intellect,
Corresponding in languages that their friends wouldn't comprehend.
God's stern kingdom,
Complex and diversified.
They were an on screen romance,
Waiting for God's moment.
Choosing education as a companion,
Surpassing Romeo and Juliet.
Reaching for God's rainbow,
A step away from eternity together.
God's complex universe their home,
A divine destiny embraced with a silent friendship.
Author: Gwen Meyer-Erlach Schutz
He was my thesaurus dream,
I met him in the days of geometry and algebra.
He always appeared learned and enhanced,
A rainbow I couldn't touch.
An essay of nouns, verbs and adjectives,
A narrative and descriptive essay of my dreams.
A sphere of silence between him and I,
I grew to love him, handsome to look at and accomplished athletically.
He would never know he was my fish and chips, my favorite egg nog,
My favorite thesaurus whom I hope to keep with me always.
I would choose him to be the teacher and then I would hope to learn,
I am at home with you a passage learned and scholarily.
My planet revisited, parallel universes that could be friends and companions,
How difficult humanity, we aren't Gods yet God guides.
Complex and versatile as the sunrise and the sunset,
I always pray for a miracle called reunion.
Author: Gwen Meyer-Erlach Schutz
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