Spring's Backdoor
Spring's backdoor opens
Nature's soundscapes living lore
Soothing broken hearts
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Categories:
backdoor, seasons, sound,
Form: Haiku
The Backdoor
Today I went offline,
tiring of the 14 poetry sites I write for
longing for the closeness of a small rented room
missing the darkness when it used to call me friend
questioning if the voices I heard can find me now
wondering—if I still wonder at all
(Dreamsleep: April, 2021)
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Categories:
backdoor, writing,
Form: Free verse
Backdoor
I was surfing the Banzai Pipe
When the Backdoor opened like hype
A shark lurking there
Missed me by an hair
But my shorts sure needed a wipe!
Some say the Hawaiian island of O'ahu got its name
from the last words of a surfer who encountered a shark:
"Oh! AH! oo")!
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Categories:
backdoor, sports,
Form: Limerick
Enters My Backdoor, Exits My Frontdoor
Despite its proverbial might, the Glass Ceiling
Couldn’t freeze the dream God wrote on the page
Where my misery and the sad feeling
That in its ribald rage
Strove hard my priceless dream to delete and defeat
Breathing hard on my neck
Snatching from my outstretched hands the succulent sweet
Destined from my life to break
The jinx
That hitherto kept frustrating my
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Categories:
backdoor, poems,
Form: Free verse
Backdoor Guest
It entered by the backdoor
it entered by the front door
it entered by the window
it has come to stay
the backdoor guest is here
it’s eyes are blue
its fingers full of thorns
its head is metallic
its belly is elastic
its skin is scaly
but carries bags of death
on its back
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Categories:
backdoor, peace, philosophy, satire,
Form: Free verse
Backdoor Sex
i can do it in a trance
do while i dance
hip to hip
lip to lip
can twist and dip
its easy to get
that you can bet
it makes me sweat
BACKDOOR SEX
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Categories:
backdoor, adventure, passion,
Form: Prose Poetry