Best Hazard Poems
Tom Wopat
Where ya at?
Generally crazy,
Or pushing up daisy?
A salesman helped gal with a shoe
When sound of a trumpet broke through
I’m sorry she said
As her face turned red
But salesman laid dead from the pew
P reparing for work, my uniform blue.
A ligning heart and mind to things ahead.
R eworking puzzles, things that I can do.
A voiding mistakes, fending off the dead.
M any times past, I've knocked at heavens door,
E ntrusting souls that no longer held life.
D istressed and hurting, could I have done more?
I nsisting industry, sadness so rife.
C an one become numb, this job alignment?
S ealing heart against permanent damage?
R ather tools gifted for this assignment,
O n management of ravage from vantage.
L etting mind roam free while getting ready.
E ven mind is kept, and hands are steady.
-Angel Fatale-
-acrostic sonnet-
There are perfumed letters from you On the top shelf of the hall closet A fire hazard to my soul In the shadows of the night
once lives discovered
inevitable transformations
illegal apostrophe vortex.
whippersnapper extractions,
are whisperings enough?
virtual transitions
all lives interdefined
never ending romances
beyond our now nowness
TAXI!
Calm … Cool … Oasis … of defeat!
Reflections of what might have been
Dissolving in a rippling grin
Engorged with round endeavors
Unknowing … Uncaring
Drawing to your sodden depths
The unripe fruit of duffer’s quest
With naught to mark this ovoid feast
But gentle … jesting … lapping
Wet Nemesis!
I curse the void that clings to all
That fail to mark your distant shore
And in distain show no remorse
But quick! Return to mocking calm
To lurk beside the verdant way
Until the NEXT unfortunate
Attends your greedy call
Once again we
Come to this earth,
Seek what sets free
This round of birth.
Once again see
The path of peace,
Seek thus to be
With profound ease.
Once again know
The way of joy,
Life ever shows
Allure that toys.
Once again glow
In that fond light,
Love wants to show
Peace beyond sight.
Once again tell
How love can free,
Show how you dwell
That love may be.
Once again live
The life of zest,
Spread poise you give
In humble quest.
Once again touch
In terms most plain,
Yes love can nudge
To ease all pain.
Once again bear
The healer's art,
Each soul can wear
An inspired heart.
Once again find
The way to share,
Seize peace of mind
With love that cares.
Leon Enrique
23june 2016
Singapore
My mother came to Hazard
when I was just seven;
I took off and fled that town,
filled with so many lies.
Now? This boy’s alright…
Two years ago
when I finally found Mary
she looked so different,
but still had those broken eyes;
A window to the girl inside…
We used to walk down by the river
She loved to watch the sun go down;
We planned to walk along the river
and run our way out of that town..
No one understood the depth of Mary
so adored but always walking out
of school alone;
She avoided home.
We used to walk to school every morning
She would always say
‘All I want is for the kids to stop watching me.’
Now I know she made it to the river,
She cut the chains that had her bound;
I knew she made it off the river
and ran her way out of this town..
A Tribute to Richard Marx.
what you eat frog legs
that’s so inconsiderate
to eat a frogs legs
what if that were done to you
they don’t make wheelchairs for frogs
From the beginning of man’s life
Like other creatures he survives
Breathing air and drinking water
Freely available aplenty in Nature
It was the business world helped by the rulers
Which stopped free supply, bottled the water
Selling it against payment
Refusing man Nature’s gift rudiment.
From the beginning of market and commerce
Man buys things and carries them in their bags
Suddenly appeared like locust the plastic carry bags
Boxes, bottles and packs flooding the earth
Thrown into gutters after use sans worth.
Things made of plastic thrown after use
Float in the air, move through the sky making all ruse
Chocking the drains, canals, rivers
Killing millions of fishes, other denizens of waters
Killing unfed cattle, dogs, pigs and birds.
All plastic packs, bottles and such things must be banned
To save living beings from situations damned.
Fire Hazard
When bringing in the hay that had been
drying on the fields it was fodder for the animals
in winters, the farmer strewed salt on the hay
in the loft, so it didn`t get too dry and self-ignited
From a devastating war, the refugees fled
the thousand who had lost everything and sewn
valuables into their clothing to be converted into
money wherever they settled, a new start with
a little bit of savings
Europe is an aging continent; we need new blood
but we had not prepared for fire, and it burns
several places, we have to be quick put the fire out
before people of narrow sight take command and
Blood will be spilt for an unworthy cause.
the troglodyte span
scribbling doldrum brain power
the halcyon days
Hope
it is a feather
blown.,
slides at random...
delays...
but ever
Will arrive ...
One day ... !
I was out a-wandering
when it flew into my head,
a very silly poem,
uninvited, be it said.
If I had just ignored it,
it might have gone away,
but for some mysterious reason
I wrote it down instead
Do your fingers ever write faster
Than your brain thinks of the words?
You discover incomplete sentences
That do not mean what you thought.
You find that you’ve omitted a verb
And so, your phrase has no action,
A modifier left unsaid, no traction.
In a comment, or, in writing a blurb
Proofread before sharing what's wrote.
As for you, I can think of instances
Where inadvertent omits were hazards
More often for me, they’re a disaster.
Written April 1, 2022
[Verso-Rhyme]