Best Instructions Poems

Turn
 the air
 on high. Wear
 shorts. Lose the shoes.
 Watch the weather news
 while praying for showers.
 Wilt like the plants and flowers.
 Mow that grass and chug that water.
 When you're too tired to walk, just totter.
 It's early July; it will get...

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Try to get out of bed early, try to make your bed. Inhale.  
Your off-white bedsheets haven’t been washed in a month.
Try purchasing a new detergent, one of those that’s petal-scented:
2 in 1 Aroma Boost Spring Daydream Wash.
Try smiling in the mirror; especially 
If...

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"Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth" 

The title 
meant little
to the entitled, 

the small print 
was ignored
for the glittering

walking jokes 
that led 
the Earth;

all 
pages burnt
for fuel

the axis turned

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)





The Ticket Punched to Leave New World: 


Basic 
Instructions
Before 
Leaving
Earth
...

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I wonder how many books there are out there that teach you how to
raise your child? I'm sure there are good ideas in them, but where was the book
for raising each of my children? They didn't have one attached to them as
they were born. Nobody...

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You did not choose to be born,
much less Black Lives Really Should Equally Matter born
into this legacy,
your familial and civil Two-Connecticuts destiny.

I realize that,
And regret perhaps my own choices
in response to invitations for care-giving
and healthcare-receiving
were probably too egocentrically universalized
creolized so that whatever felt best to...

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The words I give you are sound
They have been my comfort
They have been my companion
This is Protocol never be anxious 
Be Slow to speak and quick to listen
And when in doubt, wait and think about it
Always respond and never react to a crisis
Never panic always...

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Where has it gone?

Out in the garden, down by the shed
I read the packet, prepared the bed.
Added some compost, tilled it a bit
even add some genuine horse MUCK
so next on the packet quite clearly it said
sprinkle sparingly go right ahead
cover with soil and water a...

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The words I give you are sound
They have been my comfort
They have been my companion
This is Protocol never be anxious 
Be Slow to speak and quick to listen
And when in doubt, wait and think about it
Always respond and never react to a crisis
Never panic always...

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There are times to stand when we want to fall
There are pages turned to other channel frequencies to call
Were there are troubling times on end
When to open up to a long distant friend

There are times to hold tight to an answer
There are times to panic...

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I am first with five 
then seven in the middle 
then i end with five....




what am i? 

-samip m....

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how does one sustain and retain spiritual revival
to go to the next level and have spiritual survival?
how do you move higher and increase your faith
and not regress nor become stagnant?
we need to be saturated in God's holy word
read the basic instructions before leaving earth

if you...

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Washing Instructions

Put the clothes in the washer. 
not quickly, but slowly. 
There was a day, 
this would all be done, 
by hand. 

Four or five large things, 
Maybe some socks, 
a few, 
overload, 
and the cost will be high.
Why I am bothering?
Why you might ask?
Generalization…
leads...

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Starlet had to purchase those keen fun, artistic boots
They remind her of so many great things
The times she and grandma were in cahoots
Dancing and jiving with zippy zips and zings

Her grandma’s estate settled in the middle of last week.
She left Starlet five thousand dollars and...

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August 3 Scripture Meditations Based on Jeremiah 34-38

Key Verse – Jeremiah 35:13 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith...

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Stressed/unstressed syllables (ten to a line,
remember!) take their turns.  Fourteen in all
(that’s lines, not syllables), which often fall
in blocks of eight and six.  You’ve got that?  Fine.
Now for the rhymes.  Petrarchans intertwine
like this, in staggered couplets, as they sprawl
the page. ...

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