Best Lying In Wait Poems

C	Crocodiles lying in wait
R	Relaxing, dreaming of fresh meat
0	Ordinary floating
C	Choose their prey carefully
K	Kin to an alligator?
0	Oldest kind of creatures
D	Doing what comes naturally
I	Indigenous to swamps
L	Longing to take a bite out of us
E	Every person’s nightmare...

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Tune frenzied
Not discordant
Fine tuned
Distance despite
Heartbeats synchronized
Lying in wait
For the union
When two become one....

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I need to find a reason to smile again
And find beauty in a flower
	For now I only sneer at them all
	And my stare makes many cower
I want to discover my long lost zest for life
And my love for adventure to see
	Today I find I’ve little...

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All was quiet on the eastern front, and the southern front too.
We faeries were lying in wait, hoping the elves would be back soon.
A troop of brownies wandered by, drunk on sunflower seed oil.
Hush! The queen cautioned us. We transmogrified into flowers.
We certainly do not...

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With precision, Thebius stopped every ten minutes on the route
To put some garlic into the road, shaking it into a symbol 
That would thwart any demons following him,
So they would lose their way
Unfortunately for him, they had all gone ahead
And were waiting at the bend...

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My heart is in my head
As where it should be
Lying in wait for the Father’s hands
My body needs remolding
My story needs remolding
I am asking Father God for His hands
Lord, My God shape me and remake me,
Lead and move my legs and feet on your Holy...

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Ice on the fence wire …
insult to injury
The barb when it’s deadly
pointed and sharp
A night rain has frozen
and hidden the danger
Awaiting intruders
—that come in the dark

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)
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