Best Matilda Poems

Have many opinions about this and that
Sometimes I share them with Matilda our cat
She tells me which path
To take when I ask
“No climbing trees though, you might break your back”


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Matilda

As I gaze into olive eyes,
what beauty I see,
amorous in view,
habitat disappearing, no trees.

Matilda,

Your stare is mesmerizing,
venom from the pit,
colors of black n' yellow hues,
where the fangs are split.

Matilda,

Mighty black horns you display,
zigzag markings shown through,
enslaved by merchantry, can't stray,
moving silently, even without a coo.

Matilda,

Where...

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the town awakes to someone yelling, "save yourselves you fools",

with sleepy eyes I wake to see, some wild stampeding mules.

the cowboys with their lassos, face a growing windy gust,

appear as riding puppets, caught inside a maze of dust.

soon the town recovers, as the carnival arrives,

people...

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The Moose Family
(Marvin & Matilda}

Marvin was trotting along in the deep of the woods
Alone so he could hunt for food for wife and son as he stood
Reaching his destination he waited for his mate Matilda
Veracious he was in evading the many hunters like fella
Instantly he...

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Good Evening Matilda
We meet under Silver Moonlight 
Show me your neck Vampires 
Or are you rather a Cider soaked skeleton 
Walking dead white ghost
On the road to the shops 
To injest more wrinkles 
Into oblivion...

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