Best Riz Poems

T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club on the base,
jist me and my sisters alone in the place.

A big ol' blue norther, t'were a hard winter storm.
We's...

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It's early spring and what do you know
The corn is as low as an elephant's toe

The grass has riz no sign of rain
Boidies are singing a happy refrain

Feel like jumping and clicking my heels
But I'm 77, take a long time to heal

Think I'll just watch...

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Spring has sprung, the grass has riz
Wonder where the boidies is
Up in de sky
So very high
Or up in de tree making boidie kids


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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The rat tiptoed to the house, picks up a thread
While the soft spoken black cat is, still, in bed
Sleepy, but, she is to battle it, to win, for today
To gain her breath, in solitude, for another day 
 
At first, she will fetch water, from...

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La capitale est Dakar. deux millions de gens habitent en Dakar. Dakar est su pour musuems.
Il est su aussi pour faire les courses. 

St. Louis est à la bouche de la Rivière de Sénégal. Ceci est une île avec beaucoup
d'histoires. Cette belle île a aussi...

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Can I see him now…
Today is Friday, have you forgotten it?

Can I see her now…
Today is Friday, have you forgotten it?

I won’t take no as an answer,
Today is Friday, have you forgotten it?

I want to embrace them, both of them.
I can see in their eyes,...

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Mea Culpa, but I Plead not Guilty.

Safe at home,
it was an ordinary day.
I was on PoetrySoup,
reading poems, page by page.
And then, the house shook,
I ran outside,
and to my surprise a light,
shining down from the sky,
lifted me off the grass. 

Darkness
is all I remember next,
no couch,...

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w?rdz sp?ld k?'r?kt 'v?rs?s f?'n?t?k 'sp?l??

Ð?s na? b?'g?nz 'fib?l ?'t?mpt
tu 'r?nd?r ra?m f?r no? 'riz?n
?'p?nd?d w?ð f?'n?t?k træn'zle???n
'me?nli æz 'ple?f?l tiz z?n
s?'n?n?m?s ?'mæ??n?? 'ti???
s?d '?ks?r?sa?z tu 'ig?r '??ldr?n

ri'ma?nd?? 'rid?rz ðæt j??
ænd 'r?stl?s w?ð 'sp?ti ?'t?n??n
hir 'spo?k?n w?rd wa?l ?n 'jut?ro?,
po?st 'ne?t?l, 's?bs?kw?ntli w?n
hi/?i 'p?r?ts 'p?r?nt(?s)...

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(Inspired by ‘paranoir’ by Riz Mack)

Reckless Jack and fair Jill, youthful hearts aroused,
did scale that hill, less for water, than illicit thrills.

Atop that perilous height, they began a lover’s fight.
Stolen moments, once sweetly solaced, can prove brief.

Alas, the twisted tryst, turned awkward tumble swift,
with clothes...

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Fear usually gripped my nerves 
I dreaded broken bottles my heart perchance be served
To a wetland I could lose you
Little I thought of the deadwood 
Ready I to send to the urn any jostler
Alas the heart I guarded against the living,
had a suitor waiting at...

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Spring has sprung, the grass has riz
Wonder where the boidies is
Up in de sky
So very high
Or up in de trees making boidies kids...

Continue reading...