Best Try On Poems

I try on words
Like hats and shoes
To see which look
Best fits my muse.

7/30/20

Poem of the Day
August 1st, 2020...

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What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching your breath enter and leave, the rise and fall of such loveliness.,
reminded of our miracle wings as they unfolded in...

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I reflect the truth, yet you see a lie
I'm just a humble mirror, I wonder why
I love the shape, of your beautiful face
Why when you look, do you feel such disgrace?

The curve of your breasts, a delightful sight
You see them as misshapen and not quite...

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assorted like the washing on its lines
the words appeared along my way
in bunches of neat paragraphs    
they briskly flapped into my mind
still dripping with those concepts they
must have been soaked in for a while

I gladly felt them touching me
and liked their affluent...

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"I shall be telling this with a sigh" 
    Robert Frost, The Road Less Traveled. 

Mom
took me
to try on
my first pair of 
contacts -back when the 
soft ones weren’t yet for sale.
As I struggled to endure
a feeling like stones burning in
my eyes,...

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She gazed into their eyes. The people she has loved all her life, blinded by a facade of people that surround everyone. 

The girl she danced with to their favorite songs and held as she went through pain. The friends which whom she gossiped with...

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I've grown rusty and unused to summoning words from a blank page - but FINALLY - there's something new to describe. School (11th grade) is over - at last - and... more.

There's a party tonight - a REAL, honest-to-God, in person, PARTY - for about...

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I have a ridiculously large head,
I think I’d opt for a smaller one instead.
Oh, sure, you say that it suits me fine,
That’s because yours isn’t near as big as mine.

I bet that it weights at least thirty pounds,
It looks even bigger than it sounds.
When I...

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If I were the King of the Forest 

I,d have a laptop installed in every tree

a GPS for lionesses

 robots for cleaning messes

there'd be no need for marking territory with pee 

If I were the King of the Forest

 I,d stop this stuff of parading...

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Day one without our lim'rick dad
It's cloudy and I feel quite sad
I sneak in his room
Try on his perfume
and call his harem to come to his pad...

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My suit of self-loathing no longer fits
The mirror of compassion tells me so
Years of bad-intentions held back growth 
After a time, the length of my sleeves bind
I didn’t realize I’ve become over-sized

These angry pants are fit for a small child
How silly I look with cuffs...

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To see the Lady in the harbor
From the deck of ship at moor

The sea and the winds that blow
Tell of freedom where liberties glow

Protection enshrined in its constitution
Articles of Confederation 

The lamp lite for the world to see
Brought millions to cross the sea

The crucible an...

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Yesterday I found myself slumped
into the saddest of trenches,
for no particular reason
other than a new moon cycle.
Instead of flopping myself
in my studio’s armchair to write,
I drove to the mall for an outing 
probably more expensive than 
what a therapist would charge
for an hour in his...

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Christmas Panic at the Pole

With  only 12 days before Christmas,
Santa‘s concerned with the weather report,
the sleigh has a major malfunction,
needs repair and the time’s running short.

All the elves have themselves in a panic,
their shifts running twenty-four seven,
their tired and stressed but are doing their...

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I want to write a poem about loving someone
Do you know how to love?
Or have you ever loved?
When you love someone
You need to let them be themselves
They can't fully love you 
if they are not themselves with you
Can't be judgemental
Know that what they say isn't...

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