Best Yapping Poems

Mighty proud was I
with me lumber in one hand
my brick me carried in the other
I placed the brick in the barn yard
tall side for gained...

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Driving my kids crazy
Every day and night
Because my mind is hazy
Nothing comes out right

Still, I keep on teaching
The foggy lessons in my head
At the end...

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There is one lass, and one alone, compels the sun - no other,
          And as it...

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They say that happiness is the key, 
to the best things out of all that we see. 
They are in constant pursuit, 
of the mystery...

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I have a dear feathered friend who greets me each day at dawn!
He likes to dwell in and around the crab apple tree on my...

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Yikes, all I feel is attitude with zero Christmas mood.
Blessed am I for Jesus’ birth and sacrificial rood,
but Santa and his deer had best just...

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Airports; people and planes,
Traffic jams and baggage claim. 
Noisy, rumbling, to the gate I'm 
running. 

Looking at the screen for my flight, 
Delayed? What is...

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"Keynote"



"hand me your keys," 

she says smiling coolly
into his breeze

throwing getaway notes
out the window 

the sharp beaked blackbirds
flee scurrilously 

back where they belong
in the past,...

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a bee
invaded our car in
nineteen fifty four
while we were driving
to the jersey shore
flew in my open back window
of our two tone ford custom
pea green top...

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The scent of crispy sizzling bacon filled my nose,
warm sweet pancakes being made in the kitchen.
I walked down the stairs,
my heart filled with joy as...

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"I saw some road kill on my way over," she said.
She had a horse laugh. "Just a dumb raccoon," she added.
I leapt over the sink...

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Some wings are for flapping
while others are for soaring – It's
just a fact; as some mouths are for
yapping...while others, really say
something I want to hear...

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As the rain falls
While the sun still shines
Somewhere in the country hills
The foxes throw a festive time
Of all delights and earthly frills

So gather all the...

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Identity Apples

iam a fat skeleton, resurrecting 
from the sad memories of dada 
and dark mysteries of aminism 
iam buganda 
i bleed hope 
i drip the...

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Diamante


Puppy
small, cuddly
yapping, pawing, licking
playful, energetic, fun, adolescent
clawing, barking, nibbling
massive, lap-loving
Dog

This poem is in dedication to my lap loving, 75lb pit-bull!!
His name is SCOOBS...

Jared Pickett
4/13/2012...

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