Bobs Poems

Outside The Empty Mug

...the night’s wildlife stampedes through the crosswalk.
penguins dressed in short black skirts and white tops.
an Irish River Dance of black boots cross by the lights
startle the onlookers from the ...

fashion hunting

...I’ve spent the last couple of weeks in Paris settling in. My every appliance, gadget and charger have been bricked by the weird, French electricity, which bobs when it should weave or something - but...

Water Margins

...Dawn, a bed comes ashore,
dripping and fog laden.

Tuna sandwiches float
on foaming waves of nausea,
aqueous globs of salty oils,
surface.  Punctured sea-dreams
float; flabby and flatulent.

...

ADRIFT AT SEA

...ADRIFT AT SEA*
sea-worn bottle, 
bobs on a digital tide.
inside, not paper brittle with salt,
but luminous lines of light,
coded in metaphors and rhyme.

message tossed...

As False as Smiles

...Manners are the party fancy —
Petit goldleaf on the melting pudding,
A sticking cream now on your fingers, 
Immovable for hours. 
Manners like a lady,
Her morning bonnet pinned,
Perching, tilti...

Quandary Resolved

...
The wheels fell off my thingamajig
as a thingy
came loose in the whachamacallit
or perhaps it was the doodad
on the wotsit
which was the cause to stall it
and it'll take a few odds 'n...

Republic of Molossia

...
Cornichons


The Cute Kind
Tasse and  Gobelet are lovers.
Two beautiful peacocks.
I made a wager on the horses
,but didn't wanna tell my friends.
The woman said. She would 
listen to Organ...

BUTTERFLY

...As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew 
anointed like gentle rain amidst sun showers, she appears as if on cue 

Lifting her wings, she lands on a Zinnia beneath ...

Back In My Day

...Whenever I would go to my mother, 

Regardless of the bother, 

Prices of sweets, housing, jobs, 

Dangers on the street, or other bits and bobs, 

She would give me advice so bold, 

Befor...

Surplus to requirements'

...Fifty one m1 Abrams tanks.' Australian donated it would
Break a small bank' to cause more misery..While many
Live in tents.' War and destruction, and madcap bents.?
Young Australians denied an arm...

The Universe of Me

...I was kissed by mars with rose on my cheeks
I was touched by the stars with some moles on my feet
Venus gave me laughter you’ll hear when we meet
And the Sun blessed me with a smile they sing of i...

A Gray Light Sparkles

...
Branches thatch a spackled sky.
Snow lays itself down
to sleep lightly.

An airborne coyote-itch addles
drops of sunlight
until they drizzle.

Splatters of graying-green
on the hairy chops...

No Sex or Violence

...
    His head bobs and weaves
      whatever the music conceives

    Drug-fueled rhythms race through his brain
      neural connections moan and strain

    His over-30-self hides his face, ...

Slipstream

...The girl drops 
the river;
woman bobs up;
aqua's flatline
on top basement 
blue, then it all,
violet doom, as
temperatue drops
off the girl—
aqua flatline,
sleezy sleet,
water glasses
on ...

Your okay

...

Watching his paws twitch
as he watches
the raindrops explode
just beyond our 
shelter
Bobs his head towards me
as oils slicked skies
are cracked by spoons and forks of lightning
The after...

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