My son draws images
On a scroll-like object
Storyboarding
At the age of five
He is learning that time is linear
When it isn't
He loves his watch
How it lights up
Slowly he is learning
Routine
The phases of the moon
Get your shoes on
We're going to be late
But his little sister doesn't
Know
For her
Everything is happening at the same time
Take me back to the
Cretaceous Period
It must have been
Quieter
Than
My living room
Categories:
cretaceous period, hockey, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
RUGOPS
ravenous rugops
roars repeatedly running ~
rhabdodon retreats
STARS
silver specks shimmer
spectacular shining spheres ~
solar system stars
TREKKING
trekking the terrain
through the tranquil trodden trail ~
'tween thorny thistles
Written 22 July 2020
For Let The Pens Flow, Alliteration Poetry Contest.
Sponsored By Jenish Somadas
(Rugops - carnivore, Rhabdodon - herbivore
Both dinosaurs from Cretaceous period.)
Categories:
cretaceous period, animal, nature, stars,
Form: Alliteration
(our own) age of reptiles
I remember
it was mainly in the Cretaceous period
of our own age of reptiles
soon to be doomed
by the great collision
we made plans
and thought about things
and things
and so many nice things to do
but they went extinct too soon
lost and not-to-be found again
some of them, though
are being uncovered
from time to time
by the archaeologists of our back door minds
but the only place for them
is the memory museum
where’s always just dust and silence
as we both secretly know
Categories:
cretaceous period, lost love, relationship, symbolism,
Form: Free verse