Where in night, down in day
Clutching one's clay clogged face
Dilly-dallying ditzy dances
Dull, dampened waltz swimming with a drunken sway
Methodical movement of the ditz's drunken daze
Dazed dolphins dance down gutteral gin and toneless tonic omissions
Wringing ring wrung fingers, for the ditz's sherry glass gaze
Caught crooning whispers within the careless candid spotlight
Spickle spittle dawned the dolphin's dance, dominance'n drivel
Deigned to sway within a drug infused haze.
Spluttering with the need of stitches, as burly bone ingrowths
Dappered the damper desolate surface
To drag the ditz's measly hip dips, from the four-lipped, two-tipped,
Derailing and de-tailing,
dolphin intrusion.
7//10//2025
dilly dallying danny deliberately defies
daughter dinahs deliberations
denise does donuts during danny’s debate
roaring, rearing, ready rusty ruminations
rarely recognizable, really riling up dinah’s
dander.
Keep my heart safe
My lowly love of serenity
For in you I have found a
Treasure more precious
Than gold and twice as
Brilliant as the moon
In the carpet of heavenly
Stars twinkling upon
Mother Earth in the
Night of misty melody
I shall love you forever
My romantic counterpart
Dallying in your arms
In each waking hour
A plethora of virtual
Madness not seen in
Conjoined hearts of today
Tomorrow and forever
a frozen aria
an angry sparrow
barking at winter
a frozen farewell
a snowflake coating
on fallen feathers
the snow drifts
an unmoving breaker
patiently poised
an icicle threatens
the dallying drips
that give it life
a snowshoe rabbit
eyes the carrot
dark eyes watch
after much dilly dallying
olive branch is proffered
mind analyses
looking for a motive
heart embraces
knowing only love
nonchalance
smiles and yawns
consciousness triangulates
all aspects of its awareness
mode and mood celebratory
Is our love a dance macabre?
A dilly dallying with death?
Or a mystic encounter of unabated love?
Will it last? Will it end?
So many questions left unanswered,
So many uncertainties attested,
All cumulative in a death wish
As emotions run devilishly amok.
My soul screams with this unpredictability,
Its echoes rampage through my veins,
As bubbling blood courses through
Twisted arteries, through havoc and chaos.
Is it the folly of chained love?
The unearthly silence of togetherness?
My lips pronounce your name but no one answers.
I realize my questions will never be answered.
Our togetherness is but a charade,
Shadows dancing in a moonless night.
Your allure is just too much to bear,
I dare keep it no more
So let our ways head into different tracks.
Henceforth I'll dance alone.
A dance macabre.
Pink magnolias sway in drizzling rain,
Sunny marigolds laugh, all bright and gay,
Carnations croon in colourful array,
Laid-back lily droops in lazy disdain,
Ravishing blossoms in cool wind astir,
Sparkling drops of passion softly kissing,
Radiant blooms, sunrays hardly missing,
Faintly falling blobs form a blissful blur,
Dazzling daisy dilly dallying slow,
Lush lilacs look luxuriantly lax,
Saffron daffodils sparkling in smooth stacks,
Charming snowdrops nod in snuggling shadow,
Dancing buds, a visual distraction,
With wispy fragrance in Aurora's chill,
Such mystic ambiance in background still,
Calls for avid floral satisfaction.
9th January 2023
Sister,
Hurry. Hurry.
Stop dilly-dallying,
The ice-cream truck is coming round.
If we don't hurry up it'll have a crowd.
Another scorching humid summer day.
How I'd fancy this afternoon
A dish of ice-cream topped
With strawberries,
Sister
7/12/2022
A rictameter is a nine line poetry form with a 2 4 6 8 10 8 6 4 2 syllable count and where the first and the last lines keep repeating,
Jeepers creepers can’t believe your peepers
Sweepers keepers jumping josey leapers.
Gleepers fleepers dallying with sneepers.
Reapers heapers willful wonder kneepers
Sleepers greepers foremost firstly weepers
Deepers sheepers giving golden fleepers
Cheepers zeepers living with grim reapers
Jeepers creepers can’t believe your peepers
THE STARTING POINT
the trail
merely a device
the counterpart
featured
the obvious
in the human heart
entirely physical
hiding from reason
yet adhering simultaneously
yet
deservedly forgotten
condescending
but
corresponding
to a love interest
with opportunities
so prominent
the truth
dallying
in atmospheric
preoccupations
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived
I keep dilly-dallying to compose
my very own debut book!!
The more I read, seems all
the cool plots are already took!
well made up as she knew
looking sexy in shredded jeans
dilly dallying round high street
giving the eye to men
who all knew she was not worth it
frivolous
flighty, flippant
dallying, flirting, trifling
sport, play; study, staidness
sobering, unamusing, purposing
resolute, passionate
serious
written August 24, 2021
for "Diamante Poetry For Fun" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Caren Krutsinger
Nursery Rhyme
Children's Short story (Rhyme)
Little Ellie, loves her freckles
she counts them every night,
her friends call her 'Ellie speckles'
which fills her with delight!
she traces them with her finger
before she rests her head
in the mirror, she lingers
dallying if the truth be said,
little Ellie, loves her freckles
she bathes them every night,
her friends call her 'Ellie speckles'
which fills her with delight!
this night was like no other,
she froze in utter despair
screaming down to her mother
who came running up the stairs,
little Ellie, loves her freckles
she reads to them, every night
her friends call her 'Ellie speckles'
which fills her with delight!
vanished had Ellie's freckles
She had washed them off again ~
still wanting to be 'Ellie Speckles'
she drew them back with a pen
the verge of blossoms,
a spumoni serenade ~
faerie dreamboats by the lake.
the daylight fusion of hues
dallying with love ~
mirror fancy
~ introvert & extrovert ~
her wings wrapped ‘round a rosebud.
his heartstrings skim lake’s surface.
Monet’s berry-vanilla...
...silver dollars swim about.
bright butterflies in stomach…
their tiny eyes magnetized.
~ the north and south pole ~
a love at first flight ~
his wings shy, hers so pretty.
she gently draws him
from his water cave.
he sketches lines on her palm ~
a silent poem.
~ dew drops on lips so winsome ~
12/28/2020
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