My wristwatch is now for sale
To the lowest rate, you can avail!
Discount is twenty to fifty percent
Its unique features work to full extent.
Time and date set automatically
So, in all activities you can dilly-dally,
Read pulse rates, temperature, heartbeats
Alarms for waking up, tiredness and quits.
Tells the length of walking and sleeping
In digitals with silent alarm or talking.
With virtual assistants, Alexa and Siri
Cheering you up when you’re lonely.
Has texting and phone functions
Video calls and camera for all occasions,
My sales offer for you is first come first served
Wristwatch with best alarm, “Wrong turn! Swerve!”
marvel at the vigorous blade of grass,
resistant to the worst storms,
marvel at the dandelion, offering a thousand treasures
To the bees of the county,
marvel at the hemlock flower, which could
poison ten ancient poets,
marvel at the plant world and its millions
of possibilities,
marvel at the fern, which does not tire
that winter,
marvel at how the butterfly marvels
on the corolla of digitals,
marvel at the yellow flowers, so numerous
and vain,
marvel at the capuchins, daisies,
Flowers loving you.
Marvel at the young oak tree, which defies a thousand reeds
in his old age,
marvel at the olive tree whose fruit inspired the Iliad
and many poems,
marvel at the hydrangea, dahlia, and forget-me-not
with shy petals,
do you inspire from the vegetable world, to never become
crazy or proud,
invite the bees in the garden of your imagination.
I Messed with Daylight Saving's Time
By Franklin Price
11/1//2015
I messed with daylight saving's time
Right after Trick or Treat
When the clocks were showing 9:00 PM
Made change to sleeplessness defeat
Stopped the old grandfather clock
To let the hour pass the day
Took the analogs and turned them back
In the Fall that is the way
Changed the hours on the digitals
The PM's to indicate
Microwave and stove the easiest
The numbered keys are really great
Swung the pendulum on old grandpa
When the hour passed was done
Was the last change in the house
An hour gained for sleep what fun
Cheated by five hours
The 2:00 AM directive change
I knew I would be sleeping then
Was not about to rearrange
I thought I was all finished
Now awakened by the sun
I see the cars with clocks in them
There is not only one
Each has its way of setting
The manuals could tell me how
But I'm a man can't look at them
Rather curse and have a cow
But you know today is Sunday
It's the day we praise the Lord
Guess I'll change the clocks by manual
On the Honda and the Ford
Looking for the formal definition, structure, and history of this poetry form? Visit the Poetry Dictionary entry below. Then return to explore how PoetrySoup members bring the form to life through their own poems.