I Think of Life With An Elegant Man
...I think of life with an elegant man.
I see a man whose hands are silk to me.
He's stunning in a suit (well-groomed is he).
He loves to read and maybe plays Chopin.
He whisks me off to Paris or Mi...
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Categories:
divans, men,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Exile In Ptolemy's House
...Safe, at long last,
behind closed, locked doors and windows,
behind heavy, hanging, purple drapery:
plush, pellucid, subterranean refuge.
Far from the proverbial maddening crowd,
out of sight:...
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Categories:
divans, philosophy, religion, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry
Croquet On the Lawn At Three Pm
...1 2 1 2 in a tutu playing croquet at three pm
Abracadabra is a giant kilo of horse manure thrown at the head with a boom. But a boom is neither a boomerang nor a pickling gate in a jar of curdled ...
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Categories:
divans, addiction, america, baseball, basketball,
Form: I do not know?
Administration of Pineapples
...Kindly stick to digging pineapples in the future as magic dust particles can really only spring up in defense patterns. And is it really wise to deal cards in a high tide. Deliver not an oceanographi...
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Categories:
divans, earth,
Form: I do not know?
On a Young Lord and a Lady Resting Outdoors--From the Secret of Ravelston, a Novel
...The end of another day
came to the Ravelston Estate,
and the workers were again
making their way back from the fields.
And in keeping with the hour,
Lord Andrew and cousin Carla
lied ever so ...
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Categories:
divans, irony, satire,
Form: Sonnet
A Long Sleep Goodnight
...Much to do
people to see
thoughts to proceed
wrapped warm, for the flipside
is the cold side
stop, to decide is to act
Run rabbit run rabbit don’t stay still
a pair pull themselves together
as the s...
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Categories:
divans, people,
Form: Free verse
Battle of the Brain
...Soul at ease to bruise the mind
eggplant purple, verbatim green
Resting insults once alive
in riddles, screaming to be seen
On divans out on the porch
wasting feather's air
to be cooled on bat...
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Categories:
divans, introspection, life, people,
Form: Free verse