Bits of crinkled purple
somersault
doubling the downfall
of faster falling rain
The hummingbird shows me
her green side
Wherever I turned
a cloud of flies in front of me
blotting out day, blocking my way
rubbing their legs, buzzing away
leaving me nothing good to say
Was there no solution
to the atmosphere’s dissolution
Seeing none, I doubled down
~ tried out my frown in a different town
mirrored in the lake
geese enhance the sapphire sky
doubling the beauty.
If you are game,
And looking for a life less tame,
Without the shame,
Prepare to give up five minutes of your time,
To find out why,
Board games are once again a good buy,
And that is no lie.,
Ask any board game guy.
Not a good time for you to spend,
Your dream of getting back into board games,
does not have to end,
With board games groups always round the bend,
To share games that require no cost from a friend,
Just a smile and a silly hat to help you unbend,
Doubling the time you spend,
With no fences to mend.
Landfills filling to the brim on the regular
fast fashion flying by rising up the temperature
Few people straying, staying loyal to the brand
Equipping only cloth from the local hand
Quality over quantity I'm chic with it
Sourcing things with ethicality sweaters hand knit
See I'm mink on mink, catch him doubling the fur
Put my chain under the sink 'cause I'm doubling the brrr
This eternal fight will end one day
Before mother nature will have to pay
Dusting, as if Second Advent is Christmas Day
Entertaining, from abundance or for mere lack
Cooking with the crockery, banging out souffles
Eating thirds, doubling waistlines, seasonal pounds pack
Merry-making, sozzled so in the festive mood
Baking anything that has a beat, even snails
Expending on material goods till it's rude
Receiving presents, swapping cards and vintage tales
A dispute among them
Selfish favorite three
What has happened?
Causing such ruckus
Blatantly oblivious
Service to their ideals
I forgot they were me.
Except death is inevitable.
They return to the dispute
Soldier on forge ahead
As I try to keep quiet
These famous three
Not a thinker amongst them
Lacking riveting appeal
And authentic Belonging
I forgot they are me again
Except Death, he is something.
Mostly annoying and boring
The other two are the main reasons.
For taking medications
So many medications
That doesn't work, evidently.
Her shrill voice gets too loud.
Doubling up dosing makes
Turns shrill into whispering
As I've stated numerous times
It's worse than the screaming
My curiosity began to fade.
I'll get back to my writing.
Better than medications
So many medications
The famous three
ing pestiferous three
From one singularity came the exploding spark,
Not yet stars, not yet light, only potential.
A field unseen, stretched taut as thought,
Holding energy like a clenched fist of time.
Expansion surged, a storm without wind,
Not matter racing, but space itself unfurled.
Faster than light, yet no law was broken—
Relativity bowed, not shattered, in awe.
Negative pressure, a repulsion profound,
Bent the equations toward infinity’s edge.
In the womb of the cosmos, space time grew,
Doubling, redoubling, in a heartbeat’s breath.
Quantum tremors, minute as dust,
Were stretched across horizons vast.
Seeds of galaxies, of suns and worlds,
Carried within fluctuations’ song.
What mystery drives the inflaton’s dream?
What hand steadied the potential’s curve?
In equations I see its fleeting ghost,
A pressure that sings of repulsive fire.
And when it ended, it left a gift:
Heat, light, matter, the chance to begin.
The hot Big Bang was its second act,
The stage prepared by a silent overture.
I wonder still if beauty was its aim,
Or only chance in quantum disguise.
Yet in its breath, the universe awoke.
Betsy Ross sewed the US flag with ease
Fellow countrymen were more or less pleased
A Scotsman stole her design
His wife sewed something so fine
Flags doubling as kilts ~ Waving in the breeze
Flames swallow oxygen,
duplicitous in their deeds,
circumventing steel barriers—
steel barriers doubling over.
Ashen soot cakes the walls;
walls crumble, interlacing with soot.
Pyres of fire lick the night sky;
crimson smoke suffuses the air.
Breathing in microparticles,
microparticles sticking
to fibrous membranes—
breathing collapses.
Lit match—ignition,
cinders glow.
"She reassured me with an unfamiliar line."
Love is a mystery school, yearning for sages
well able to reckon sixes from nines.
True wits should elect sin's disbursements
rather than reflect on love's scenes of rushing bunglers.
Love is sick, blind, unkind. Aren't we cruel?
She chided: brush your flapper, dying blue
between that pair of cheese crackers.
Remove the Devil's Pitchfork from your hair.
Doubling as Dracula, your zeal repealed
by loving an unpersuaded other.
Stay not inconsolable, my weaning one!
She knelt beside me, interpolating my orations.
Entreat for veritable blindness to take better blame.
Apathetic to any flame, resisting even sipping sunshine
interred in the long night of voluminous drapes,
pray for cardiac arrest to efface 1700 hours of shadows.
Perhaps, pray you would love me, and I shall say something of it.
with dusk approaching
the radiance of the day
melts in the rain
streetlights smear
the autumn colours
across the footpaths
doubling the display
of chromatic foliage
autumn gloats
AP: Honorable Mention 2025, Honorable Mention 2025
there was a young man named Price
who always took risks without advice
till one day he was peeved
when a letter he received
from his insurance saying your policy is doubling in price
Dealing with the death of my friend
As well as a long held dream
doubling down on pain Auspiciously it seems
The two for one it aint much fun however
one serves to blunt the other
the slightest bit but never ever cover
The depth of these losses without bottem
Pain till now inconceivable
To lose you both unbelievable
Reality strikes again a hammer ringing on steel
Pendulum swinging from keening pain
to survival mode unable to feal
it will get better one day I'll find
the sky is once more blue and this waterfall
replaced with smiles when I lovingly think of you
Damn the nor’easter
hold the wheel steady
Waves from the Kraken
over the bow
Darkness ahead
charts plot the demon
Into the fury
—doubling down
(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)
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