Smeared In a pattern.
This Rorschach abstraction.
Flowing like satin.
In cascading fashion.
Symmetry, mimicry.
Mirroring the mind.
Coddling, throttling.
Either or is fine.
Full to bursting.
Ache encephalitis.
In many minds of how this building
pressure will ignite us.
"Ticky tacky" tinderboxes.
Longing for the flame.
Effigies of rememberance.
Not all burn the same.
The beauty of the sanguine bloom,
detonator primed.
T-minus the countdown.
Get on with the ride.
Functional, nominal.
Broken by design.
Apathy, empathy.
Whatever's left is mine.
In written depiction.
This Incessant chatter.
An empty inscription.
For a mindless matter.
Categories:
encephalitis, confusion,
Form: Free verse
She cradled Sarah
in such a precious way.
We could see
not only was the baby vulnerable
but also Lynne.
Two years before
we had met in hospital;
there cradling her own
Sharon
whose head swelled
and swelled
with continual distress
and seizures
from encephalitis;
no treatment in those days –
just tender care.
It was tragic
at the graveside –
tears and hugs.
Now
she had bravely said 'yes'
to Janice
and become Godmother
to Sarah.
Her grief wounds
exposed
yet transfigured
by the new life she held
so precious.
Categories:
encephalitis, baby, baptism, grief, pain,
Form: Free verse
"If you lose what i've lost,
You will only find of reality,
all you have left is your own soul."
-Ds-
Categories:
encephalitis, age, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Why did Noah take nits?
Let's pull this Ark to bits,
God let Noah take two nits,
Plus two mosquitoes, each proboscis,
Gave humans encephalitis,
What is worse than this?
Why they bring malaria, blip!
What is worse than this?
As well as Noah's two nits,
God let Noah take two rats,
With two fleas on board, that's that,
So Noah brought bubonic plague,
While lovely unicorns floated away,
Then on all those wooden decks,
Noah took two woodpeckers, by heck,
So that was the end of Noah's Ark,
Lucky he wasn't eaten by sharks,
So, why God, did you plan all this, mate?
I know Noah was human to make mistakes,
Taking rats, fleas, mossies, and nits, great!
Was taking two nits more than fate?
Categories:
encephalitis, allusion, funny, humor, imagery,
Form: Free verse
black snakeroot, yew, cocklebur, poison (ivy, oak, parsnip, sumac, ryegrass, hemlock), blister bushes, daffodil, mayapple, lilium, jerusalem cherry, indian licorice, deadly nightshade, christmas rose, bleeding heart, asparagus berries, wolfsbane, tomato leaves, doll’s eyes, the suicide tree, young larkspur, blue-green algae, stinkweed, dumbcane, european spindle, blind-your-eye mangrove, manchineel, laburnum, mother of millions, elderberry root, bacterial pathogens, exotoxins, mycotoxins, grayanotoxins, rhinovirus, chicken pox, sleeping sickness, cholera, yellow fever, typhoid, rotavirus, river blindness, measles, japanese encephalitis, hepatitis (a,b & c), cryptosporidiosis, shigella infection, pneumonia, meningitis, tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, malaria, influenza, herpes (1 & 2), crab louse, scabies, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, chancroid, trichomoniasis, hpv, hiv/aids, ebola virus, marburg virus, mad cow disease, mudslides, avalanches, blizzards, storms, cyclones, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, fires, supervolcanic eruptions: evidence of absence.
Categories:
encephalitis, life,
Form: Free verse
Blood sucking vicious pest-mosquitos
Malaria, fever, cramps, and pain
Itching red raised whelps, begin
Swat, slap, squish, shoo. Make goo.
Encephalitis
West Nile Virus
Dormant germs
Vampire
Leech
Categories:
encephalitis, health
Form: Nonet