Turning to merge with the happy
herd,
I heard clinking against frosty
glass --
Ladyfingers escaping tiramisu,
Followed by creamy swirls of
Chocolate mousse --
And beckoned to their shelf, I
asked
If they desired of me to have a
word.
A dolce chorus of confections
confessed
How to my hips they wished to
bestow
Love handles destined to be
caressed
Through the streets of the Feast
Of San Gennaro.
(c) 2024 Gabriela
In the rain some people are salt.
Then, dissolving like one they should halt:
That God had okayed Rainfall no fault;
My challenge to delay Destined Vault…
The coldest rains could invite that vault,
One’s exposed head to it obvious fault
Does it matter that one is no salt
What you should stop a go-ahead to halt…
Then, for the living umbrella
No skipping Confined Cinderella,
Nor restricting it to Gabriela
Nor “You can’t have one, Ursula!”
A device for springing it open
Any time you want this to happen
And what you’d see: Dome-Shaped Tarpaulin:
A shade for all folks, not just Pauline…
Umbrella all thunderstorms could ravage
And one could hear Umbrella “Savage!”
At one’s service as a walking stick
With it bad legs can distances lick…
The usually easily misplaced
But not as easily the replaced;
After a pounding rain has held off
And from minds a need for it switched off…
A’s family is A’s Umbrella:
Protect one from germs: Salmonella.
The holes in its tarpaulin stitch up:
Droplets from them could start a hiccup…
DRUMMOND
Oh Drummond,
how were you so straight
being so gauche...
FERNANDO
Oh Fernando,
you were so many people
in one poet!
GABRIELA FLOR DE VIENTO
Oh Gabriela,
I always knew
Mistral was your wind...
FLORBELA FLOWER
O My Lazio flower
you beat sadness
sprouting exquisite poetry!
VINICIUS
Oh singing poet
You were from a tender little poet
a great poet...
PS tribute to Carlos Drumond - Brazil
Fernando Pessoa - Portugal
Gabriela Mistral - Chile
florbela Espanca- Portugal
Vinícius De Moraes - Brazil
G-ruesome
A-ttack
B-rings
R-espiratory
I-llness
E-ndangering
L-ungs
A-s
M-ask
I-ntimidates
S-ore
T-hroat
R-ightfully
A-voiding
L-apses
Topic: Birthday of poetess Gabriela Mistral (April 07)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
I realize
I have real eyes
That see real lies—
~Nearsighted
(rule of law)
~Farsighted
(rule of lies)
~The "ayes" have it
(hidden agenda)
~The "ayes" have it
(secret addenda)
~The "ayes" have it
(hate crimes)
~The "ayes" have it
(critical times)
~Unmitigated truth
(entombed)
~Undocumented lies
(exhumed)
I realize
I have real eyes
That see real lies—
~As the world cries
***
12/13/2019
Photo "Imposter" by Gabriela Ferreira on flickr
Ó Poe, why did you
accept this function
of scarecrow !
Ó Thomas, if you
were a singer you would
be superior to Dylan...
Ó Lennon i could never
imagine that the dream
would be over...
Ó Emile you said that
you were nobody. !
But you are somebody
special, you are an admirable
poetess...
I am nobody... my poetry
is lousy...
Ó Frost, reading you
i did not feel cold...
I felt warm in my
heart...
Ó Shakespeare, to be
or not to be !
I simply prefer being
poet as you are...
How i would wish Neruda,
be the postman of your
letters...
Dear Gabriela, i always knew
Mistral were you...!
Ó Pessoa, how could a man
be so many poets in one... !
A-pparent
N-ewness
A-nd
G-low
A-re
B-eacon's
R-adiance
I-n
E-arly
L-ight's
A-ppearance
Topic: Birthday of Ana Gabriela (August 23)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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