Early morning and the gantry cranes
at Webb Dock look like long necked
dinosaurs lining up to drink from the river -
and the sky is aglow as it might have been
when tinged by the first hint of that asteroid
slamming into Yucatan on the other side
of the world 66 million years ago.
This is 2025 and no asteroid threatens
our fragile planet, yet more subtle
things do - things that reside in the dark
precincts of the human soul that pour
out pollution and in silos and undersea,
stoke embers that could at anytime
break free and incinerate us all.
Categories:
gantry, fire, world,
Form: Free verse
heron eyes
over the green shallows
catching fire in a thimble of time
steely kamikaze plunge
a divine wind catching
gleaming stiletto
bright day spray
silver tail hoisted into gantry neck
look
two emerald dragonfly
form a heart
watch the heart hover
the heat hover more
over a broad green leave
as thick as a seagulls shadow
iridescence
humming along a watery face
a wobble of sunlight
green
the scum drone of a terraced alae
tidal eggs
planted
fragments of being
look
minute golf course emerging
where eyes film over
watching
Categories:
gantry, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Total cop out ... criminal eyes
don’t ever confess
Grifter smiles will make a mark frown,
put smirks on politricking class clowns
Public trust,
it only grows less
Oh, from the top down,
the Elmer Gantry carnival tent
is crooked as they bum rush come
Gold coin theft renown ...
Every eye is on the take squint,
each time the cash register’s rung
Rotten roots staked in the ground,
silver spoils just laying all around
Crooked glasses
on the Pinocchio nose of Clark Kent
Bent knee masses
pray that Superman get the bail lent
Simple math ... take the borrowed sums
Skimmed milk money numbers —
sticky fingers are honey licking the gums
Stolen boo tax school hall monitor pass
open wide the home room Treasury vault door
Pyramid scheme tent coming down fast,
politricksters got hands out, trying to take more
Captain America won’t say where the cash went,
even tho’ he vig knows where the money got sent
It’s a Crying Man crisis situation,
things are crooked Nile as they come
Telly mutes speak lying divination,
Crocodile shut jaws gonna stay mum
Categories:
gantry, political, slam, truth, word
Form: Rhyme
how do i complete thoughts?
greet and free drops
diving undivided
to keep the peace hot
high priest
once fleeced
we meet
a sly fox
what is this beast?
eat some frylocks
weep the beat box
and bleed the pure stock
feed the whole spot
creep on your blog
beef steak, eat and chief
break me from the bittersweet
taken on a higher state
i will partake full on particles
nitty gritty didnt have me
shed me of all my articles
sugar in the gantry
vermin in the pantry
the scantily clad
circling my panting
hurtles getting fancy
answer is drunken dancing
cash advancing
and crowds happily chanting
davin is everlasting
drinking water with my wine
only one that was a father of mine
never run out of giving a piece of mind
armored in my think tank
sharks or really cheapskates?
pie charts and a sweet cake
coffee or a tea break
never dull in the east bay
tech giants and a little free base
Categories:
gantry, america, hip hop, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Behold! The reaping gantry.
Dusted lungs and coiling flame
Silver pity from his seduction
Serpent shedding no final gain,
A toll to pay your darkness
as she ponders memory lane
light seeping through the shadows
what once was will still remain,
Bleeding sight from all who know me
Shall not quench my unknown pain
As I am dancing with the devil
what once was shall still remain,
I Whisper farewell to last prayers
as the black wolf howls my final tune
from the bagpipes he lays his mystery
now I'm a roving quite like you.
Categories:
gantry, allusion, angel, death, depression,
Form: I do not know?
There is a potbelly in Kelly
To whom it belongs ‘Our Nelly’
She’s banned from the pantry
Works out in the gantry
Her bikini versus the deli.
© Harry J Horsman 2010
Categories:
gantry, funny,
Form: Limerick
Finding sale items
clipping coupons
2 fer 1 is great when find 'em
Short in the pantry
tripping to foodbank
lines are longer now for gantry
Top ramen special
10 for a dollar
loading up as noodle cartel
Stick a feather
in my cap
and call me "macaroni".....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
gantry...latin,canterius,"beast of burden"
macaroni...greek,makar,"blessed"
Categories:
gantry, food, funny,
Form: Free verse