Oak Street had three car wrecks in one week
After the mayor and his wife put out their Christmas display
Santa and his reindeer, inflatables.
Newspaper headline said
Please do not go to Oak Street and gawk at Christmas display
We have had three wrecks
Sixteen families headed to their cars
There were six more wrecks
Categories:
gawk, christmas,
Form: Free verse
A teenager searching for gold
Saw a girl whose tattoo was bold
It read, "You are here!
The treasure is near!"
But as he grew hot she grew cold
Categories:
gawk, humor,
Form: Limerick
Oh, that voice in my head
I just did what it said
Invisible footprints
I followed - they led
A colorful leaf
On a breeze – fluttered by
A wonderful sight
Brought a tear to my eye
A sign on a pole said
“mask up or die”
I didn’t know whether
To laugh – or to cry
As an old feral cat
Tore the head off a sparrow
I struggled to walk
The straight – and the narrow
A squirrel on a fence
Spouting elegant chatter
Kept stuffing in acorns
His cheeks getting fatter
The tick of the clock
An ancient old thing
Reminded me that
The cuckcoo must sing
The song that’s imbedded
In levers and gears
Devoid of all feeling
Of hopes and of fears
I swing on a pendulum
Forward and back
A feral cat and a squirrel
Tied up in time’s sack
John G. Lawless
©10/4/2021
Categories:
gawk, humor, satire,
Form: Rhyme
The thorns have come for me
Her deadly flower walks
There's more for taking me
to deadly hallow docks
What once was gracing me
now trecherous goary blocks
When now I come to see
her hoary marry mocks
That now I know to see
more caring fair-thee flocks
So all I love to see
is sparing tarry gawks
Categories:
gawk, abuse, analogy, aubade, bullying,
Form: Quatrain
frightened turtle squats
on its shadow, wet and yet,
gawks at zooming jet !
Categories:
gawk, animals, life, nature,
Form: Haiku