We made our padded rooms,
Trampoline parks for a time,
For bouncing off the walls,
As we crash into the side.
Those clouds our leather breakers,
Eroding rolling rows,
Salty tongues to a gobstopper ball,
Cancelling the storm.
Strapped into a jacket,
A hopping biped fowl,
From pterosaur to Christmas baste
Skin golden crisped to taste.
Thrown off the pier a flip,
Does blind the inner ear,
To up or down, or sand or air,
Our skull: the barycentre sphere.
Clouds overhang again,
Dangled down on unseen strings
A sea of puppets bobbing,
On white lip crests of sea.
Thrown like a bottled ship,
Lab foetus in a jar,
My pickled skin, burned crisp like chicharrón,
A whole communion of my form.
Categories:
gobstopper, confusion, dream, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Lips pucker
Sweet
corn kernel
K I S S E S
Biffing
long winded sighs
Into fits
WATERING
of pops and crackles
The squeezing..
(SQUISH)
strangle-hold
Pulsing tempest…………
Firmness
N u d g i n g
Tinkles
Licks nerves edges
munching marshmallows
in the cheeks
Wriggling sizzles
Tongues tAnGle
Hands Cl asp
Arms cRush
Legs Fling
Eyes r o l l
Breathe*lungs
Balloons on F i r e
Ooop! Oooop!
……………… Godzilla’s gobstopper
S P L O S H
Broiled caramel
like
Crème Brule
Categories:
gobstopper, imagery, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Ah, twas only by a fluke conversation,
whence a speech pathologist
informed my parents about
the Lancaster Cleft Palate clinic,
where oral an examination
revealed minor birth defect
identified as a submucous cleft palate,
which explained the severe pinched twang
somewhat mitigated by wearing
a removable prosthetic
fashioned by Prosthodontist
Dr. Mohammad Mazaheri MSC, DDS
fastened with clasps to upper teeth
whereby a makeshift miniature
plastic protuberance closed the gap
so air would be prevented
passing thru my button nose
and thus gentle and soft as a shutterfly
shunted air out thee oral opening
though congenital defect disallowed
returning merchandise back to sender
nor could blame be affixed
at either father nor mother
who both harbored the genetic mutation
now such admissions
re: aforementioned impediment allows,
enables and provides boasting rights
if in a mood to temper
any curiosity or satisfying a rumor
whispered down the alley,
whence I said “ah”
left nagging nincompoops
as if pie hole filled with a gobstopper.
Categories:
gobstopper, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
I had simple pleasures when I was child
Not considered raucous and certainly not wild
Ten pence put into a space invader machine
Was hardly offensive and not obscene
Kicking a football along a crowded street
Sucking a gobstopper the best kind of sweet
Played board games if the weather was bad
Simple pleasures for a most simple lad
I look around at the younger generation today
So much change and difference I have to say
Their simple pleasures are not clear to me
Everything is available as far as I can see
Categories:
gobstopper, self,
Form: Rhyme
I Got the Golden Ticket!!!
If I could rewrite the plot of the great Chocolate Factory story
I would erase the character Charlie and interject ME
Yes, I would love to play the part of Charlie and explore
The world’s greatest chocolate factory
I would take a boat ride in a chocolate river
And nibble on an everlasting Gobstopper
I would play hopscotch with the Oompa Loompas
And find out all of Willie Wonka’s secrets
I would even help him think up ten more!
I would be the best kid business partner he could have ever dreamed of
He could go on long vacations and I would take care of the factory
He could go to Vienna for a year and I would be just fine
Me and the Oompa Loompa’s would cook up all sorts of new recipes
Just think of the possibilities!
It makes my heart melt in delight!
Chocolate covered every things!
These are my chocolate covered dreams!
Written by Gwendolen Rix
9-1-14
Categories:
gobstopper, adventure, child, creation, fantasy,
Form: Free verse