Dear bag of nails
you are driving me crazy
once I thought you sweet
and fruity
now I deplore the way you snore
Love you dearest doggy
but you’re a real eyesore
woof me a kiss
while you piss
on the roses
your big old mutt head
graining
from the flowerbed.
Categories:
graining, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dear bag of nails
you are driving me crazy
once I thought you sweet
and fruity
now I deplore the way you snore
Love you dearest doggy
but you’re a real eyesore
woof me a kiss
while you piss
on the roses
your big old mutt head
graining
from the flowerbed.
Categories:
graining, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Duck And Cover Drill
David J Walker
I still
Remember the drills
Holding our heads under
The third-grade desks
“Perfect,” our teacher said
Repeat after me
“Duck and Cover”
“Duck and cover”
And us boys on the
Playground
With wide-eyed pride
That our town
Was important enough
For the Russians to bomb
With nuclear weapons
Pueblo
Had a weapons depot
That no one we know
Had ever seen
But we had seen the
Graining film of the
Mushroom cloud above the
Blast that would last only
Seconds before
Everyone and
Everything was gone
Everyone but our
Third-grade class
Safe under our desks
Heads beneath our arms
Where we would stay still
Until the alarms were sounded
All clear from the
Duck and Cover Drill
Categories:
graining, age, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
When I thought of the drawing
Suddenly, I heard some painting
I crave the draft, draught de kooning
Still is graining, still is graining
Long I stood there establishing, painting
I took the blank sheet of paper
My mind was racing
Grandeur, thoughts and flashes behind my eyes
My mind guides my hand
I secure the paper
I crave the draft, draught de kooning
Still is graining, still is graining
Suddenly, I heard the auctioneer yelling..
I'll give you 2 thousand dollars for this drawing
Still is graining, still is graining
Long I stood there establishing, painting
I had dreamed of canvases staining
It was pertaining
The developing draw delineating
All my soul within me withdrawing
The designing draftsmanship designing
Remembering many draft, enticing paintings
An echo murmured back the word, 'painting!'
For I the artist drawing, is now a painting that was sold for money
4/20/19
Categories:
graining, adventure, allegory, analogy, art,
Form: Free verse
dark shadows fall
draining color from canvas
— grayscale graining
7/28/2018
Categories:
graining, night,
Form: Haiku