Grinned Poems

Tinkle, Tinkle

...Sonny Boy...fresh out of diapers
Ogled my iced tea
Gulped every last drop 
Grinned like the Cheshire Cat 
Yodeled a catchy tune
Blew me a kiss and waddled away
One hour later...
Tea-toter stin...

becalmed

...
       “dabble, dabble
         roiling to rabble
         toes in the water
         bow lips babble”

smirking …
nonsense danced out of her mouth
and onto the soft swells
legs dangling fr...

Falun Dafa Will Prevail, part 1

...1992, Master Li Hongzhi’s benevolence shone through
To the public in China his amazing teaching grew
Falun Dafa emerged from prehistoric time
To guide Earth’s people to be true, good and kind

P...

From the Book OOh-Us

...
Miss Percy and Mister Pasmer
decided to jump the broom
they would marry in December,
 February or June
the perfection of coupling
they wished to have a ball
a celebration for freinds and fami...

An Open Book

...

Her pregnancy was like an open book
quite readable with just a cursory look.
She wore a gown that trailed in white
and grinned a guiltless smile as bright.
And why not, white was only a tradi...

Midnight Thoughts

...When your blue eyes
Looked at my brown eyes,
Like the sky came to kiss the earth
With honour during the morning dew on the snowdrops. 
It makes me want to wish I were your perfume, 
So you c...

Careless Moments

...I should have grinned when morning came
Atop posts of gaping day, with lunatics
Humming dirges of a broken world.

I remained glued to my gloom.
Rising from the pit of hell, I held
Concupiscent...

Laughing Willow

...They say the willow weeps for me
They play the willow song
What if the willow laughs and we
Perceive its rustle wrong 
The willow dies of laughter though
We still believe it weeps
I’ve seen two...

Confession of a Serial Killer

...
they wheeled me in like a busted fridge
metal bolts, the stink of bleach
my hands were calm for once—
you'd think I'd scream,
but I'd already done all my screaming.

a priest mumbled junk at ...

Rum n Raisin 18 - One Rainy Day

...“I’m so very bored,” Raisin said with a frown
“Me too,” said Rum, “but with rain pouring down,
It’s not like we get to go out for some fun.”
Raisin said, “Will this rain ever be done?”

Sat on t...

Venom of ignorance

...There was a man I knew—
 bitten by ignorance’s venom.
All his life, he groped through shadows,
  searching for cures in the dark—
   but he found none,
   until he bit the dust.

One day, whil...

somebody new

...
~

She looked in the mirror, a frown on her face,
her mind filled with worry and fear

The sorrow she wears, she just can't erase,
her cheek finds the loneliest tear

For beauty...

Tinge Terrific

...Tinge, thy colors terrific.
Weather wave, point where?
Heaven and Hell, this may stick!
Brick upon the bare.

Red the rampant real? Rind? Rhyme.
Tornados in time.
Wind above the city, chime.
...

Snack O'Clock

...There once was a sandwich, quite absurd,
who dreamed of speaking every word.
One morning crisp, it woke and cried,
“Oi! Who nicked my clock?” it sighed.

The chef just blinked, his whiskers twit...

First Spring Visitor

...Something was different this morning
I'd gone to bed chilled,
reached for another blanket
knowing I'd have to defrost with coffee
before bracing for the north wind.

But sunlight peeked at me
...

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