Hordes of tiny fish
Nibble at the strands
Dark marmalade feathers
Undulating seductively
Calling all fish
To belong, be part of
A hidden totality
Under the glazed sunlight
Hazarding the shadow
Squeezing through the murk
Feeding our way in
Imagining light
Believing in everything
Eating the darkness
Mouthing the mass
Chemical collages draping the shape
Of a rusting onion
With nothing to say, but
Enjoy your meal.
My mother came to Hazard
when I was just seven;
I took off and fled that town,
filled with so many lies.
Now? This boy’s alright…
Two years ago
when I finally found Mary
she looked so different,
but still had those broken eyes;
A window to the girl inside…
We used to walk down by the river
She loved to watch the sun go down;
We planned to walk along the river
and run our way out of that town..
No one understood the depth of Mary
so adored but always walking out
of school alone;
She avoided home.
We used to walk to school every morning
She would always say
‘All I want is for the kids to stop watching me.’
Now I know she made it to the river,
She cut the chains that had her bound;
I knew she made it off the river
and ran her way out of this town..
A Tribute to Richard Marx.
Vivacious
starlit eyes
a coaxing hazard;
Millions have been lost
choking.
Why do we insist on taking away the things that make us happy. If we truly cared about it, wouldn't we choose to have it. Laughter has a way of healing the splattered, destroyed and not even looking for the key labeled master - instead we become our special kind of hazards.
once lives discovered
inevitable transformations
illegal apostrophe vortex.
whippersnapper extractions,
are whisperings enough?
virtual transitions
all lives interdefined
never ending romances
beyond our now nowness
TAXI!
vibrancy never coming from chance
past present Future
love belongs to infinity
Do your fingers ever write faster
Than your brain thinks of the words?
You discover incomplete sentences
That do not mean what you thought.
You find that you’ve omitted a verb
And so, your phrase has no action,
A modifier left unsaid, no traction.
In a comment, or, in writing a blurb
Proofread before sharing what's wrote.
As for you, I can think of instances
Where inadvertent omits were hazards
More often for me, they’re a disaster.
Written April 1, 2022
[Verso-Rhyme]
The tall pillarized building
Cold, concrete, dictating
Attacked the sky
Making it packed, broken, hurt, scarred
Blocking those lovely clouds and rainbow
The tall pillarized building
Cold, concrete, dictating
Captured modernized hearts
Making them a slave inside
From nine to five
The tall pillarized building
Cold, concrete, dictating
Formed a towering hazard
To the inquisitive patrolling eyes
Of the nature - lovers
Making them temporary blind
There was a charming
bride at the altar,
chance came
and took her from
there....
There was one
stunning flower here
on the porch,
came a strong wind
and carried her
to other gardens...
there was a love
noble and strong
in my adventurous chest...
love
of an adventurous cam
and she stole it from
way...!
Hope
it is a feather
blown.,
slides at random...
delays...
but ever
Will arrive ...
One day ... !
the troglodyte span
scribbling doldrum brain power
the halcyon days
J-ust
O-vercome
H-azard
A-nd
N-oxious
N-astiness
A-s
R-abid
E-nemy's
P-andemic
U-ses
Y-ucky
A-ilment
Topic: Birthday of Johanna A. Repuya (June 21)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
V-iral
A-ilment's
R-abid
S-pread
H-orribly
A-ttacks
M-ankind
A-s
D-readed
H-azard
U-ses
L-ethal
I-nfection's
K-iller
A-ssault
Topic: Poetess (Varsha Madhulika)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
A-trocious
L-ink's
E-erie
X factor
A-pplies
N-asty
D-isease's
E-erie
R-isk
S-ilently
E-mploying
R-abid
G-rime
E-ven
Y-ucky
E-pidemic's
V-irus
I-n
C-ruel
H-azard's
P-andemic
U-ntil
S-anitation
H-ealthily
K-ills
I-ts
N-otoriety
Topic: Birthday of poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (June 06)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
S-ilent
H-azard's
A-trocious
I-nfection
R-abidly
E-mploys
N-asty
M-ystery
A-s
E-pidemic
A-pplies
R-isk's
C-oronavirus
A-ttack
Topic: Birthday of Shairen Mae A. Arca (May 11)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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