I’m sorry my mother yelled
And that it made you cry.
Come by again tomorrow
And I will protect you better.
I still want to be
Your big sister.
J-ust
A-llow
N-o
N-egativity
A-s
M-orn
A-nd
E-arliness
M-ake
A-nother
R-eturn
A-fter
N-ight's
O-bscurity
C-loses
Topic: Birthday of Janna Mae R. Maranoc (July 21)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Walk side with me to a valley,
And we shall be yonder pleasures of heavens light,
Of whose firmament, hills, groves, shining woods presume wonder.
And we will weight off our feet upon the hills,
Seeing swains tends to their torn flocks,
Quails harping to harmonic tunes,
And we shall made mat of Ambrosia,
With fragrant from Acacia, Aster, Azalea and Arum,
A hat of Begonia and a Larkspur crème,
Cross-stich with the bark of yellow birch.
Which through our intimate loving lay rest,
A metal slipper for the snows,
With buckle fashioned from alloyed silver,
An apple from Janna,
If suited thee
Walk side with me to a valley.
The tunes of heaven shall we dance,
A coffee for your morning
If such picture delights thy heart, move
Walk with me to the valley, and be my Joy.
Just as I hoped it would,
All my conflicts resolved.
No part remains unaligned.
Nick is of one mind,
And is finally complete.
Perhaps life is such a place
As it is so that we learn.
Ready, finally, to be
Kith, I can finally remove
Every part that disagrees.
Juxtapose two conflicting minds.
Against one another they tassel.
Never to complete their argument,
Nick is stuck as mediator.
And it is not a fun job.
Proposition after proposition,
All movements are mirrored.
Rather than agree, they fight.
Kind Nick is torn apart.
Everyday he worries about the outcome.
Just look at me! I have fallen
Apart. Head over heals I fell. I give
Nicety after nicety. I could
Never have imagined
Anything as such.
Possibly I am mistaken. I don't want to be
Anything other than your friend.
Really. We can be best friends. Our
Kinship can be indefinite.
Everything would be perfect.
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