anticipated Albany albatrosses
buried bumpy bugs beyond the bay
creepy curious cats dug them up
dinner for dogs they said in disgust
even the dogs turned up their snouts at the bugs
frenzied finicky felines are crazy they barked
giant crows arrived and devoured the gruesome bugs
helping themselves to six or eight at a time
I am glad these raptors showed up said the dogs
jealousy in no way entering their heads
kilt-wearing albatrosses happened along
lingering close to where their bug stash used to be
mad now, they marched menacing around the meadow
no need to be upset, the bugs escaped, lied the dogs
opportunity to be peacemakers always taken by pups
pacifists and problem solvers
quails and quackers put their six cents in
raising the ire of the miffed albatrosses
sixteen sparrows sauntered in to stir things up too
they had heard there was a show-down
ugly words were tweeted and chirped
verbs and vowels best not repeated here
wrens and warblers were shooed off by the fray
‘xact ‘xchange never ‘xamined or journaled
you are lucky you escaped this melee
zealous birds can become dangerously ugly.
I have never methodically journaled before.
I have only ever just played with words, rhymes, metaphors, and riddles.
Jotted as a collective, only I really know the origin or understand the meaning.
Sure the world could lay eyes upon my hands wanderings ,
poetry is open to the individual no true criticism or judgement could ever be cast.
This is where I have hid, safe within my projected illusions.
So why now do I betray my own carefully constructed defenses?
Allowing for brief moments a glance in?
dear journal:
hip hop to me is a DREAM WITH A JOURNAL,
a journal with written poems about yourself,
about your health, or maybe about how you need help,
think of it as an autobiography,
written from your life's history,
a journal with misery hidden behind each page,
sadness that might lead up to madness with a slight rage,
a journal about your best or maybe even your worst day,
but most of all a journal that says what you want it to say.
-Tanner Cox
a.k.a
-Profound