My Life Is Unraveling
A Metamucil Moment"
Woke up this morning
Feeling rather blue
Ran out of Metamucil
Don't know what to do
Muscles really aching
Joints are creaky sore
I ran out of Ben-Gay
Have to run down to the store
Blood pressure medicine
Seems too have disappeared
Can't remember if I used it all
My tummy's feeling kinda of weird
Where did I put my glasses
Can't see a gosh darn
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Categories:
kona, angst, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Kona Bear
Knowing browns of molten Tiger’s Eye give me a loving look
One ear cocked, and the other is always half-flopped just so
Now and then, her exuberance forgets she’s a large Alsatian
as she snuggles for cuddles as a wiggly fur ball named Kona…
Bearing colors of her timber wolf kin, she is more like a lamb
Eagerly, she’ll swim
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Categories:
kona, appreciation,
Form: Acrostic
Categories:
kona, confusion, death, dedication, depression,
Form: I do not know?
Remembering Kona
I remember gazing upon
the ocean from my lanai
on the Kona mountainside
Watching the cruise ships
gliding through the dark
Into Kailua Bay at the
Same time every morning
always clad in their bright jewel
necklaces that lit up the dawn.
I remember sitting on my
lounge chair
observing the moon
collide with daybreak
And disappear from sight
While sipping Kona coffee
That heavenly aroma
warming me
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Categories:
kona, adventure, happiness, introspection, places,
Form: Free verse
Kona and His Valley
Awaken to the scent of green
on foliage too broken to be rare
after sleep of listless druggery
from nature's sweet intent
Smoking pit three shades from us
with scents that only heaven knows
which pump the blood to stir the mind
to hunger gone insatiable
Kayaks ready on the ebb
with coffee brewed to mud and back
with sleepy hair and whispered eyes
we take
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Categories:
kona, life, nature, places, drug,
Form: Free verse