Just the other day, a man was stoned to death for being a Christian Gay
Another was beaten, a few breaths shy of death, for wearing a MAGA hat.
Devils sashay bloody streets- eating innocents- pepper-spraying God.
We've lost humanity and hobbled dialogue and civility.
I think it's time to part ways, reflect, and pray.
That this blaze eventually gives way to more gentle embers.
Pray that someday we can chain greed and lasso ego.
Refresh the loving heart and come back wholly, together
The day the hour,
The meat the shower,
Show no oscillating octopus to an octagonal obelisk and eat a Greek tortilla upside down in a second. It is wiser to tread lightly in a miller’s abode. Round and round the turrets go those turtles so mind your footing for shells can be slippery really.
When shopping for an Aberdeen Angus bull it is wise to carry an umbrella as showers can occur from any lengths of tail thus rendering talismans useless and a fruit fly would remark that a plate of steamed rice is simply not that exciting really so now after all that information you can leapfrog over the dandelions wearing a cotton pair of anglers waders and a fish hat with or without fins.
X anthropomorphic creatures X
Out for a walk together
a dog and a man on the heather
Which was which not easy to tell
the dog, perhaps, the one wearing the bell
For the dog looked like the man
and the man, though unplanned
looked so much like the dog
that if they played leapfrog
you could never tell one from another
even swear that they might be two brothers
So if you are out and about and happen to see
a dog and man playing leapfrog, and you’re not visually
impaired or something unfortunate like that
~ I’d say the ‘Twilight Zone’s’ your new habitat
Most laboratory mischievous
was a petri dish birth of the patent soulless
Retrograde thought waves,
cold stream of computer code consciousness
Clone algorithm doppelgänger breathe
into a body of artificial intelligence theory
Hollow cranial cavity
filled with synthetic mitochondria propagation —
Grey matter reversal movement,
Neanderthal cortical activity cybernetic
Experimental genome project,
primeval opaque was the ethical manifest
Microchip implants
rooted in Pleistocene motive —
Darwinian conquest: Amygdala tool
was nano technological,
at its terabyte best
Cerebrum devolution was a scientific success!
Test tube pre-cogs
predict a quark-y future gray
Matter of terminal importance
on a backward timer delay
Mesozoic void was the synaptic quantum leapfrog
Cerebral core of humanity drifting away
on a data entry log
Into the primordial fog
of a deity devoid day
10-28-21
Webbed lip toadies,
their tongues do do stink of lies
As they leapfrog from excrement places
that do do attract flies
Brown tongue toadies,
their sticky web of dysentery deceit
stinks of foul breath duplicity
For they do do double dip in
toilet ponds of diaphragm dishonesty
Croak manure truth be 100-proof landfill speech
My heart unraveled.
Like a ball of house cat yarn.
Wish she would have told me sooner.
but I chose to play leapfrog with the truth.
Wish she would have told me sooner.
I don't like sitting in a puddle of hell.
Let's play leapfrog with the unicorn
Careful children watch out for the horn
Let's tippy toe in the meadow with an elephant
Could a happier afternoon ever be spent
Let's swim with the goldfish in her bowl
Hunting for the treasure chest Captain Kidd stole
Let's fly with the robbins the first of spring
We can learn to chirp and flap our wings
Let's glow with the glow worms at night
Laughing and chasing whoever lights
Let's play as children silly and fun
Using our imaginations as bright as the sun
Let's stand on rainbows and wave as bluebirds fly
Where wishes and dreams are woven into a lullaby
Let's dream with a sprinkle of Sandman's dust
Where home is being with those who love us
I stood peeking through the keyhole
and saw; mommy and daddy roll
in bed playing leapfrog.
I wish for a hotdog
I'll wait and go catch a tadpole.
1/30/2019
Mystic moves magic
Knock knows kinetic
Living laughter leaps
Steady streamy seep
Touchy telling treats
Groovy glimpses greet
Primal posture peace
Lavish lasting lease
Dazzle dreamy dance
Cosmic changing chance
Wonder whispers write
Cheery charming cite
Mind meditates more
Cluster constant core
Leapfrog lasting lure
Crafting cautious core
Happy healthy heart
Sensuous sanguine start
Leon Enriquez
20 December 2018
Singapore
I'm itinerate coyote who's mostly alone,
One more 'Steppenwolf' feeling no need to atone
For the life that I've lived (where I've worked to live free
Of the chains others cherish.) I like to be me!
Hard to circumvent world, for it gets in the way,
Though with jets it is easy to leapfrog today,
For by flying straight East, the hours lost, hardly missed,
Up so high in the air, your ass never is kissed.
Though I sometimes move fast, there's no movement at all
In life built on relationships, eye's off the ball
Of my relative life, I've no chance for a wife,
He who slows down one second soon weds the world's strife.
Love to howl at the moon for it helps night to clear,
'Sun to come' may be hiding, but I have no fear,
For I see a new dawn, as I drink what moons bring,
Should a wolf call surround you? Shh! Hear my heart sing!
Brian Johnston
May 30th, 2018
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Poet's Note:
I had no idea this poem was going to be a love song until I wrote the last line! Were you surprised too?
Lies told from a broad, bold base
Strain and constrain relationships
Painting impressions that cannot embrace
Confidence in frayed friendships
Lies can’t leapfrog
Despite webs of subterfuge
Digital or analog
Concocted in a deluge
Flooding platforms
Hitherto serene
Grown stale when sullied storms
Gather momentum to clean
Fragments of laments
Swimming in rivers of regrets
Sealed in hearts and garments
That break free of sleazy secrets.
We meet and greet
On the main street
We seize lingo
Play with bingo
Words we utter
Mind and matter
Seize words to stray
On umpteen ways
This and that way
Learn how to play
Sense thought profound
On common grounds
Leapfrog hot pyres
Get burnt by fire
Still we go on
Verge once upon
Seek to live well
On acts that tell
Sculpt a new day
From broken play
And then go round
More lost than found
Leon Enriquez
04 April 2017
Singapore
Dream dazzles dream
Seek succinct scheme
Bright blossoms bloom
Right rapture rooms
Boost beauty best
Frame feisty fest
Thoughts turn to things
Feel feelings fling
Prime poignant poise
Vouch vibrant voice
Delight dream daze
Mindset moves maze
Seek substance sweet
Telling tale treat
Leapfrog last light
Freedom fires flight
Leon Enriquez
01 September 2016
Singapore
Time after time watch rhymes speak clear,
Echoes ooze rhymes as grandeur cheers.
Space within space brings ample proof,
Hope wears a face that anchors truth.
Go beyond sense to higher thought,
Purge drowning tense and craft new lot.
Lift up your sights to bloom each day.
Do what feels right in words you say.
Blessings of peace come forth to heal,
Waltz with pure ease with love you feel.
Leon Enriquez
15 May 2016
Singapore
Copy of a thought
Original thought now frames;
Copy means a lot
To leapfrog sans blame.
Words I hurl and swirl
In cryptic, mad haste;
Poise beyond harsh world
Paints a certain paste.
I glimpse fond sights here
To glue a stray mix;
My feelings now steer
My dose of self-fix.
Copy original
Tells of brief ink flow;
Word scripts move mental
The way ooze now shows.
Leon Enriquez
10 April 2016
Singapore
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