Time Lizard Poems

Best described as lizard slime,
Larry was worst of all time.
	His big rheumy nose
	was red as a rose
And his eyes glowed green as lime!...

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Behind the polished brass and red cedar
She lifts the florescent bottles and glasses
At her own classy pace

She’s earned that right by now
I understand well

Her beauty...

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Lizard was slurping down his blueberry in the most luscious way.
Making lovely trickling down the face noises on this happy Monday.
I had never seen anyone...

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Not any longer a trace
On Clement’s Peace Maker’s face 
Of a once-waiting warm Grace
That would up a cold heart brace 
And it ready for embrace.	

When...

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I was lying on bed 
Facing the all white ceiling
And my eye picked a lizard
I zoomed in once or twice
And closer the reptile came
I saw...

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hot sun burning
night foraging
once cold time comes
then hibernate...

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Even the Lazy Lizard

Even the lazy lizard knows when not to beg,
when not to emerge, from behind the hungry black rock of 
another dying hand,...

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From his cage-
he looks up high
and watches planes
up in the sky-
as the smoke trails far behind…
and the sun shines in his eyes.

From his perch-
he sees...

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It spread its grizzly legs on the whitewashed wall
Firmly baked in the early summer heat 
Spitting perspiration dripping from the white crisps ceiling
While I cling...

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I sat one evening in the park
upon a bench I thought my own
but as the dusk turned into dark,
I realized I was not alone

I hadn't...

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Pinhead Lizard
Ever since he was a young boy
He played with balls of fire
From church halls to Soho brothels
He must have had them all
Aint seen nothing...

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Always nodding yes
Even falling down the tree
Giving thanks all time


© Chris Ekong...

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Green speckled lizard on the wall
Laps up the warmth on satin skin
It lies serenely in repose
A mellow dream it holds within.

Beneath the rays of shining...

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Hmmm, where do I start? With deep sighs, I am sighing right now.
I just finished burying 2 lizards, and my heart is heavy...

Let me back...

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Years ago 
	I met an 
	assured, 
	self-sufficient, 
	powerful, 
	oddly friendly man 
	that frightened me. 
	I put away my ill-gut-feelings 
	and believed he was
 	what he...

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