Long Cheshire cat Poems

What if I ,
Saw a waist-coated white rabbit,
Pass and disappear down a hole
Would I think I was going quite mad
Or would I want to follow him
As he exclaimed I’m late!  I’m late!
For a very...

Read More

1. Lunar Perspective #1

month long day and night
also sees earth wax and wane
no season penchant


2. Lunar Perspective #2

moon's sun mimics earth's
earth pirouettes on star stage
sun’s smile Cheshire Cat


3. Lunar Perspective #3

moon turns once per month
lunar...

Read More

It was somewhere in Cambridge, when the amalgam of substances 
began to cloud our judgment. 
The changes were between vague and blatantly obvious, but 
we were masters at this terrifying craft. 
A small dose of...

Read More

Ever wonder, the sort of things that Dragon and Hubby do when together?
Well never fear, I’m here to explain a Spring Day routine in good weather.
Easter was upon us, as they worked out in the...

Read More

A spinning world globe just set off the center of its axis pole,
Welcome to the mad-mad Hatter’s topsy-turvy upside down
Wonderland, just another inside out hole where bunnies ware
Waist coats and fancy pocket watches!
Empty tea cups,...

Read More

What lies behind that grimacing catty coy smile, it’s upside down
Thinking perplexes me mentally, topsy-turvy confusions beastly
Kitty, popping off riddles to confound all humanity’s realistic
Way of thinking!
 Swishing his feline tail with utter cat flatting...

Read More

the yard was in a state of disarray
the caretaker there 
had been perceived
as being obtuse for offering as a quay
the promise of the gift of a coming day 

suspicion and rancor did hold prevail
surely it...

Read More

Enter beside the hollow log mailbox.
Here the road leads through a profusion of leafy damp shadows.
Wild ferns are the underbrush
where Fairy Wrens flit from the slightest presence.
This driveway winds by towering bush gums flanked
on the...

Read More

This white rabbit is having a hell of a day.
It started out good but ended in a bad way.

I woke up feeling marvelous and grand,
dressed up in my waistcoat, with my pocket-watch in hand.

I soon...

Read More

Alice
Alice was just going on eight years old
When Lewis Carroll made her fall down a hole.
The incredible place she imagined she'd found,
Buried in her backyard so far deep underground,
Teemed with people and creatures with fabulous...

Read More

It’s okay to be nervous
But there’s no need to fight
When colors flow inside of shapes 
You have taken flight
Directions will be pointed 
But you’re flying much too high
Caterpillars may inhale smoke
But eat plants to Butterfly...

Read More

THE INNER VOICE OF MARK BIRROS  II



From world war two in the Atlantic
I hear the drowning cries of men,
climbing out as in spirit from waters
that lap the steps of the harbour wall ;
time erodes...

Read More

Had the strangest dream last night.
Merlin appeared in a cloak of white.
Wielding no magic, he related how tragic,
That many couldn't stand and fight.

With crystalline focus at hand,
Didn't know what he had planned.
Casting ego aside, I...

Read More

A friendship gathering
in the land of Goshen ...

My friend, Flip J says transcendently,
that publican people are only telling you
half the truth every single usury time,
with a crocodile tear in their eye
The other half they’re selling...

Read More

Original Poem Just Desserts

I was at my favourite restaurant and had a lovely meal
If I finished all my food then a pudding was the deal
I’d relished every morsel and was pleased as a Cheshire cat
The...

Read More

We sat in clusters, on couches, giggling at the antics of the wild ones, the PP’s.
Aka popular peers, who were dancing with self confidence that oozed into the walls.
The PP’s were gyrating to folksongs, flinging...

Read More

To see monied power
In seeing from a higher order of Things
Fog still remaining fog, just thinner

What’s this found as now seen?
Just trying to get ahead

A different kind of thing, changed?

Maybe… same clothes
Though with Evil still...

Read More

The other night we took a pottery class and I wish I could convey…the excitement we both felt with our hands immersed in clay.

In some ways we felt like kids again…perhaps that’s the appeal…as we...

Read More

it’s my first real party, and i don’t know how to act. 

i make a beeline for the wine coolers, chasing that buzz i only get when i’m four drinks in. 

we made eye contact...

Read More

In an instant my world went into a blur
All it took was one look from her
Forever immortalized
In the front and back of my mind
Its like falling into river of cocoa and cream
With marshmallow rocks found...

Read More

I Looked To Heaven That Christmas Night

What shall I do, cast far away my pen
Should wizen Cheshire cat stop its grin
Mighty Amazon stop its massive flow
I paint my Christmas scene devoid of snow
Nay, surrender poets...

Read More

Muse 1 to Muse 2: "I wonder what it's like in the rabbit burrow"
Muse 2 replied: "Stand a little closer. I'll be happy to kick you in"
Muse 1 with trusting innocence: "Can I let you...

Read More

I'm stuck in a world that is unfair. Stuck down here in Wonderland. They feed you lies, and destroy the truth. Leaving nothing but barren roots.
  Wonderland, the place of life! Where you will...

Read More

Tina lost her footing and fell and fell and fell and fell.
Where was she falling? Was this the beginning of hell?

What the heck? She blinked hard. Where was she?
A sign on a large table that...

Read More

Sandra Lee was a woman alone, but not lonely.
An artist, full of flair and ideas of flamboyance and fantasy.
She wrote poetry, drew portraits, made glorious watercolors.
Others married and moved away, but she stayed in her...

Read More