Long Headgear Poems

O! Ferocious temptress of the land, sea and air.
Spread not thy leathery wings in fancy flights.
From the generic evolution, into future clones.
Lust raptures into unknown worlds of imagination.
		
Amazon warrior of deadly desires,
Hold my sword, it...

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(Only fellow hose-heads will understand this)

In the dream
friends from long ago in a strange bar
gently push me back
saying that they have colds
and wouldn't want to infect me
I am wearing a mask for breathing
it supplies air...

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When my first Grandchild was born I loved
him from word go.I arranged my work schedule so that I could keep him when his mother returned
to work.I would arrive about a quarter to eight to his...

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Daughters of Medusa


                   
Grey hair, ginger hair, dark hair......
All simmering in an inverted jar,
Cooked and fried
Headshrinkers doing...

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The Feather of Love:
I aired a stray feather to see it flying;
I gazed it flowing in the wind;
I loved its whitish tone;
I loved the natural print upon.
I don’t know how it managed to come back,
How...

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Fragments


They will be...

you do these kinds of things
can't be helped
imagination Band Aids some call them

I know
you just do
fingers wrapped ‘round cold steel
it's then
it's now
differences slight

like playing marbles
tripod-cradled taws and steelies
"Bombers" "Pots"
"shooters" all
aim straight
roll in the...

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The Wicker baskets

Rooster crackled, fresh new day!
Sun arose planting gentle kiss
on the Earth's fore-head....
A cottage in the woods stood elegant
Lilted the cool breeze outside so pleasant!
Woke her child this mother, filled with zest
A long embroidered...

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Overweight Terrier:
   Porky
   Yorkie
Un-cool Terrier:
   Dorky
   Yorkie

Spaniel dog breeder:
   Cocker
   Stocker
Parrot who mimics a Spaniel's bark:
   Cocker
   Mocker
Book on...

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‘Twas in another century
On a desolate, dreary day 
When something red from skies above
Wafted Into the land of gray.

It slowly drifted in the sky,
Then lit on the head of a boy.
For reasons that are unexplained,
It...

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Dachshund headgear:
    Weenie
    Beenie

Frankfurter for a Dachshund:
    Weenie
    Weenie

Grouchy Dachshund:
    Meany
    Weenie

Un-cool Terrier:
    ...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Three

Is it true the sun dared cock its eye over the hillocks
Nor did it with affront sink into raging Atlantic docks
Such the glare of armoured headlights singeing the...

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Invited into Her circle
of five points,one for each
of the qualities She crystallizes,
truth as fire, earth as nourishment,
body in water, lights in air, and ether as love,
in Her center a sacred thought having origin in primal...

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This is Part-II

Yes, I tell the truth even if you throw stones, but I have to keep my headgear clean. I am going to Princess Anne’s marriage. Princess Anne, you know, the queen of Liechtenstein...

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The Darwin Awards are a posthumous honor, recognizing those who have improved the human gene pool by removing themselves from it by their own foolish actions.

In a robbery way out in Long Beach
Elliot's handgun misfired...

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It was nine degrees out all was frozen
Not much better inside for commode water
Icy crystals formed not what we'd chosen 
Shaking at fireplace's front, stood our daughter
On top of the hearth wasn't any better
One thing...

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English women love their hats, 
From commoner to Queen; 
If you watched William’s wedding,
Then you know just what I mean.

From wild and wacky to sedate,
The headgear called attention;
Most were classy - stylish, too,
And some defied...

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VIRTUAL REALITY

i just might fall,
the mighty heights feel real.
i’m blind to all that lies
beyond my sight,
though i hear voices in my head.

this reality’s gotten a little stranger.
plush grass tickles my bare feet.
i sit on a...

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Baldies of the world, do not despair!	
It's not the end, you just lost some hair!!	
	
Balder men are more virile, thus spake a sage	
And many a woman "testify" to this old adage.. 	
	
Balder men are noted...

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Beer Head

Can't drive my brain into gear
my thinking right now is not truly clear,
a headache may come is what I do fear
I should not of drank all that beer.

My body and eyes all a blear
to...

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Ellington, Ellington, bulldog of mine.
How dare you have the sensitivities so fine?
I’ll get to Grandma-sit you just this one time.
I’ll dress you in robes of purple and lime.

Ellington, Ellington, do your one big trick.
Waddle over...

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Baldies of the world, do not despair!
It's not the end, you just lost some hair!!

Balder men are more virile, thus spake a sage
And many a woman "testify" to this old adage.. 

Balder men are noted...

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Above my head, foliage, and feathers clatter
as a hawk tangles with a squirrel.
Above my head, Russian tanks pop their tops
in boggling bubbles.

Just above a bald patch, shaggy clouds squat to piddle.
I am heads above those...

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Virtual Fantasy
              by Odin Roark

So innocent they
But three years old
Wanting parent look
Upon their face

First on paper
Crayon scribbles
Then long waits
Yearly Halloween
And make-believe 

Come...

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What if I were a bird or a tiger?
What if butterflies and bees are human?
And tall bamboos were brooms sweeping
Streets of heavens while lilies were citizens
Of the skies and frogs are rulers of the universe!
May...

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They march, stomping through the miles and miles of
white blankets of snow

A sudden winter breeze brushes against their cheeks,
marking them with a color rosy

The crystal flakes weigh down the protective headgear
of the brave soldiers, as...

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