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Premium Member Do Dinos Soar

Do DINOS SOAR, do fish have SOLE
Do elephants have ANTS in their PANTS
Have you ever seen a HORSE FLY
Or a FIRE that's started by ANTS

A PEA CAN go wherever MAN GOES
Does a CROC know how to DIAL
Do you think every HIPPOS A MUST
Can laughing hyenas just SMILE

Do MANTIS PREY, does DON have a KEY
Is there always at least TEN in a KIT
CRYSANTHA'S MUM is such a pretty thing
Do LIONS tell the truth just a bit

If a PELI CAN, would she wear a Z BRA
Does WILL OWE anybody money
Does SNOW have a FLAKY personality
A bear's favourite would BEE HONEY

Are DILLS always DAFFY as far as you know
Can CUMULUS CLOUD your view
Are there some trees that are EVER GREEN
Why are BOOBY'S feet always BLUE

If you can answer any of these questions
Write me at seventy-seven Cuckoo Lane
I'd sure like to hear from all you folks
To prove that I'm not going insane

©Jack Ellison 2012
Form: Quatrain


Premium Member Do Dinos Soar

Do DINOS SOAR, do fish have SOLE
Do elephants have ANTS in their PHANTS
Have you ever seen a real HORSE FLY
Or a FIRE that's started by ANTS

A PEA CAN go wherever MAN GOES
Does a CROC know how to DIAL
Is every HIPPOS A POT OF MUSH
Can laughing hyenas just SMILE

Do MANTIS PREY, does DON have a KEY
Is there always at least TEN in a KIT
CRYSANTHA'S MUM is such a pretty thing
Do LIONS tell the truth just a bit

If a PELI  CAN, does she wear a Z BRA
Does WILL OWE anybody money
Does SNOW have a FLAKY personality
A bear's favourite would BEE HONEY

Are DILLS always DAFFY as far as you know
Can CUMULUS CLOUD your view
I hear there's some trees that are EVER GREEN
Why are BOOBY'S feet always BLUE

If you can answer any or all of these questions
Write me at seventy-seven Cuckoo Lane
I'd sure like to hear from all you folks
To prove I'm not going insane


© Jack Ellison 2015



(A Re-broadcast)
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Shingles Has Taken Me Hostage

My pain level is an eight on a scale of one to ten.
Poor you, someone says. Someone who has no idea
That I have been running on pain levels of ten for three weeks.
An eight is terrific; great, something to strive for tomorrow.

Shingles has taken me hostage, inside my own house.
My body is her host, my mind wondering what I have done
in this lifetime or any other that was so bad that I deserve
a punishment like this. 

I finally figured out today if I am sitting on a cold pack,
my pain level goes down to an eight. It took me two E.R.
visits, four days in a hospital and trying everything I could
fathom I could stand before I stumbled upon this wondrous idea today.

My skin is so hyper-sensitive that a horse fly landed on my 
arm today and it felt like a honeybee digging a stinger into me.
The morphine pain pills did not cut it, so I got something else.
I hate to tell you, but they are not as effective as the morphine pills.

I have never in my life felt this level of pain.
I know there is a reason but I have no idea what it is.
I hope that I have suffered enough for all of my family and 
All of my friends because I have suffered enough for every one of you.

Puddle

Sinking butterflies drip from the cocoon of consciousness
which no bee nor horse fly could understand for a blink,
and which even humans wish could retreat to the fallen:
Of a body, of a vein, of a spot across a field.

In what daisy does that petal float
where it found it's fateful bee that resists its wings.
Threats from the concrete river keep it mulling,
always waiting for the stem reincarnate.

Why caterpillar nor sunflower betroth it gift
is a bee's greatest myth.
While men worry of time not spent changing
black and yellow armies collapse with no wars raging.

Ripple through, wave goodbye, droplets leave for the sky.
A bee must drown,
a caterpillar will scatter,
only for the butterfly, with wings agape, to show its beauty in death that waits.

Sticks and stones will kill on sight
anything which proposes light.
Black and white stripes guide only us at night,
how funny that stripes are walked upon without a fight.

Premium Member Once Upon a Time At the Beach

I was sitting shirtless on the sand 
When a nosy horse-fly sat on my hand 
I was going to swat him, shoot-fly away 
But instead I watched him, till he flew away
 
As the minutes passed, he came on back 
I thought to smack him, but I cut him slack 
Again, I watched him...as he watched me 
until he flew, out to the sea
 
I watched him land, atop a wave 
Thought to myself, that fly is brave 
He would probably make something, a tasty dish 
A bird, a crab, a hungry fish
 
But he flew on back, landed on my hand 
As I sat there shirtless, on the sand
So, we shared some time, just he and I 
A shirtless man, a brave horse-fly 


Your Favorite Rhyme Poem In August 2021 Poetry Contest 
Sponsor: Constance La France 
Written 8/6/2021
Form: Rhyme


Horse-Fly

Yesterday...
I had 
an idea...

today, 
it sifts 
through a

a mesh...
of...
memory:

the 
pebble 
slips 

down 
the hill 
of 

the dune
unnoticed, 
'til 

the 
boy 
kicks

a horse-
fly.
And 

the 
minute 
sun-

bleached 
stones 
are tossed

into 
the air,
in which 

they
resemble 
a chaotic 

dance 
of 
gnats;

and 
the 
edges...

of
the
dune

slide
by 
their 

-hidden figures-

that 
curve
into 

-each other-

like 
the
beach-

grass,
baked
deeply- 

tanned 
streaks 
of 

green
that 
bend 

-and touch-

within 
the salty 
wind.

And 
every
ripple

of 
the
sea

is 
the
twinkle

-of stars-

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