Long Land on your feet Poems

Raisin liked to make her bed upon a shelf up high
She said she likes the feeling that she’s almost in the sky
One day she fell and bonked her head and Rum could only stare
And wondered...

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Two little kittens; he’s Rum and she’s Raisin
Lived in a house near the zoo.
Rum asked his friend, “Would it not be amazing
to go catch a mouse or a shrew?”

Raisin said, “Rum, we should not be...

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Rum and Raisin, on the mat, were playing with their toys
Their humans had the tv on to give some background noise
Rum said, “Raisin, there is something that I want to do,
To meet a man from...

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We briefly meet the Mandan Chief Big White
in the village center where the animals are sacraficed,
couples wed, and disputes are dealt with,
he is a massive, and portly man
and is wearing a headdress that spreads to...

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The month of perfection has come for the sons and daughters of zion to possess their possession,
with the understanding that September is a month like no other month to remember in the history of histories...

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7. The river of life is only bringing a tide of strife.
Oh, I pray Father, such a joy to be alive and enjoying all your creation. It’s like a River constantly flowing and I am...

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It's always struck me as amazing how folks will buy more lottery tickets as the odds increase, so long as the prize money increases. The recent billion dollar lottery sent the masses into a frenzy--and...

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Lucky ones

Your pay is to break, to hurt, be bent and stink,
 the bank is your body, selling labor the means.

A wage is a a wave of dread 
	for the very dinner on your plate.
Again...

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…Said the Mind to the Heart, we do not work together to run this place all we do is argue and fight.  This place use to run so simple and sweet then you came...

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One day I started climbing; 
without question I climbed. 
Until finally I had reached the peak of Mt. Everest.
I wanted to beat my breastbone 
yell like Tarzan King of the Apes. 

But...
 I saw a...

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Charcoal tar and gold brown tobacco
are both packed into a paper stick pressed
firm and trusting to the lips of a modern shaman
inhaling a cloud of harsh, strong, bold, and bitter barbs
that caress the tongue and...

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If my heart breaks and there’s no one around
Does it still make a sound
Does it still fall to the floor
And shatter on the ground
And if I buy a million rolls of duck tape
And a dump...

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All the questions in my head,
                   Making me mad.
        ...

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A DINNER INVESTMENT (for Eve)

My husband Chris Adams loves to wine and dine my needs
In the most expensive places, one can eat.

Arriving in LIMO style
A humble waiter greets
After I viewed the menu I replied, 
"Hun...

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I attacked her branches vigorously, 
clipping crossed limbs, suckers and waterspouts
that reach straight to the clouds.

The day, too early for the warmth we'd been getting,
bright, sunny, bee-dazzled.
The bees flitting from pink bud to pink bud,
racing...

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Fool me once, shame on you;
     fool me twice, shame on me.

                   ...

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"If I"


If i could fall
I would fall deep(deep)
But somehow i would still land on my feet
If i could choose 
I would have chose 
You are my statement 
That i would make bold 
You are on...

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Let my mind wonder, and go where it wants, it’s nice to relax, without response, it’s nice to not think, bout this and bout that, the black dog has gone, replaced by a cat, the...

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God I’m WEAK…I thought that I was strong
And then I realized I couldn’t do this on my own
Lord I feel so alone….where has everybody gone?
Where are My “friends till the end “ in the end….everybody’s...

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Boogie Woman comes in between my cell layers at night
She punches me up and charges me up into my fierce fighting mode
I yell and scream my truth and she laughs, gulping my rage and my...

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Suddenly I'm in a fully functional body except w/wings
I'm soaring through the air w/ high muscle definition forget any other things
By the looks of the green grass. green leaves and nature's bling
I see I'm living...

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She said she met an angel of God,
he introduced himself in the form of a homeless man
Of course, she doubted what he told her
Visually speaking, it was easy to understand;
raggedy clothes, holding a bag of...

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Dug deep down inside
and pulled out the memory file
about being a child
with my family for
a rare outing at Jones Beach,
we were all there with
my Moms picnic basket,
just in case we got hungry,
we'd eat one of...

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A Creator Variation (1)

Part I:
When I was four and
You, precognizant either of our DNA or
An epidemic rippling through the stomach fat of the nation,
Enrolled me in gymnastics, I was
Not so young that I didn't know
My...

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My heart yearns not for the mountain-way
  With its green of grass and tree;
My heart calls out for the ocean spray
   And the sound of the surf-roiling free!

Give me a land with...

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