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Tall Poppies, Cactus Flowers and a Girl Not Called Betty

“Tall Poppies, Cactus Flowers and a Girl Not Called Betty”



All the Flamingos were called Betty
on a crowded beach somewhere 

Well heeled stuck in the quick sands of time
heads held high

like

Tall poppies 
waving, long stemmed

they are 

tightly furled pale pink peonies 
and thorny cactus flowers

the softer velvet petalled man eating flowers 
silently watch on 

humming tunes 
wetting their long musk scented tongues

to catch buzzing bees 
and bragging blue bottled stinging horse flies

snapdragons wrapped up in faux violent
violet erroneous blue disguise

languidly caress memories 
where the deeper shade of lurid fuchsia 

open their moistened crowns
sweet honey traps 

dripping with potential
unfurl their arms 

seductively 
reaching out 

strung on legs that travel 
all the way up a nowhere road

consider stopping for a while 
shedding petalled layers

amusement winks 
silkily bending over in the breeze

the feline tiger lily 
looks aroused

while the glowing dandelion 
a will-o'-the-wisp, walks on water

across the green laureate laurels and
through the pristine poetry blooms 

blowing away 
the dark dreary clouds

to touch your shores 
where you sit smiling naked and salty

toes dangling for sharks 
off some shady pontoon

casting the fishing line 
into the ponderous light

dreaming 
of the long held dance 

somewhere untouched
under Blue Sky 

Summer's dreaming
reeling Winter back into Spring

Romancing

he rolls his eyes
she grins

(LadyLabyrinth / 2021) 



"Watermelon Sugar" / Harry Styles
https://youtu.be/7-x3uD5z1bQ






"Well I had a dream and in it I went to a little town
And all the girls in town were named Betty.
And they were singing: ..."









dance?










"Smoke Rings" / Laurie Anderson
https://youtu.be/Pdoj-w8xn1g

LYRICS / https://genius.com/Laurie-anderson-smoke-rings-lyrics







https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o%27-the-wisp


Interlocutory Hearing, Royal Courts of Justice

A “mention” in the Master’s ante-room.
Another February had arrived,
with dirty snow and heavy, slate-grey skies.
(One couldn’t help observing, on the sly,
the Master’s knees were blanket-draped
beneath his desk.)  No wigs or gowns on show.
A minor hearing in a puny case.
They call it “inter partes” when both sides
turn up.  Some point-at-issue had loomed large,
and we were here to tussle over it.
This room, so Ruskinesque, with frescoes
high on every wall, so hard to heat,
was one great chilly barn. The speaker’s breath
plumed out before him.  “And my learned friend … “
Our leader’s voice, so sensible in its drone,
so sweetly reasonable, continued on,
so redolent of wintry afternoons,
like hissing logs a-burning in the grate.
Those practised highs and lows, mellifluous,
his easy-listening tone, so bland, so blithe,
relying on the case of this-or-that,
distinguishing the precedent of such,
“I think it was Lord Blinkwell who opined …”
Two hundred years ago – a little less –
the young Charles Dickens wasted days in here
(the chances are, here in this very room,
observing dreary sleet run down the windows),
mired in this solemn nonsense.  Might it be,
he swore an oath – if ever he escaped,
he’d never take life seriously again?
If so, this ponderous symphony in grey,
as glum as Shostokovich etched in stone,
has cranked out clowns.  There may be more to come.

Premium Member On Writing Poetry

Lifted from somewhere, reference for attribution lost:
"If there is any characteristic which separates poets
from writers of fiction, it is their particular fascination 
with words in themselves.  Poetry is normally written
more slowly, more painstakingly than fiction and the
finished work is intended for careful, repeated reading.
It is natural for the poet to place a special emphasis
on the overtones, the rhythmical effect, and the sound
of words."

I shuffle papers, reread
what I have written long ago --
impelled now by the urge to say
something, not necessarily new,
but perhaps of minimal importance
and imbued with some logical meaning --
structured and stated in an "artistic"
and pleasing style.
Those thoughts, though, must convey 
some meaning, cannot be 
(or should not be) empty babble.
And ponderous subjects
are of little interest.
So, what makes poetic
expression pleasing, 
or illuminating?
It begins with clarity of thought
with precision of expression;
it depends upon
having something to say
that is worth saying.

Burnt Offering

Lame lyrics of lost love penned by sweatered sirens
deep as divots, shallow as puddles
Doesn’t teenage angst get old by the time you’re thirty?
I’d think so, yet the lackeys lap it up like maple syrup
I derive my dirges from a deeper well
dredging the depths 
the abyss of my essence
bringing it to the surface in buckets 
thick as black molasses
ponderous to pour, painful to process
Reopening every wound
Exposing each scabrous scar
My lifeblood spread in red puddles on the floor
until I’m drained dry and there’s no more
not a drop remaining to be wrung out of me
Bruised, broken, and sore I struggle to strike the match 
setting it all afire
throwing myself on the pyre

Premium Member Along the Canal

I’ll always remember
That morning when unexpectedly
I phoned you from the bus station
It must have been four a.m.
You came running to meet me
I’d never been so happy to see you

The chill in the air was delightful
We strolled for hours
The downtown sidewalks and canal
It was much too early
To find an open coffee shop

We finally stopped at a park bench
At times joking and laughing
At times ponderous and peaceful
Talked about everything under the sun
Shared our thoughts and philosophies
That’s when we decided
To share homebrewed coffee
It was a time to cherish forever
Precious among my most tender memories



Read on air by invitation  ~  May 5, 2021  'WORDS & MUSIC'

AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on October 28, 2017 for contest FREE VERSE III sponsored by LAURA LOO - RANKED 3RD


Premium Member Poetic Cloud Land



                        11/28/2023


Let’s be fools and pretend this planet won’t implode.
Beneath a mosaic ceiling, hiding in a grand,poetry dome.

Where ethics and morality are shoved in an oaken drawer,
And with relief and a sigh, we want to see them, never more.

Let’s, above all- not look at the enemies within our very gates.
Villainous citizens, with anti-freedom masks, cover their faces 
and ponderous pates!

Vague traces of hope where the god of censorship shines, tis 
the rule for freedom hating fools.
That’s how civilizations crumble and only morons get to rule!

We jaunt in gleeful play, look firmly, smilingly, the other way?
Woebegone poets, losing, quite willingly, our freedom everyday..

Pen thee only of laughter and fun, never of reality, lost, prized,
poet ones.
Adore the lies from Tik-Tok, and social media, the wars in our very
countries has already begun!

We walk  American streets, already unfree, antisemitism on fire!
But hide we in our grand poetry dome,a most deadly desire!

Outside the dome, others cover their ears, eyes and vacant hearts.
Selfish ones who care not who is in battle today, nor what young 
souls will this very day depart.

A write like this will few comments ever have…no loss! 
But I did not write it to be a pleasure, for freedom has a cost.

The sun sets sooner now,as holidays of .green and red do near.
And darker still on Israel, with hostages whose only breath, is fear!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member December - DD

Come every year along about the middle of November,
I begin to anticipate the happy times that await me in December!
Though the weather can be blustery, piling up drifts of snow,
The excitement of the Season will never lose its glow!

Wondrous vistas abound as if depicted by Grandma Moses,
Where children sled and skate exposing their crimson noses!
Harness bells chime as Dobbin trots with rhythmic stride,
Drawing a sleigh of happy revelers as o'er the snow they glide!

Frosty creatures upon their lawns, children begin to erect.
("Snowpersons" I shall call them to be politically correct!)
Secrets are whispered about only for Santa Claus's ear,
For dolls, trains and puppies to bring the children cheer!

Neighbors outshine each other, their homes festooned with lights,
Adding warmth and color to the cold December nights.
Colorful cards are received depicting Santa's ponderous girth,
And very special ones to announce the Savior's glorious birth!

December fills the hearts of all with great anticipation.
'Tis a festive month with fellowship and gala celebration.
Humankind is filled with love, joy and peace.
Would that this spirit might never, ever cease!
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Anniversary Blues

O’ to fade! To pass! To rest! To die!
     To ponder, to listen 
                  and not forebode -
you were as a thresher to the chaff
     and the driven wind 
                     that winnowed.
The thunderclap of Tawhiri raging
     silence not a loving
                    fool’s complaint,
nor portend for whom the bell tolls
     when the echoes 
                 of time grow faint

My heart alas divided against itself
     knows not what to say 
                     or what to feel,
and with ponderous words recited
     I return your resting 
                      place to kneel.
Some final absolutions shared alone -
     cold black rain upon 
                 my brow and cuff.
Judge not a froward son - I am who
     I am, and have 
             been judged enough

We are but the quick and the dead,
     and just or unjust 
                 no keeper of time.
O tell, what sin was imputed to you?
     What concealed divine 
                         law or crime?
And what burden so dark the lamps
     of Heaven and Earth 
                     burn less bright?
I ask do we in this realm find peace
     or is death’s victory 
                     our only respite?

Only in beds of posthumous sleep
     will end my 
             unspoken confessions.
Nay, I no longer exhume the past -
     it rebukes all my 
                searching questions.
From umbilical dawn to end of days
     I failed you - I added 
                        unto your woe.
In life and death there comes a time
     when to hold on 
                  and when to let go

May your life and times early passed
      live on in the heart 
                       that lives in me,
for in all the silent screams below
      is my own howl 
                     in my own vanity.
As I pen my verse the charcoal sky
      again rumbles softly 
                  over a distant knell.
No loss, no sorrow, no love unwept 
      can unring that 
                     fearful tolling bell


             Written: July 1991
Form: Rhyme

The Lingering

follow the poolside shadows
Venus of Delphi
daughter of bitter waves
peek through the peephole
of my glaucous thorax
open your byzantine eyes and
spurn your locomotor ataxia

one glance at our vitreous hands
– a sight for blind sore eyes 
one brush of our riveted lips
– gone astray in malformations
one ponderous confession later
– immaterial as a shadow of the lash

let the weeping corpuscles lie
swarm and jostle in the grotto
rattle and blather away our days
I’ll wait for your recriminations
fall asunder under your touch
fastidious in my entomology

let the bouquet glide downstream
the scytheman is still in his kingdom
then we rejoice in endless daze
the lingering beaten with bravura

Premium Member Grandfather Clock

An old pal of mine standing nigh seven feet tall,
Basks in regal splendor against the wall.
He's well over one hundred and fifty years old.
Could he speak, Oh! The tales to be told!

That old friend that in my home doth dwell,
Is a stately grandfather clock with open well.
Made when craftsmen took pride in their guild,
'Twas crafted from sturdy German oak to build.

The hours are tolled with sonorous tone.
He's seen so many events now bygone.
Holidays, births, deaths, family mirth,
And even several wars upon this earth!

Every so often I oil his wheels and gears.
After all, he's getting along in years!
I need my old friend for succor and ease.
For that reason him I shall ever appease!

He's seen the birth of a new millennium,
And with each arc of his ponderous pendulum,
Is a reminder never to squander time away,
But to live a productive life each passing day!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired (© All Rights Reserved)
Form: Rhyme

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