Long Shoos Poems

Entrance into the Garden of Eden
An Exit Oft Repeated in Four Acts
By Sy Roth

Act 1—Somnolence

Smells of winter tickle a warm sun.
Crisp air, 
Red, brown and yellow leaves, 
Thrust the trees aside for their impending sleep.

They...

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As she sits in a distance,
She spots his face
That smile,
She begins to love,
Not just like.

In a huge crowd she knows him,
The funny story is…
At times… She doesn’t like him
But all the same 
She knows him.

That...

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He step off the plane, his own plane, twin-engine Learjet,
The rain runs off his flat-brim as he glances up at the sky, the clouds
And with a glance at his wrist watch he follows his escort,...

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There's a quaint little cross roads town that nestles in the shadow,
Of majestic Pikes Peak called Punkin Center in eastern Colorado.
The prime business in town is the Punkin Center Tack and Feed Store,
Where farmers and...

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“The Escape”

Like the hidden thorn attached to the rose you give to a friend
When you least expect the pain you feel or the blood leaving your heart
When a special moment in time that has you...

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"the gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, kisses the blushing leaf."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Spring arrives upon gentle Zephyr air.
          softly kisses new leaves,
   ...

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Flies buzzing around the glass.
Sweet nectar of warm iced tea.
Summer sun on the porch.
Tanning their pale, winter skin.

Side by side they sit, 
waiting for it to rain.
Discussing the blue overhead,
without so much as a cloud...

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There's a sudden brightness to the dark and dreary sky,
And the icicles drip-drip as they bid the world good-bye.
Sunlight wraps the world in a blanket of pure gold,
As a surge of sudden warmth shoos away...

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Hoo H'hoo's!  Hoo H'hoo's!
My nocturnal catch in the bacyard has been a feast 
One good hold and the rodent is put to rest
With unwarranted suspicion a woman with stick shoos me away
My hoots are...

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School time is over
Nothing to cheer
No one at home
Till eve, left alone

Grounds full of houses
None to play around
Virtual world seems so real
Reality is like a Dream

Laptop sits on my Pa's lap
Mama shoos me around
Class work...

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Near the fountain stands the male
In iridescent glory,
But his mate begins this tale,
A true Manhattan story.

These same ducks have made their home
Outside a high-rise building.
I see them swim or sleep or roam;
The truth requires no...

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The night- serene and dark,
We lay, mellowed in peace,
How silence would embark,
Down to its utter tease.

As no morning moves,
There’s news I don’t see,
only the outside shoos,
but this, this couldn’t be.

Our little bundle of joy
Is heard...

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I am on the phone with Mrs. Kravitz.
You remember her.
Samantha's snoopy neighbor on the TV Show Bewitched.
Oh, you weren't alive in the sixties?
Follow along.
Here is her dialogue.
What is going on?
No telling what this is about.
It...

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Daylight slips in and out
of yellowing net curtains.
Sunny wafts semaphore the sky.

An old lady has planted
her mind in closets, 
in drawers where
an off-white linen recalls
lavender scented dreams.

She could to the garden,
but it has grown alien,
rank...

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