Long Sofas Poems

Where do we come in
					in medias res  not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages  pictures  or else make for images of what...

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As we spoke to our son last month, it felt like 'A Twilight Zone'.                     ...

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They’re drawing the curtains in Dorking,
Lighting the candles and pouring the lotions.
Switching off TV’s and shelving resentments,
Checking on children asleep in the darkness,
Creeping   up hallways   like teenage lovers.
Stairs and hopes creaking...

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Family love is born in little rooms,
around sofas, settees, dinner plates,
with paternal bond that strengthens and grooms,
unswerving link that lasts till heaven’s gates!

We were such family in a French town,
traditional, true, religious us four,
mother was...

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Six months gone now since that dark night, I was kitchen-bound for a bite
Hoping I in icebox there a slice of pumpkin pie could score –
While I searched, I heard a ringing, an insistent ding-a-linging,
Louder...

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then:
I swallowed escape
in pastel capsules,
my pockets jingled with regret.
The nights pulsed—
bass, sweat, strangers.
Every weekend was a blackout baptism.
Every Monday, a resurrection I didn’t ask for.

now:
I wake before the alarm.
Feed cats who love me
with a certainty...

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A window of opportunity, arose on planet earth,
Reality is revealed, human intelligence gives birth,
Our mind opens possibilities, but questions coincide,
Trying to find answers, demise we might just avoid.

We search on a grand scale, yet also...

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The 
early
morning
birds they.                                ...

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I went to buy an R.V.
They said all I could afford was a Lose-a Beggo.

I bought a pair of alligator shoes.
But then I started wandering off into swamps.
Finally, I had to toss them, they were
really...

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Tom said to his kitten: Don't hunt! It's hard work!
Leave hunting to others and don't be a burk
Watch me and heed me and later admire
We'll slink to the future - a far distant fire

There sat...

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The cold and drafty dark castle nights,
eating boars head like its going out of style,
having new battles every other week,
God forbid if you had a yellow streak,

Women wearing long gowns which were warm,
except for their...

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Lately for Christmas I unplug my little Christmas tree 
and then I enjoy hitting the hay while trying to conserve 
my heating bill by not cranking the temperature up all the way.
I even try to...

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These are two etherees that will be put together side by side to form ONE complete poem having 11 syllables per line, so I thought i would show how it is done. It's like fitting...

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JUSTICE

They stare out at us unsmiling
from tintypes of the first photographs,
from the tea-colored pictures 
of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled 
in cold bare rooms in tenements,
children clinging, dazed and frightened, 
their paltry belongings tied in scarves.
They...

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The blue coloured walls
with a roof and a floor ,
i call it a home .

A large peepal tree 
covers it and provides shade,
a nest on tree does not let its beauty fade.

A small  verandah...

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I don't know where my absolutes lie
Where am I defined 
Has there been a point I was set in time
When I'm with friends on my own
The reception I get is different from home
Which version is...

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Love is Lacey things and beauty cares.
A touch of infatuation at the fringes and always shared
A simple kiss on the cheek.
Washing her feet at the creek.

Love is blueberry stains on sofas and chairs.
And TINY TOTS...

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How then by trite opinion
should foul ink print its confusion
and in the guise of truth
and the flurry of news
be a rabble of hype
for its own concocted proof

Each lie spread gourmet upon the pallet
televised splattered kaleidoscopic
lays...

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EASTER DINNER

they liked the one behind me
the teal and black checkerboard
its sparkling tiles on the diagonal
red, yellow, blue, pink pillows
on sofas and chair

the sunrise was unsympathetic 
like the cross, but the service
was cozy for Easter...

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Imagine…
A family sitting in a living room; the living room made of sofas and chairs
The sofas told a tale of antiques; never a complexion, even to the brain’s follicles of hair
Her grandfather, and other members...

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Love is lacy things and beauty CARES. A touch of INFATUATION at the fringes and always shared.  A simple kiss of the cheek and washing her feet at the CREEK.  Love is BLUE...

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Crossbones and arches 
Need cats and axes 
In a governmental brass taxes
I circumcised the heads state of those 
Who pick up the pieces off the sofas spanning too much for their sodas Bicarbonate 

This is...

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There are two tables in our dining room
We only use one
Mother sets both for every meal, laying lace, dishes and delicate glasses
In a trance, she ignores our queries as to why she does it
No one...

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They appear from hidden corners in an impromptu
fashion, like bubbles appearing anywhere
in boiling tea. They are all in white, making
mourning sounds that can put Nightmare on Elmstreet
Series to shame.

They always come out at ten
in the...

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People are so easily offended today
This is quite ironic really
As due to political correctness
We are censored so heavily
And with all the sanitising
There is so little opportunity
But those who do take offence
Fall into three distinct categories

Firstly,...

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