Long Spoonfuls Poems

We are the days that we’ve become. 
moments dripping gifted from
the lounging clocks in rolling melted sightings, 
given by the gifted madness of a soulmate’s fightings. 

Our lives wrapped up in phrases coined
in books like,...

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“Barking Up the Wrong Tree” 

ghost gums
shed their bark 
the min-min 
makes good use of it
papyrus, soft enough to 
imprint and write
thoughts, like the 
ripening welts of 
green ants 
small bites sting
subcutaneous and 
meridional, 
terra...

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"The Unicorn and The Sticky Asphalt Jungle"



Bedtime stories
now walk through fog
The Unicorn skips 
on lines of sticky Asphalt

The father writes his play
The mother seen as absent
becomes deus ex machina
she will be the only one 

to...

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'Twas our Christmas Eve dinner; we all had sat down
at the table to eat. Grandma couldn’t be found!
We children were fussing; Dad rose to his feet.
shouting, “Where are you, Ma? We’re ready to eat!”

When from...

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Just another pill
IM an ANIMAl
somebody get me out of here
I dont need an education
behind this miracle mile smile
down another day
and there we all stand on this overpass
from another perfect world
I remember when i lost my...

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Many times when I would here a song, I would get an almost joyful longing, but I could never pinpoint the moment in my past that I wished for so deeply.

I would feel a certain...

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A nurse has washed six patients; it's a busy day,
And now she has just watched a lovely lady die,
Next she’s going to bed-bath the woman next door,
No time for her own needs, can’t let herself...

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One colored page at a time 

I touched the field of amber pleadings
with eyes only sure enough to find that hidden light
Long lost in the sea of forgotten grasses,
brown from the sun, parched by a...

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‘Twas the night before Christmas and I didn’t care;
I had dozens of latkes I had to prepare.
The menorah was ready, with candles to light,
Waiting there by the window, a wonderful sight.

The presents were wrapped and...

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Let me tell you a story
Many years ago I bought a puppy
Displayed at the street corner for sale
Caged alone under the sun, hungry and frail.

When the street vendor handed him to me
He licked my hands,...

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I never used to drink sweet tea,
and neither did I drink coffee.
The one drink that my mother made
was the 60’s stand-by, sugar water called Kool-aid.
I never liked it much; I wanted pop instead.
“Pop I will...

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birth, devotion, how i feel, little sister, mirror, mother, together,

Who do you think I am - Poetry Contest

Birthed special as twins
From a shared womb
We were made to feel special!

My twin was first to let go
...

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Blink if the title drew your eyes in

See, the breadth of our human functionality
Sparks interest
Curiosity

Thankfully, no evil kitty cats were killed because of it.

But, humanity continues its descent.

We live in a world of blasphemous sacrifices
Judgmental...

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Snap goes each piece of crisp, dark, pungent chocolate,
Dropping into a glass bowl of smooth, creamy milk chocolate chunks awaiting their magical transformation.
The smooth liquid velvety double cream drizzles like a ribbon into the pan,
As...

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No spoonfuls of snow for Christmas,this simply can't be 
I scattered some fake stuff among the Christmas tree 
Used fake cans of snow on all of the window panes 
No spoonfuls of snow for Christmas...

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I'd want to grow old with you
Watch you have grey hair day by day
See you forget to put your make up on
Cause you fine with how you aging 

I'd want to see you fall asleep
As...

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The Box

I lept out from the box
then promptly thereafter,
I sensed the bearing of iron,
flick flit arrested eyes to study,
imagined it be journey's end,
'twas a lit past to ponder
an encrypted life lived.

~0~

A stained-glass existence,
purposed distractions drafted...

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HEAVY TUMBLING STORY

Before forbidden words
dawn to confess
Come... Come.. C O M E...
Uncoil your taste-buds to me
Entrust you health fully to thee

Yours truly,
FOOD
___________________________________

Enamored beyond possible reproach
I opened my mouth for crumbs of tasty
Crumbs later become spoonfuls
Spoonfuls...

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Big things in small packages, so goes the phrase
       And astounding, a spoonful of snow, in such ways

A thousand frost miracles, and identical, none
     ...

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White skinned, coconut walls
beg to swallow the sun
This cradled mass which slips
it's fingers into every house,
every day.
Under curtains with brilliant tips,
lifting up umber velvet,
toile, silk and sky cotton
just to feel the different fabrics scorch,
to reach...

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Sitting and waiting in a field full of olives is not a bad way to spend an hour but an hour can be long and long is a length and a length with a leaving...

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"Tour of Duty"

go forth and conquer
go forth and multiply
we are taught like 
good little madams, 
it’s fed to us right
(not left) from the get go 
down our throats, 
it’s ingrained 
in the majority of us,
then,...

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Cake of Creation: 




Preheat 

oven

jupiter sized 

to

the 

temperature

of 

a magnificent

star going supernova

add

seven million

heaping

spoonfuls

of free will

one million generous

cups

of 

fate

fifteen million

sprinkles

of 

probability

two million

lighthearted 

dashes

of belief

in 

ones own

focused

intent

and 

another

two million

dashes

of faith

in a 

separate

energies

omnipresent

consciousness	

sift 

the 

dry 

ingredients

together

through

time

gradually 

pour

the 

wet...

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Recently, the weather turned chilly and rainy creating a desire for cornbread and homemade soup.  Thinking of re-creating my mother’s traditional autumn soup brought to mind the story of “Stone Soup” and inspired me...

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A  Spoonful of Snow
It's Christmas time, see
But doesn't have to be
Just as long as I'm doing
It's wintertime and it's snowing

When it snows it's flakes white
White as the clouds soaring in flight
Glitters so on the...

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