~ Let's Have a Parade ~
A Shriner drives his little car
Hairpin turns upon a star
Red-fezzed Turks play guitars
Let’s have a parade…
A marching band is next in line
Buglers trumpet notes so fine
Cymbals crashing all the time
Let’s have a parade…
Egyptian camels with two humps
Maneuver over traffic bumps
Circus dogs through hoops do jump
Let’s have a parade…
Little Leaguers, baseball teams
Young majorettes live their dreams
Confectioners dispense mint creams
Let’s have a parade…
A special occasion is not needed
If my advice would just be heeded
Camaraderie and Joy to be seeded ~
Let’s have a parade…
Categories:
majorettes, celebration, encouraging, friendship, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Poems creep in like spiders, capturing me in web so fair.
Poems slip in like mice, sticky traps holding them in place.
Poems prance in like majorettes, throwing batons in the air.
Sci-Fi dances around in my muse’s brain, taking all the space.
Poems twirl around my dendrite highway, waking me up.
Poems shake me off the bed, landing me squarely on the floor.
I hear the last line, and I think “was that word buttercup?”
Poems laugh at my consternation, their humor I deplore.
Poems slide by on the wings of undiscovered pretty galaxies.
They jump into my head at restaurants when I cannot find a pin.
Poems dive bomb my bed at night, witch-like in their hex-ease.
They throw themselves at me in bathrooms; I simply cannot win.
I do the best I can though, amusing poems in ways I do not dream.
They throw down words I have never heard, and so I look them up.
Poems own me, taking me hostage in a pretty hostage stream.
Did you hear that? I have to know. Was that word buttercup?
Categories:
majorettes, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
There are three things today I mustn't forget
Forgotten the first two, the third is to do yet
I know... I remember
Must wear my dentures
To look like one of those ravishing majorettes
Categories:
majorettes, silly,
Form: Limerick
Daffodil majorettes laugh
Red cardinal sings song
Moss bursts onto brown tundra
Welcoming magical Spring
Categories:
majorettes, flower, spring,
Form: Blank verse
Daffodil majorettes lead the spring parade
Mom fox had lured out a reluctant kit
Verdant grasses are growing lovely shade
For dainty dulcet purple violet
Gentle nurturing rain from day or two
Coaxes her lace lilac to gently wake
Meadow rainbow chiffon a lovely hue.
Faerie-felt awe surrounds beautiful lake.
Carpet of tulips arrive on the scene.
Growth can be felt every hour or two.
Resurrection of weeds, not being mean.
Cyclical magic for me and for you.
The woodlands, the meadow, the lake and the dale.
Rebirth of spring yearly, without fail.
Written Feb 24, 2019
Contest: Springtime Rebirth
Sponsor: John Hamilton
Categories:
majorettes, flower, spring,
Form: Sonnet
I am surrounded by:
Pirate women,
Wild women,
Belly dancers,
Flappers,
Steampunk women
Haughty women,
Pony-tailed women,
Gardening women,
Faerie women,
Handywomen,
Irish women,
Ninja women,
Cleopatra-like women,
Majorettes,
Circus performing women,
Cat women,
60’s women,
Teacup women,
Hippie women,
Mermaids,
African American women,
Dragon-taming women,
Pet owner women,
Cats, dogs, dragons, and unicorns,
Jack-0-lanterns, and Dracula,
All drawn and painted by me in the last four years.
Categories:
majorettes, art,
Form: List
See the yellow daffodil majorettes?
First ones to every practice
Urging the flower parade
Categories:
majorettes, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Kimo
Making mud tamales
Sucking cherry tomatoes
Gorging on figs til
my stomach ached
Splattering a watermelon
to the ground
Ripping its guts out
Competitively running
from the start of Isabella Street
to the Rail Road Tracks
of our dead end street
I was faster than Larry and Mike!
Blowing bubbles
that floated to Neverland
Chalking a mansion
With rooms for 50 kids
flowers and space
everywhere
Chinaberry fights
launched from the
bricked front porch
Nefretitti poised like a
snake slithering styling
down the driveway
runway
Week long Scrabble
competitions
and hours of
conversations
about the universe
and universes beyond
Parades with high
stepping majorettes
avoiding the horse manure
Jacks, jumprope and
drinking Kool-Aid from
the pitcher
(Shhh, don't tell)
Simple pleasures
Simply learned
From children
Categories:
majorettes, childhood, happiness, nostalgia, universe,
Form: Free verse