Kids Metaphor Poems

Let’s not make a scene—
not in front of the metaphor-curious.
We owe them a semblance
of shared syllabic stability.

You take Tuesdays,
I’ll keep weekends and the enjambments.
Let’s split...

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POND QUEEN

Ducks may rule the pond,
but there's a lily pad throne
where a queen frog sits.
while rock-throwing kids scare ducks,
the frog queen quietly sits there:-...

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3, 2, 1 TAG YOU'RE IT!

I remember hearing on the playground at the age of nine
Lord only knows how much I dreaded this game
The boy...

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Planes streaking the skies...
Waving trees blinking the sun...
Kids soar paper planes......

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This whole world is upside down 
With everything that God doesn’t like
This whole world has become the Opposite 
The opposite of Reality 
It’s a Like...

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Life's a deck of cards, fate’s unsteady hand,
And I hold the joker, at life's command.
For every joy, a shadow falls,
A dance of highs, and sudden...

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Nuclear warfare?... 

Nuclear warfare,
the storm's on the brink,
How will it happen?
Where will you sink?
When the tidal wave of war crashes from the sea,
What’s the first...

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Hey mommy I am here to play
Daddy and brother are on the way 
To the underworld where I sent them
By gutting tummies and dissecting 
Innards...

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Defecation accidentally clogged...

for the umpteenth time 
during spate to sit scrawny buttucks 
on porcelain throne id est 
videre licet toilet bowl...
with toxic water brew threatening
to...

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lost words are wolves hunting
heat from the herd, raw desire
one day less alone
 
American prom night
youth-swept hair moussed down in place
cigarettes light, poof
 
there goes...

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I always promised myself
that if i found the love of my life
and
eventually
the fireworks ended
and the sparks drifted slowly
towards the grass,
I would do whatever I could
to...

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momma is tired of these kids
never clean 
just do what they wish
that’s why I gave them scarlet necklaces
yes baby
adulterer is already home hehe
not going through...

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i always walked a sidewalk on my way back from the park,
and i always approached heel to foot,
because that’s what my dad taught me that...

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.
Our Life......As  An ...inverted......tree
    Asvatha  it is called
    it is tree of life,
    ...

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- the mirror shows time of age
... the truth gives a bitter taste - Quote by the poet


They said she ate children and
the kids in...

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