My imagination yells write write write, or paint at least.
She is insistent, and worried, a concerned, noncompliant beast.
We need to do something! She argues. This sleeping is weird.
I have reached a point where slumber is nothing to be feared.
Still, like a three-year-old I do not want to take a nap.
It makes me feel old and feeble, which makes me feel like crap.
I want to do what my imagination wants me to do.
But this body of mine is not helping, which makes me blue.
Categories:
noncompliant, imagination, write, writing,
Form: Quatrain
He is deemed least likely to succeed in kindergarten
Cannot follow in a line, is horrible at being redundant
Never fits in with the rest of the cookie dough
Distorted immediately after being cut into a circle
He cannot be educated the teacher says in a note to his mother
He is Thomas Edison
She is strangely odd, her professor writes.
She does not take direction well, is disrespectful,
Is too strong willed, and will never be compliant.
She is so many modern women it is not funny
And they are all presidents of their own businesses now
I guess they could not do anything else
He is a mess; no home schooling.
No one can control him; he is a wild man.
He runs to Hollywood to star in movies.
No one has to tame him there.
He is a millionaire now.
But how can that be?
He did not finish school.
This does not compute.
Categories:
noncompliant, life,
Form: Free verse
Leaders are
Energetic
And
Directed
Everyday to
Respond
Into proper instruction and are
Never noncompliant to
Measures of
Educational and character activities.
Categories:
noncompliant, appreciation, education,
Form: Acrostic
My back is aching but I can lift this. There is only one more giant box.
My muscles are tense, my neck is screaming.
My body groans, wanting to give up.
Why don’t we disappear and let someone else do this?
Voice of stupidity whispers.
It is time for a sane person’s nap,
but I am determined to punish my muscles.
Angry at them for getting saggy, baggy, noncompliant,
but most of all for not being young.
In a horrible mood now, I run around shrieking at others,
riling up the troops.
Baring my teeth, showing them the remnants of my emotional lobotomy.
Angry at everyone else for what I have done to myself.
Angry at everyone else for my negative self-talk.
Everything hurts now. Every single muscle, joint, and hair follicle.
I have bruised and bashed myself, but most of all, I am …..
Angry at the world for allowing me to get old.
Categories:
noncompliant, anger, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
The pierce, the flame of gypsy eyes, that roam
about your cheeks aflame, that throb at knees.
The negligee reveals bride’s honeycomb —
a poetry of bees, posthumously.
Recover not from burn of jealous lips —
Soft greed of ruby smooth, the tender slide,
the way she moves - compare to buoyant ships —
they trim your sails, so succulent and wide.
You must come down to earth — the dock awaits
its berth. Noncompliant lovers doth crash
against the water’s edge with crazy eights.
It’s much too soon to squash its tease and splash.
Her eyes astir — their closed next to your heart.
The wild rose of her hair — your counterpart.
2/28/2020
Categories:
noncompliant, sensual,
Form: Sonnet
Reaching a fork in the old winding road...
Our difficult choice, is to withhold admiration.
A turn to the left?.... Or a turn to the right?
Decisions! Decisions! Which will earn our attention?
Turning heads to the right, there are potholes abundant!
Reversing our eyes, in the opposite direction,
Is a washboard damnation that seems noncompliant!
Perhaps a rotation, will take us back home !!
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For the contest sponsored by Kim Merryman "Road Trip" 8/23/13
Categories:
noncompliant, funny, travel,
Form: Free verse
"Being contrary"
Is worn like an honor badge
Proud and resolute
Then, I came along
Trying to reign on his parade
I thought it was love
Not understanding
How he developed those skills,
His identity
He is "going mad"
But does not know what that means
When asked directly
Turning things around
I confuse the messages
I don't understand
Silent ignoring
Creates apathetic calm
Not really loving
It is all in the mind
Clogged up mental arteries
Emotional plaque
I want to breathe in
Releasing the stress outward
Letting it all go
Oppositional
Pride in dissenting voices
Noncompliant airs
Feeling restricted
By false positivity
He recoils from view
"He can dish it out"
Everyone is out of step
He sees it clearly
I will get caught soon
I can't teach him anything
With smothering love
Categories:
noncompliant, life
Form: Senryu