Plainer Poems

Monorhyme for Our Time

...I cannot make it simpler, plainer, flatter:
do not mistake my words for salesman’s patter:
‘direct’ is not the same as ‘idle chatter’.
You own a thing you never ought to shatter –
you got your Co...

The Bard's Babble

...
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

~William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, Scene I

I weep by a stardust shore...

Can I Make It Any Plainer

...Save the Parent before you cannot save the Child....

Months of Progression

...November, I don't want you
I don't want your phrases
I don't want your time
I don't want your care

December, I don't want you
I might enjoy your praises
I might like how you try
I don't want...

Dapper Draper

...Suspect Dapper Draper,
half-scammed a bank caper.
With his brother Baker,
Whose a known safe breaker.
They rode on fly paper.
To escape down a scraper.
The plans were mere vapor.
They were cau...

Acceptance

...Poems – rhyming  or
Free verse – straightforward,
Which paint a picture
That make us laugh or cry,
That strike a chord within us!
Not ordinary! Not untaught
Or unlearned! None of those!
I used...

My Last Wish

...My last wish is simple
To lie beside you dear
In eternity’s arms
There to sleep so soundly
Free from earthly alarms.

My last wish is simple
Told you in a whisper,
Writ in my final will
Just...

Birds In the Weather

...Male peacock struts his finery all over the yard
Being egotistical is his tiny petard.
The plainer brown females are utterly star struck.
Wanting a little bit of his attention; is that a cluck?

...

To Mom March 11 1979

...To MOM; March 11,1979
This is the story of an animal trainer,
Whose mettle and courage, couldn't be plainer. 
A search'd reveal if you'd care to explore, 
None greater exists than El Eleanor.
Sh...

To All

...Being melancholy confusion,

saying seriously that we are who we are,

that mountain of dandruff was what we saw,

they all lose anyways so why not chop it off?

At the sound,

at the towns...

It's All About Love

...It's all about love, whatever we do
It's the reason we get up each day
Everything else is to allow our love
To flourish, to give reason to say

I'll love you till the end of the earth
U...

Miss Jill May Find a Way

...Miss Jill may find a way.

As I thought about your kindness
And the kids you teach at school.
I pondered how any help can come
From the ink of this old fool.

Is there any value in his work?
...

More Perfectly Plainer

...More Perfectly Plainer

Cannot put this more perfectly plainer;
Am always afraid of danger and anger,
And other things by me are desired;
They are not worry and be inspired;
To these Trump is a...

His Oeuvre

...Looking for
someone great
whose work
he won't denominate
his Œuvre;
something plainer
smoother for
this simpleton's
simple tongue

2009 July 4...

The Mourning After the Night Before

...“Knock, knock” “Who’s there?”  I haven’t a clue
What day is it? Who’s at my door?
“Here is some breakfast I made just for you”
Says some stranger who slept on my floor
The sight of the eggs and t...

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