The stars were perfectly aligned.
She felt all doors had swung open.
Finally the world was hers.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
The day started off wonderful !
Funny... they didn't forecast torrential rain today ~
Not greatest day for biking !
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Groundhog, come out to play.
Spit out what you have to say.
Is spring coming our way?
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 3rd place 2026
Cassandra, you who knew the leaves of time,
And traced them in your mind before they fell:
A gift perhaps for mortals too sublime,
Perhaps a cloak of darkness suits more well.
Cassandra, did you wish this thing to be?
To reach beyond the veil the future lays?
To now and all of time at once to see?
To live a life thus spread across all days?
Cassandra, had they heard, then Troy would stand,
But how can little merit know the best?
Too rare a soul for that more brutal band;
And so a diamond fell with all the rest.
You suffered twice, before and when Troy lost:
A gift immortal comes with mortal cost.
Untimely was Hamilton Hicks
In making his basketball picks.
He knew it all well,
How each bracket fell,
But always too late with his clicks.
winter's wind whispers
weather forecast predictions
stirring up chaos
In war, you can't guess
Alliances last longer,
Or when help will cease.
...But as he tried to do all this,
to offer this victim his thanks,
he felt a sharp and sudden blow,
then instantly his world went blank…
The father’s heel struck on his spine,
just where it meets up with the brain,
the blow so hard it severed it,
Carson would never breath again.
His wife just hugged her crying kids,
the father looked on, in a haze,
“There’s crazies everywhere you look,
you just can’t escape them these days…”
His own nerves felt frazzled and worn,
and worry in his stomach lurched,
but cops would call it self-defense,
there were cameras there on the church.
Jenny, they say,
will face a tragedy.
Is it not something always
predicted this way?
Will it be Jenny?
Or Pete or Paul?
We glance every day among
those tabloid papers - so many.
We read headlines, blink,
then another front page;
or see this or that on TV.
Yes, we tut-tut.
We always go
this self-same way.
You reach an advanced age.
So so.
Ah yes,
so so.
(written Sep 2022; posted Jan 2023)
With a lot in life tampered,
With as much in it hampered;
For it there’s a recorder,
For in life, here, there’s order
2023
And it seems folks would be free,
I mean: crazily so free
As to attack a close tree:
More intake of cannabies,
Guys barking you’d think Rabies,
A man seize by the collar,
Because one saw his dollar;
Refusal to release “sorry”,
Yet one heard the pillory,
Open requests for secret fun
And, there, wanting the act done…
Litigants in a hurry
To with judge favour curry,
U.S. still leading peace talks,
On Earth more unsafe night walks:
Not much in my Nigeria:
Some steps away from The Rear,…
Happily in Africa
More released second-hand car:
A new wish to keep my beard
Matching the New Trends stark weird.
rich fertile tree with brown-turning wrinkled leaves
surrounded by your own fruitful bounty
many rounded orbs with teeth marks in them
do Kansas deer have teeth?
begin to count them as I rake them up
one apple, two apples, three apples, four
lose count at fifty-eight or sixty-eight, unsure
it is going to be a hard winter I tell my husband,
sorting these apples is a mess.
some are barely salvageable, squishy and overused
there are few without defects, but I do not blame the tree
she does the best she can, every year
this year she surpassed herself
living up to prediction of Farmer’s almanac
winter will be colder and nastier than usual
which explains this unforeseen number of apples in October
Unless we are one
We rise against each other
The victor is none
War sounds the human alarm
As we lie hopeless together
We die in our own arms.
'Experts' assured us the Cold War was over
that Russia’s a bit player now
My hat’s off to them: We’ve got a Hot War brewing ~
but Russia’s on offense, somehow
The lollipop quintet is coming after dinner my six-year-old predicted.
I was slow to believe, I am not all- knowing like him, so feeling conflicted.
This quintet was at the door singing their lungs out at a quarter to seven.
I stared at my son, wonder what other talents he had gotten from heaven.
Prediction
A perfect weather system heading our way
Heavy rain for twenty-hours will stay
Ice and sleet will pass us by and hit the north
Snowfall for some but we don't have a choice
Sounds
Before the storm a silence and stillness, then
Sighing of the pines will slowly begin
Doves in their choir will fill the cold air
Crows busy cawing out their warnings fair
Sights
Gray sky seems to touch winter laden earth
Bare limbed trees shiver, squirrels eat dearth
Swaying of the pines in cold, damp air
Slight easterly breeze brings a different flare
Storm
Storm arrives hours later with a bang
Strong pouring rain, lightning and thunder harangue
Sleepy Chihuahua awakes with fright
Sleep eludes us most of the night
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