puffing
plasters the cracks
of reality
with fantasies...
offering luxury items
for mass
consumption
(verse)
7/07/2021
Picture This 2 - 7 Lines Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph Mayimage
Image #2
'you will live to be...
one hundred years...and three months'...
said seer groucho marx...
(and why the three months...
your wide eyes ask so brightly...
so no sudden death...)
The trio of porcine creatures, various dwellings did construct,
One straw, one stick...and one securely glued with brick.
A foul mouthed canine villain, chose their lives to disrupt,
One puff, one blow...but the last made him ever so sick.
perched on the branch
tree lizard puffs up its chest
like a balloon
dancing in the dark
fireflies paint lines of light
in exquisite designs
a buzzing bee
the sleeping dog awakens
then bolts from the room
Doctor determined I've got bronchitis
Use to think bronchitis was serious
It's serious enough but certainly not fatal
Once thought it could make you delirious
Don't get me wrong, I'm not feeling that great
It's like my whole system is in a knot
I'm certainly not one to suffer from illness
Quite healthy I always have thought
Guess age is finally catching up with me
Free from illness all of these years
Thought I was some kind of special being
Sure got it wrong, that's clear
It's not going to threaten my life I'm told
But it's terribly annoying I'll say
Puffing away every morning, noon, and night
No peace, no relief all the day
Good thing the prognosis is I'm going to live
If I follow the doctor's directions
Take the pills that she prescribed for me
Till I'm good and rid of the infection
© Jack Ellison 2013
will get you nowhere
unless it does
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
go figure
Solitude—
oh, I love
this word
as much
as it loves
me. I live
in it, with my
earthly shadow, where
no one dares
see me, huddling
‘tween dark and
empty space,
longing for
the stars
to wink out
the coldness
of my thought—
‘cos of you!
lioness beds down -
in scorched field rattail grasses -
endlessly panting
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