cells in your eyes are rods and cones
rods see shapes, stars, dogs, old cell phones
cones see colors, sharp and blurry ones too
they figure out yellow and azure blue
rods and cones are both important to you
what could eyes without rods and cones do?
cones and rods, rods and cones,
add to my pleasure of creating poems
Categories:
rods, eve,
Form: Rhyme
aureate rods
fall's wildflower dances....
heavy truck passes
Categories:
rods, nature,
Form: Haiku
I heard the steady cadence
The drum roll in the street
A thousand tramping soldiers
Tasting of defeat.
The sound of occupation
I thought it could not be,
A flag so full of justice
Would always flutter free.
I had dreamed a thousand dreams
And cast them to the wind
But often had forgotten
Even rods of steel will bend.
Raucous laughter melted
In the wake of dust and steam
Then suddenly awakened
I found it all a dream.
Categories:
rods, dream, patriotic, war,
Form: Rhyme
The corner candy store displayed,
On the counter next to where you paid,
Tall pretzel rods, two cents a pop,
In a glass container with a top.
They were often added to a bill –
Toss some pretzels in, please, if you will –
Or were ordered by a kid who’d planned,
His pennies clutched in a sweaty hand.
But the best was sitting on a stool,
On a Saturday or after school,
With your mom who’d let you have a treat –
A vanilla malted, cold and sweet.
It was served within the silver cup
Which the owner’d used to mix it up
With a pretzel rod included, free;
There was no place I would rather be.
The sweet of sugar, tang of salt
Combined with the vanilla malt
Made taste buds squeal with pure delight
With each and every sip and bite.
Categories:
rods, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
under threat of arrest
we've spared the rod and created entitled- riotous brats
Categories:
rods, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monoku
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An artist paints the sky
He chose golden rods in fall waved them over all
Master~high
Used robin's eggs
Filled his painter's round bucket tall
Left dregs
He laughed
At colored scrawl
Draft
An artist paints the sky
Filled his painter's round bucket tall
Draft
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Sponsor:Mohan Chutani
Contest:Let's Minichu on Bizarre
Written:09/24/2020
Categories:
rods, art,
Form: Rhyme
clump of golden rods
at edge of manicured yard...
capricious weed seed
capricious=erratic
weed seed float on air currents
are carried by birds, etc.
erratic travel and where they
fall erratic
Categories:
rods, nature,
Form: Haiku
Long slender fingers
golden rods of light
Reach for flowering
foliage thirsting in
His sight
Nature
provides the nurture
A constant supply of
balance upon dawns
newly designed future
Her fingers
playfully hop across
crested aqua waves
Toward apricot sands
that reside along our
shores unscathed
Trumpet vines
cling to a stony ledge
Gracing the walls of
a sandy path that leads
to the water's edge
Carole Cookie Arnold
Categories:
rods, imagination, inspirational, native american,
Form: Quatrain
Just two weeks ago
Only green showed in field
Now golden rods wave
Categories:
rods, nature
Form: Haiku
the cigarette is always burning
your mind always turning
your bigger than most people
not too big for me
when you squint at me that way
I don't wonder what you think
I see me in living color
I see me on the brink
I wonder why you stay
I'm past my expiration
I guess you're alot like me
your here for the duration
Categories:
rods, husband, me, me,
Form: ABC