Evening is settling in.
I empty my basket at the counter.
A pint of vodka
(the kind that comes in plastic bottles),
a bottle of ’Tums’ antacids.
A box of frozen French Bread Pizza.
A jar of jalapeno peppers.
A world-weary Latino lady
checks the items,
then checks me over coolly.
Her look suggests that she knows,
has seen it all before,
probably guessing my wife is away.
“Did you find everything you need?"
“Yes Rosina.” I say reading her name tag.
Now she smiles!
I pick up my plastic bag,
as I leave I hear her call-out sardonically:
"Have a good one."
What Nature Gives Us Each Day
What Nature gives us each day
Beauty wrapped in glowing green
Not joy simply tossed away
Duty ours, to love each scene
Those tree shadows at high noon
Resting under such wide shade
Rose loving effect found soon
Blessings are thus Nature made
What spirit can not there find
Night and its stars do bequeath
Got the heart and gentle mind
Right here,living underneath
What life can with eyes thus find
Scenes gifting beauty in kind
Robert J. Lindley, 3-23-2016
Syllables Per Line:
7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 0 7 7
Total # Syllables: 98
Total # Lines: 15 (Including empty lines)
Words with (syllables) counted programmatically:
Total # Words: 77
*Rosina Sonnet*, created by Peter Duggan
Fourteen lines each line count syllables seven
Rhymes both beginning and end with this rhyming
theme ababcdcdefefgg Subject Optional
NOTE: As promised. No easy task to write this form but well
worth the effort if successfully completed. Thanks Peter for this
challenge. I also went for and hit the 77 word mark(not required).
By Elton Camp
Rosina was ninety years old
“Sorry, she’s dead,” doc told
“Because no pulse can I feel
Nor breathing, so death’s real.”
So off to the morgue she went
Of life, there wasn’t any hint
Later came a sight to astound
Rosina was moving around
“It seems mighty cold to me.
How about a cup of hot tea?”
Home she went, seeming okay
Unaware she’d died that day
Death certificate was filled out
She was legally dead, no doubt
With the paper work she didn’t agree
Rosina was alive as even doc can see
I did it again
And look, what I did gain
What class did I attain?
I have soiled my heart with pain
Tied my freedom with so strong a chain
And above all made you cry
Rosina dear, don’t cry
Forgive me and let me try
Let me wipe your tears dry
Remove this make up I apply
And be the man you deserve
And never make you cry again
I know I lie and cheat
A tragedy I have tried to defeat
And ended up in more heat
Every day it is always a repeat
If leaving it is a shame, then let be it
I can’t hurt you again
Rosina, hold me in your arms
Discipline me with your charms
Just like a child playing with germs
Cain me with love that little harms
Domesticate me and let me be yours
Rosina please, don’t leave
It will add to my grieve
And a torture to my believe
That one day I will change and give
The much love you have given me
I love you Rosina
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