girl memories now gulped from too much air
I could not save you from feeling water
may a daughter's ashes be in sea's throb
the Diet Coke days, I knew who you loved
moments for awhile are in ocean fizz
I thought in your arms I would never drown
though not you turned your face from me within
strewn glass shingled there before me, and cut
kissie, kissie, my bare little pinkies
we sifted through sand for a chance above
the sandcastle we made sea fell over
disappointment slows to figure out waves
unknowing was I how you ward off storms
absolved eyes were blue enough together
an asylum's toll reached out, the buoy
I grew my two more feet after you left
salt tears only come when madness is past
your footprints making mine, between we share
may a daughter's ashes be in sea's throb
I cannot save you from feeling water
girl memories now gulped from too much air
Our lasting legacy lies not,
In the towering stone structures,
But in,
The forests we nurture,
The oceans we safeguard, and
The skies we keep pure.
Slow down
your sweet mellow embrace;
Falling for you I drown,
my pulse just starts to race;
Let me run your playground;
I swing
through your mind and whisper
“You are so addicting.”
A full body shiver
uncontrolled and shaking;
So hard
I just can’t seem to stop;
Safe within that backyard
moaning from your hilltop;
My soul I must safeguard.
Feedback - flight or fight – it’s due to enzymes.
God put it in our brain, safeguard for crimes;
fear is normal, a good thing many times.
Facts fog up when fear uses its strong-arm.
What is meant to keep us sheltered from harm
can fail just like any other alarm.
A freeze from fear forces all hands on deck.
When fears become phobias, take time, check
your fear can be a liar, a roughneck.
Facing the fact of a fear of failure
pray to God; ask others to help for sure.
With effort on your end, you’ll find a cure.
Focus on the freedom you can achieve
when your irrational fear goes on leave.
January 22, 2023
This is a reasonnet - four tercets rhymed AAA,BBB,CCC,DDD, and a couplet rhymed EE. I have used pentameter, but that is not required according to the creator of this form, Reason A. Poteet (yes, that's me).
Yesterday morning, I came out of the Temple,
A lady with proper identification wanted donation
For a charitable home and I gave her Rupees 50,
I told her about my retired status and took out 50,
After seeing inside my purse she wanted hundred,
I gave her as many have given more than fifty
And if I had put fifty, all might follow the same,
While going to another Temple, I scanned her act
And finally for the sake of kids, I justified my act
And in the evening when I went to a shop,
Where I gave my books to be sold, to buy paper,
He said one of my English books got sold
And gave me Rupees Hundred and I was surprised
To know how God planned to compensate kindly
As those books were with him for three months
And today I got an amount that I donated kindly!
M-ake your heart protected
A-nd shielded from evil;
E-yes of God look inside, seeing the core so well.
B-e aware, be on watch,
E-arly fifteenth of May;
R-emain submissive to the Lord,
N-ever ever turn away.
A-llow your mind to be meek,
L-et the arrogance depart;
E-nd or stop the high horse,
S-afeguard your heart.
season's first bluebird
inspecting the ripen grains
time for a scarecrow
Safeguard
The planet feels man gashing through it.
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 14, 2010
Poetic form: Monuku
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