Short Cellophane Poems

a fish at Reece Fair  . . .

glinting gold cellophane 

aping the real





3/18/2015...

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GRANDMOTHER OF GROOM

the oil of gladness
spilled suddenly on Sunday -
heart in cellophane

8/31/2017
Senryu of Sadness...

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Poultry farm chaos
Chicken-lickin’ you
Sweet and sour future
Henhouse flurry

Henpecked and handpacked
Epistle of gristle
Cellophane stiffy
Wishbone hope?...

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What I want for Christmas,
Is not found on a shelf’
Wrapped with bows and cellophane.
What I want for Christmas,
Is to hold you in my arms,
And gaze into your eyes once again....

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When you're a Hungry man
Then you can do it.
It's simply cellophane.
Nothing much to it.
Heat in the microwave.
Two patties, gravy pool.
When you're a Hungry man.
Then You can do it....

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Twinkle Than Crinkle and Wrinkle

There is this star that tried to twinkle,
But in big deal we would find a wrinkle;
Clear cellophane,
With no stain;
Made crunchy sound when it did crinkle.

Jim Horn...

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Haiku
  The rose of yesterday
  Has lost allure 
 Since it was put in a vase

A cypress unwraps
When someone expires
Says the legend 

A tulip sways in Dutch pasture
Before being cut
Wrapped in cellophane and sold...

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Forgotten people
unnoticed daily
with downcast faces
that no one sees anyway

Invisible people
scurry to their houses
unseen by many
unseen by all actually

Cellophane people
hiding their hearts
so no one else hurts them
we see them not...

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I was going to write you a poem
but my cat lay in the road.
I scraped up his remains with a shovel
paced them in a plastic bag,
dropped it into a dumpster.

I was going to write you a poem
but in my fridge is a half can of cat food,
with a cellophane lid,
useless and taking up space....

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They escape 
Through a small opening 
On the side of my head 

Liquid skin becoming cellophane 
An accessory to suffocation
Tries to trim the threats
Of an unfurled canvas 

In my pocket
Artauds’ anguish
Stitches together absurd reasoning 
One kiss tooled the empire
Only the smart escape...

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I am a simple wandress, an ingenue with virgin wings,

Entangled in strings of anguish, I steer from the path,

Aware of the wrath, I twirl in a world of my own. 

I’ve my soul on a chain, with controls to my pain,

But a dalliance with love turns stone to cellophane.

You see right through me....

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Although I do not know thee well
Won’t you grant a little wish for me?
I can offer this lovely moonstone shell
Faerie Goddess of the Hollow Dell
Come out from beneath that pretty bluebell,
Your cellophane wings I still can see…
Faerie Goddess of the Hollow Dell
Won’t you grant a little wish for me?...

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cellophane scotch 
anything but mastic sticky back
 silky front invisible tape
 I can't see you 
you can't see me
 where am I 
where are you 
it's apparent we are all transparent


8/4/21, 4/3/14©
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2014, 2021
Revised from 2014 Poem "TRANSPARENT"...

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Hooray! The Reader’s Digest arrived today!
I tear the cellophane open, eager to begin my big read.
There are mites on every page.
Troops of mites in a line, marching along.
Where are the words?
I show the book to my husband.
Those are the words, he says.
Now I am irritated that I argued we did not need to order the Big Print...

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She seemed somewhat sad
So she slid
Semi-comatose...

...Cellophane Soul screams
Saran-wrapped
Such subtle sorrow

Semi-transparent
Sweet, still sleep
She succumbs slowly

Sad Cellophane Soul
Silent screams
Suddenly strangled

Suicide succeeds
Suffering 
Cellophane Soul soars

© 2011 Kevin Stock...

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Cellophane wrappers tossed aside
Street worn
Dark tide.

Dashiki dressed strode in pride
Street worn
Dark tide.

Refuse strewn …side laced
Street waste
Dark tide.

Dirty white, short height, left faced;
Street waste
Light tide.

Blighted boughs, deformed, reformed
Street waste
Light tide.

Diverse, rich cream, seamed………
Street dreamed
New tide....

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I am nobody special but I am kind.
I am nobody you would notice
But the first to offer to help

You might remember my name for a second
Or give me a quick hug
But tomorrow I am invisible again

I am cellophane,
Like the window
People see through me

Not realizing I am there
I had no idea what a nobody I would be
When I turned fifty and became invisible....

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When I 
Think about 
Loving you 
I think 
About reaching 
For my 
Bible and
Shaking it

My hand hurts
From writing 
My love 
In the 
Bindings of 
Bibles
And Moleskins

I am transparent.
As transparent
As the 
Warmth love
Brings, as
Transparent as 
A newborn
Thrown through
Cellophane

Our world 
Is transparent,
A transparent 
Rattle, a 
Rattle that 
I reach 
For and 
Shake....

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she wakes as a cello
in the morning not
high strung but
mellowly tuned

i run one of
my fingers
feeling her
f hole as

the air makes
her shapely
boxed body
quiver in

sound and
breath as
she breathes
vibrating strings

just plucked
slightly an open
g seizes the beat
of my heart as 

it ceases to be
modulating to c
as i tightly wrap
her for a trip...

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They drop, unmoored, 
into the wind of oblivion
Breathing the rusty dust
Of charcoal coated days
Burned by the bleeding heat
Of icy nights, in cement tents
With the drum of diesel wheels
Their lone lullaby
In the fangs of feral shadows 
They scrape their survival
Off the ground of disregard
Yesterday's washed away
In acid rain
Tomorrow's as thin
As cellophane.

10/04/19...

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Wound in Cellophane


The older women come to coffee
with cookies wound in cellophane. 
They talk of children

or their children’s children
or their garden.
Or they simply sew

and watch the young girls trickle in, 
buy berry rolls and coffee,
nibble, sip, lick fingers, blow

small parachutes of smoke, 
and laugh a young girl’s 
world of willy-nilly.


Donal Mahoney...

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Capitulating to the wild, random and fickle.
  Sigils weaved from nothing, we digest,
   divide amongst our kin,
    our hands stiffened and hastily fragmented,
     our eyes on the sun,
      we are all wrapped in cellophane,
       falling in place, as the holy crown for man, our Lord and Savior.
        
Man forbid thou escape his grip today!
Even so, he will surely find thee later....

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Garden holds her breath as dragonfly magically appears.  The flowers begin tittering, hoping he is coming to visit them.  Her counterpart damselfly lands on a tea rose, who is feeling smug all of two seconds before they both flit off again. 


                              her cellophane wings
                         the whole garden is abuzz
                                    dragonfly visit...

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Wrapped Rapt



Cellophane rainbows
Spectrum dreams
Silken tied

Brooding stormy skies
Sunset patterns
And quiet moments

Kisses in sunlight
Laughing rain
Cold cuddling warm nights

Bottles of deep red wine
Candles melted by time
And embers of requited passion

Sweet seconds captured
Fingers entwined
And sparkling eyes

Lazy stretching
Quite mornings
All my dreamings

If I could...

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Three cellophane balloons came by on Tuesday.
Each offering to whisk the sweet baby bunny away.
He was not tempted until an owl began flying his way.
Then he jumped aboard, and the balloon began to sway.

The other two followed along and gave him a song.
He knew then that his choice had not been wrong.
They carried him to Texas, where he decided to stay.
Not realizing coyotes were there, as balloons flew away....

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