Short Cushions Poems

raw jalapeno
flame going in the body
hard to sit when out...

Read More

tear-soaked pillow  
cushions misplaced dreams;
soft place to fall....

Read More

soft grass on bare feet
Cushions under running souls
Just before the rain...

Read More

snow

coconut cushions

blanket the land

time stands still momentarily

silence...

Read More

INSTANT TELEGRAM:
lime palm of Atlas
cushions Demeter’s red rage…
fallow fall farmland...

Read More

Life Thoroughfares

We are passengers
Traveling upon hard roads.
Finding soft cushions.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 16, 2010
Poetic Form: Senryu...

Read More

The trees do look like giant broccolis,
The sky like cushions both of blue and white -
And as I think of this which could be that
The day is slowly turning into night...

Read More

Antics aplenty
Plastic dog poop everywhere
Rude whoopee cushions
Is your fridge running? Catch it!
Loony pranks for April Fools'

4/01/23

March Into April contest
Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich...

Read More

We shoveled stuff under the couch.
Piles of it, until it was lumpy and the cushions rose in the air.
We shoved stuff under the refrigerator
But the mice shoved it back
This is when we fired the exterminator....

Read More

We shoveled stuff under the couch.
Piles of it, until it was lumpy and the cushions rose in the air.
We shoved stuff under the refrigerator
But the mice shoved it back
This is when we fired the exterminator....

Read More

Mummy... when will I grow up and be a woman
Perhaps never Bruce and stop staring at your sister's bosom
Didn't daddy tell you
Bout the birds and emeus
Yes but he also said little girls have yummy soft cushions...

Read More

Mummy... when will I grow up and be a woman
Perhaps never Bruce and stop staring at your sister's bosom 
Didn't daddy tell you
Bout the birds and emeus
Yes but he also said little girls have yummy soft cushions...

Read More

Fitted sheet on mattress
Then next the top sheet
First blanket is placed
Pillowcase on pillow
The duvet is next

A choice to make here
One side is plain color
the other has a flora
Some cushions are placed
Bed is now made...

Read More

With durable softness
I grace sheets and cushions;
I have a most beautiful feel.

With colorful crispness,
I sheathe fashionistas;
I'm cotton silk satin - all real!


Nov. 9, 2017 for nette onclaud's Knit Your Fabric Contest...

Read More

the world goes down
in grayish cushions
colors are choked
and yellow-fingered 
leaves desert their 
dripping residence

the days are melting
between twilights 
evaporating time
and swallows now
are quick to leave
the sinking year...

Read More

Beneath the candles of the sky
I find my altar brown
The cushions damp upon the ground
And for leafless ceiling sigh
Against this its vain to pray
The climate constant change 
Yet is my custom at end of day
To thank him for the strange...

Read More

Curtains opened
each fold two inches apart
Waiting for the arrival
Cushions neatly plumped
Dust off the mantelpiece
Fluff off the floor
Cucumber Sandwiches on the table
Tea in the Teapot
Knock at the door
On time I see
It's quarter past four...

Read More

In ancient woodlands
I am breathless,
hushed beneath lush foliage
and dappling sunlight.
A brook leaps lichen rocks.
Ferns unfurl extending tendrils 
to a distant sky.
Pin cushions of moss
carpet the forest.
I am awakened
to colours and textures
of leafy green....

Read More

One hard, metal frame
Split box spring; mattress stacked upon
"500 count-thread" fitted sheet
Flat, satin sheet; neatly spread above all
6 pillows, 3 additional decorative cushions
One oversized, cold, striped bedspread
One Body, to soak up all the comforts?








5/17/11...

Read More

Instinct And Old Age

Young dog that wanders not
From the launch of dream filled 
Moon call howls, it answers not
Sleeps alone, in carpet fields 
Threads of grass and dreams of young
Rabbits, cushions, long green
Drapes on windows, memory lost 
While widow wilts
Beside him...

Read More

John had a favorite reading chair 
near the corner of the room
angled towards the fireplace 
with a tall lamp light 
set at just the right height
padded with his wife's 
embroidered cushions by his side
and a custom-made ottoman under his feet
John sat there looking happy and complete....

Read More

Eleven months
Leaving just to come
Back to what was already
I'm a ghost and I see me every
Day after day I feel my eyes
On what was once my skin, my mind
Have already crumbled
Like trash between the cushions
I have tumbled on night after night
While my dreams had disappeared
Through time...

Read More

Throw myself onto the beige softness
I indulge into the hungry cushions
Feeling light and relieved in my feet
I touch the soft floor delicately
I turn the chrome tap and pour the unwinding lavender 
Pounder in my kingdom  its perfectly filled
My home is my castle 
My castle is my feets making...

Read More

Buddy was angry with Daddy yesterday.
He tore up two couch cushions and a duck along the way.
A couple of books, rug, magazine, and mattress – air.
He wanted Daddy home – in his favorite chair.
The yard is a wreck; the porch a disaster zone.
We are still enthralled and entranced. Buddy is home....

Read More

Birds are gone to sleep
Lulled by the silence of trees
Frigid with frost

Snow carpet landscape
Cushions the noise of speeding cars
Frightening lizards

Sunset falls seaward
To come over the mountain 
In crimson clothes still

The sea has old face
Crinkling change in folds of skin
The wind cannot pass...

Read More