Short Indignantly Poems

April shows up in a rush
Precipitation falls in such a gush
Raindrops hit my head
Indignantly I shake them away
Looking for cover in any way...

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I ordered lemon chocolate peach berry pie
Giving my waitress a joyful eye
She quickly brought it back to our table.
I saw my aunt’s expression, she is prissy, old Mable.
That’s four pieces of pie! She said indignantly.
It sure is, I agreed, and it is all for me!...

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As bright crystals descent, Earth’s frozen ground huffs indignantly,
just knowing late March never offered permanence.  
Quickly rain, sleet teem upon virgin white – 
Xanadu’s youth zapped.


*Entry for Yasmin’s “Snow ABC” contest
by Carolyn Devonshire...

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Attentively
The evening's rain
To the east constellation
Melodies merged and grew 
violent
Indignantly
A mellower noticed
Soothing song
Blindly improvising
Gods summoned music
A ballad of his projected time
Spotlight
Aesthetic potential and 
sympathetic
Too enticed to hear
A showing
Bright musical performances
Through the drizzle, with eyes
He qualified his love for reality
The soulful voices sounded like 
a poem
Instrument of the beholder...

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It springs upon you;
gleaming clawed metaphors
struggle to unhinge.

Many-legged adjectives
commence to crawl over the page
shedding endless varicolored skins.
Whole lines turn into robotic centipedes.
Then the seductive purr,
the mannered modes, the manicured forms,
the unmistakable reek of poetry.

The first step they say is 'recognition',
the second step is
to bleat indignantly about poetic license.

The third step is to clean up
after the poem craps itself....

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