Short Inez Poems

Heroes are not born or bread
They proactively step up
And pre-fix things

Wait until Uncle Lester gets here.
He will know what to do
Especially if he brings Aunt Inez....

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ingrained inbred ignorance ignited Ivan
infuriating infatuated Inez, Iowa’s individualist
indulging Ivan’s inebriated indolent mother
who initiated Ivan’s inexorable, inflexible ideas....

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Impatient Inez could not wait her turn
Growling, snapping, snarling, doing a burn
Thinking she is the only one to wait for this groom
How did she miss the other nine of us in this waiting room?...

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Sipping his warm tasty gnome grog in the snow
We see troll’s size fourteen feet and we laugh at his ugly toe
Why doesn’t he wear shoes or boots someone says.
Too warm blooded me thinks, says my cousin Inez....

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S-tatement
I-n
M-essage
O-f
N-oble
E-xpression

I-s
N-icely
E-mployed
Z-estfully

H-aving
A-pplied
R-ighteous
R-egards
I-n
M-use
A-bout
N-ame

Topic: Birthday of poetess Simone Inez Harriman (March 05) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Butterfly counter, paid by the hours
Walks miles, studying beautiful flowers.

Captures blues, silvers, yellows, monarchs too
They arrive in splendiferous colors and hues

Okay I don’t get paid in money, she says.
Something fun to do, for my Aunt Inez.

Inez has been gone for fifteen years now, you see.
Photographing butterflies is her gift to me....

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Imaginative idealists, Inez, Ian and Inkwell Ida
Illustrious industrious iguanas from Fiji Fida
Invited intelligent Ivan to invest in indigo ink in coveted China
Industries in Indiana, Iowa, Illinois and Idaho
Indicated to Inez, Ian and Ida this was the way to go
Informing ideal initial investors from Froffits
To imagine their insane ideas initiating profits...

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I want to toast the bear, badger says.
For being so playful with my cousin Inez.
I want to toast the fox, replies the bear.
Who always tells a tale with infinite care.

I want to toast the squirrel replies the dwarf elf.
Who is always playful and keeps nuts on this shelf.
I want to toast the elf, says the hedgehog, Barry.
Bemused by this idiocy is the wise female faerie....

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Sirus is unaware we are watching him
Through telescopes, for he never gets dim.
his effulgent light so radiant, vivid and bright
Shows us a blazing brilliance tonight

Sirus means glowing in Greek, my daughter says
She is a genius, named for my great-aunt Inez.
Sirus is also called the dog star says my little son Jake.
He is lighting up the sky tonight, sparkling up the lake....

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four little Hallows Eve spooks sitting on a fence
Named Ford, Carter, Rockefeller and Pence.
Camouflaged as jacks, the little one says.
She is persnickety and impolite, we call her Inez.

This is my song, says the singer; Stay out of it, please.
It is ghostly and spooky, this floats to them on a breeze.
The jacks are quiet when a werewolf howls their way.
It turns their lights to black, scary end to their ghostly day....

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Bubble blowing penguin is the talk of the ice float
He’s so arrogant and puffed up, says a rather old goat.
I think he’s dreamy, say two twins who admire his throat.
They love also the way his stomach is smooth with a bloat.

Don’t you think he’s a bit pompous? The oldster asks them.
They giggle in unison, and stare. One replies, “He’s a gem.”
“I thought his name was Pete,” the old penguin says.
He’s talented I think, says the twin named Inez....

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Halloween window washer sprays himself in the face
Cares not a whit, for he does not have eyes in place.
Being a skeleton makes it so easy for him someone says.
It is a jealous old witch named Lucinda Inez.

Halloween window washer gives her a blast with his gun.
She falls off her broom, six stories down, which is kind of fun.
Her familiar, a cat, stays on the broom and drives it around.
The last time I say him, he was dancing on it all over town....

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Painting the mushroom is quite an endeavor
We end up with six faerie volunteers who do it forever
The red is a beautiful color, I think it is enormously clever.
Says a pixie who likes painting with a paint easel lever.

I want to introduce a faerie princess from Kansas City she says.
She is a bit odd, even her name which is Lucille Naomi Inez.
Okay, we agree, but you have to take off that rhinestone fez.
It clashes with the feather she found on the res....

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