Short Overheat Poems

stagnant traffic clot 
radio sings the same song 
driver overheat...

Read More

My buzzing, humming, whirring gears have stopped. The manual doesn't have a chapter for this. Warm hands brush away my hair, and the circuit boards spark. Wires glow with electricity, and I gladly overheat. 

I'm losing control, and the circuits override,
Error 404...

Read More

When a gardener demands the fruits of those he planted,
When a maid compares her work with her wages,
When a King is thirsty in his golden throne,
When a bird misses a spring morning to sing,
When roses are not looked for their softness,
When sunshine-Sundays overheat a lushy field,
When nights are not equally appreciated as morning,
And when someone teases my prayers - I KNOW SORROW....

Read More

How do you rattle an orchestra
I wonder 
wandering the empty stage

No lights no go do this do that
Tell them all about it!

Its outrageous, over the top
not the big top bear you in mind
and no bears. please
no joke 
no bear this year

nutcracker isn't here today
no prince and rats no jumping ships
Ha you think, no iceberg this 
winter is no time to overheat

I'll be silent now
but not forever
while we always loudly sleep...

Read More

Blessed indeed are those who have second thoughts,
Believe in second chances, 
And bring second choices to the table,
Because first thoughts,
Belie the need for caution lest they,
Become seeds of destruction for the many.

The story of human existence,
Tells us how first thoughts,
Though not likely to overheat our brain,
Take us too often to the well,
To see a future without a second thought,
That might have given us a second chance....

Read More