Short Ruminants Poems

Of the Earth - Earthy


Of the earth….”earthy”
Hell, he was filthy,
a veritable organic “Pig Pen”
complete with dust trail.
The trees “high fived” him
as he walked, quietly,
respectfully, among them.
Forest ruminants contemplated
his simplicity, predators
welcomed his scent,
the earth rejoiced
at his footfalls.



John G. Lawless
3/5/2016...

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Love can be looked at, as an abstract 
and can seem like an artifact, encased in a crusted bundle, 
buried somewhere deep waiting to be discovered

Love is found and excavated, gently brushing the ruminants away
trying not disturb the true essence that was neatly preserved

Now, Love can be displayed, so people can see that
even though it can be still, It can always be real 
If only you can believe that love can be, indeed...

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What wafting of wisdom! Such saccharine sound!
Deft diction’s depictions, opaque and profound!
So ruminants rumble and mumble and seek
To mine out much marrow, obtuse and oblique.

My constant conundrum’s more crude and perverse:
I strive not to retch at such wretched non-verse.
Fair finery flops if its form foully flows:
Each clash, pull, and smash smells of emperor’s clothes.

You poets who pass pompous prose off as poem,
Go home!...

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