Short Unpracticed Poems

Persistent insistence,
   Dragging pride like a shadow.
All tongue and flesh and distance:
Persistent insistence
To previously unpracticed resistance-
   Oh, to be so shallow.
Persistent insistence,
   Dragging pride like a shadow.  


"Reputable"
Jenna-Nichole Conrad
Wordsmith...

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I had a heart, 
that now has gone from me
Into a world,
and across a sea.

A newborn heart,
who slept upon my breast
As unpracticed breath
pulsed his tiny chest

I had a heart which,
too briefly I called mine
And now am left heart-begging:
Please, Mnemosyne!

I had a father’s heart,
that filled to see him so
And stopped, and burst, and died
to see him go....

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The sound of throttled fury,
The ricocheting of muffled guns…
Creeds forced down the unpracticed cords,
Swallow or face a close-range shot.

Success from some, 
Failure from the others…
Blown skulls and splattered blood,
Take responsibility and bathe
In the bloodied glory…

Now, what use are your creeds?
Tell, which loving Allah is so inclement? 
Perhaps he eats human bodies,
I surmise, he could be a carnivore!...

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She rails at unseen whisperers,
un-wrappers of gooey carmels.
Her hat is high and so am I,
drunk on her liederkranz chanel.

I imagine a well-placed apple
replacing her feathered chapeau.
An unpracticed William Tell zings
her headless with his bow.

Clever subtitles explain the plot.
The score sets an ominous tone.
Things are fine till next to me sits
a girl wearing limburger cologne.

©Kathryn McLoughlin Collins
July 4, 2012...

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