At times we all experience days overcast,
but from beyond many clouds some good often comes.
Perhaps recalling things deep entombed in our past,
is what's causing our day to seem filled with the glums.
Let reviewing past actions become your teacher,
we must learn from our past mistakes and then move on.
Mistakes are common but can’t be the main feature,
after a quick critique file them under bygone.
If you contend you never commit sin
Then join this club of one, they’ll let you in
Cat naps in a circle a
stunning colorful ring.
A mix of butterscotch,
mocha, and vanilla bling.
Poetess in black velvet robe,
imprinted with soft roses.
Dreaming, likewise of the
rainbowed work, she composes.
2/8/2021
~2~
In the beginning this boat was bare,
Greenest with infant's sinless stare;
Before soles more selfish than sane
Had trodden its dreary derelict main.
First to blacken its still-tiptop form
Were kith and kin as is sin's norm;
For if brother Cain won't Abel kill,
Which other bloodier maniac will?
Then hopped wild neighbors' feet
Onto this boat's floor sterile neat;
And like schythes thrust to the hilts,
Hurt this bud that yet writhing wilts.
Nor were classmates' limbs and toes
Any kinder to this vessel's prior woes;
Hasty to sprain its ingenuous naiveté,
Sterner kilning did than fire dealt clay.
There finally was that first-ever flame,
Wooled to the wrist like a mild dame;
Which vulpine swill in flannels guised
Took I, and at last this boat capsized!
Said Sinless Sermon Horn Haiku
Said sinless sermon, (5)
And what we did determine, (7)
God removed vermin. (5)
James Has Been
Beginner Sinner
Horn
So did you either:
Cook eggs in skittle
Then around tittle
And laugh a little?
What role should your
religion play in politics?
Now I have to read sermon
my priest just emailed me.
Tomorrow is Palms for the poor
or it that alms?
Soul identifying awareness
Single destination observed
Sole intention communication
©Joe Maverick 15-04-2015
"Sinless Moon"
Moon illuminates
dark shadowy silhouettes
clandestine coteriere' *
Moon anticipates
lovers secret rendezvous
bramble bush conspires ...
Moonlight masquerades
expose' of evening sin
Full Moon sips mirage
*For Joe Maverick's Haiku Contest ...
*coteriere denotes a set as a couple.
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