Sloth Poems

        I MISS YOU
                        I 
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sluggish
slovenly
sloth-like

Procrastinating, napping,
Full of fried fast foods
Forgetting what optimism feels like

Age has sneaked up and overtaken her

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We slowly drove he knew no haste
Not a grain of urgency did he have
My watch told me that we were late
Of all the days to pick time to waste.

A friends buriel we were due to attend
And now I was beginning...Read More

On selfish whim I hold tight to your heart
and offer crumbs to stay your tender flirt.
In truth, I wish to consciously avert
an earnest practice of your lovers art.
For if a flash of sloth sent Cupid's dart,
the "L" word from my...Read More

Cats are selfish creatures
And as lazy as can be
You can usually find them
Asleep beneath a tree
They are so very lazy
It would be hard to meet
Any other animal
That could compete
A sloth is not so lazy
Just very slow
It will never hurry
And does...Read More

ooh! wee!
I've gotsta gets
up and pee

it is the late night's
wee, wee!
i gotsta go and pee-e

can't hold it in
it about to
blow in thee wind

can't hold it back
its about to be
a late night
warm water attack

so grab it
by the swizzle stick

now home it...Read More

To encounter you in Cleveland
as if an angel drew my steps
into the intricate re-enactment of
an  Amazonian forest
A glass tank with a caption that  reads,
"Long- necked South American Turtle"
 
After intense staring into irridescent shallows
your shape emerges as a...Read More

Why must you make her weep?
Why must you be a sloth?
Why must you be a disgrace?
Why must you be a poison?

You may have helped give life
But do you show real love?
Do you truly value family?
Or do you just put on...Read More

We love to make lists,
To describe, name, number.
How can it have value,
If not on my list.
As logger I stand
Before the green forest,
The numbered trees
Are ones to cut.
The forest cut down
Is only to me
Bigger box to live in,
A shiny new car,
The...Read More

AWAKE!

Forebear I beg if I am found obtuse
Not turning from the indigent I see
Should I aver egregious a view
They be ascribed a sloth delirium

My comments here may seem not delicate
Yet if I choose travail  to consecrate
Would you in intercession...Read More

going
slower
then slow

i cross bred
a snail with
a sloth and

so 
taking two 
to make one

the 
sum total
outcome

is
rush
hour
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stealing my 
own savings 
finding hidden
stashes under
mattresses and
door mats that
read WELCOME

smashing my
piggie bank
really a ceramic
sloth with a slot
but smashing it
twice so to get
making sure every

cent saved now
to be spent just
to see possible
rumors of a spot
on the far right
of her right
breast

perhaps...Read More

I purposefully do nothing.
My house can wait.
Mess delights me.
I thrive on it.

I purposefully do not care.
Wandering aimlessly.
Taking nothing seriously.
Enjoying my slothfulness.

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sun rays settle skies
prism shelters diversity -
kids breaking hard bricks

wind spreads gentle seeds
prayer evokes mute silence -
too many lost souls

rain drops whet dry soil
scope scoops whirlpools of dry tears -
god should know better

earth circles tailspins
faith plants pinpoints of respite -
nausea...Read More

I am on a little stay-cation.
No plans. None.
Melting into my chair, my eyes close.
This is a napping house.
We keep it dark for the TV advantage.
It is easy to not know if it is day or night with our black-out curtains.
I...Read More

An angel returned to heaven today
deployed to erase gluttonous hate
from envy's grasp love is pulled away

To bring order to disarray
supplying hope while replacing sloth 
An angel returned to heaven today

Armed with beauty, charm and compassion
pride is now faced with a...Read More

Florida Rain Part 1

Robby is sitting in my room on a chair one early evening reminiscing about her thirteen years in Florida. “In Florida, we don’t ring bells, we knock. But there’s a limit to how many times you can...Read More

THE DEEP MYSTERY

The biggest animal species on earth was ever been,
the dinosaurs roamed proud the land of the Jurassic.
In fierce fights they were the ones to always win,
everything surrounding them seemed so very weak.

When they tromped sloth on massive legs...Read More

Worry not, for you are safe.
Stay in place and stuff your face.
There's only entrances, no exits in sight.
You paid your way here, so please be quiet and enjoy.
All is handed to you, so don't complain.
Just ask for more.
Keep on consuming...Read More

THE HELM OF DARKNESS
It was a long fretful watch
Stretching years of secrets divulged 
Ifs and whys splashed everywhere
As one whose yearning eyes awaits

The forms, they hearts hold dearest, when the day
Sinks into fathomless, blackness night
And all the heavens are invisible...Read More

The North Pole was all abuzz as only Santa’s Workshop can get.
They were whispering and pointing and throwing a gingerbread fit.
Santa was choosing an aide for his awesome flight on Christmas Eve night.
Sixteen had shown up for the job, one...Read More

A large and lush bed,
Elegance surrounds you.
Everything is at your fingertips
Nothing is out of reach
You need not leave your bed.
One of the many beautiful and silent clones
will get you whatever you want.
It's possible to request the rooms to fit your
specific...Read More

Sometimes I seem to muddle through* somehow
but English "muddle" cannot outline
a Russian sin split in two parts, a dao
divided into yin and yang, a whine
of lonely hummer in the lack of sickle,
a German bread without pumpernickel,
"Timon of Athens" in a...Read More

Seven Verses of Sin

Seven rode over Conceited Bridge,
In search of the Vanity Fair.
One rider named Pride slipped and fell,
Perishing at the cross of despair.

Six rode over the Plains of Contempt,
In search of the lost and unsaved.
One rider named Lust yielded...Read More

He stood still against the rails
of an unfrequented country passage
overlooking a deep valley,
now engulfed in inky darkness.
It was his little world,
a world he did not relish,
a chaos he was trapped in.
The wind wailed though he heard it not
nor felt the...Read More