I've always had the sneaking suspicion I'd never grow old.
I'm decaying prematurely,
slowly rotting in my core with every mind-numbing day.
"Why must every good thing get ruined?"
Home is no longer where happy is.
So why have you staked your claim on my psyche?
Cold blue tile is the foundation from which two children build their world.
I can discern from it nothing but terrifying probabilities.
Everything has an end.
Here we are timeless.
Poems selected (some from this account, some from another, some never posted):
1. Blue Marker Castles
2. Decaying Prematurely
3. Saturday, December 22nd
4. Words I'll Never Say
5. ComeHoming - Matthew 15:4
6. On Cybercoercion
7. Airport Cherubs
8. Winter's Warning
9. Who am I without achievement?
10. Nothing really changes in an airport
When I was much younger,
the unexpected was the thing least wanted.
I had an appointment with
love, money, glory.
Let no surprises get in the way!
Now that I’m much older
and life feels fully scripted,
the thing most dreaded is the
sneaking suspicion that
no more surprises would come my way.
husband’s cheap gift wife’s
expression priceless wife drags
tightwad mate to court
Created and posted : 23 November 2020
Contest : Make Me Laugh With Some Humour
Sponsor : Tania Kitchin
NB A little humour never goes amiss.
Some men and women are so mean they should be sued is the moral.
I’ve a sneaking suspicion that this case is pointless!
Terror takes its toll. Revenge makes humanity bleed - profusely. An elegy breaks the eerie silence. Sneaking suspicion fills the air. Wary eyes searches beliefs in the heaps of flesh and blood. Ransacked hope seeks refuge in your heart.
Reincarnate
Socrates within
to ask a few questions
Who makes monsters?
Who sells arms to them?
Who gains from theses conflicts?
How many babies die unfed?
How many fields are still barren?
How much wealth would you carry, after death?
How many Seegers you need - to sing?
How many Lenons you need - to make you imagine?
How many Poets you need - to dare?
To bell the cat.
25.11.15
Contest : Haibun Freestyle
Sponsor : Scott thirtyseven
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