Sombreros Poems - Poems about Sombreros

Comfortable Arrows

...Away from alleys, muggers don sombreros.
So sharp, so twisting, they’re like arrows.
The target never narrows.

Sneaking, dancing through the night,
Arrows never cause a fright.
They steal ever...

A Fistful of Truffles

...There are Guineas that live in America
Guineas that live in a zoo
But the craziest, zaniest guineas of all
Are the ones that reside in Peru

It is said that they live in the Andes
And on weeken...

Playing Cards

...Speaking Spanish wasn't easy for a gringo like me, but I had no choice. I was playin' cards and drinkin' Mezcal at a nowhere bar in El Paso. I didn't have any money in my pockets but I was bluffing t...

Summer

...Summertime 
             sombreros hammocks
         imbibing sweating traipsing 
     beach sunbathing lake ice skating 
          gorging freezing stumbling 
             balaclavas eiderdowns...

The Al-Andalus Quartet: Part Four

...THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART FOUR
ALMERÍA / UMM AL-MARIYA   2007 AD / 1427 AH 

The traveler who journeys to the City of Almería
arrives at a port where the routes of the ferries,
the whitecaps ...

Squirrels

...We have a bird feeder on our porch we fill with bird seed every day
We love to watch the different birds visit…the cardinals, the wrens…the jays

But every time we fill the feeder we painfully bec...

A Portly Pig Met a Two Inch Swan In a Wardrobe

...A little forthright butternut fruit cake was sat on embroidered picnic rug. Basking in the sun whilst chatting to a jam pot. Beyond the knitted trees of custard lays the artichoke of buttered llamas....

Atomic Apocalypse

...The horsemen have arrived on their menacing mares,
Whose stiletto-hoofed horseshoes click-clack on an achromatic static; 
Silent staccatos inside an ultraviolet light.

As vidalian-dampened eyes ...

Candy's Dreamscapes - Story Poem

...
Once upon a time in faraway land,
There lived little Candy with dreams so grand;
She dreamt she was princess Cinderella,
Or sometimes became small Thumbelina;

One night, she danced with l...

Leander Skumfeldt 1864-1916

...Leander Skumfeldt

1864-1916

Truly my friends

Dying was my greatest fear, while alive.

My most dreaded

Most detested of future experiences.

Dying, finally, was my greatest achievemen...

This Is Why I Love Writing

...Edgar Rice Burroughs went beyond stars
To write of epics of Thuvia the maid of Mars,
Of Tarzan raised by Apes and Venus and Pellucidar,
Having  stuck to his pen and paper, not wandering afar.

W...

Dreams While Sleeping

...Maybe I’m dancing
In the shadows 
Naked man flying
Too close to the ground

I’ve got one eye 
On my sleeve
And the flowers 
Of a jester

I’ve got rain
In my pockets
And my mind 
On James...

American Haikus

...#33

the moon falls west-ward
the tule fog saunters east
summer ends early


New Siblings

puppy petite gold
bouncing around black dog's space
I know you’re in love
 
#25

Swimming in ...

Waddley Misfits

...The ergley-girgley men head south,
Inverting their insides to go out,
Never speaking, only winking
At the waddley ones who wash
Their clothes in bleach to kill the flies.
Oh, the rank of it.

...

The Singers

...The jazz men of Grand Central Terminal
Gathered on the dirty edge of Park Avenue
Wearing the green-white guayaberas and some honeymoon sombreros. 
Suddenly we have been interrupted at the last minute...

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