Creativity
...I netted a word today
spritzing in the back of mind,
examined it from angles:
politically, like stars and spangles
rhythmically, like Mr. Bojangles
spiritually, like sin~ the foolish s...
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Categories:
spritzing, inspirational, muse, poetry, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Volcano
...Serenity lost in a tempestuous cloud
Wailing to the rumbling thunder
as darkened skies were painted in cinnabar.
losing its crown to the fleeting rain
Dew flooding from the gazing moon
Singi...
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Categories:
spritzing, anger,
Form: Free verse
Ww3 Sneak Preview
...POTUS Joe Biden
met Vladimir Kremlin
said, 'Show me your wares if you dare'
Whereupon Vladimir Kremlin
unleashed a gremlin
grinning atop nuclear hardware
Not to be outdone
Jo...
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Categories:
spritzing, humor, international, satire, war,
Form: Light Verse
Dawn's Visitors
...Waking, I heard a lovely song.
Somehow, the music didn't belong.
Bell-like in tone, to softly please.
Perhaps was only summer's breeze.
Dreamlike music, not lasting long.
I opened blinds and t...
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Categories:
spritzing, allusion, beauty, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Quintilla
Just Say No
...Just say no to sunshine
Trying to penetrate your dark doom
Wrap your black cloud around its fire
Smoother it in your tears, in your grief
In your past trauma
Feel it struggle in your strangleho...
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Categories:
spritzing, addiction, allusion, analogy, depression,
Form: Free verse
Dreamy
...in dreams, I once heard lovely songs
bell-like in tone, they softly pleased.
I thought they didn't quite belong;
perhaps t'was only summer's breeze
combing tall grass, kissing new leaves.
I open...
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Categories:
spritzing, beauty, fairy, garden, happy,
Form: Dizain
The Whispers of Diamonds and Moonstone
...The whispers of diamonds and moonstone,
Starlight’s infusion of butterfly wings.
Flutter of lady’s eyelashes in Spring.
Lullaby murmuring - Jane’s not alone.
Sweet puff of air,...
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Categories:
spritzing, imagery, love,
Form: Quatern
Nightmares
...NIGHTMARES
The rain falls steadily
in comfortable cadence,
constant sound of water
falling in lulling song;
this Saturday morning
singing, stay and sleep,
a willing captive of rain
with its...
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Categories:
spritzing, angst, conflict, dark, dream,
Form: Free verse
Farther Than Daddy Thinks
...It's tough when father's head is cracked open.
Mother says, "You and I were chosen."
Secrets spill out like a spritzing soda.
My head is warm with that smoldering odor.
Tranquilized but refusin...
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Categories:
spritzing, conflict, confusion, family, horror,
Form: Quatrain
Life Begins
...so the "majority" resound
that life begins at birth
and equally, the other "majority"
state life begins at conception
Senator Connie Johnson chimes in
that life begins at ejaculation
or more equall...
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Categories:
spritzing, education, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
The Rush...
...Through the opened orifice
of humanities consciousness,
the whirling, whirring, rush of rain;
tumults round the asphalts plane.
Spritzing, spreading, shrieking, zing…
the staccato sounds of we...
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Categories:
spritzing, nature
Form: Quatrain