Swished Poems

When I was young and fate was kind
No mocking tongue nor state of mind
Betrayed my room, my welcome bed
My refuge in the years ahead
 
Where nothing but the night is black
And black is never dark for lack
Of something bright or...Read More

I had a wish, wish to make a bluish fish, fish dish
but the fish, fish swished, swished when I tried to squish, squish him 
and he let out a ghoulish hiss, hiss and then he spit, spit
so I dropped ghoulish...Read More

He ignored the warning signs and moved carefully forward and backward

In the rocking chair of swept memories and went for a wild white knuckle ride 

Swayed but not faltering although he swung like a junky on amphetamine pills

Soaked in recollections...Read More

"Beyond lychgate lies future death" she says,
cucumbered eyes slid back under cauliflower sky,
brimming smithereens of harkening demons.

Been in saddle some time since torchlight began,
a child's silent castle ago. Chaos-times cut alleyways
through rose-lettered circles, reads trashy maid.

The journey fell sword north...Read More

Tromsø

Your shiny streets, subdued footsteps, silent, snow -softened cars.
Plumply-padded pavements. Shuddering snow slips from the roof slopes above. 
Words softly spoken – hushed - heated words make slush. 
People stay indoors, behind the swish of a thermal shutter. 
Lots of...Read More

When the Universe created the Universe and allowed for challenge 

It was quite open to change and the preponderance of ageing times

Youth is not a crime and the respect for seniority has to be earned

Oh my Lord let there be...Read More

 Little words of value blown to smithereens 
 I am a smidge of worry with a touch of green 
 I spent the night picking out E's and O's 
 now my tummy is a gurgling with woes 

From...Read More

Hippocampus

What a memory trickling down my limbic system
Pure deep emotion released from a firing brain

	Neurons transmitted untainted joy 

A night dive at Stackpole Quay in Pembrokeshire
Thick wet suit in cold waters weights on the belt
No load on my shoulders apart...Read More

Santa Clauses were to be molten and reshaped into Holy Cross bunnies
		             on a mega 3D printer but then the app somehow went wrong

Chocolate trickled and trifled and...Read More

December first is finally here,
With joyful songs and holiday cheer!
We all have fun with our family and friends,
The fun time, will never end!

Kids go outside to play with snow,
As I walk by and watch the Christmas tree glow!
The hot chocolate...Read More

walking noisily crunching underfoot
autumnal free fall of leaves
sensations swished around



Submitted on November 2, 2017, for contest EARLY NOVEMBER PREMIERE sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 2ND...Read More

Leaves fell like confetti, upon an autumn bride

Swirling in their multitudes, across the countryside.

Along the path I walked they lay, some were ankle deep

I took such childish pleasure, as I swished them with my feet.

The wind was fairly blowing, branches...Read More

One day a placid platypus was playing in a kitchen. He had discovered that there was often much to sort and much to sort was often much fun. Other platypuses did not realise how much can be gleaned from the...Read More

The Flame of the Flamenco

Ruby was the flame of the Flamenco,
a tavern on the docks of Costa del Sol.
Men were entranced by her fiery dancing
as she gave off flashes of red and gold.

Ruby called one man to dance with her.
Her...Read More

This house breathes and I'm not at all sure what that means.

But she smiled, and the world and my wonder along with it, stopped. Her hair swished around when she laughed for miles over and on the top of this...Read More

his heraldic crest 
a donger and yarbles rampant 
upon a field of clover
it was a stone slab of course
donated by a few eggheads in exile
his best friends were his orgasms
shall we redefine the human condition
my guru continued you are tied...Read More

I woke up one morning
and what did I see
a face in the mirror which wasn't me,
my nose was a ski slope 
as long as a piece of rope,
staring back at me were scary bulging eyes 
big and round as pizza...Read More

Please, do not try to flatter me
with those capricious words you speak,
perspicuous but inurbane...
their undercurrent, quite oblique.

They may seem kind to you for sure;
beneath, though sweet, alienate
with mean, malignant metaphors
that make the sugar dissipate.

I will not be your sought scapegoat
and...Read More

A Life Changing Misdial

One of my favorite poems is Robert Frost’s “Road Not Taken”, which I read for the first time in high school.  I read it again just moments ago, and I was reminded of a similar experience...Read More

Quietness upon the face,
Silence and loneliness,
Land before time,
Before living things existed, 
Sadness as my waters ran through the earth,
Was my voice the only thing to be heard?
As I swelled and ebbed, 
Swished back and forth, 
Was I alone as I...Read More

         

“Forget it” he said, in the 
Half-light of the motel
Room.

The shadows from the blinds
Hit her shape as she glided
Across the floor

“One thing I can’t forget,
Is that ghostly shape “
She said, weeping

And...Read More

                                    It was a dark,...Read More

A warm overwhelming sensation grabbed at me As she emerged from behind the gate of her wall fence. Her eyes arched so invitingly, in my rain drenched clothes I felt a unique cold get hold of me.

She hip-swished towards me...Read More

My Fairy Queen's Chariot

I watched the starry moonbeams through my curtains 
With its sparkling lights falling on my face silvered
I smiled and cuddled in my cosy-cosy bed
Knowing that My Fairy Queen had swished her nightly magic wand.

The cooing of a...Read More

I watched the moonbeams through my curtains 
With its sparkling lights falling on my face silvered
I smiled and cuddled in my cosy-cosy bed
Knowing that My Fairy Queen had swished her nightly magic wand.

The cooing of a peacock woke me out...Read More