Testy Poems

Waiting for the Third Day, A Muse Chronicle

...Muse - Day 1, 2016

For years I had read
Not realizing what I too, had given…

I had given, just not sure what I received in return.

So, in these, my later years thinking on this...
I approa...

Callimachus English Translations II

...Callimachus English translations

For Gail White

To the Cup-Bearer
by Callimachus
translation by Michael R. Burch

Decant the wine then toast "To Diokles!" Nor does the beautiful boy Achelou...

Cesspool Tanaga

...If they’re testy? Play the fool.
Let those words line a cesspool.
Shade cannot rattle a cloud,
it remains plotting head bowed....

Santa Got Stranded in Florida

...Traveling from Europe, Santa with his team had a pleasant time.
Temperature being below zero, he enjoyed the cool clime.
But on going to the South side of U.S, he felt, heat waves surro...

Symphony of the Sunrise

...

Rustling leaves comfort those who see
Past the hills, to psalms from the trees
Past the gentle to grace and peace
Past hopes to the praise that believes

Autumn winds breathe soothing
Past ...

Scarlet French Kisses

...Long for the tender tormenting touch of her slips, a vermillion vice of the abyssal depths that lay within the merest brush of her breath, a zephyr's caress that set aflame the parched arid landscape...

Dawn Never Dies

...I was a red-violet, sunny morning person, usually up at the crack of dawn,
When orange light poured from the east, upon revival, dewy green lawns.

With a cup of aromal coffee, I'd watch y...

My other fami!y

...I am a thinker of sorts;
One that is rather selective.
I tend to bore unusually easily;
Perhaps I am mildly restless.
I am okay with challenges,
But even blatant testy rules can be
Presented wi...

Tracing Angels

...Somewhere within the misty shroud of heaven
A finger, traces angels, in the air
Wondering if they are truly present
Why they whisper dreams no one can hear

Soft tingle of a touch, a gentle “pss...

Empty Nest Syndrom

...
Are you thinking about your child whether
alone can take steps to measure?
Can she attend social interaction
to take a view in total?

Are you upset for kids to go 
away from home,...

Curse of the Empty Nest

...CURSE OF THE EMPTY NEST

No way imagine empty nest, 
imagine, giving birth at thirty-five. 
Plus fact I’d never even changed a diaper,
so mother-hood … just prayed survive.

Then son became te...

Interrupted Timelines

...The volcano leveled
then a great wind blew the rest away.

Early humans came late.
They had callused soles and rough hands
they knew how to dig,
run and hide.

When the flood came
they were ...

Dialogue

...“The sharpest knife in the drawer has a red plastic handle.”
“Which drawer?”
“The drawer that also has a red plastic handle.”
“None of them have red plastic handles. They all have red ceramic hand...

It Is a Hoe Down

...It is a hoe down the fly told the titmouse
Where though? I only see one house
It’s invisible, but there are clues, I think.
It’s under a mushroom whose inside is all pink.

They searched togethe...

I See

...I see the inequities
and the disdainful disparities

I see your struggles
and the testy tussles

I see your falls
and the slow crawls

I see your steady climb
through all the slimy grime

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