My father died three times,
defying death’s rule of one.
Statues of stillness,
an unintended museum of moments
I revisit often.
His first death still haunts me.
One drink summoned the thief.
A stranger’s eyes appeared in my father’s face,
grinning at the ground he’d gained.
His second death was a slow detonation,
a bomb held between im-
and ex-
plode.
Each sip he took turned want into need,
never quenching the thirst of the thief.
The third death came on a winter morning,
his body deserted, hollow before me.
A final offering from the grinning thief,
the discarded bottle he finally drained.
My Dad is done with his dying now,
the final funeral for all his deaths.
We stand shoulder to shoulder-
five descendants of dad and thief-
to say one last goodbye.
Each of us
looking back with his light blue eyes,
curating what remains.
Once upon a time on a quiet walk
I felt strongly that I was being watched.
Stood still and listened, but heard nothing.
Then noticed the trunk of a small brown tree.
A tiny snake was sliding down it, without sound.
Another time I was walking in the forest at dusk.
I heard the crunch of leaves next to me as I walked.
I turned and a large doe was walking next to me.
We walked together about six yards, then she noticed me
And she bound into the woods; showing me her white tail.
My third story is of a mama raccoon.
I was sitting in my garden at twilight
Surrounded by stone statues.
Mama raccoon began walking right to me.
She had five babies trailing her.
I slowly got up. She gave me a startled glance and was gone.
The babies were gone too.
0 WORLD! I GAVE YOU THREE TIMES DIVORCE
Vast, great, elegant, graceful world
What dreadful forces in your curled? 0 world!
How a selfish you are
Cruel and cunning so far?
0 world! I gave you three times divorce
I did so with my ego force
Often seems like an innocent infant
O world! How darkened you play feint?
How many rude, dunce and proud
Helpless, powerless are in crowd?
O world! I gave you three times divorce
I did so with my ego force .....
Sometimes acts as villain or a play mate
O world! How the selfish rates have you state
Fearless, careless, motionless faced here
Hippocratic, terrorist, selfish have you spare?
0 world! I gave you three times divorce
I did so with my ego force
Sweet Caren’s an ace masticator
and opens her mouth like a gator
Breakfast dinner and tea
She will chew thoroughly
Her husband just acts as her waiter!
Inspired by this poem written by Caren Krutsinger
www.poetrysoup.com/poem/i_masticate_a_lot_1050599
Posted with full permission of Caren
8/11/18
If you press an elevator button three times it comes faster
A well known fact but it also makes you a love making master
Understand what I'm sayin'?
For a break you'll be praying
Only try it if you're fit as a fiddle or it could end in disaster
I watched the "Titanic" three times in a row already
And I now understand why the vessel had to sink.
Two people on board had sex before their wedding,
So God punished them for such an appalling sin!
Three times,
to hold hands,
to sit close,
to feel right,
to be as one,
to believe,
to trust,
to hope,
to dream as one,
to embrace,
to caress,
to want,
to keep as one,
to love,
to hurt,
to heal,
to grow as one,
Three times,
to let go of a moment wanted forever,
to have,
to lose,
to never know as one,
Three Times Three Horn Haiku
My perfect poems rhyme
Always best all of the time
And still so sublime.
Each poem is my best
Better than all of the rest
By God were all blest.
Love wife and still do
Only one I ever knew
Who makes dreams come true.
Not only is this 5-7-5, it also
ends in words that rhyme with
other line. Last part of Horn
Haiku has five words that
rhyme. Jim Horn
August 27th was our 50th
Anniversary.
Not sure how he does it three times a day
But all the ladies stop by for a stay
He grins and he smiles
They stay quite awhile
Hurry back Jack, I cant keep them at bay
Pills for that, pills for this,
Stated dose you mustn't miss.
One at breakfast, one at night,
two at lunchtime keep you right,
Stomach pills and headache pills
keep at bay your aches and ills
Yellow ones and pink ones too,
some are purple, some are blue,
each has got their job to do
then you go and catch the 'flu!!
I fell in love once, twice or perhaps thrice;
And each caused only more pain than the last.
I fell in love once, twice or perhaps thrice;
And each caused only more pain than the last.
The first was raven; the second was blonde;
The third was brunette and had three times; gone.
The first was my childhood, innocent; sweet.
The second; passion-filled love-exquisite.
The last was a girl of half my standard;
Of whom on lonely nights my thoughts wandered.
I lay once or twice and penned her an ode;
Of the love I felt that fate had forebode.
Though clear of the danger, I gave my heart;
That raven goddess three times ripped apart.
Lying there feeling warm and replete
Looking up to the sky, this is real neat
I never thought-that I would see three
But that was just granted to little old me.
The first as I lay in the water so hot
It flashed through the sky, a plane it was not
Within twenty minutes the second one flashed by
Two shooting stars in the same bit of sky…
Before the hour was up the third came into view
What a brilliant night watching the stars that flew
Three shooting stars is my first hat trick of stars
Lying in hot tub they shot from the plough right past Mars.
Three shooting stars I wonder what that means
Were they tumblers or stars, or somebody’s dreams
A wish I would make on each star that passed by
But they still couldn’t match the stars I’d see in your eye.
© 1/11/2012 ~GG~
~ (~) Time bold presses on... . (~) ~
~ (~) Bartering two times one time three times more; four times a sailor,
given this I've given nothing, just about taken everything hope lost crying-dying perfection
where is it, except dwelling transfixed, what is it that I carry now friend... ? (~) ~
~ (~) Nothing for you, time, it run out on me... left me with the baggage, all that I own,
I didn't accept you give you feared you wouldn't couldn't submit to your patient hand offer
you my heart... ! (~) ~
~ (~) The ground it comes up fast, rushing raging-time tick tock tick tick tick tock, tick. (~) ~
~ (~) Knowing nothing from nowhere time like fly's on the wall it here's everything, sees... .
(~) ~
~ (~) Good-is God evolving-freely with-us-openly vibrantly... . (~) ~
~ (~) Two times one time three times more; four times a sailor... . (~) ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwsvqVmFV6Y&feature=related
"Lift not the painted veil which those who live/
Call Life" --Shelley
"Sometimes the greatest journey is the distance
between two people" --Movie trailer
W. Somerset
set the bar for lasting love,
and then-some:
giving us a heroine,
winsome, but dumb-some,
who couldn't decide if lover or
husband was the true-one
until the day of compromise
when death arrived with final say
on which was the who-one.
Our misled mistress
could have lied,
not told the truth who sired
her un-born, sent her husband
less torn to die upon the path
to "ghostly" but that would
have been so mostly
un-Maugham-like. Yet, why
does Monet's stormy beach at
Etretat, Michelangelo's sensual
David, or this particular piece
of celluloid stir the heart?
You see yourself, your life
as Reality, copying Art.
Traveling to Winston
on the Greyhound today
I saw a license plate
that made me do a double take,
There was nothing funny
or silly about it,
but it blessed my heart greatly
as I pondered on it.
The license plates said "3XBLESD"
which I interpreted as
they were Three times blessed,
And I began to think
of all my blessings,
and wondered what number
I should be using.
I've been so blessed
it's impossible to count
my needs are met,
I even get some of my wants,
My health is good,
I've never had surgery
The only diagnosis I've had
was pregnancy,
So my trips to the hospital
was just for giving birth,
and I don't think I can number
my blessings worth.
My Children and Grand Children
they are a handsome bunch,
Been blessed to see my Great-Grand
I know that was a plus,
Limbs are in working order
and my senses are in tact,
I'm still counting my blessings
by presenting these facts.
The greatest of these blessings
Is that I'm not dead,
pulse is racing, heart is beating
I've still got my head,
So what number can I use
to measure my blessings?
After all these things I mentioned
I'll never stop counting.
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