Snippets of Life
...A snipping of scissors
The hum of the trimmer
The hollow sound of an AM radio
Idyll chatter
Kids, grandkids
The weather
A quick trim of thinning hair
Melancholy moments revisited
No appointme...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, age, hair, men,
Form: Free verse
Passing of the New Year
...Passing of the New Year
We could have had champagne and not Buck’s fizz, but then we aren’t in showbiz. We glorify and harness God’s creation in full spirit, praising his glory. The passing of the y...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, new years day,
Form: Free verse
- It's Christmas Again -
...
Christmas is just around the corner
convulsions in the stomach region
Poor elves who create all the toys
and Santa takes the credit
Squeezing me into the bus
to the neare...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, christmas, humor,
Form: Free verse
Embrace The Day
...Embrace the Day
Before manscaping with my hair trimmer,
my arm hair army wrapped further,
further around my cylindrical arms,
like wheat stalks before the harvest.
All atilt in a summertime wi...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, 12th grade, appreciation, assonance,
Form: Free verse
A Lamplighter
...Written: October 30, 2023, For Brian Strand Contest
______________________________________________
as
gloominess
drops to the ground
the lamplighter performs his
ro...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, analogy, history, light,
Form: Shape
Happiness 101
...Well here we are us happy guys
At the start of an exciting new day
The sun is shining the boidies are singing
What more is there to say!
Perhaps it's that second piece of apple pie
Or ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, happy,
Form: Rhyme
Why Ted Is Slimmer
...Don’t you know why Ted is slimmer?
His eyes no more with hopes glimmer:
Had long swum in pools with shimmer,
As long in frustration swimmer;
Ted would not bear Todd’s New Tipper
Plus dreams of m...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, cry, humanity, money, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
My Johnson Has Gone Viral and Is Famous In My City
...There’s a picture going around of a man who’s from our city
he’s got his Johnson out and my gosh it is a biggie
the girls have shared it with all the girls it’s gone viral so I’m told
my mate s...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, funny, humorous, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Does Your Back End Waddle
...Does your back end waddle like a duck?
Does your rear sway from side to side?
Is there a rumbling sound when sitting down
With large ripples in your hide?
Perhaps it's that second piece...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Weed Whacker
...
A line trimmer doesn’t really eat;
That’s a trick that would be quite neat.
Instead, it tends to aerosolize,
Throw grass in your nose and rocks in your eyes.
Turns poison ivy to a fine...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, silly, work,
Form: Couplet
Garden Tale
...gardens are where we are:
from "Eden" to "Gilgamesh", "Babylon" to "Gethsemane"
from mountain to coast, town to country
from wetlands to desert oasis, under the sea to the edge of ice
f...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, garden, places, space,
Form: Free verse
Tic Tac Toe Tornado
...I’m ready for
Tic Tac Toe
Cause I got
my own rhymes to show
Watch me shine
My X’s are always in a row
Can you feel the room react
as it feels my glow
The Tickity Tac Tac
Clackity Clack Clack...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, humor, light,
Form: Rhyme
Does Your Back End Waddle
...Does your back end waddle like a duck?
Does your rear sway from side to side?
Is there a rumbling sound when sitting down
With large ripples in your hide?
Perhaps it's that second piece...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Kindergarten Girl
...She doesn’t like the garden on the wall,
where the flowers are without fragrance.
You hammer the alphabet nails into her
brain. Her little thumb and index finger
waver on a hard pencil.
She ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, child,
Form: Free verse
Lake Reflections
...Memory has got deeper,
lake deep.
There are bodies still yoyoing around in that water –
most of them younger images of me.
A buoyed-up-recognizable-self rises to the surface:
I’ve lost weig...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
trimmer, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Related Poems