The Featured Twirler
...Oh that Lily, she the epitome of a
Golden Child as I watched her
Exuding effortless grace, a liquid-silver baton—
a Haddon Heights Garnett.
a Blazing Comet /
enchanting /
popular and ...
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Categories:
twirler, confidence, desire, feelings, high
Form: Narrative
We All Wanted To Be a Baton Twirler
...Twirling their flashing batons in a fabulous fashion
Two high steppers with tasseled boots led the parade
All of us third grade girls wanted white boots now
And a full short skirt with matching pa...
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Categories:
twirler, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Light Verse
Lazy God
...Lazy god,
nibbling cotton candy clouds
guzzling golden grape wine
angels fanning your endless siesta.
With harps and trumpets divine
while this invisible beast
that you fashioned
eats us alive...
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Categories:
twirler, angst, god,
Form: Free verse
Things Not To Use False Teeth For
...THINGS NOT TO USE FALSE TEETH FOR
Well for starters, some things are obvious, see?
Wouldn’t advise anyone, not just me,
To be a circus rope-twirler holding the rope in me teeth
When there’s n...
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Categories:
twirler, philosophy, me,
Form: Couplet
High School Days
...We are not perfect by no means at all,
some are too skinny, some are too tall,
I was always the tallest in my class,
until High school, then I found my match.
5' 7'' kinda tall for a girl,
then...
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Categories:
twirler, friendship, happiness, imagination, life,
Form: Narrative