Transmission lines found underground
Ain't cheap wires that cause fires when downed
Zounds! For these we'd pay
And kneeling we pray
LA's not a gray buried mound
Categories:
zounds, environment, fire, natural disasters,
Form: Limerick
Zounds!
longing for a
merciful descent into
the terminal ground
where smoky eyes
semi-watch
streams of
semi-(dis)information
exhaled from
smoking brains
on a mission
to search &
deconstruct
ticking clocks
taunt
timely bombs
lost in
purple blobs
of
orange haze
awaiting
purging deluges
sprinkled with
white bolts of
blinding hell
the raving
raven's
feathers flicker
while
flippant tentacles
grope skyward
for
divine decisions
tickling
a sickly brain
that
bemoans
its feckless fate
we shall overwhelm
a sizzling planet
striving for
brief moments of holiness
in a pit of
squirming soothsayers
de-coupling
from
determinism
becoming
tomorrow’s
sorrow
Mercy me!
a pseudo-prayer
crawls out of
a mournful mouth
(“help me Help MeHelpMe!!”)
muttering
monotonic mantras
replete with
rollicking ruminations
reverberating from
titanic implosions
in the dark
deep sea of
terrible time
In conclusion...
simply
beyond
Help
Categories:
zounds, dark, nonsense, surreal, word
Form: Free verse
Swear words are just simple sounds
That explode forth as a grunt,
Words like ****!, or ****!, or ****!, or Zounds!
Or far worse words like ****!
And if by this little rhyme
Your senses are offended
I assure you that there is no crime
Nor any offense intended.
For if your mind is choosing
To fill in any gap,
Then it’s you, not I, that’s using
Those offensive words, dear chap.
Categories:
zounds, humor,
Form: Quatrain
If a tree falls in the forest
and no one is around
Does it make a sound?
Yesterday a tree split in half
falling on our front steps
and on our landing
No one was around
to hear the sound
when we found out --
"Zounds!" --
Nobody hurt, no damage
Did we ever luck out!
Categories:
zounds, thanks, tree,
Form: Free verse
Ascend Zion
Believers Yearn
Collective X-Ray
Deserted Wells
Egocentric Vanity
Forgotten Unity
Gifted Talents
Hollow Service
Integrated Reality
Jewels Quarantine
Killer Passion
Lingual Oppression
Magical Nonsense
Numbered Messages
Organized Lust
Pollute Kindness
Questions Justice
Reprograms Insight
Separate Hinges
Timelessness Grounded
Unraveling Fragmented
Violent Expressions
Worldly Desires
Xenogenetic Curiosity
Yare Battle
Zounds Accuracy
Categories:
zounds, education, heaven, inspiration, perspective,
Form: ABC
City Girl-Country Girl
I swore I would never live in a small town.
I wanted noise, people and the
roar of the crowd.
Crowded restaurants, highways,
Exhaust fumes galore.
Sounds of police cars all over
town.
Lounges, theaters and 24 hour
anything!
Those bright lights, you know?
And twenty-four action, no matter
where you go.
I never dreamt I would end up
in agricultural, wine-country
USA.
Here, street lights are not ugly,
bright and garish.
As for churches, there are many
to choose from and to cherish.
No security cameras in unwanted
places to get your mugshot, how
disgraceful that is!
Where verdant trees grow and
gardens bloom year round.
125 varieties of grapes, too?
Ga-zounds!
And stores are not jammed and
parking for all abounds.
Where all in my neighborhood
wave as we pass each other in
snow free cars.
And life is more than good here.
It grows by leaps and bounds.
Have to say...life here is more
than heavenly and a daily treat!
July 11, 2019
Noon PST
Categories:
zounds, america, city, how i
Form: Free verse
Detritus
Sitting there, honey,
Cleansed and bathed,
Scented with lilac and rose,
Glistening at your dressing table, and
Eyeing yourself in the chrome mirror;
I, as your guest, sit by and watch,
Astonished at your well-intentioned revealings,
Seeing your young beauty at morning tide,
As hands and fingers apply the detritus,
To nineteen year-old eyes, awash in teen wisdom.
I sense there is something you want to say,
As you lean toward your reflection there,
Smearing scarlet on wet open lips,
Your unbuttoned camisole dangling loosely,
Upon your shimmering backside,
But finding a foothold upon your upturned breast.
And here I sit, astonished again,
At the perennial return of one endless ritual
After another.
Zounds!
Do you realize I cannot resist you?
Yet it makes me wonder,
If you want me to make love to you.
Yes, I wonder.
Well, shall we just dispense
With this slow dance in the darkness?
Look at me!
Zounds!
I will make you dance!
Categories:
zounds, passion,
Form: Free verse
Hug drug, hug tight
Zounds surrounded the societies
Stream stringer the blood blew
By the bombastic center watts
Humbled earth is entitled by the entered en clair
Hug drug, hug tight for tomorrow's hammered today's
Hunt hen Hawk.
Categories:
zounds, life,
Form: Alliteration
"This time alone with you is precious, maid.
Could I but keep the moments sweet with you
from fleeting time’s demand that be not stayed.
All I’d give making veritas less true.
Since I lack power bidding time adieu,
love, I must seize the rose buds e’en what may.
Let me then speak of my heart’s pain anew,
of my constant thoughts tearing each spent day
zounds, into splintered pieces only you can stay.
Categories:
zounds, romance,
Form: Rhyme
When being tired knows no bounds,
It's time to make those zeeing zounds.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz.....
Categories:
zounds, sleep,
Form: Couplet
My frustration with my weight abounds.
I am trying to lose twenty pounds.
I want to do it here
during this brand new year.
I know all of you have heard these sounds.
Categories:
zounds, life, loss,
Form: Limerick
All
Beyond
Center,
Daylight
Eyes
Forever.
Going
Hallucinate
In
Joining
Kiwifruit
Lovers,
Mainly
Never
Opening
Poetic
Quarters;
Residing
Silver
Towers.
Utopia
Vowing
Wisdom,
Xylophagous
Youth
Zounds!
Categories:
zounds, imagination
Form: ABC
An alien spaceship landed today
Bouncing across my yard
Coming out was a creature, strange
Does he know he looks like lard?
Everyone on the block did come
For the strangest sight to see
Gawking and laughing they watched him come
Hobbling over to me
I asked him his name
"Jungo Dim", he replied
"Karasana is where I am from
Let me tell you why I came."
"My planet is going to explode," said he
"Next year we will all be dead
Only you can save us," was his dire plea
"Please help us," the alien said
"Quiet!" I ordered, while trying to think
Ruminating the options I had
"Sure, I'll help you," I finally said
"Tonight we will call on my dad."
Under the waning moon we sped
Very quickly to visit my father
When we got there he thumped me on the head
"Xavier, why me do you bother?"
"You're the only one who can help," I replied
"Zounds, what on earth shall we do?"
"Alas, I can not be of help now."
"Bring him back tomorrow at two
Categories:
zounds, artme, me, planet,
Form: ABC