Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Casino King

Joker,
wild card, trump card,
only the dealer wins.
Game table. The earth tilting the
                                  wrong way...

Saturday, May 5, 2018

A Critique of Summer

Shadows
crossing the lawn--
the cut grass retains its
greenness. Whatever's been mowed down
grows back.

Sunday, April 1, 2018

November 2016

sometimes
prescriptions fail
to cure the malady
Trump wins the election since you've
gone blind

Saturday, March 17, 2018

This form is similar to a butterfly cinquain except the syllable count is not reversed in the second cinquain. The closest format I could find to this example would be a cinquain swirl which can be any number of repetitions in the pattern of 2-4-6-8-2-4-6-8. I think I'll just call it a twin cinquain in that the last 2 words of the first cinquain are repeated for the first 2 lines of the second cinquain, joining both poems. It consists of two stanzas.



ELIXIRS
(A Twin Cinquain)

Flowers
petaling out
their wares. Fantastic shapes
and colors you can't live without
Each spring,
each time that jumps
forward, I remember
how you said you would leave me with
flowers.



Tuesday, March 6, 2018

The Procrastinator's Bible

Today
I've invested
too much time on tickets
for tomorrows that will never
arrive