Genetically modified
is certainly oddified,
mouse in tomatoes,
real eyes on potatoes?
When caught in a dream
of good ice cream
don't freeze your brain,
you'll miss your train.
Why's that jolly fat moon
At my window this night
Why's that silly love tune
Hang around sounding trite
Why's my heart as a troll
Since my life you have stole
The tired leaves fall to their death
Autumn strips the trees naked
And piles them all over
Raking the million leaves...
Can't seem to get them all
I pile them...nice and neat...perfect...
Ready for disposal
A strong wind blows...
I have to start all over again
Such a monotonous endeavor
Every time I try to say
what I thought I said
I have to think of, "What's today?"
All jumbled in my head
I dreamt a poetry of despair,
Saw armies marching to declare:
World with no peace.
I awoke to a sadness of scenes:
Cities in rubble; men without means;
Wars without cease.
I stood upon a family's ashes,
And cursed the demon that lashes:
Monster obese!
And a hundred screaming missiles
Came raining like the fall thistles
To speak their piece.
Cereal lover, give him another
Doesn't care if it's wheat, rice or corn
Cereal lover, don't tell his mother
What he's been up to each morn
In his cereal affairs
He's had flakes, nuts and squares
Lord how those O's made him smile...
Yes he's cruising in style
Through the breakfast food aisle
Organic, generic, who cares?
Cereal lover, one day he'll discover
When it's proper nutrition he needs
Some little whole grain honey
Took all his money
And left him a waist that exceeds!
kirsten - Hi. That's very good writing.
Thank you edgarblythe..may I call you edgar? It's great fun!
Sure; edgar is fine. I do this for many reasons. Mainly, I love the sharing that goes on between us all.
Hi Kirsten, very nice. It seems that we all have written poems featureing food.
A Tootsie rolled all chocolatey
The Kit-Kat says meow
Tasty Butterfingers
On Halloween somehow?
The kids went Trick r Treatin'
Brought back weighted pounds of sweet
My diet consists of candy
And nothing else to eat
(just kidding!)
Ode to a Broken Watch
Time oozes by in drips,
the second hand is sleeping
while the minute hand
takes a coffee break.
The hour hand is comatose
from too much waiting for the others.
Dali's melting clocks stop by
to say "Hello, we understand."
LOL cav - that was brilliant and funny !! The last line bowled me over !!!
Dali forgot his llama
All in the month of May
Once he melted Alabama
His mind slipped quite away
Listen! Hear the rat in the pantry?
Hear him bustle then chew;
Hear him rustle anew?
What ruse gave him entry
To make his raid on my pantry?
And yet he would think him ill used,
If I stalked his nest,
Seeking all his best,
Leaving **** and refuse,
Simply because it's what I choose.
The great blue ocean dawned
Like a mouth that yawned
Then froze and the world flooded in
Raucus cries and glided wings
Sticks with sails billowing
Then sylvan clouds that scudded in
The eyes of seeing saw the bend
Of time upon the ocean's skin
Saw the eruptions of snouts and fins
And the see-er laughed with rain
And set a funnel on the ocean plain
Smiling sent in sweeping drying wind
The ocean's time grew gray and old
As sun and world grew small and cold
Gulls took to the piers to stand in balls
Sails in tattered silhouettes
Porpoise in tired pirouettes
And the yawn closed its sleepy jaws
The rule of seconds
beckons a life of constant
turmoil. Turn it off.
I just can't "CLOCK"
It is just like 'knock'
I am unwanted,
So- by time daunted
However, if
I just ignore it.
To go away,
I have to use it.
Bah.
No more yawing for the web pages
waiting hopelessly long at hand
No more dialing up my ISP
I finally have broadband!
