No Kings
To bow before
The roar is compelling
The horns, the traffic, the people
Chanting.
Peaceful
Composed Protest
Against unchecked power
Resistance becomes nationwide
Duty.
Oppose
The regime
The planned takeover
Loss of freedoms and injustice
Symbol.
Let us frolic as children
our nimble limbs dancing
atop young dandelion heads
diffusing the air with wild calm.
Let us exhale red-lipped verse
as if the blackness of the universe
were but a comma in our sentence.
Let us sing in the meadow like the plovers,
home at last. Let us warm ourselves
in the commitment of the Sun.
share our wonder
with the monarch,
our two backs lying flat
chewing on metaphors
as the cool green grass pokes our necks
and persistent flies tickle our form.
Let us muse over the matchlessness,
Of this finite exotic jungle. And let us plant a tree,
Not just any tree, but an endangered Palm.
One lonely orphan left in the wild
Needing a home, a small piece of
the earth to hold fast to.
Focusing on 2020
This retired senior captured a sunrise today
in natural light with a full-frame camera.
She is an iPhone witness to birds spreading their gorgeous broad wings, a rainbow in a fountain, and can attest to having spotted the Easter bunny.
She is among the multitudes
transmitting their art from remote locations across the vast wireless divide and
wondering which photographic filter to apply in a world frantically adapting to change. Observing through a long lens
her fellow humans scouring novel viruses from cracked fingers
Flushing the disease down the muddied drain
of remembrance.
In a daze of black and white.
In search of the new normal
avoiding contact, maintaining a six-foot distance, then touching gloveless
the same credit scanner, dollar bills, soda can.
As the idiots spit into the lettuce, cough at clerks,
Their vacant stares mock the establishment.
The rest of us are
scratching itchy eyes, ears, and noses
reckoning our mutual frailties.
A merciful how and when, if now,
will the end come?
I will arise and go now,
and go to Innisfree.
W.B. Yeats, “The Isle of Innisfree” (1888)
Innisfree Gardens
August’s golden dawn
whispers
Innisfree, park you pay.
Cup Garden
fills tranquil
to brim.
Sunshine and shadow
point fingers
woodsy sculpture.
Komodo dragon
stretches
seating for one.
Fountains shower
mist
poet smiles.
Contemplate genius
living art
by design.
Meditate on
mastery
of rock, water
wood, sky
Alice
drinks spiked tea
with Mad Hatter.
New World Order
Should that annoying Lone Star tick have a large following:
Administer Muse CPR.
Make a List
Lower Your Expectations
1. Insult all ticks near and far.
2. Dig out the disgusting Dictator head
3. Hold a rally in the Deliverance woods
4. Invite All Your Friends and Some Enemies
5. Have a Tick Eating Contest
6. Force the defiant to watch as you ingest their loved ones
7. Build walls
8. Shout and March as IT controls and limits basic tick rights
7. Celebration Party for The New Politically Correct- (Lots of Balloons, Fireworks, Dancing, Rioting, Wars, Fires, Ruin, Mass Graves)
8.- 10. Make History (All good, all fair.)
Tick Types in Office(s)
One may misinterpret this lone star tick
for another
do not be hasty.
If it continues to rule
that will be your last self-governing choice.
Make no mistake
this tick is tricky and nasty
it can and will make you sick.
Not to be mistaken for the deer tick or the brown dog tick
which are something else entirely.
This spangled lone star tick
has a white dot under that coif
and very large incisors which it sharpens
on a wit tick a new tick on the block,
not funny at all.
It has an even smaller stick,
if you get my drift
which I sense is why
this Lone Star
lacks any standards at all.
Don’t let it kiss your babies.
In my unbiased opinion
this tick
will only trick the nitwits
infecting us all with
nervous party politics.
Golfers Senryu
Chipping-in from rough
white ball disappears at once
swallowed by the hole.
You’ve got a birdie
usually is good, unless
it tweets back at you.
A greenie in golf
means that your aim is steady
and your ball behaved.
Having a low score
is highly desired but
tough to accomplish.
Bionic golfers
one putting keeps the pain low
control beats power.
Focus, concentrate
soon you will beat us
winners grin in place.
