Shame Shaming

Shame Shaming

(A Villenelle)

Some people have got to pour out shame

In person on line behind the back or anonymous writing

Why should the victim take the blame

A stupid kid comes up with the worst nickname

A depraved bully makes you their plaything

Some people have got to pour out shame

College boys seek acclaim with a voracious numbers game

She wants some bling that slut was just a weekend fling

Why should the victim take the blame

Whatever famously is your claim to fame

A jealous troll will scorn and mock everything

Some people have got to pour out shame

I guess the slow moving target has the biggest frame

Do they think their acid tongue has no sting

Why should the victim take the blame

The fight is ripe our basic human rights to reclaim

Don't let bottled words poison your heart's spring

You have got to pour out shame

No victim should take the blame

No 'range...Rhymes with O?

No 'range...Rhymes with O?

You've just got to go with the flow

Tough thing for a stick in the mud to know

Like a midnight bump on the proverbial toe

Flexibility is key is quite the blow

When your skull is like the forehead of a buffalo

As calm as a bull in the rodeo

Let God have control just let it go

I ain't no teenage queen of ice and snow

I've got a temper like a boiling volcano

Let love flow like sunshine through a window

Sounds like the emperor,  Skywalker's foe

Good good young jedi let it flow let it grow

Don't worry be happy there's always tomorrow

Let bozo play banjo like a psycho on the radio

Not true just because Elton John plays calypso on piano

Soar with the colors of the wind over the rainbow

Not so fun in the middle of a tornado

When a blade of grass pierces your heart like an arrow

Roll with the punches learn mental judo

I'm punch drunk and moving slow

Out of step like a square dancer at the disco

Follow the right hand star till morning glow

No Tinkerbell in my ear just a mosquito

My lost boys are children of nosferateau

Don't rock the boat, man, be mellow yellow

In the river you go nowhere if you don't row

You'll drown if you don't fight the undertow

Follow the flow of the tide and walk when it's shallow

I'd rather surf  the wave hit the barrel carve the hallow

Cowabunga hang 10 hang loose crouch low Mahalo

Wait! It's only dead salmon that go with the flow

No! I will overthrow the apropos

I throw tabasco on my burrito

I wear my big boy pants commando

I throw my dice and break the casino

I wear my freak flag like a weirdo

I jump on my mower and reap what I sow

I stand for justice like a super hero 

I scream sorrow into my pillow

I dance a flamenco mambo fandango tango

Follow me and I will be the flow 

*If this is too sarcastic for you, read just the italics. It's lovely!*

I have the Right by Law

The prompt is strong. As a kid when I thought of strong, I thought of cowboys, gunfighters and lawmen

I have the Right by Law

I saunter down busy streets

Hand on my holster fingers on my weapon

Some smile and nod I say Howdy

Some look away or scurry from me

My steely gaze flickers to and fro

I miss nothing while seeming not to look

I am looking for trouble

I am looking for lawbreakers

Discordant eerie harmonica plays in my head

Or a driving classical imperious march

My hand drops my weapon appears

My bullets spit out justice

No, I'm not a sheriff in the old west

I'm a parking bylaw enforcement officer

My weapon is an electronic handheld

My bullets are tickets on a window

Just don't you dare call me a meter maid

I prefer (in an imitation John Wayne voice) parking ranger     

All the Lively Leaves...

All the Lively Leaves...

(an acrostic)

All the lively leaves

Leap in a chorus line to the rhythm of the wind

Landing as softly as a butterfly whisper

Tunnels of trees down the lane

Have an infinite palette of fire and sun

Even the half naked tree dances free

Little children squealing run and leap

Into the piles poppa tried to keep neat

Visiting rabbit's hair turn from brown to white

Evergreen trees stand staunchly unchanging

Like soldiers enduring a parade

Yet they tap their prickly fingers to the beat

Libraries of trees

Each lovelier than a poem

Amber umber ocher orange

Violet burgundy maroon pink

Even golden butterscotch lemon yellow

Scarlet crimson red... 

...cover the ground like the blood Jesus shed      

Unfolding Fall

Unfolding Fall

The fall season is now unfolding

See them fly hear the geese honking

Summer is gone the leaves fallen

No more sunburn no more pollen

Don't want to think too hard and make up a reason

To celebrate because this is the fall season

Winter's coming but not quite yet

Rain not snow but still cold and wet

The wind rustles the restless leaves

Like pirate bones when their grave heaves

When the wind picks up and my fingers are numbing

By the chill in the air I know winter's coming 

Twisted

Twisted

Generations of flaws spin through the spiral helix of my skin

Like a beast outside your door coiled to spring

The corkscrew of repentance unplugs the fountain

Joy twists through a heart that's entwined with love

I'm a hefty fellow from a large family

I like food, sweets, and coffee like the rest of my kin

The only time we're not quiet is playing pit or Yahtzee

Generations of flaws spin through the spiral helix of my skin

There are pleasures in the world like a smorgasbord to try

What starts as a joy can have such sorrow to bring

Nothing wrong with a little more your desires will lie

Like a beast outside your door is coiled to spring

Beware what's planted when you seek pastures fresher

Quickly a trembling molehill becomes a volcanic mountain

Try to screw the lid down but it causes such pressure

The corkscrew of repentance unplugs the fountain

You get caught in whirlpool when your sea is storming

The wind whipped vortex tornado touches down from above 

Get thru the souls dark night and joy comes in the morning

Joy twists through a heart that's entwined with love 

Thanksgiving

My brain is porous
Just cooked Thanksgiving dinner
This is a haiku