Mrs Timetable: Poems

Feb 2022 · 8.7k

Adore

Mrs Timetable Feb 2022

Adore

I dreamt of you
In black and white
But
Your voice
Was in color
I do not know
What words you said
But I heard
Shades of adore

❤

#dreams #love #admiration #shades #colors #vivid #blackandwhite

Jan 2022 · 901

I was once you

Mrs Timetable Jan 2022

I was once you

I want to grow
As fast as my cat
I wanna be big already
How can I do that?

It’s ok to be young
Don’t worry it will come
You will grow fast enough
My child my little one

But I’m too small
Kids make fun
The tree over my shadows
Covering me from the sun

You will grow soon my dear
You will sprout quickly
In another year
No need to fear

Sigh. I guess you are right
You were young once too
Seeing pictures with grandma
I wish I knew the small you

You know me now
I’m telling you child
I’m still that little person
Deep down inside

You know how I feel?
Yes my child, I do
How do you know for sure?
Because I was once you, then I grew

Our parents were once children too

#children #parents #family #memories #nostalgia

Feb 2021 · 1.1k

Use caution

Mrs Timetable Feb 2021

Use caution

As I sit here
Tears cry
I wonder why
My eyes burn so much
It’s because of the thought
It’s because of the why
I put Capsaicin on my sore back
And then touched my eye

Tip: DON’T do that

Use caution and gloves while using Capsaicin🥵 yes it works !!😅

#hot #peppers #capsaicin #sore #muscles #daily #stupid #stuff

Feb 2021 · 790

I declare...

Mrs Timetable Feb 2021

I declare...

Declared myself missing
Posted a reward for my return
Found myself
Collected the reward
And ....
The check bounced

Some days are easier if you skip them all together😂

#silly #difficult #days #stayinbed

Jan 2021 · 1.1k

Dollhouse

Mrs Timetable Jan 2021

Dollhouse

Like a broken
Empty dollhouse
Fully exposed for everyone see
Walls down
Fascinated
I peer inside...
And there is nothing
But sad loneliness

A giant 200 year old tree fell on a beautiful two story home I admired for years and now they are tearing it down. It was very eerie seeing inside the empty home. All the front walls were gone. It looked helpless.

#destruction #nature #dollhouse #walls #downed #tree #wind

Nov 2020 · 135

Can’t look away

Mrs Timetable Nov 2020

Can’t look away

Is this “show”
A reality?
Or is this “reality“
A show?

So much to absorb

Oct 2020 · 463

Only a tree

Mrs Timetable Oct 2020

Only a tree

Heartbroken
To see hundreds of years
Uprooted and thrown
To the ground
Broken
Destroyed
A wicked wind
So violent
It took out the young
Newly rooted
The ancient
The massive
Weak from drought
Majestic and still
Laying on their sides
Looking imposing
Root history exposed
For all to see
For me
An honor
To witness
Laying there
Respecting more now
Than when you were born
You did make a name
Appreciating now
You weren't only a tree

96 MPH winds took out an incredible amount of trees this past week. I've never looked at these trees like I did this week. Not to mention the power of the wind. Massive trees uprooted and knocked down. It was death. And it was heartbreaking.

#tree #death #wind #respect #power #nature #drought

Oct 2020 · 719

Watching

Mrs Timetable Oct 2020

Watching

By the power of suggestion
Vested in me
I now pronounce you
Commercial advertisement

First U.S. commercial July 1, 1941 for Bulova Watch co. $9 for the 10 sec ad and from what I could tell $29 for the watch.

#watch #commercial #advertisement #useless #facts

Oct 2020 · 349

Disquiet

Mrs Timetable Oct 2020

Disquiet

Screaming out
From the inside
Roaring as a train whistle
Only the restless can hear
And then...
Quickly
Fades away

It doesn't last long but it catches your attention and takes over

#disquiet #thoughts #fears #disturbances #come #go

Sep 2020 · 374

Excuse the excuse

Mrs Timetable Sep 2020

Excuse the excuse

Fashioning a new crutch
For one’s old crutch

Might never heal
One’s achilles heel

Said the Psychiatrist Orthopedic Podiatrist Therapist

#excuses #crutch #achillesheel

Sep 2020 · 148

A love letter to letters

Mrs Timetable Sep 2020

A love letter to letters

My dear Phantonym
I love how you say one thing
And mean another

I was truly affected
By the effect you had
On me

From now on
I accept
What you except

And what’s in the past
Is now
Passed

(Please don’t grade this paper)

#phantonym

Aug 2020 · 236

One Rose

Mrs Timetable Aug 2020

One Rose

Don't bring me petals
Plucked to perish
Leave the flowers
In the ground to thrive
I would rather have
Your words to cherish
Planted in me grounded
Always blooming
With surprise

It only took one rose and one poem for "us" to be. I requested "no more flowers please", but many many many more poems. I got my wish.

#poems #live #forever #flowers #die

Aug 2020 · 547

Escape

Mrs Timetable Aug 2020

Escape

I want to get away
Get away to that place
That place with the balcony, the umbrella
And the cold sand

What if I can’t
What if I can’t escape
Escape to that space
That place in another land

Would you please just
Just give me that touch
The escaping sensation
Of your healing hands

Your writing hand needs a vacation anyways

#get #away #escape #staycation #vacation #healing #hands

Aug 2020 · 423

Motion picture

Mrs Timetable Aug 2020

Motion picture

I was conceived
At a drive-in movie

Maybe that’s why
I get motion picture sick

Both are actually true...I forgot to ask what the movie was

#motion #sickness #drivein #movie #notreallyapoem

Aug 2020 · 432

Lend

Mrs Timetable Aug 2020

Lend

Lend me your eyes
And I will lend you my ears

For you
I can shed your tears

For me
You can whisper away my fears

For better or worse

#marriage #vow

Aug 2020 · 978

Love aroma

Mrs Timetable Aug 2020

Love aroma

I love that
Aromatic field
We run in
Coming back
Spent...

Scented like
Each other

#marriage #love #scent #aroma

Aug 2020 · 394

Price Less

Mrs Timetable Aug 2020

Price Less

Some days you feel like that best seller
Up front, all glorious on display

Some days you feel like you’re in the the 90% off bin...
(Only needed to prop a door open)

Ups and downs... but you’re still priceless

#priceless #good #days #bad

Aug 2020 · 417

A triumphant collapse

Mrs Timetable Aug 2020

A triumphant collapse

How much
Do you need to win
Before you realize
How much you’ve lost

The gamble of fame
Years of building
Bets and wagers
Pay up

The hard fall of internet influencers.

#social #media #attention #followers #fame #fall #not #worth #it

Aug 2020 · 864

Bookstore

Mrs Timetable Aug 2020

Bookstore

The scent I miss
Not for reasons of bliss
But simply this

The scent of old paper
To read a new caper
Or of the candlestick maker

So many worlds to explore
You even had a second floor
I miss you old bookstore

Online shopping stinks when you can’t smell the paper

#books #bookstore #paper #old #missed #memories

Jul 2020 · 89

PB&J

Mrs Timetable Jul 2020

PB&J

My way:

Bread face up
Peanut butter
Jelly on top of peanut butter
Bread face down on top is the closer

Someone else’s way:

Both breads face up
Peanut butter on one bread
Jelly on the other bread
Put together like prayer hands

Your way is wrong!

No....your way is wrong!

My way is right!

No....my way is right!

Does it really matter?

******.

I was surprised at learning not everyone makes a peanut butter and jelly the exact same way. My co worker and I got in a funny argument over it.

#toeachhisownbreadandspread

Jul 2020 · 211

I do

Mrs Timetable Jul 2020

I do

When I ask you if you love me
You say “I do”!
When I ask you if you think I’m pretty
You say “I do”!
When I ask if you think Im a hard worker
You say “I do”!

Then I sometimes wonder why you put up with all my complaints and questions about life and do you really need to hear it over and over and over again,
I remember 25 years ago you said ....,

“I do”!

Thank you for listening to all my needs for reassurance and hope
Mr Timetable

#marriage #vow #endurance

Jul 2020 · 407

Just peachy

Mrs Timetable Jul 2020

Just peachy

Life can sometimes
Be the pits
But it’s the pits
That protect the seeds
That make
Things grow
Into the sweet and tender

Now I want peaches

#trials #marriage #hurdles #challenges #grow

Jul 2020 · 178

Gift

Mrs Timetable Jul 2020

Gift

All
Wrapped up

In a variety of
Beautiful colors

The gift is ours...
Life

#life #gift #colors

Jul 2020 · 277

Float

Mrs Timetable Jul 2020

Float

Its too deep
Right now

No diving
No laps
No splashing

Floating
For a while

Maybe the
Monster
Won't see me

Stay quiet pain

#pain #monster #quiet #peace

Jul 2020 · 566

Process

Mrs Timetable Jul 2020

Process

It dawns...

She ponders...

It wanders...

Goes yonder...

Back it saunters...

Her thought process...

Sometimes is...
Beyond her

The poem writing process point of view. I don't know why, it just is.

#thoughts #wandering #around #goes #returns #postitnotes

Jul 2020 · 235

She-shell

Mrs Timetable Jul 2020

She-shell

The she-shell
On your He-shore
Comes from
An oyster with a pearl
Or a giant crab
Depends on the kind of wave
That washed her in

Inspired by Cloudydaze style of poem

#crabby #days #or #happy

Jun 2020 · 884

Tickle

Mrs Timetable Jun 2020

Tickle

You learned
How to touch
Without a finger
By whispering
Into my ear

It kind of
Tickles
Like
Baby cat
Whiskers

#tickle #whisker #mustache

Jun 2020 · 131

Just a moment

Mrs Timetable Jun 2020

Just a moment

Every day
We become part of
Someone's memory
In a short moment

A glimmer in an eye
Just for a passing moment

Hearing kind words
Just for a quick moment

Reading encouraging script
Just for a thought provoking moment

Everyday try to
Become a pleasant part of someone's
Lifelong memory
In a short moment

#moments #kindness

Jun 2020 · 328

As is

Mrs Timetable Jun 2020

As is

The only piece
You let anyone see
Is the broken one....

And
It is beautiful
As is

Sometimez "as is" is good enough. Some things can't be fixed

#friendship #love #stress #anxiety #ptsd #as #is

Jun 2020 · 89

Hard to do

Mrs Timetable Jun 2020

Hard to do

Silk flowers
Plastic candy
Your own words

Smell them
Eat them
Swallow them

Jun 2020 · 305

Warm

Mrs Timetable Jun 2020

Warm

The sun is going away
Peeking a little light through trees
Giving brilliance to the simple leaves
Twinkling waving goodbye
When your done visiting the other side
Waking them with shine
While we all have one sleep
Warm us all again tomorrow please
Don’t really need to ask
It will happen regardless of me

Something you can always count on

#sunset #sunrise

Jun 2020 · 154

Warm fuzzy blurs

Mrs Timetable Jun 2020

Warm fuzzy blurs

Indulging
In the daydream
This nostalgia of
The present
Reminds me of
Somewhere
I haven't been
With someone
I haven't
Met yet

#nostalgia #daydreams #future #past

Jun 2020 · 500

Love like stretchy pants

Mrs Timetable Jun 2020

Love like stretchy pants

The first time
You told me
I love you
I believed it

I put the
I love you
In my
GIANT
Heart
Envelope

And
Hearing
I love you’s
Everyday since
I still
Believe
It

My
Heart
Envelope
Has
Just enough room
For the next
Days
I love you’s

Because it’s
E-x-p-a-n-d-a-b-l-e
Like
Stretchy
Pants

Seriously silly

#silly #serious #love #poem

Jun 2020 · 112

Metaphor monsters

Mrs Timetable Jun 2020

Metaphor monsters

If I write it forward
Will you read it backward

If I write it in code
Could you figure it out

If I skipped a chapter*
How would you even know it

Would the metaphor monsters
Keep you awake at night

If I erased them too hard
Would you still see the scars

*Line inspired by a comment by a fellow poet (Diya) on another poets poem.

May 2020 · 170

Closet wall artist

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Closet wall artist

My first canvas
Wasn't paper
Or my face
It was my closet walls
In crayon
Behind the clothes
And shoe boxes
My hidden away space
Undiscovered
For so long
Until it was time
To repaint

True story. I also used to love drawing on my skin with ballpoint pen which I stopped doing because my mom would almost scrub my skin off.

#childhood #artist

May 2020 · 211

Skill

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Skill

I must say
I faintly recall
The telling of your
All
Intensely sensed
Dream
I paid no mind
How very rude
As drool came out
Of my mouth
A cat nap
Ensued
You left me in my slumber
I now understand
My blunder...
“Listening” really is
A skill
Chalk this up
To empirical research
I will

HP poet BLT’s word of the day “Empirical”

#listening #skill

May 2020 · 109

Pieces

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Pieces

The broken pieces
Of the clear puzzle
Were made
When she was eight
The lines are hard to see
Smoothed out by hands
That put the broken pieces
Gently
Back together first
Adding his own broken
To repair hers
Then the puzzle
Pieced all together
Clearly seen
Reflecting what
It should be

May 2020 · 534

Semi-longueur photoshoot

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Semi-longueur photoshoot

Vacation wear: for photo shoot

**** sundress
Cute underwear
**** *******
Thong
Moo moo dress
Moo moo dress
Moo moo dress
Moo moo dress
Moo moo dress
Moo moo dress
Polka dot bikini
String bikini
Silky robe
Flowers

Nothing

No offense to The moo moo dress. BLT word of the day longueur

#funny #silly #photo #shoot

May 2020 · 503

Tulip

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Tulip

Why plant
A fragile heart
In the wrong place
Setting it up
To suffocate
Like a tulip
In a xeriscape

BLT word of the day “xeriscape”

#tulip #fragile #heart #suffocate #arid #dry

May 2020 · 355

Preen queen

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Preen queen

Your brows
If you over preen
Will have to lean
On the likings of
A sharpie pen
In the color coffee bean
Then you will be
A vampire queen
Looking ever so mean

Don’t over-pluck! BLT word of the day preen.

#beaty #tips #eyebrows #plucking #preen

May 2020 · 74

Placebo friend

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Placebo friend

Would you like the generic
Or brand name

Just believe it, you need it
Both can make you happy

Perceived as real
Or not

Generic will cost you less
Brand name will do it better

True real friends

#friendship

May 2020 · 348

Side effects

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Side effects

There's an esoteric drug
Called Ciretose
It cures lack of
Neoteric qualities
For side effects
Take Ciretoen
It will reverse them
Don't mix them up

Just kidding they don't exist. BLT challenge causes these weird silly reversable side affects.

#esoteric #neoteric #word #challenge #backward

May 2020 · 377

Our son’s blue eyes

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Our son’s blue eyes

I wished to paint
The brown birds
Outside
The color
Of our son’s blue eyes
Inside
To my amuse
Which part did
I disabuse
The part were you can
Wish
Colors on birds
Or that we have
A son
And his eyes are
Blue

BLT challenge word of the day “disabuse”. Sorry it’s so exiguous

#blue #eyes #birds #color #son #disabuse #satire

May 2020 · 123

Becoming

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Becoming

Letters

become
Words

become
Thoughts

become
Phrases

become
Meaningful expressions

become
Everything to some

It did for me

May 2020 · 158

Poorly rich

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Poorly rich

A macaroni house
Broken shell pieces
Covered in powdered cheese
Making the best of uncertainty
Would there be any
For tomorrow?
Maybe
If we can find change

Running away every week
The park out back
Behind the rickety fence
The escape!
Strange lands to explore
Pine cone treats to eat
Mud pies and sticks
Fresh air and itchy grass

Playing restaurant
Imagining something
To give
Serving up macaroni
And cheese
Our pretending away
From our broke
In so many ways...home

Growing up we were poor financially but rich in other ways.

Inspired from reading “Missing May” by Sarita Aditya Verma

#rich #poor #childhood

May 2020 · 147

Long sleeves

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Long sleeves

Sorry, not much to see
Not much to read
My heart is under my long sleeves
Coaxing ...it just won’t leave

May 2020 · 247

A-ha my friend

Mrs Timetable May 2020

A-ha my friend

I reached inside myself and found
My friend there to ease the
Pressure of my ever worrying mind*
•••••••••••••
•
•
•

Lyrics from : “The Sun Always Shines on TV”
A-ha
1985
Written by Pal Waaktaar

*Correct lyric- I reached inside myself and found
“Nothing” there to ease the
Pressure of my ever worrying mind...

I misheard it for years and like the “my friend” lyric better. No offense to the brilliant Pal Waaktaar. One of my very favorite songs and bands

#misheard #lyrics #aha

May 2020 · 78

Lovesick

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Lovesick

Feeling lovesick
For the air outside
The sun is a setting kiss
The moon is a rising stare
Stars are watching
And
Soft warm wind is
That handsome voice

May 2020 · 115

Gift basket case

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Gift basket case

My gift-basket case
Was a basket of regifted
Shrink wrapped
Coupons for social time
With distant people
Who wants one?

The rules are getting to me

May 2020 · 90

Writers cell block

Mrs Timetable May 2020

Writers cell block