My Dear Poet

My Dear Poet Feb 2022

a
   poem
      hides a
     secret within a
    letter or placing of
    a word look carefully
           and intent-fully
                   a secret you may have
                heard examine it ever closely
                       what’s preferred
                  or inferred if you
         open read it slowly
     it may fly out
like a
bird

#mystery #creativity #poetry #secrets #birds

My Dear Poet Feb 2022

The lizard and the tattoo

A lizard and a tatt!
imagine that…
his lover left before she came
gone on a whim
leaving him
with a tattoo of her name

now full of regret
but soon will forget
when his words finally come true
his promise of change
never too late to arrange
a shed of skin and off with the tattoo

#regrets #mistakes #love #change #humour #lizards

My Dear Poet Feb 2022

Hard to accept

Your apology was drowned out
by the noise in my mind

I’d have read your lips
but tears had me blind

I tried to feel your words
but I was numb at every line

#apology #sorry #betrayal #forgiveness

My Dear Poet Jan 2022

White Waters

“lay low”,
said the lilo
and stay slow
till the wind blow
go down
don’t drown

go on
slip along
stay afloat
in this boat
be brave
stay strong

drift and glide
hover and rest
ain’t it lovely
ride and slide
feeling alive
without a guide
or safety vest

Life is such and so

#life #risk #extreme #waters

My Dear Poet Jan 2022

The fear of failing

When you first fail,
you learn to fear

When you fear,
you continue to fail

When you fear to fail,
you learn nothing

When you fail to fear,
you’ve learned everything.

#fear #failure #learning #overcoming

Jan 2022

Elizabeth Squires

Hey Mo

hey Mo I ain't ever seen you
looking so
low
why oh why are you
looking so
low
I really reallly
want to
know

well the reason why I'm
looking so
low
is cause I've been
cancelled
bro

my act didn't well please
the ones afflicted with that
cancel culture disease

cancelled for good
cancelled for life
cancelled like a six
p.m. flight

hey Mo you can't get around
looking so
flat
you just got to get off that
cancelling
mat

don't let that cancelling
get you
down
cause I don't like looking
at your downcast
frown

yeah a smile is the
thing I must
wear
that'll show them
that I don't
care

#humour #rhyme #cancel

My Dear Poet Jan 2022

The poet and professor

He was a poet
She, a professor of english
When ever he’d share his heart
she’d correct his feelings

#poet #poetry #relationships