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Once upon a time
There was more than enough time
To pony up
To horse around
To leap frog

Once upon a time
You could chicken out
Or worm your way in
You could cook your goose
And eat it too

Once upon a time
You could cry wolf
Or clam up
You could count sheep
Or tell a whale of a tale

You could get the monkey
Off your back
Then live high on the hog

But time has outfoxed us all
Nowadays time is on the lamb
I write because some
thing turns me, looks
through me. It's Sunday
for a few more minutes

and I am seeing you as
a mover,
a truther
a slayer of snakes.

Every day there is news
of you.  Whoever you

may be.

Where flowers in my
sorry
Mind

bloom

alone where once there
were plans.  Before,

When I could find you
between in the lines.
I wrote then such good

Poetry.

Caroline Shank
10.5.2025

For you
with love.
so the sky is pink, the window is open.



listen to the crow call, or is it a rook?



we have the memo.



‘it is cosy here this morning’, crooned the bear.
Let there be begonias.
Let there be soil under fingernails.
Let there be worms, and watering cans,
and the joy of watching things grow.


Creation is not finished.
It’s on sale in aisle three.
 Oct 6 Anais Vionet
Nylee
whatever you are looking for, is looking right at you
It's like shadows, always there never noticed
But if you look for trouble, then it is bound to not miss
Pick a piece, and pieces up
It's like magical twist
straight to a hit
It seeks you, the seeker,
Your eyes to see, yourself to perceive
whatever you are looking, vision comes clear
what comes out from inside is fear
for bad thoughts are, are like second nature
It comes closer to beat you, dear,
The secrets of the world, every thing is right here
Need a key, an entry to access
Feel what you are, you are calling in your fate at your gate.
a product of his instinct,
why use
ten when
two will do,
and the ratio is increasingly
progressive!

"lovely intimacy between poet and muse here,
like an old friendship-made of fatigue and faith"^


the only reason why my hair,
yet intact,
despite old age's creep
in every other elsewhere,

although
Gibson's, his sixteen,
a superior concision
of my endless, repetitive iterations,

his literatation
nonetheless
is an insufficient
to cures what ills me…

to calm my heart, soothe my dreams ,
would render 99 of  mine 100 muses,
and all your voices
ungainly unemployable

worsen yet,
the disheartening palpitations
that shake n' bake my very core,

them those demons too,
the contrapuntal hidden forces
that rue my brain,

well hell!
poet complains!exclaims!

for when the muses sleep,
these devils roam, they creep,
never permitting an easy sleep,
and instead of poems,
they give me forth in
groans and moans,
the unintelligible reverse of
my ever~faithful muses's intimacy,
the un~cooing of our pleasure,

for
when rhymes dewdrop^^
from the insertions from heaven's eyes,
and then when,
you and I
together embrace,
the harmony of spirit
that a poem
makes writer and reader
sharers,

the calm shaking
of hearts well tickled,
laughingly ratified,
and even momentarily
satiated and satisfied
is our
now combinatorial
esprit de corps^^^


~'~'''~~
just a wee ditzy ditty that
fell onto a screen
when reviewing
my silly but
true and utter faithful muses's^^^^
utterances,
in being be tweening
the quickest ten minutes
of my ridiculous life


<nml>
10/6 no tricks 2025
3:10am ~3:20am
~~~
and
now let the real,
hard-work of handiwork ahead,
of writing
something akin
to a psalm, a prayer,
a train of quatrains,
a hiya to haikus,
a ballad to bellow,
you know,
that serious stuffing
that leaves us both
😢aweeping😪
with the unadulterated
purest of joy
^
William A Gibson

Re "FPOTD✅: good mid-of night, my beautiful muses, living and imagined'
"
There’s a lovely intimacy between poet and muse here, like an old friendship made of fatigue and faith"

^^
for Marshall G.
an admission
of guilty feelings

^^^
esprit de corps:
"the shared sense of camaraderie, unity, enthusiasm, and loyalty that develops among the members of a group, such as a bunch of poets
^^^^
muses's
insist this 'bespoke' out loud
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