"crinolines" poems
Idyllic love poems wander the hills
with a pining goat herd playing his pipe
and singing mournful song
echoing down the quartz sculpted gorge
beneath waterfalls
where alabaster-skinned Naiads
lithe and languorous
bathed in crystal brooks.
Romantic poems lounge on sofas breathless
wearing corsets and crinolines
desperate
and untouched
*********
strands of hair
John Donne’s love poems
are wet
with wit.
Sep 12, 2014
Sep 12, 2014 at 9:14 AM UTC
Set in silver
braids of gold
memories of days of old
Stiff lace collar
eyes of blue
inner beauty shining thru
Crinolines and high-topped shoes
transcendental state if muse
Sep 29, 2014
Sep 29, 2014 at 10:19 PM UTC
A-Ooga Tioga
Sky, mountain and mist rise
with morning breath
It’s crisp until coffee goes in
but no bother for that
instead, searching for sun, kept out of sight
figuring which way is east
Which way is yonder?
still, more you might ponder
As you sink into the lap of Tioga valleys
cradled by ash and oaks
fields of daisy mixed with rye and wheat
spread at your feet
like wedding dress of Mother Nature herself
She says softly:
“Pssst, hey you
Don’t put on those shoes
tiptoe way across my seedy crinolines
lie upon me
Sink in insubstantiality with me
as I draw
rays and beams, beyond
some twenty rolling hills
In our for all future time horizon
you may still be dreaming
indulge yourself in my verdant fantasies
**** up this morning with me
This is Appalachian reverie
hear me like little turkey gobbling
dance with doe and fawn
chase jackrabbit
round and round
Why, even the silos are singing
“Pour me a cup” ”
Apr 18, 2016
Apr 18, 2016 at 12:45 PM UTC
the tinkling kiss,
tween silver bell
and the windowed door,
at the ice cream store,
announces with the delight of
a tingling excite
a novitiate,
a well scrubbed innocente,
a suckering, youthful customer
has entered the store
all the ice cream poems stand up straight,
paying cold attention,
the little boy ones,
fix their crookedly crooked bow ties,
the little girl ones,
pat down their crinkly crinolines,
all best behavior-ed,
shivering cold from hot anticipation,
the idea, the conception
of becoming
the chosen one,
invited outside,
for delight,
the pleasure of melting into
sweet, sad loving death,
in the smiling mouth
of a young fan & reader
now, they all know the rules,
no calling out!
just stand in frozen attention,
glistening, shimmering,
displaying their true coloration,
hoping to be the selected election
but that rascally bad boy,
with salty language,
yes, the salty caramel one,
can, in his over-sized container,
no longer can contain himself,
screaming out
with an aura of entitlement
*"pick me, pick me,"
read me, eat me,*
favor my flavor"
all thirty one flavors,
one for every day of the month,
start to shout,
like a raucous caucus
of politicians huffing and puffing,
wheezing and whining,
pretend crying
for the favored blessing of your vote,
*"pick me, pick me,"
read me, eat me,*
favor my flavor"
there is even a
"flavor of the day,"
usually a newly minted green poet,
a chipped one,
seeking to find a permanent home
for its fresh faced tasty, word sensation,
but after thousands of plastic spoon samplings,
nonetheless melty-dies in the corner, alone and forgotten,
for fame is fleeting, and not always long term good eating
so many to choose, got the poetic ice cream blues,
sweet slow aching of loving infatuation for the iceiest of
tongued-licking caressing, the only way to be consumed
organically
*"pick me, pick me,"
read me, eat me,*
favor my flavor"
Feb 23, 2016
Feb 23, 2016 at 5:23 PM UTC
we flirted in the biblical
senses
quite properly
Victorian
had that dance
in the middle of the
party her
days at learning proper prose
became a flaming tempest
as we snuck out past the veranda
not even thinking about
anything but dancing long on the moon's
silent song or the leaves memory
so long we floated
above the stars the sky clouds
her hoop skirts
crinolines corsets
chemise
had long fallen to her knees
into my arms she rushed
we sailed upon the whispering breeze
like floating paper lanterns glowing
tied together never landing
made the way to
Heaven real, absorbed resolved died cucified we
gathered ourselves together
and I swear ,
though I think of her almost
nightly
and she haunts me ,
I have not seen her since.
I went on to marry some
rich matriarch.
May 20, 2017
May 20, 2017 at 4:50 AM UTC
I show no mercy for the weak
They’re shattered branches caught
in small maelstroms in the air.
I show no remorse for bonebrittles
They cover skulls with mummy bandages
throwing them into creaking galleon beds.
With breeding wantons from cauldrons
and crinolines strewing quicksilver bars
of metal
I synapse ***** in shock of their
existence.
They seem to be invisible wraiths
disguised as Presbyterian halo’s in
the brain
Jun 16, 2018
Jun 16, 2018 at 9:33 PM UTC