Virus

Science is amazing -
creating a virus
is now as easy as producing
a stunning Prada handbag.

The antidote to a virus
should precede the process
instead of playing
catch-up with its power.

The expensive Prada handbag
uncovers itself as a fullblown poison
A ge(r)m designed to stun
and viciously gun all down.


(with an apology to Prada)

Stop

Driving in my car the other day
I came to a sign that indicated stop
Did that - and thought about it all the way
how the modern world doesn't stop but hop.

We need to stop and think
if only for a moment - a blink
during which we could not only save the me
yet change the world into rescuing the we.

Shower

a shower is a rain forrest drizzle in the Amazon
a shower is a bucket poured over your head in Japan
a shower is operated in your douche daily
a shower is a dip in a cold foss in Norway
a shower is squeezing a sponge over a baby's head
a shower was in Germany during WW2 a sure dead.

A knight

You must have been born
under a different star
lightways and years afar .
Your good sense of joy
enjoyment of any toy
grandfather, father - ajar.

You must have been gone
with the willows at night
smiling in my womb.
Your sense of yourself
helps everyone else
the world is less gloom.

You appeared one summer eve
an easy delivery for me
You gentleness and kindness
you have your inner battles
not the greatest in health
seeking humanism and wealth.

My wish for you still stands
that you will be content
it is not easy to achieve
your path of music consents
a hardened stone of discipline
Can you this battle win?

With your spirit of self
from loneliness in a well
to the compelling esprit de corps.
Will your goodness survive
will your lightheartedness thrive
on this putrid planet encore?

Poet's lament

Procreation for posteriority
conniving hormones
quarrels with common sense.

Vital female gamete
only one to the male
drops of sperm
seeking a mate.

Poets trail of tears
dropping words
like confetti
only to visualize
the emptiness
of the womb.

Book clubs

Skulls and skeletons
Charms and chalices
redeem readings.

Metaphors for members
excluding everyone else
sense of secret societies.

Need for belonging
haven in loneliness.
Excuse:
Exercising gray cells?

Animal kingdom

Most animals kill for survival
human animals for capital
and ideas of imposing
their beliefs of supposing.
Will mortals ever take the notion
that killing is not the solution?

Dreamtime

Dreamtime is your life intertwined
with the rest of history
Romantic notions is your life
interpenetrated with air.

Summer?

Summer's upon us
long stunning days
yet some of us
dread the feel of your rays.
Hemmed in - strangled
mind is mangled.
To have hope, youth,
yonder ways
to enjoy with endeavour.
Lethargy in
the wasteland of desert.

Female friends

Female friends
are worth
much more
than all the diamonds
on earth.

To all I want to
thank each and
every one
now and forever -
not
when I am gone.

Stealing Lil'

Youngish friend
and neighbor
vivacious smart
with a wonderful
giving heart
is mind stolen.

Repetitious,
no recollection
no short term
memory
repetitious.

Disintegrating
stalker disease.

Grook-Not-Alike

If I could write like Piet Hein
and think like Albert Einstein
I would be
absolutely not me.

If I could create like da Vinci
and compose like Vivaldi
I would be
absolutely not she.

Swimming

Today I went swimming
pushing myself
trying my limits
I liked the stretching
of my muscles
but breath control
where it it?
Lost somewhere between
youth and middle-age!
Alas I am not winning
this game -
then
none of us are
- only death.

Down to earth

Morning coffee
Newspaper rustling
War, hate, and crime
killing statistics
is it a wonder
that I still believe
in goodness and love?

Dog nuzzling me
into walking her.

Xavier

Everybody ought to be fortunate
enough to have a Xavier in her life.
He is an older son with a gleam in his eye
He is the chevalier
without the cheval in him to me.
What freedom to flirt and have fun
friendship and fabulous times
at the coffee shop.

Sunday

Lanquid Sunday
Lazy summer wind
Blazing sails
A mind picture
of childhood.

Taste the pastries
on the terrasse
Garden in full bloom
Beauty bound
in nightmares.

Elencalime Encore

Enthusiastically
enchanting.

Enlightened
exception.

Evilly
exhilarating.

Expansive
expertise.

Epical
enumeration.

Entre nous
energizing

et

enjoyable
Effervescent.

Elencalime

You are unique and wonderful
a woman, a sister, a friend
Your strengths are words and people
your goodness is your steeple
You are willing to lend
your ear, your soul
to everybody and anybody
Your life has taken
not too many twists and turns
but if it is boring you
you take up something new to learn.
Your memory is unsurpassed
Your laughter sparkling and light
Your shine like a beacon in a dime
to some you are the Queen of the night
To me you are my bonne vivante
Elencalime

War and piece

My son

When you went to war
did you feel the thrill?
or was it a job
like the run of the mill?

Was it real or play?
Numbing?
Like an orgasm
Bombing?

Camaraderie abound
was this what you found?

The missing link
chains the piece
of your life to
your self peace?

Second dribble

Strange as many moons over the earth
deep inside each person is a desire
to leave something of value
of our uniqueness
and yet in our singularity
we are all common
we wallow in stupendous ignorance
of our fellow sufferer - divided by
humanity - what commedia divina!

First Day

To-day is another hot day in Maryland.
It is my first trial in the blogosphere and
I am going to be blunt and bold
Use the words as a mark of gold
Why anyone would try and comment on my garbles
I will have a doubt on their marbles
Only in rhymes and words will I speak
truth and fairness in the world I seek.
Sadly it cannot be found
even though the world is round,
beautiful and varied with nature's seed
humans kill their own world full speed.
We have come a long way albeit
The Goddess versus the Alphabet
My rhyming will not always be great
Alas - the content - loads of weight.