Melbournian sun

Warmer fire-friendlier skies
buzzing that never stops
a young city
with semi city-planning
driven by economic
incentives
sun-baked dark pavement
schoolchildren
with hats on
mandated by law
this is the sun's country
ruled by the sun
wasted by the sun
fired by the sun
in a couple of years
the vegetation
must change to adapt
that is the only way
or else
it will be struck by
f i r e

Modern questions

IT department rupture
changes my day
can I afford to take off?

What if I didn't access
my emails for a month
would my world tumble?

My little cell phone
crashed - what would I do -
would my self destroy?

Trial?

another sleepless
predawn - drawn
upon a weakened body
resistance nil
a perpetual state
of deceptive fatigue
wanting nothing
but
to rest my cranium
upon the pillow
alas -
instead I sit
and mourn my unbliss
getting angrier
at myself
for not having
my serenity intact
and my mind cooking
overtime
one more hour and
it is sun-up
...zzz

To a fellow poet

Driving in the car
listening to music
still mourning you
a dj's afternoon pick
comes out of the speakers:
Wagner's Flying Dutchman.
Your death pounds me again
cause that was my choice
when having met you last
to hear that opus
instead of returning
to the empty house
- not knowing -
it was to be our last
after so many years.
You came haunting
this afternoon
and forever we shall
rest in the sea of souls
separated by fate
joined in poetry.

Celebrating noise?

The humming of the computer
the whirring of the hoover
the washer's going round and round
with the dryer's summing sound.
Nowhere in the house
is utterly quiet.
So dancing the Strauss
clutters the background
noise - my choice:100 carats.

Dirt's limerick

There once was a gravedigger named Dirt
he dug down with a spade in the earth
he hit a hard stone
broke his collarbone
that was the end of the gravedigger's hurt.

Mixed-up

a short minute
laughing sadness
sadness laughs
cheering gladness
unglad cheers
toxicivity mixed
in one dilute


(Dilute is used as a noun
even though it is not)
Toxicivity is a word neologism
combining toxicity with civility.

opposing walks?

walking the dog
in the rain
the bitch and I
enjoy the spring
the familiar streets
the neighborhood
the grass greening
and the smells

walking the mistress
in the rain
the bitch and I
sniff the spring
the familiar dogs
the neighborhood's other animals
the worms crawling
and the leftovers' rot

Unreal reality

A young mother was being butchered
she had two children
her husband wanted her unborn child
by another man - dead
she was of a different faith than mine
I heard her screams
on her deathbed she begged me -
an unknown woman -
to take her young daughter
and rear her without prejudice.

Theo's day

Each year we celebrate
Dr. Seuss' birthday
Just today
Like a Horton
it densely snows
the wind deftly blows
from the northern
the gale's almost an eight
Theo Geisel HURRAH
anchor's aweigh.

Untied

Calmness suddenly grabs me
a ticket to somewhere
a favorite spot
soothes my upset nerves
now I can function again
an untied knot
begins to unwind within me
slowly a smooth change
of a stumped clot.