Sour morn

This will surely pass -
full sunshine blossoms
if you're in flotsam
without reason to,
nature's calling you
a thankless badass!

Challenged haiku

A ring lost in Rhine
Gods, earthlings loved fought entwined
saved doomed reassigned

Some like it ---

Some like it like this

others like it like that

again another likes it comme ci

and I like it comme cela

but the whole world

fucks around each other

I wonder why we bother

the sex drive is strong

but power is stronger

so if you play the game of sex

it is all about power!

Being of nothing

A something about nothing

remembering the time

the poetess had

a word breakdown

nothing meant everything

anyone exclaimed.

A nihilistic period of

about four years straight.

Two things happened

a teacher put the mind right

plus mother's dictum

"words can hurt".

Meeting a neighbor who

talked about an experience of hers.

She was hurt by words

Hommage a Dorothy Parker

Women delight in novelty
Men die without stability
Love for the female is fun
Men die without a homerun
A Woman lives within herself

A man will jerk off himself
Two sexes in eternal battle
so what to do with the cattle?

For Steve

Romantic literature

Reading romantic novels

a new discipline in college courses

sounds like a winner.

The heroine changes from

a rebel to an learned lady

between a dinner

with the champion of her choice

and lust and love combines

the author's spinner.

Whatever powers women

to read and enjoy escapes

commends a glimmer.

The McDaniels college announces

a new discipline.

Tidal Geishas

Pale cherry-filled iridescent
embroidered silk kimonos
gheishas shade tall auras
in the telluric Tidal Basin.

Dorothy Parker remembered

Dorothy Parker's poems

hit just between the eyeballs

many prompt prima phonemes

of whisky sours and highballs.

Thanks to Steve for reminding me

of a grand lady

Stress test

A nuclear stress

applied to me

by a medical toy

I shall be "blinking"

if going through

a"security machine"

for thirty days

a truly ravine

of heart's digress.

The worst was not

the thread mill -

but the time where

the arms had to

be held over my head

of course lying down

but still a bloody

awful situation - dead.

Twice keeping still

while machines

worked their will

to try and dissect

my machine's rhythm

and after a day of blues

a solidly sobering

somewhere's why and how

the doc will decide

whether or not I

shall live or die.

Not that I mind

and for modern medicine

I am inclined

to say eventually

stop it once somehow?

Equinox

Spring again

and jump high

stop the time

a beautiful lie

of need to be

wherever

a life stopped

forever.

Nobody can

avoid the toc

of the seasons'

running clock

arrest your steps

for just a moment

and inhale the

flowers unbent

with life's spring

and jubilant joy

this hour is but

an ephemeral toy.

Quiet

Quiet

quietly

beware

of the quiet ones

one day

they may not be

so quiet.

College essay

Writing a college essay
is a piece of resistance
you have to hit the receiver
with a very clear balance
between opinion and fact -
and general and specifics.
To get your message across
simply: not hieroglyphics.


From your brain to the paper
in the beginning - a diarrhea
of messed up blurry thoughts
a list of relevant words - ideas
jumbled in no order at all
then somehow a rugged draft
materializes into a skill
of college writing - a craft.


With a thesis at the end
of the short introduction -
the just controlling points
in three - a great solution
to reiterate your thought -
a completing paragraph
shows the finished product
without too many gaffes.

Swiss made

Swiss made clocks

as a curious history

of a timeless industry

swing back and forth

tic toc tic toc tic toc.

The pendulum pulsates

the digital age dictates

the numbers of worth

please owners of a Swatch

blip blop blip blop blip blop.

On reading an article

about the Swiss watch industry

Ethics - at quarter to five

An ethics' discussion

a brainy concussion

of what is right and wrong.

If you really start

you will finally impart

with yes - but just along

the highway of morals

a leaf of righteous laurels

it is not that easy to sway

and surely along the way

the twist of it all sustains

all timelessness strains.

Philosophical thoughts in

an ethics workshop

Temporal tanka

Magnolias bloom

a Maryland wonder

one climatic lull

on a Sunday morn dog walk

future conditional change?

A "diva's" mom's comment

This cross-dressing

daughter of mine

how could you not be sublime?

Across the times

just funnily divine

Orlofsky's whine

a bore's transgressing.

March shock

Plump - down I went

how clumsy can you get?

My back was not bent

my head intact -yet

luckily for me

whole as can be.

Sometimes luck

is all you need

or even pluck

is what you heed!

But neither knees

nor hands were hurt

just a tad more alert.

Every time I think

now - it is the wink

of death and doom

when I fall in a room,

outside it's even worse

next -bring the hearse

So if march starts like this

whatever else to miss???