Nobodies

Ninny-hammers and nincompoops
wonderful terms for a nobody
but to be that judge of another
is for the very mindset of numskulls.
Nobodies are somebodies
for someone, for anybody.

Dinner haiku

entree - salad - meat
creating a composite
wine and dessert

Poetry day

A poem will keep at bay
the poet police -
jut a piece of word junk
in my pocket's trunk.
Your poem  - please!
Go ahead - make my day.

(Reaction to the poetry's day
at my college)

Un vie sans trop des mots

L'enfant innocent
joue entretemps
en grandissant

La petite dame grise
une meme sans goumandise
se tranquillise

Le grand homme noir
reste toujours dans ma memoire
il va m'abbatoir

No regrets

An accordionist' songs of yesteryear
tickled my loins of a long forgotten
enthusiastic spring-autumn affair 
I would not for any reason
have been without that -
Tremolos and  no regrets!

Friday twilights

April eve on route forty
somewhere in the US
the heavens sprout a plumage
on the horizon - in Charon
darkness grows Easterly
grazing the mid stern
and suddenly a sparkle
could it be - l'chaim?
A dinner with wine
would do  it to you
even on the end of
a long week's Friday night.

Songbird haiku

A yellow songbird
winked, sparkled in the limelight  -
sing to my plumage.

For Robin

Post it

post-it-notes
those cute paper blocks
say so much
say so little
you write
you jot
you mean
you shout it
all on a post-it-note
physically
and on the fly
you twist
you twit
you twitter
all on the post-it-air
two sides
same coin
musically
you read notes
you play notes
one on the pages
the other in the air
that's all for this post

Philo-mourir

Au lieu de faire l'amour
faut-il rire embarrassant la mort?
Ou est-ce possible
d'amenager avec le rire fou?
La question me reste
cela vaut la peine??

Haiku for sneezers

A sunny spring day
April requires blossoming
sneezers keep inside.

To you Mr Mozart

took a trip tonight on YouTube
mostly to Italian opera
but now only Mozart
will put me to doze
with his Requiem
lulling me tired
brain waves
to sleep
to worlds
of different
kinds musically
calling me wildly
my heart beats as
the songs intricately
weave in and out of my
heart's arrhythmic beatings
the modern mensch's dreams

Des chaises flottantes

Sur des chaises flottantes
en plein air - elegantes
quelles sont vos itenerants
les utilisant en passant?
Joueurs aiment le solfege
au table dans votre manege?
Vous servez vos amis avec arpege
comme un directeur d'un chorege!
Chacun des importants invites
n'ayant pas peur de cahoter
entre les unes et les autres
sachant la vie n'est pas neutre
les joueurs qui passent en vivant
vous embrassent collectivement.

A pebble

rounded by sand
into a oblong sphere
seen on a beach
picked up by a child
thrown out in the sea
to return a little
further along the shore
cradled by the waves
for another thousand
of years beoming minute
still here - until sand
eaten by an oyster
growing as a bother
to its host
caught years later
by a fisherman
who was on the prey
for the perfect pearl
that mensch on a beach
gave birth to
gray genuine gem

Philo cook grook

It took a long time to prepare
cut, baste, bake and share
ridiculous - when it truly takes
only ten minutes ....to eat - mate!

Mobile Bauhaus

Yellow - Red - Blue
remnant of Goethe's hue
Kandinsky's philosophy
of definite velocity
hangs about your head
weaving its history's bed
of simple elegant Bauhaus
you can dream and espouse.


On seeing a mobile

dervish' dance

Whims of motion
whirling around
a perfect rest
wakeful devotion
within - no sound
of a dervish' chest.

Lies and history

Detecting lies
must be daunting
truths and realities
will come haunting.

White lies and bigger
ones like a whopper
the perpetrator are
distinctive as copper.

Truthiness  in life
is a necessary evil
though sometimes
you may not believe it.

For history to detect
what really went on
possibly cutting through
the bull - and then run

away to a different
dimension of the brain
twists and mindsets
of the individual sane

what is wrong what is right
is always telling the truth
as brilliant as gold
or the story goes kaput?

Many a historian postulates
mendacity found later
improves since lies at the time
denotes a high indicator

So can we detect lies
as clear as a day in May?
No, unless the microsecond
of untruth's man betrays.

Hitler's act at Munich
displayed  a schtick
for Chamberlin to
fall totally for his trick.


On reading about Lies and how to detect them

Eve's daughters

Why don't all women
adhere to these few steps
decide for
yourself
your body
your beliefs
your politics
your rights
and then whoever you
want to love.
Somehow it is simple
a la Hillary Clinton
and wishing it were so.
Instead we have
attacks on our bodies
every day in every way
our beliefs are belittled
our rights and political views
are being ridiculed
discredited, slammed!!!
Will all Eve's daughters
subscribe to Aristophanes's
"poison pen" and rebel?
Not in my lifetime nor
in my daughter's but
someday - in Utopia!

How we evolve

Little children run around
in their house
checking their boundaries
where they can flip
here they can flop
and in that corner
they can become silent
resting for a nanosecond
The teens of the world
in their way
promoting their borders
where they can drip
here they can drop
and in that area
they will become enraged
doubting their sanity
The adults alas at last
tiptoe hesitantly
knowing their worth
what they can buy
what they can sell
and consequently
they will erupt furiously
only to create tuck-of wars.

Freezing chill

Somehow today
freezing in my soul
embraces not
the wanton warmth.
Will my body regain
its healthy heat
or will I until my
secure demise
encapsulate coldness
without a fight?
Unthawing ensures
my inner world
slowly linking it to
a standstill - chillingly
crispiness embodies
only one thought
a sad picture of
a woman giving up.
How many a lady
have experienced
that iciness -
to only discern
the gelidity in her?
Sleep - sleep - sleep.

World according to Yanko Tsvetkov

The Russians drink
The French stink
Brits are highbrow
Germans eat 'krauts
Italians devore spaghetti
Greeks dance sweaty
when it comes to names
what a fun game
to label is to fear
ignorance - no cheer
thanks to Tsvetkov
piercing a sacred cow!

Silly Easter rhyme

What eats the Easter Bunny
hopping out onto the lawn
it was a misty early
Sunday on Easter morn.
He picked up the eggs
from where they were
all colors abound lightened
fuchsia, greenish azure.
He wondered how many
he would surely eat
remembering years past
tummy ache. To beat
it he swore he wouldn't
do that ever for years
so he reput the eggs down
smilingly  he was cured.
Let the boy and girls
get their eggs instead of me
he hipped and hopped
and stroked his goatee.

For my grandsons

Vivat homo

I find the solutions
on the net
clumsiness abound
to save yet
my inadequacy
surely let
my better half
do the set.
And for that reason
I thee wed.

Enigma

Enigma of world war 2
began long before
coding and decoding
became vital to all
those whose machine
it belonged to
and those who won -
alas too many died
but more would have
had the machine
kept its secrets forever.

Nothing but dust

Nero's Domus Aurea
created a new form
even though erased
"damnatio memoriae"
from the Fori Romani -
a trace of it was found
in Titus monument
for Vespasian his father.
Nothing but a dance macabre
at my funeral pyre
only the dirt on a little
road in the middle of the vinyards
will hail my aging bones
and the rest will be at sea
with Poseidon's creatures
leaving a new spawn of frogs.

Monday to Sunday children

Monday's child is far away
Tuesday's child will go astray
Wednesday's child thinks so much
Thurday's child runs amok
Friday's child will dance and sing
Saturday's child will wildly swim
Sunday's child is a wherewithal
but you've gotta love them all.

A.nswer to a nursery rhyme.