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.

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.