#JEWELRY
when sunlight and water
might cease to exist
and the darkness encroaches
and the ending approaches
this moment will dangle
defiant
from your wrist
#vss365
#JEWELRY
I saw a sunset
and wanted to share it
so you could keep it
and sometimes wear it
I added a sea breeze
and flavors of ocean
the grit of the sand
and all my emotion
#vss365
#MAGNANIMOUS
magnanimous in victory
one team breezed into history
while one with less integrity
let players be used politically—
such a shamed discontinuity
’tween her story and his story
#vss365
Well dang. What rhymes with magnanimous?!!🤣
#BOUNTIFUL
mutiny on Starship Bountiful
a captain held accountable
for lacking civility
mounting senility
and other issues insurmountable
the security chief
short on smiles
but long wiles
performs his interrogation dance:
"Sir this is your final chance—
release the space-Epstein files!”
#vss365
#LETHARGY
the river beckons
as restless souls reckon
their drowsy fellows’
slack expressions
a tempting offer
burbles out from the water:
“forget all your sorrow?”
well…
maybe tomorrow
#vss365
#CATARACT
degraded vision
lapse of mission
all those years spent
soaking up content
now squinting at print
lenses needed to augment
feeling like Superman
gone permanent Clark Kent
#vss365
#SPLENDOR
in the dirt-floor hovel
by the shit-smeared shovel
sits the dog-eared yellow
of a paperback novel
by a candle ember
in a chill December
brittle pages open
on a world of splendor
#vss365
#TIMID
tentative and unsure,
these iffy days of Persian war
a tyrant gone?
that much is good
for reasons barely understood
but what comes next
is a future vexed
by an Executive unchecked
with extremists inflated
are we now fated
to become what we
have always hated?
#vss365
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#QUEST
were I ever truly pressed
to verbalize my current quest
I’d claim that I will never rest
with hidden thoughts left unexpressed
yet I will never pass that test
while emotions still remain repressed
in memories yet unregressed
I work hard for this state to pass
in poetica est veritas
#vss365
#OBSESSED
my younger days
were much amazed
and quite a bit obsessed
with the girl under the dress
less frequently indulging in
the hidden world
beneath the skin
however now
in retrospecting
I should’ve been better
at expecting
the kiss of death
hidden
within the sweetest breath
#vss365
#VELOCITY
dude moved fast
and broke his nose
trailing fellow
techie bros
no time to stop
for a share price flop
he dumped a ream
of AI slop
the market moved on
now he’s mowing
my lawn
for a bottle of pop
#vss365
#ORBITAL
cracked open my eyes
far above blue skies
with oddness
unambiguous
positioned geosynchronous
beyond my wiles
by twenty thousand miles
in drifting flights
between satellites
dangling my toes
over visual delights
but lest you call it self-deception
I’m getting stellar cell reception
#vss365
#STELLAR
a street cat named Desire
caught a case of astro fire
ran up from the cellar
with a cry of “Stellar!”
at so many stars to admire
#vss365
#KNOWINGLY
staying well informed
should be the norm
in the flooded zone of the info-storm
vetted for truths
with transparent proofs
the facts flow free
objectively
and an alternate viewpoint
or two
or three
#vss365
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#CRAZED
a stammering statement
awkwardly phrased
to cause a stampede
frenetic and crazed:
“be gobsmacked
and be amazed
ready to drool
prepared to crave
we have breakroom donuts
and they’re strawberry glazed!”
#vss365
#BLATANT
the crimes were blatant
but the evidence latent
stuck behind redacted blocks
and so the perpetrator walks
#vss365
#BEASTLY
prey-scent in breeze
drifting eastly
raising the hackles
of something beastly
the silent stalks
span city blocks
drawing up on
oblivious walks
all sense of safety
rocked
by a boil of hawks
#vss365
#MYSTIFIED
in a blink of humanity’s eyes
the Silicon Brain first deifies
and sparks wars
in which all circuitry fries
in phones and devices
combatants disguised
wage battles while humans
remain mystified
as suddenly
their prompts
go unrecognized
#vss365
#BOUNCY
Jump!
Dive!
Bounce!
kitten’s gotta pounce
Dump!
Bive!
Jounce!
trail-twitch with a flounce
Bump!
Jive!
Dounce!
mewling to announce
pads and paws
teeth and claws
more energy by the ounce
#vss365
Dang. Got excited for a moment. #suborbital would have been a great prompt. 🛰️
#MOUNTAINOUS
the path ahead
runs mountainous
the doubters start
discountin’ us
and still we ride
through the rockslide tide
while heavy snows
are poundin’ us
we’ll stride
downhill we’ll glide
and wipe the frost
from our countenance
inviting all
to bound with us
as we reach the other side
#vss365
#ENCHANTED
disenchantment
in the encampment
a crowd grown impatient
for their Ten Commandments
and what have we now?!
a large golden cow?!
tablets shatter!
rock shards scatter!
but words like birds
escape into air
and hover just there
freed from the material
to linger ethereal
they laughed
#vss365
ThanksI
#MINUSCULE
with the zap of a ray
and a kit of small tools
we’re off to the land
of the minuscules
where the dust mote king
from his speck-palace rules
and a droplet of dew
fills a thousand pools—
they laugh at our big world
and think we’re all fools
#vss365
#KISS
“Keep It Simple, Stupid,”
was the charge to baby Cupid
so he shot his tiny arrows
through cartilage to the marrows
of every sir and every miss
each one sealed
with a little kiss
#vss365
#LACUNA
the lacuna grows
out from mouth and over nose
encroaching in size
consuming the eyes
numbing its victims
with vapid prose
now unseen and still unsaid
lacuna on the ears is fed
but we paper the gap
by scrolling through yap
until hungry hollows
have swallowed our head
#vss365
#DARK
my Boston accent
was nothing to mock
until you requested
I rhyme words with “dark”
this resultant poem
despite your feigned shock
sounds wickedly normal
around Fenway Park
#vss365 #Boston
