Mommy's in a Meeting

Mommy's in a meeting
The meeting is outside
My sister is here also
She loved to run and hide
We're at a friend of mommy's house
It big and really clean
The yard looks like a golf course
Her friend looks like the queen
While mommy's talking grownup stuff
I'll run around and play
Watch me stomp in puddles and flower beds
I'll be happy here all day

Ballot (OneWord)

Is this worth anything anymore?
does it hold the power it once had?
are they real
or imaginary
are they mine
or Vladimir's?

Mostly on Rails

A small hungry train
mostly on its rails
chugs kind of quietly down the hall
to a midday fuel stop
with
many other trains
and
for each small car of each train
a small tray
and for every car
it's own seat

Flower Power (Collum Lune)

Spring colors glare
Their strong perfume everywhere
Then I sneeze

2nd Grade Morning Meeting

The crowd gathers
wiggles and talking commence
but in this
before morning meeting
mess
A single
pillar
of
awesomeness.

It Snowed

I was supposed to have auditions tonight
for a musical I am directing
but it snowed
the show is at the theater where I met my wife
that was in 1991
we were in a play together
I was 31 she was not
We both played witnesses
for the prosecution
It snowed then too but not at auditions

She was the President of the theater at the time
and they needed another body onstage
she doesn't like "onstage"
She prefers to be dressed in black
in the dark
with a notebook
flashlight
and headset
She's doing that for this show too

I've been onstage
I've sprung from a jack-in-the-box
been an aide to the Emperor of Japan
I've yelled at Stella
and hit a priest over the head
with a poker
I've been in a hospital in Burma
During World War Two
but now I prefer to direct
from behind a table
I have a big notebook too
I used to have pads, pencils and snacks
all over the table
but now
it's mainly computers, iPhones and tablets
and snacks

The first time I was onstage
and when I first fell in love with theater
was when I was in fifth grade
my teacher was into theater
and I didn't know it then
but the theater she was "really into"
was the one where I met my wife
the one where I was supposed to have auditions tonight
for a play I'm directing
but it snowed.

Sleepy

Me
alone
thinking big
too big to sleep
yet in sleep I free my mind to wander

Disrepair

don’t fix it
it’ll probably be ok
someone else’s problem anyway
regular maintenance is expensive
everyone needs to share the burden
people want lower taxes
always test before using
it might not hold
repay the past by maintaining their work

Poemasabi Explains Dodoitsu (at least he wrote a couple first this time)

Another Blow

Snow
is
fun if
you have a
place that's warm inside
where you can sit, dry off, stay warm
if you don't have such a place, snow is yet more hardship

Factual Comb-Over

Facts

are 

Concrete

and solid

our planet in round

is one terrific example

a belief in an orange-faced comb-over won't change them

Never Lost

All is never truly lost.
No matter how bleak it looks;
how deeply empty you feel;
around you is light...

Silent Blue Bird

A little blue bird
ceases signing in all caps
POTUS lost his phone


Here as a #MemePoem.

One Snowflake

Rage (Fib Poem)

Rage
is
a form
of blindness
of discarding ones
morals, needs and self interest
replaced with hatred and selective deafness of facts

The Man Says Sleet (Nonet)

The man says morning ice, sleet and rain
Then the man says maybe no ice
Next he says sleet, not so much
Day will be warmer too
and no rain either
I think I'll go
to the beach
instead
bye

Poemasabi Explains the Lune Form (Complete with Steam Radiator Noises)

Fish (Hay[na]ku)

Fish
ate fish
eaten by fish

Tooth Chest (Kelly Lune)

Tiny plastic chest
holds a pearl
for under pillow

Tooth Chest (Collom Lune)

Little plastic chest
holds a tiny misshapen pearl
placed under pillow

Winter Bird (Luc Bat)

Summer's lake now solid and cold
June's leaves now old and dry
As gray streams pass through frigid sky
Birds should fly for tropics
here in wind hold tight to their sticks
but birdy's trick can pay
with sun on wing that first spring day

Rain (Concrete)

rain

fall

falls

falling

unaware

of the sudden

   splash            stop at the           splatter 

sploosh           end             scatter

puddles on asphalt

Winter's Phil

Winter's end foretold
by two peculiar items
Woodchuck and Football

Near Zero (Haiku)

Counter to reports
Which place it's chance near zero
A lone snowflake falls