PlantNotLay

Leave the past behind

March forward like Romans

But rather than laying

Waste to the countryside

Instead plant the seedlings

Of love hope wisdom

For those three things

Will gain a foothold

And bear bountiful harvest

Long after you’ve gone

MenHa

So many many men

Who look like men

Have egos as delicate

As a freshly iced

Pond in late November

One awkward step and

It disintegrates as quickly

As a sugar cube

Dropped into hot tea

And you’re left blinking

And wondering why what

Part of not interested

Is so damn damaging

As you watch them

Run under the hem

Of their mama’s skirt

SmallCorners

I think that what’s

Important is the small

Corner of the bigger

World we all live

In such a place

That corner which disappears

Like mist above ponds

Like dreams upon waking

But to us our

Very own tiny corner

Is enough to sweep

To tidy to decorate

And to welcome others

Whose own little corners

Got swallowed up by

This our round world

WhatIReallyWant

There is one thing

That I want more

Than anything beneath the

Tree but since I

Don’t have a tree

Maybe you will be

Standing outside my door

On that Christmas morn

UghYuckBleh

Someone tell me why

I forget my nose

Until it is stuffy

Or why I ignore

My throat until it’s

Scratchy or my lungs

Until they are filled

With little green goblins

Ugh I hate being

Sick I am the

Biggest baby of all

*achoo sniffle sniffle cough