Category Ponder Rosa
The Myth of Twos
Not long ago for no sure reason, in quiet, I felt completely lost Why I could not then and cannot now fathom any meaning here Arguing the genesis of this dark emotion or mayhap a future cost Frankly, it worried me, filled me with an unknown, unnamed fear Where everything I could devise, create, […]
The Uninvited Guest
The sun rises, alarm clock shrills, traffic noises, screaming children, garbage trucks With these sights and sounds, pain awakens Unbroken whispers, incessant, pervasive, continue their constant siege As a nest of needles, pain greets the day Nattering and nagging, demanding attention, insistent as the specter A shrill-voiced harpy, pain suffuses flesh and bones Dulled […]
Ad Perpetuam Memoriam
Some days it rains and some days the sun does shine Doesn’t really matter much when I make them mine Yet if I’m low, dreary rain may blind me to the truth Other days, though rain mocks me, I am hail and soothe My thoughts don’t turn the world, or my feelings seasons Both rain […]
Does It Matter?
The world is full of liars, some good and some bad. Does it really matter? Storytellers, since ancient times, have told us stories that never ever were Mayhap happened not in the way the tales were told, for drama, for effect To seek the deepest truth of who we are, how we feel, and what […]
What Need?
I heard a question most recently Which I must say puzzled me Seriously someone asked, you see For what do we have any need For tigers to walk among the trees? And while I pondered, I realized I could never, ever compromise So, seriously, I ask you now, why What need have tigers wandering […]
A Price Too Heavy
I hear you say your life has been harsh, cruel and so unfair Everybody’s got it in or out for you, can no one really care Yet when you walk down your street, the one most familiar All the people, everyone you pass or meet, just stop to stare I don’t see where LOSER […]
Sewing Words Together
Doves have no tailors for their cotes They only use their cotes for sitting They do employ them for their tails You know, dovetails all need fitting Please note: For anyone anxiously awaiting the next installment of You’re a Real Card, as hard as that may be to imagine, please come back on Friday […]
What Else?
You. Stop. Right Now. Whatever else you are doing, besides reading these words, and I know you’re doing something else, stop. In a world where multitasking is the norm and dealing with disparate desires and duties is the only way to survive, simply doing one thing feels foolish, wasteful. Perhaps, to you, it even feels […]
Because We Have Not Stopped
Because We Have Not Stopped A Poet’s Words with Poets’ Words When myriad commit cruel murder, macho maniacs brutally rape, mad hermits dream and decimate, Then will we need to know where the sidewalk ends, where a phenomenal woman’s secrets lie With daily tribunes crying madness, feasts of destruction, humanity the savage, ravenous beast Will […]
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