Category Word Play
Cause and Effect
I am sitting outside at a table to eat Waiting for those I’ll meet and greet They’ll bring my lunch, ain’t that neat Because, after that, I will be able to eat
Late at Night
Sometimes I write late at night Sometimes I simply go to sleep Depends on if I’m feeling tight Or if I am feeling oh so deep Could it be I’m feeling deep abed Because I am oh so deeply tired Should I woo Morpheus instead Late at night, when I feel inspired
Between
Oh to be such a clever person Who can say in but a few words Between birth to my hearse gone Something you have never heard
Hopeful
Sitting on a bench, while past me the crowd flows Hopeful that no one going by steps upon my toes
Choice
Who chose which blues to paint the ocean? Are there so many because it’s always in motion?
On Being Late
When I leave on time, I often arrive late When, I linger too long, I also arrive late I write one more email, like it can’t wait Hear one more song and ponder my fate I’m like many, my life not what I thought What I had wanted is not what I have got Not […]
Some Have, Some Will
Some have called me crazy, so many things worse Some have called me lazy; work smarter no curse Some have called me hazy; as I accept all, diverse Some have called me mazy, as rarely am so I terse Some have called me liberal; won’t be held captive Some have called me gullible; it is […]
The Inside More
I approach the sentient sentence trees at a dignified pace. I am nervous, but reverent, unarmed as seems appropriate. Under these sentence trees, I am in the moment, every sense heightened. People, places, things stack together, combining to become new shoots or already massive boles, the tops lost from sight. Like birds, tastes, sharp, illusive; […]
Perspective
I would happily spend all my days as nights If I could only live all of my nights as days What’s the problem someone random says They’re only labels; call them what you like Trees, I believe, may well be dogs or birds While dogs are railroads and birds flowers Seconds may last eternity; it […]
The Same Advice
The time is now; it’s what they say It is our time now to seize the day As carpe diem is urged on humans The outcome ended less than nice When others took the same advice And that’s what ruined the Romans
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