Frozen Pipes
Pails for drips
Buckets of snow
Stove on simmer
Lacking sips
Yellowing snow
and toiletry bags
coffee takes time
but without is a no
space heater use
to loosen the crystals
it seems like forever
patience abuse
no sign of warmth
at least for two weeks
so I will accept
pioneer life lukewarm
DeaBeePea 2-16-15
PEOPLE
Yes
People who need people
Are the luckiest
In the world
To deny as such
is a hermitish delve
into the slavery
of much
hilarity and love
debate and lust
questions and fears
identifying years
tempered anger too
and curious wonder
thinking why
confusion in thunder
but sit and watch
people go by
and you’ll laugh and cry
and hypocritical mimes
but don’t try too hard
to understand
or you’ll go crazy my friend
just a loving hand…
is all there is needed
we all live together
to celebrate miracles
and plants we’ve seeded
DeaBeePea 2-6-14
Tear Stained Emails 1
a ridiculous notion
emails are cyber
the tear stains imagined
of emotional fibre
DeaBeePea 2-15-14
Image 2
In the Pink
surrounded in roseate
a bunny's fate
sweet and sticky
the fences so licky
candied love
and vines assuring
that affection grows
on coral rows
hazel eyes
and petaled nose
enduring care
as wildflowers glare
a flush of fuschia
ears elated in ring
to cotton candy sky
rejoicing, in Rebecca's spring
DeaBeePea 2-15-15
Tear Stained Emails 2
there are many ways
to perfume an email
tears of joy
or sadness failed
the content important
but tone more reactive
as the purveyor reads
correspondence interactive
it could be a valentine
with photo attached
and a touch of verse
to imply us as latched
the tears touch the keys
and filter with magic
touching the soul
with waves so pelagic
as we sail with love
through Windows of bytes
opening my facebook
pages of infobahn plight
DeaBeePea 2-15-15
Dinner Adventure
The mantle and gills
giving chills
but not too bad
except for the bill
Adductor muscle
actually consumed
livers and gonads
dinner plate groomed
Calves brains quite tender
lime juice and cumin
cracker meal and oil
everything but bitumen
Chopsticks would make it
an unbearable task
duck intestine apropos
in cultural bask
Escamoles nutty and sweet
insect caviar
larvaed from ants
good for the pannier
Vietnamese blood
a soup for Kings
alcohol chased
it makes me cringe
Mexican treat
the smut of corn
huitlacoche tumours
fateful rumours
I suppose for now
this meal is done
I hope I live
to eat the bun
DeaBeePea 2-15-15
"Beat" culture:
Rejection to Subjection
innovations
inhaling alternative air
surrogate life
religious questionnaire
materialism
explicit street portrayals
protest in Naked Lunch
bohemian hedonist pails
Allen Ginsberg's Howl
angel-headed hipsters burning
obsenity trials
Renaissance learning
Jack Kerouac
shouldering the trail
liberal publishing
San Francisco veil
Hippie counterculture
New Vision
eccentric, not psychotic
Greenwich Village decision
Folksongs
Gerde’s Folk City
Washington Square Park
and Minetta Tavern's spark
Jackson Pollock
abstact expressionism
and Willem de Kooning
a painted jam session
Six Gallery reading
City Lights Pocket Poets
literary salons
literary seeding
Dharma Bums
urban fashion
tasting Zen Buddhism
the final song of paled passion
DeaBeePea 2-15-15
Dagummit
dag gummit
reaching for summit
but falling
doggone it
I am giving it!
but find myself crawling
god dangit
showing my fangs… it’s
a way to approach my calling
gosh darnit
can’t hit a barn …it
is problematic, how galling
dag nabbit
like chasing a rabbit
so many bad habits
dagum
don’t call me a bum
or my anger stops stalling
dagumit
I’m going for the gamut
Risking a mawling
Datgum
I’m not staying mum
even if I’m appalling
godam
a simple man I am
as my cursor begins brawling
godammit
I’m extinct as a mammut
The past I am hauling
gosh dangit
fiding my hat, to hang it
time for lolling
DeaBeePea 2-14-15
Invited for Dinner
No worry for me
there is no vision
I love to eat
all food with precision
If I know the host
that’s all that matters
I can assure my persona
Will lick the batter
If the host is a stranger
I adapt my persona
And bring extra wine
To maintain my composia
The salad is vital
the meals recital
and soup needs panache
if the entrée has no splash
Main course is slow
with all the clattering chatter
no politics or religion
to ruin the platter
DeaBeePea 2-14-15
Image 1
Roll the Dice
It looks a lot like
snakes an ladders
up and down
and across with adders
cars stopping
and starting with rage
a highway jungle
poor mileage engaged
green, gold, red
signalling orders
must obey
or ticketed disorder
give way or yield
I might lose the floor
rushing is pointless
on time no more
defining victory
no concern of time
it’s getting there alive
that is my true strive
DeaBeePea 2-14-15
St. Valentine's Feast
Milvian bridge
girdered in faith
Interamna’s Bishop
martyred wraith
Liturgical celebration
teaching in reverence
from valens of late antiquity
Hagiographic relevance
Basilica at Terni
overseer with his heart
Saint Lucilla baptised
In Bassano’s painted dart
Shrine of St. Valentine
Whitefriar’s street
As Judge Asterius
Blind forfeiture sweet
Sight restored
idols broken
foodless for days
Baptism’s tray
The Saint proselytized
Arrested in humilities trace
Renounced at Flaminian Gate
Christianity posthumously embraced
2-14-15 DeaBeePea
Image 1
Coreopsis in peril
in an Oz-like transformation
molten yellow brick
coating ferns in station
moonbeams to cast
new and brilliant shadows
as Emerald magic
turns to evil blast
cascading tears
touching the stamen stairwells
the witches jungle jeers
bereft of flying monkeys
the wizards spell
green is fading
the directors cut
adapts new shading
DeaBeePea 2-6-15
Excuse Me
Belch
Eructation
Gas from digestive tract
A sound and odor fact
Swallowing air
when eating or drinking
expelled
nitrogen and oxygen linking
Consuming carbonated beverage
heartburn
esophageal sphincter
Regurgitative churn
Gastroesophageal junction
no seal
absence of gravity to function
floating near loose lid
Inability to burp…
uncommon
chest pain caused by dysfunction
rare phenom
Chinese and Indians
burping as acceptable
in certain situations
sophistication receptacle
Cattle, dogs and sheep…
also burp in bleep
gas produced as byproduct
animal's digestive process
Methane is produced
Corhort of methanogenic archaea
Can be fatal, to note
Too much bloat
Alfalfa and flaxseed
no cure for man
but a speech of rejection
to parental subjection
DeaBeePea 2-6-14
The Lie
Suddenly…
It arrived
Out of blue
As if my mouth
Was untrue
It smelled…
Of something putrid
But it travelled with ease
In accepting applause
Not knowing cause
Delighted…
But something seemed wrong
As I looked around
Body bound
Stiff and frowned
Guilt
Initially not recognized
My thoughts re-sized
Laughter gone
My blinkers on
Later…
Questioned in need
Should I duplicate or heed
No I’d better fess up
And plant honesty’s seed
DeaBeePea 2-9-15
When the Snow Didn't Come
January
I heard laughter
surrounding me
as if from rafter
Petal
it emerged in view
through windows dew
the golden orange of sun
Tree
gregarious green
leaves dancing in sheen
sprinkled with stars
Sun
so blinding bright
a gilded sight
framing my world
Singing
from birds in bath
melodies in path
to prancing heart
Snow
no sign of it
I know it's a dream
a daydream scheme
DeaBeePea 2-9-15
