The Wait
I await a challenge
from Sharon Tice
will it be about spring
that would be nice
or maybe something bolder
of controversy or smoulder
to get my juices flowing
and sinful side...foreboding
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BAY
a beautiful blend
agouti and black foundations
a reddish brown
of burnt sienna crown
no black points allowed
tones of copper and blood
mahogany and seal
orange-gold in blazing scud
the bob-tailed nag in chase
who will win the race
somebody bet on the bay
in Camptown's joyous hurray.
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BAY 2
a place to anchor
no undettled ranchor
a bayou of hope
and futures scope
dreams and visions
harbored thoughts
loching monsters
away in my naught
a creature lagooned
looking for life's little bight
ungulfing my spirit
as the shore offers might...
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BAY 3 The Bay Window
a cubicle so cozy
as the days offers posies
a bouguet of hope
and comforting sun
I sit by the niche
a cubicle so rich
a window to the world
cushioning my fear
a recess of serenity
a place to read
capturing the corners
of humanities creed
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BAY 4 Vocal Cries
A growl and grunt
maybe hungers call
a snarl and yip
yearning for trip
an anxious bark
a needy hark
a message for master
to avoid disaster
a woof sometimes
resembles anger
but it's just a reliance
of faithful alliance
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Endless Summer
endless summer would be sad
my snowshoes would grow cobwebs
that is bad!
and my cross-country skis
would co-habitate with bees
that is weird!
all my friends who snow plow
would be out of work
that would be terrible... and how!
and Christmas would be green
which would be quite an unusual scene
with Santa's 4WD sleigh
and there would be no snow days
no days off for kids
now that just wouldn't pay
and my snow covered garden
would have no time to rest
a winter garden too...you jest!
and keeping beer in the snow bank
while i enjoy a day outside
I would miss that... my silly bide!
but I guess my imagination
is lacking in depth
a change in venue... might create a new fixation
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Irritated
something fairly old
as it lingers in my past
but happen it can
it it's sudden haunting blast
selfish ideas
and arrogant plans
that consider no one
especially impoverished clans
and those who consider
their words as doctrine
assuming I am stupid
with my egalitarian spin
I'm called a dreamer
that can make me mad
because life is not worth it
unless chimeras can blossom
in our fight for what's right
for a world garden so awesome
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Funny
Funny how match
rhymes with patch
but they seldom ever do
the patch on my elbow
doesn't match the one on my knee
and the quilty plats
usually don't agree
and fixes of cloud
each make there own figure
while shreds of fog
fail to configure
and try to find one cabbage
exactly the same
or one of those dolls
with just the same name
but my memory is patchy
and my thoughts kind of scratchy
so don't take my word
as it is sometimes absurd
DeaBeePea 5-23-15
How Long Does It Take to Shower
Many come late
well after eight
making excuses
regarding timely abuses
someone phoned
the meat had to be deboned
a minor flood
or the battery was a dud
"I got so busy...
then had to shower in a tizzy"
but really showers
can be quick as you scour
and saying you forgot
the time...NOT
that is so lame
as if you have fame
that your schedule is essential
for the world's potential
stop making reasons
for your confusion of seasons
you're a disorganized mess
face it...and get dressed!!
DeaBeePea 5-21-15
History of the GROOVE
They came in cylinders
Caruso’s tenor strains
mechanical analog
audio mediums cog
A gramophone disc
simply known as record
shellac on the surface
Then chloride’s poly chords
A modulated spiral groove
peripheral threads
spiraling to center
On dancing treads
Originally a horn
piped to skin
vibrating stylus
For a big band’s din
The loud players stood
far from the mic
as the meeker sounds sat
on close quarters mat
From vacuum tubes
to electro-magnets
and measured groove-spacing
Victor and Columbia tracing
Victor Orthophonic Victrola
an acoustical marvel
and electric reproduction
from Electrola’s elocution
Those wondrous machines
cost as much as a Ford
so priorities were tested
for one to afford.
Interior folded exponential horn
from transmission-line theory
and impedance matching query
a new language is born
The 78 passed its reign
to the 33’s long play
and then the 45
rocked and rolled to stay
that is till the CD
came to be the way
and now the signals
come from far away
but the turntable lives
and the spinning glory
needling our souls
telling its marvelous story
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FERN 1
There was a young lady named Fern
Whose attitude was quite a concern
She criticized our writing
Her comments were biting
And my limericks she loudly did spurn…
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FERN 2
neither seeds nor flower
in the land of spores
their stems and leaves
open shady doors
fiddlehead music
from falling rain
swelling fronds
in delicate refrain
from Devonian days
stalwart and true
horsetails and whisks
stirring the dew
millions of years
fossiled and strong
ornamental blankets
among flowering throngs
so many families
in rhizomous crawl
the creeping stolons
in rigorous gall
towers of trunk
woody and straight
their leaves in a scroll
winding in gait
numerous homes
remote mountain groves
dry desert rock faces
watery fields a trove
Scottish bracken
And mosquito Azolla
in tropical lakes
and viney pergola
crackling crevices
bogs and swamps
rain-soaked moors
in meandering romp
Diet for bullfinch
And woodmouse of Europe
short-tailed bats
licking as syrup
fiddles of cinnamon
and vegetable dingle
and brakes of hedge
for poison commingle
licorice root
a pleasant flavor
and poplar thicket
for builders to savor
a Slavic tale
blooming in annuity
Kapulac nights
The flower sends rites
Hidden treasures
A will o’ the wisp seed
a Midsummer dream
bathing in mead
DeaBeePea 5-19-15
ATTITUDE
many women
have an attitude
defining their patience and latitude
but there are many reasons
for these behavioral seasons
its because of the other sex
who tend to create in them vex
you see, gentlemen play these superfluous games
that really make no sense, it's a shame
so women endure
sometimes flippant in allure
teasing and sarcastic
at the guys who aren't elastic
I find it kind of cool
that ladies are this way
it keeps my head a spinning
and makes me want to play....
DeaBeePea 5-15-15