Composed 4/11/17
Description: While I work on a few more serious pieces, have a bit of random inspiration. Where do you find yourself working on your creative pursuits? For NaPoWriMo.
The only time I have to be alone
Is on this throne
So leave me be
As I write sweet toilet poetry
Composed 12/16/15
Description: For the Daily Prompt today, which asked us to tell our funniest relationship disaster story. Had to reach back a long way for a funny one.
He was the first
And she was a wee little thing
So she said yes
And chased him round the playground
Yet he was more a stroke of ego
Than a snatcher of the heart
One day the middleman
Asked of all his friend’s fine qualities
Where there five, ten
Fifty?
She said there were so many
But failed to write a list
She doesn’t much remember
Anything after that
Composed 7/14/15
Description: For today’s Daily Prompt: Well, I Never… In which we are describe something we’ve done that we would advise a friend never to do. This is the first thing I thought of. I hope you heed my sage advice.
Life has taught me much, dear friend
In the mere years I’ve been here
I took my trade in people
And I’ve fought some paralyzing fears
I’ve known sickness
I’ve known health
I’ve strolled the streets near poverty
And brushed the bushes of some wealth
Admirations I’ve known
And hated I’ve been
Often a good girl
I’ve danced with sin
In the shadows I’ve hid
On the stage I have sung
I have made some good laughs
And hung with my tongue
My life thus far has been a wise mix
Though the best lesson learned I learned at six
While fun those little petting zoos
Don’t stand behind donkeys in an angel costume
Composed 7/29/14
Description: n/a
“I hate exercise”
She spits the words like poison
That’s where I get it
Composed 4/10/14
Description: (Day 10 of NaPoWriMo) “I have to write a poem today,” I tell my friend. “Give me a topic.” She shakes her phone in her hands (it’s been malfunctioning all day). “Stupid phone,” she replies.
Childish rhyme when silence pursues
Keeping quiet when its track I lose
Changing AM, PM too
(Missed a test and now I’m screwed)
Damn it
Stupid phone
Buzzes so hard it crashes down
Right off the desk in front of a crowd
Signal lost when I’m lost downtown
(And Lord knows there aren’t payphones around)
Damn it
Stupid phone
Battery flickers when I need
To send a message of urgency
And when it sends then I see
I told my friend I just bought pee
Damn it
Stupid phone
Composed 10/4/13
Description: A little bit of my life lately.
I roll my eyes at the angsty side
Do you know how much I have to do?
Two hours filled just talking ‘bout stuff
And time from the day for texting too!
Don’t you know little longing heart
My mind is too full for your swift tricks?
Even if I do manage heart strings’ pull
I don’t have the time! I can’t commit!
Papers, projects due in three weeks
All my weekends consumed
I daresay if you fell for me
I don’t know what I’d do
I have no time to write loving notes
Or spend hours sitting at the park
You’d ditch me a few weeks in, I’d bet
Even I’d had your heart
So for now I’ll bury myself
In the workload that surrounds
Maybe I’ll have time to love
When this madness calms down
Scraps of Paper 