Chasing
Chill
summer breezes
to scuttle
the scorching
heat
Seeking
Shielded
soothing shade
to escape
the sun’s galling
glare
Requesting
Sudden
noontime showers
to relieve
earth’s desperate
thirst
Chasing
Chill
summer breezes
to scuttle
the scorching
heat
Seeking
Shielded
soothing shade
to escape
the sun’s galling
glare
Requesting
Sudden
noontime showers
to relieve
earth’s desperate
thirst
First…I’d pickGrapes.Red, green, gleaming…Purple pops of pleasure…They all…Wait…What?Not…Technically a fruit?Oh… Oookay… Next up…Kiwis…Fuzzy, funny little fellows…Bright green guts…Perfectly fruity, Right?Hold on…Hold on!Not a “fruit” fruit?A berry?You’ve got to be kidding! Well, there’sBananas…Bendy, bright, and beckoning…Long, yellow, and…Right…Right…Here it comes…Also berries?Who’s making these rules?Seriously! Let’s tryWatermelon…Summer in a slice…Sweet, succulent secrets…Surely, it’s a fruit, right?Right?Nope?Foiled again!Watermelon?A…
I haveanotherthinkcoming it’s coming it’scoming it’s I’msoso sososo tired
I believed in ghosts who haunt and taunt, whose muffled midnight meanderings and claps and taps echo in other rooms.
Partial truth hides, denies full truth told.Full truth holds weight of what’s left unsaid. Silent weight shapes what’s shown, controlled—Mind only sees shadows of what it’s fed. Seeing shadows of what the mind is fed,Twists facts, reframes the story it knows. Twisting facts reshapes words already bent,Words half-bent deceive hearts that try to grow. Hearts…
2022, you were full ofwell, stinky stuff… Online outrage operativesPompous pretentious “patriots”Temperamental Twitter trollsRadicalized racket ringleadersPetty political provocateurs I could go onbut I won’t. You had your momentin the spotlightmore than you deserve. No more. None of youwill play a rolein my 2023. Buh-bye.
What makes a person unique? Hmmm, I have to think About that questionFor a few minutes. After a couple of ponderous moments,I have concludedIt’s all the small thingsThat make us different. You see,Most of us are right handed,But some of us are left handed,While a fewLucky ones Are ambidextrous. Then there’s the way we tie…