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Playing @ Praying?
Tayololoye’s Blog A Treat
just below is a post – a poem of wrenched yet hopeful heart – and it brought back to me something I see and hear and smell and hope and recriminate each and every day, and find a joy in that hopeless hope so craftily and honestly written by Lola, whose name I will go back to learn, but thought getting this out of far more import. And the haiku, tanka and such will just have to sit back on the porch a bit whilst I wax.
“Penciled Page”
I scrawl these quick words
beside a niece’s perhaps
very first fast horse!
“A Tale (oops, watch the spelling!) Of Two Women”
Woman One tells me
(because her then-alive husband was
Army (oxymoron alert!) intelligence,
Belgium has no known border with a
fiction called Luxembourg.
Woman Two tells me
no, no never, not even ever
will a white periwinkle plant
throw pink or purple
flowers – they be separate species!
(like girrafes or gyraffes?)
She was not amused.
MA (English) ‘professor’
at the Orlando Junior College, adjunct
it later out-turns
who tooled ’round Snaffurd
on her pale blue Vespa and never
again looked left as I sat near my
white and purple posies from the same stems
reading somedamnbookorother.
Both, of course, were and I suspect still
are ‘corporate mad as March hares
(with due apologies to rabbits everywhere.)
“HaikuCouch”
shrink-wrapped sentence scenes
first in pen on old notebook,
then its ether-ized
:
“In Response To Daniel Schnee’s Piece ‘An Introduction To Robert Okaji'”
my skinless knuckles
know my work and my cussing –
often regret both!
“Can You Smell This?” Tanka 144
Dead artists and dead
writers, dead politicos
all stink unburied,
except writers and painters
do so only while alive!
“Can You Smell This?”
Dead artists and dead
writers, dead politicos
all stink unburied
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