Estrangement

meter and rhyme. 


Estrangement


I wrote a dozen letters
Standing still today
Confiding in a pen
What words, I will not say

Revised a dozen letters
Stubbed and sleekly gray
Sincerely signed and stamped
Concise, precise arrays

I sealed a dozen letters
Bearing each your name
The flag still loitered down
The missives still remained

I poured a dozen letters
Tonics, one could state
I wrote a dozen letters,
And threw them all away

This Elastic Moment

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This Elastic Moment


Startlement standing
Under all completion (almost)
Clocks dilate
Time of all ends lengthening
Celebrating time spent
Cheap hours
Exquisite minutes
Begging for seconds
Only now extinguished

Now only seconds for begging
Minutes exquisite
Hours cheep
Spent time celebrating
Lengthening
Ends all of time
Die late, clocks
Almost completion
All-understanding
Startlement

The Night Bees

Writing poems is easy.  Writing poems that people are interested is not.  This week is meter and rhyme with some oxymoron flair. 


The Night Bees

One late night one day
There crawled into my knee
A vacant jester
Knelling pester
Ever-present bee

One loud whispered ache
In effigy of sleep
A tossing-turning
Ire concerning
Ever-present bees

Three grim gladdened shots
Deplete to fill a need
A numbness quelling
Beastly knelling
Ever-present bees

The Tryout

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The Tryout


Start to finish
One by one
Try their best
Champions
Toiling gladiators
Five against three
Now at odds
Hurdling
Magnificent
Hurtling
Odds at now
Three against five
Gladiators toiling
Champions
Best their try
One by one
Finish, to start