The Internet

The Internet

I found I found it founded
(and not so carefully)
In young confounded logic
And multitudes of memes
Within this social meltdown
Of watching cats by day
A very vocal billion
With nothing much to say

And don't forget the pornos
Because they paved the way
For tweets and likes and comments
For boredom on display
So keep your smart devices
With all the internet
Connect me to my footsteps
They are more permanent

Monument

The hardest part of writing is staring at the blank page with no ideas.  After I get a line, a rhyme, a homophone, or something to begin, it's not so bad.  Some weeks I come up with something I like.  A lot of the time I find myself writing without a great deal of satisfaction other than keeping the tools sharp, so to say.

In any case, this week's efforts keep sharp the tools of basic rhyme and meter.

Monument

I biuld a monument

For things that had passed through

A shifty gust

A migrant moth

A memory of you

And resting on the top

In Western-facing view

A followed whim

A brief embrace

A timpani of two

I built this edifice

Of sand and dusk and dew

For melted wax

For ended songs

For shifting motes of blue

The tide comes rolling in

To claim what rites it's due

My monument,

My sacrament

I knew it would pass too

Grief

backwards and forwards.  

Grief

Bleak this morning

Bury her

This delicate window

Kept everything out with 

Glaring confidence

Our eyes, why?

Questions that beg

Insulated

Pains

Behind

Panes

In so late it

Begs that question

Why arise?

Confidants glaring without 

Everything kept window delicate

This barrier

Mourning this bleak

Siege

I know I should try writing in different styles, but I do so enjoy the homophones.

Siege

A

Foray

For a

Battlement

Battle meant

Less edibles

Less said, able

Though to stay employed

Missile!

Miss, I'll

Fire another

Fire and other

Objcets slung

Objections

Come from down below

Great at hacking

Grates,  attacking

For the win!

For the when-

ever we play serf

I'm glad we're using Nerf