Beetlebung and Kettlehole--April Poems (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/1253431 1. Being Late The clock's ticking louder and Iâm behind, with shoes half-tied, I'm trying to find a reason why time keeps slipping away; for minutes turn sharp and refuse to stay, useless I chase the moments that wonât rewind. ------- 2. Early Early is the sky stretching its bluish bones while the day breaks, and the world, unfinished and soft, promises in whispers, "Come, see, what your today might become." ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:35:35 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112278 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1112278 You went with your eyes open I closed them with my tears when breath left you I held my breath, too. And now, I am a hollowed stump stuck inside this shell of a house where I miss my words and all words miss me. Sat, 04 Apr 2020 10:31:36 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/980202 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/980202 I cup my hands to catch a few drops of water from the tap or the rain just to hear the sound. Bubbles rise, and I let go enjoying the whoosh of leave-taking of the liquid and yours each release a kind of distortion. ============= April 30--release ...[Read Full Post] Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:51:07 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957924 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957924 Done with waiting, I take the next lane still the rush-hour lunges and my annoyance goes from driving to finishing things, a need to close distances bumper to bumper one spiral to another. Iâm done with life being done to me ------ Prompt: April 29--traffic ...[Read Full Post] Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:39:09 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957841 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957841 Do I know where I am as dimensions eclipse quicker and quicker and I canât hold on? I think a centrifugal force must have pulled me through a flattened grid into this slivered life to rush like Alice without a thought, to fall down the hole after a madcap rabbit and splay onto this world. Now, from within a garbled voice asks, âJust why are you here?â -------------------- April 28-- difficulty...[Read Full Post] Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:27:09 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957740 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957740 when the wind and branches entwine as lovers and birdsâ nests can hold on no more, maple leaves turn red in a fit of fury, fearing the many ways of falling ----- Prompt: April 27âtree Sat, 27 Apr 2019 10:45:10 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957646 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957646 that filmy blue in your eyes and gentle ripple of your smile re-tuning me after fervent disputes and all the wrongs of this world -- Prompt: April 26âblue Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:08:58 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957575 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957575 you admire my purple flowers their finely powdered seeds pirouetting over lenient leaves then, my non-sequitor sneeze are you still green with envy? ------- April 25âgreen Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:32:45 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957519 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957519 now that everything has become the past, no chisel will work on the solidified longing as it lies heavy on your heart ------ April 24ârock Wed, 24 Apr 2019 08:57:54 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957416 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957416 itchy dry eyes, and ophthalmologistâs drops leak the irritation away still, I donât like weeping for any reason at all, since nothingâs permanent to pity including me, and because as an investor, I hold my tears in trust. ------ Prompt: April 23--weeping ...[Read Full Post] Tue, 23 Apr 2019 10:25:52 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957321 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957321 her contours vanish now well, almost, in her loose-fitting gown and frail body for she sleeps constantly after her vacation in the Caribbean where she felt like a whale it is as if a piranha struck then, without her noticing yet no fish is to blame for the shame of a liquid diet so I bake bread to take to her, thinking maybe it will help, maybe she wonât stop breathing == April 22--bread ...[Read Full Post] Mon, 22 Apr 2019 13:03:29 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957242 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957242 (true story) years have passed since our leave-taking from the old property but here I am still grieving over the garden I planted bearing bravely the thorns of fifty-five rose bushes as if they were a poem each talking the language of love such risky business on my heart, the work of a masochist, since a year after our move, I recoiled in horror when I heard from an old neighbor about the new backyard pool where the rose garde...[Read Full Post] Sun, 21 Apr 2019 11:42:46 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957164 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957164 its glare dripping away with weakening will, the sun peeks through bandaged eyes turning the clouds into faceted crystals ---- Prompt: April 20âcloud Sat, 20 Apr 2019 11:06:42 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957081 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957081 Some days I feel like an actor who stumbled into the wrong stage-play for there's nothing soft or picturesque here but in distant view, ascending from dark mountains with gunmetal-gray smoke a mythical thing murky red-hoofed, forked-tongued out to make our towns and nations bleed ---- Prompt: April 19âdark ...[Read Full Post] Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:39:49 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956994 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956994 as you stream into darkened spaces with all your brilliance and slickness watch out where you enter since peepholes in lace curtains will bend your glitzy body to unlatch your foolishness and mimic sudden sparks hurting my eyes -------- Prompt: April 18--light ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:07:51 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956911 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956911 what was it that you did in your lifeâs cubicle for the company or your prospects counting sand grains in an hourglass, propping up ladders to climb, wasting tons of paper thoughts, wishes, deeds nobody will remember just to find out in retrospect nothing lasts ------- April 17--work ...[Read Full Post] Wed, 17 Apr 2019 07:43:19 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956811 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956811 The heat in starched tropics accomplishes it when the sun scorches the body without speaking straight to the heart strolling on the parched lawn I am missing every incisive icicle and the ancient whiteness of snow --------- April 16--weather ...[Read Full Post] Tue, 16 Apr 2019 08:32:53 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956729 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956729 Have you noticed I season my morning coffee with cinnamon, milk, and mild complaints about the weather, cold winters, hot summers solstices, too many supermoons bestiality of politics and being placed on this third planet? Silly me! After oodles of seasons, just when I have become myself, Iâm looking for a bright sun, wishing to begin again. --------- Prompt: April 15--season ...[Read Full Post] Mon, 15 Apr 2019 07:02:05 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956608 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956608 drops slap windowpanes like grief, in spurts gray clouds devour the sky such bad temper! and this restless wind playing tricks on my mind while limbs break off trees Iâm splashing in mud puddles muttering mock curses at stand-offish purple iris and seeing cruelty in tulips for daring to stay alive -------- April 14--rain ...[Read Full Post] Sun, 14 Apr 2019 06:47:46 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956537 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956537 wings strumming flickers of light you, the roly-poly vegan littering the night prospecting love greedy for its gifts but in a scheme of hours, a spiderâs web will be your undoing since youâve stood out enough! ---- Prompt: April 13--insect ...[Read Full Post] Sat, 13 Apr 2019 08:25:58 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956476 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956476