Category: Poetry

  • Food Creeps with Anticipation

    Anticipation always creeps up on me when least expected.

    Anticipation builds up like honey oozes out of the bottle.

    Anticipation rises with the smell of baking bread.

    When the bread and honey come together, anticipation is over.

    I never cared much for anticipation.

    I always chose impatience and skepticism to keep my life serene.

    Neatly packaged, not golden and sticky

    No sweetness to offset the sting.

    No warm bread to melt the honey.

    Anticipation is devoured at last.                                          

              I chose to align anticipation with food that undergoes changes and how I do not like anticipation in my life.  Sounds odd, doesn’t it?  I am, and always have been, an impatient person.  I don’t want to wait for the honey to drip or the bread to rise.  I want answers, action, and adventure.  I don’t want to anticipate those answers, actions, or adventures, I want them now and I am skeptical that they will never happen.

  • Basket of Fruits

    Behold the red ripening apple!

    Once thought a forbidden fruit.

    An idea that is difficult to grapple,

    And may give your senses a boot.

    Think upon the odd shaped Pear!

    It may not be the one you pick.

    Skin so soft with bruises bare,

    Resembling candle with brown wick

    The purple pulp of the Grape!

    A social fruit growing in a bunch.

    Lovely fruit to arrange and drape,

    And a juicy bite to have for lunch.

    Basket of Fruits to share with all,

    Basket of Fruits most colorful of all

  • Red Personified

    Red is the color of my nose in winter
    Red is fire with my hunger to win
    You cannot stop this outspoken color
    Red is not meant to calm or soothe
    Red shows us action and ambition
    The timid or meek do not seek boldness
    But choose pale colors that fade away
    A violet that is shrinking is not real
    Could a rose that is not red have any appeal?
    Bulls in the arena see Red as a foe
    The matador knows the trouble it brings
    When facing challenges Red is my choice
    When others have power to control
    Red is my mantle and on the tip of my sword
    Red is Strong, Red is Dangerous
    This strength of Red gives backbone to all
    Red is my shield, Red is my power
    I will never be a shrinking flower