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F O R M I K K A

Two worlds within walls
once large forboding
not lost like now

coffee from the jar
the hands shake
and no words
part air
soft curses
fear

no mentions

a television
throwing out the
mill of sound

a spoons clatter
in the sink
and the glow
of flourscent
from the kitchen
counter light

slept days
nights
waking
and back to
the depths
snow outside
the window
the wind
in the trees
like a dream

Snafoo (Sensitive New Age Fakes on Overdrive)

one metrosexual
and one real snag
standing on the corner
huffin’ on a fag
one says bitch
and the other says ho
blown is the cover
of the snag metro

I'm No Rebel....

I’m No Rebel

I’m no rebel I have no cause,
it’s just my pen and I against
archaic laws.
Written by ancients a thousand
years hence, these laws are trite,
Insignificant, make no common
sense.
Here we are in our world today
fast moving unjust, still
the same sorts in charge, greedy
fat pigs fit to bust.

Homeplace/Homer's Place (humor shop exercise 3)

Homeplace (original)

I came upon a house today
though most of it had gone away
and left behind its mossy bones
of listing piers and cracked hearthstones

So I took a pause for pondering
in midst of random woodland wandering
to think of those who once lived there
where none go now but deer and hare.

My gaze took in a lonesome hollow
and found that it was bound to follow
up its course to a clear spring
which issued from a small stone ring

Workshop: 

Me

There used to be a girl who's smile was real
She felt the way that you are supposed to feel
She was filled with happiness and no hatred
But soon the ugly feelings escalated
She no longer smiled or even tried
All that she could do was hurt and cry
She never wore a sweater
Except in inclement weather
She used the sharpener for pencils
It wasn't, then, her favorite utensil
I miss the way that beautiful girl used to be
I miss her so much because that girl...was me

Changing Times

Changing Times

Suitable placards are not to be found
carried by those who protest
Hippie and Flower Child far underground
no longer aiding the quest

militant factions now cry their demands
while terrorists lurk in the wings
neither are certain who really commands
but both have formidable stings

ample (serious limerick)

the world that we live in has ample to share
with plenty to eat, drink, sample and wear
but poor are still needy
‘cos people are greedy
oh shame, to be selfish with ample to spare

Let me tell you 'bout Mr. Face,
who dwells in the luxurious space.
He hasn't an eye, an ear, nor hair,
and lives though never breathed the air.

He's good friends in a very huge amount,
these are so many than any could count.
Because friendship is all that he'd care,
he'd travel to almost everywhere.

He lives on the thoughts yet he's anencephalic,
and always known for being abibliphobic.
along with him everyone would surf,
and yet he would never lose a nerve.

Workshop: 

original

I sit with him because he has no family
No-one should ever have to die alone
I hold his hand, perhaps to comfort me
He searches for his own direction Home

Both wife and children left this world before him
He stayed around for years with loved ones gone
and felt the bars of livings’ harsher prison
in what to him, each day, seemed like an aeon

Workshop: 

Gran and Pop (exercise 2, humour in poetry)

Josephine-Ellen-May Tyler-Melrose
(That’s Bobby and Sally-Anne's Gran)
has hairs on her chin, a wart on her nose
and a deep voice that sounds like a man.

But their Gran can fix anything broken, it seems.
(The kids secretly think she is magic).
And when she smiles, her face grows sunbeams
and she somehow turns comic from tragic.

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