Curly Wurly
As flying monkeys march
Ordered forward harch
Chanting in their stride
"All we are, we owe her"
Has my mind in a swirl
It took a little girl
A water bucket hurl
Melting wicked witches churl
What a world
What a world
Makes her toes curl
July 11 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
survival tactics
have to hide all your feelings
have to hide your wounds
seek savant sources
backassward news feed hide truth
from the hoi polloi
There is no such thing
As too cold for a cookout
Winter Weber ribs
slim girl with braces
now countenance and carriage
today's Junoesque
July 10 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
We want the future we were promised
Not the future we deserve
There is not enough
Glade air freshener around
To make me not mind
The stench wafting out of the
White House these days in DC
Start as a skirmish
Becomes full on donnybrook
Then big bada boom
old friend on Facebook
reconnect was a gamble
then hit the jackpot
July 9 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
I practice weaving
Words into fine taffeta
Ends up as denim
felt so right last night
why not do it one more time
practice makes perfect
Everytime I cut
Grass it's a first draft. Next week
I'll do it over
Republican speak
Preemptive obfuscation
On public display
Faith's dark twin
Illusion
Know Your Enemy
July 8 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
up in the castle
self appointed lords plot ways
to rook the poors more
not at the same time
there can be pasture or trees
the yin or the yang
Cast unto the net
Another blurb for the blog
Oh fiddle-de-dee
Tanka falettinme be mice
Elf agin haiku for U
(RIP Sly Stone) 😥
rook in a pasture
tucked in a cosp of trees caws
something for the blog
July 7 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
The wedding reception
Was a messy affair
One of the bridesmaids
Nearly strangled herself
Under a banquet table
In the cummerbund
Of one of the groomsmen
Oh the passions aroused
By nuptials in the young
My glasses are on
There's no need for you to yell
I hear you just fine
Mornings I'm adrift
On a cloud sea of pea soup
Still no land in sight
a better world would
have more Namaste and less
mine mine mine mine mine
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust - George Elliott
July 6 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
Quagmire stage show
Miasma for the many
Misanthropic mire
Savory Siren
Mistress of the #masala
Serves her earthy blend
All a monster needs
A drizzle of lightning charge
Pull the switch Igor!
will magic rush of
manipulative kindness
Keep us all silent
Troubles
Many years ago
I packed up all my troubles
In an old kit bag
It was too heavy for me
So left it on the roadside
I feel terrible
Not only for littering
But for who finds it
I bet they thought it was cash
Woe and misery instead
July 5 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
reality lite
through a prism in my cell
wall of science site
while she took her bows
summer stock stage star's skin would
glisten neath prop moon
those that are tasked to
shuffle society's deck
palm a card or two
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