Category: humor
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fungal haiku
last night’s thunder storm knocked out our internet, but woke the wood wide web
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Job fair on Mt. Horeb
It wasn’t the burning, but the talking, the order giving, commands to go back to the scene of the crime and making demands and threats. Killing non-combatants in a war of words between empire and the kingdom of heaven has nothing to do with burning. The shall nots are easy; do nothing and you win.…
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You are HERE
Two strangers stand beside each other in a Welcome Center lobby map of roads with an X declaring, YOU ARE HERE –> Where is HERE? One is trying to decipher a way from this X to the next X; the other is waiting on their wife to pee 4-29-21
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Poem Inspired when Driving in the Far Left Lane and Needing to Be in the Far Right Lane And Remembering You were Going to Buy Your Wife a Large Pike Blend During Heavy Morning Traffic
Shit, damn it – get off my ass Don’t you see my turn signal? (Nod your head, wave thank you) To the driver who let you slide over one lane Shit, damn it – you didn’t get over enough Drive past your turn (Nod your head, wave thank you) To the driver who let you…
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Looking for an omen
An hour before the sun Owl hoots in your backyard tree Two longs, two shorts, a long and a short Over and over and over Maybe it’s wearing ear buds And talking to an owl on the other side of town Or maybe, when it’s agitated, it talks to itself, too You get out of…
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cup of confidence
Because I never waited on tables I didn’t learn to carry coffee and walk at the same time Every morning my confidence spills over the brim and drips upon one shoe 4-12-21
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Lob lolly lament
Thursday I gathered pine cones from our yard Sunday a storm blew in and shook the trees Monday I will gather pine cones from our yard…..again 3-29-21
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Spilled milk
I’ve never cried over spilled milk, but I’ve cursed a few times and once when I spilled the last milk In the house, I used water and hated myself for ruining a perfectly good bowl of Cocoa Puffs. 3-27-21
My husband's poetry 