Perfectly perfect perfected poems
Write the right
Phrases formed for
Meaningful meanings meaning
Pressure placed per page pouring
Emoted emotions eventually
Seeing, sighing, soaring sometimes
Boring but brutal based
On open original
Thoughts that think
Ideal ideas indicating insanity
Longing lonely lost
Working words whirl while
Crying could corrupt creativity
Dangerously didn't do damage
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Outer Space 8 of 30 NaPoMo2016
Eons after we said goodbye
I know this rocket can't make another safe landing
There's no sign of intelligent love life in sight
I know this rocket can't make another safe landing
There's no sign of intelligent love life in sight
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Happy Birthday 7 of 30 NaPoMo2016
Happy Birthday
Twenty-eight
Late-twenties latina
Lost but not losing
Not confusing priorities
The majority of energy goes into being better each day
Finding my way but falling into less traps along the path
Past battles shape my journey
Less knee jerking reactions with a fraction of less worry
A new year a new chapter
Building my own happily ever after.
Twenty-eight
Late-twenties latina
Lost but not losing
Not confusing priorities
The majority of energy goes into being better each day
Finding my way but falling into less traps along the path
Past battles shape my journey
Less knee jerking reactions with a fraction of less worry
A new year a new chapter
Building my own happily ever after.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
To Be Continued... 6 of 30 NaPoMo2016
What do you do
When a jailbirds tune
Plays with your heart strings
And can't turn away?
Try not to listen
Or you too will end up in that cage.
And with age you never knew
This story came with a to be continued...
When a jailbirds tune
Plays with your heart strings
And can't turn away?
Try not to listen
Or you too will end up in that cage.
And with age you never knew
This story came with a to be continued...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Bilingual Poet Problems 5 of 30 NaPoMo2016
Losing my lengua
Lack of práctica
Falta of words
Olvidando phrases
Living between two languages
A veces es más dificil escribir
A poetic poesía
Lack of práctica
Falta of words
Olvidando phrases
Living between two languages
A veces es más dificil escribir
A poetic poesía
Rise and Shine {haiku} 4 of 30 NaPoMo2016
My Alarm Clock is
The King of Stealing My Dreams
Snooze is my weapon
The King of Stealing My Dreams
Snooze is my weapon
Daisies (Nesting Doll Poem) 3 of 30 NaPoMo2016
This is a story of Little Miss Maisy,
Some call her crazy
But what they don't know
Is if you look deep inside you'll find a fire
That burns fierce when she's alone.
This fire was lighted
By her parents short-sighted
Who couldn't afford this child
Who had to grow up on her own
Sleeping on stone
Dreaming of a home
Left with a life that leaves more to be desired
The strive to survive keeps lit this fire.
And inside that fire you will find a fighter
The fighter Little Miss Maisy turned out to be
Hustling in the streets making ends meet
Moving her feet to the beat of her own drum.
Some call her crazy
But Little Miss Maisy made it out of that corner
Maisy made it out of that life
By becoming the wife of a man
Who wanted to end that strife of the fighter within the fire
And inside that fighter he saw a flower
Little Miss Maisy became his daisy
To love and nourish and grow,
She allowed this man to show her
A kindness that she hadn't experienced before
Her experience in the world mostly just showed her the door.
More and more as she felt this love
She realized her sense of worth
Was more than whatever was in her purse
Pursing her dreams was no longer extreme
Because Little Miss Maisy was now a team.
So from the fire that had the fighter
And inside the fighter was a flower
And from inside the flower Little Miss Maisy planted a seed
A new family to love and be loved
Was all that she would ever need.
Some call her crazy
But what they don't know
Is if you look deep inside you'll find a fire
That burns fierce when she's alone.
This fire was lighted
By her parents short-sighted
Who couldn't afford this child
Who had to grow up on her own
Sleeping on stone
Dreaming of a home
Left with a life that leaves more to be desired
The strive to survive keeps lit this fire.
And inside that fire you will find a fighter
The fighter Little Miss Maisy turned out to be
Hustling in the streets making ends meet
Moving her feet to the beat of her own drum.
Some call her crazy
But Little Miss Maisy made it out of that corner
Maisy made it out of that life
By becoming the wife of a man
Who wanted to end that strife of the fighter within the fire
And inside that fighter he saw a flower
Little Miss Maisy became his daisy
To love and nourish and grow,
She allowed this man to show her
A kindness that she hadn't experienced before
Her experience in the world mostly just showed her the door.
More and more as she felt this love
She realized her sense of worth
Was more than whatever was in her purse
Pursing her dreams was no longer extreme
Because Little Miss Maisy was now a team.
So from the fire that had the fighter
And inside the fighter was a flower
And from inside the flower Little Miss Maisy planted a seed
A new family to love and be loved
Was all that she would ever need.
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Rough Draft 2 of 30 NaPoMo2016
Winning words
Worried they won't come out
Of this pen that hasn't been used in...
More days than I'd like to admit
It has been hard to get this pen to the paper
Perhaps the ink is dry
But the more likely story is that
I haven't tried on my thinking cap in a while
Too scared it won't fit any longer
No longer feel like a blogger
Blocked up like Leggos
Unable to get let go and let the verses flow
Maybe this won't be Shakespeare
But peer out from around the corner
All great works have a first draft.
Worried they won't come out
Of this pen that hasn't been used in...
More days than I'd like to admit
It has been hard to get this pen to the paper
Perhaps the ink is dry
But the more likely story is that
I haven't tried on my thinking cap in a while
Too scared it won't fit any longer
No longer feel like a blogger
Blocked up like Leggos
Unable to get let go and let the verses flow
Maybe this won't be Shakespeare
But peer out from around the corner
All great works have a first draft.
Friday, April 1, 2016
The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree (Haiku) 1 of 30 NaPoMo2016
2016 is here let the poetry making begin
1 of 30
Brothers and sisters
Never really get over
Sibling rivalry
1 of 30
Brothers and sisters
Never really get over
Sibling rivalry
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Let Them Eat Cake- 18 of 30 NaPoMo2015
When a member of the french aristocracy said
"Let them eat cake."
To the poor with no bread
she might as well have said
Off with their head.
History has proven to us
Time and time again
That those without the money to spend
Don't always get the privilege to bask in the sweetness of life with no worry
Consumerist culture makes those lines blurry
Credit cards for the "middle class"
Just a band-aid on the wound
Minted shackles for those with no cash
Now a lot of us probably need a crash course in numbers
50 percent of the people having 1 percent of the riches
This inverted pyramid scheme just doesn't make any sense
Especially the part where some make all the dollars and some only cents
Resenting just makes this situation more and more tense
Then they want to talk about 47 percent
Calling people who need a hand up those with the easy life
just taking the hand out to hang out
but not really making anything out of this equation
This abrasion of wallet size invasion of the population
Circuses and bread when change is needed instead
Let them eat cake
Then off with their head
"Let them eat cake."
To the poor with no bread
she might as well have said
Off with their head.
History has proven to us
Time and time again
That those without the money to spend
Don't always get the privilege to bask in the sweetness of life with no worry
Consumerist culture makes those lines blurry
Credit cards for the "middle class"
Just a band-aid on the wound
Minted shackles for those with no cash
Now a lot of us probably need a crash course in numbers
50 percent of the people having 1 percent of the riches
This inverted pyramid scheme just doesn't make any sense
Especially the part where some make all the dollars and some only cents
Resenting just makes this situation more and more tense
Then they want to talk about 47 percent
Calling people who need a hand up those with the easy life
just taking the hand out to hang out
but not really making anything out of this equation
This abrasion of wallet size invasion of the population
Circuses and bread when change is needed instead
Let them eat cake
Then off with their head
Friday, April 17, 2015
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Awkward- ten word poem 15 of 30 NaPoMo2015
Social networking
doesn't make you
a social butterfly,
does it?
doesn't make you
a social butterfly,
does it?
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Rhyme 14 of 30 NaPoMo2015
Writing poetry
Avoiding stagnation
Putting to work my imagination
Rhyming words
Innovation I seek
Syllables, synonyms, symmetry, sync
Will get out the lines
Just got to think
But gotta do it well
So it won't stink
Pages of pretty printed poems
Put them in a book so you can show'em
Get them out into the world and everyone will know'em
Get your flow on
Don't let it stop
Putting down words to make it pop
Pulling it together as the beat drops
Listen to the art
Come out on top!
Boom!
Avoiding stagnation
Putting to work my imagination
Rhyming words
Innovation I seek
Syllables, synonyms, symmetry, sync
Will get out the lines
Just got to think
But gotta do it well
So it won't stink
Pages of pretty printed poems
Put them in a book so you can show'em
Get them out into the world and everyone will know'em
Get your flow on
Don't let it stop
Putting down words to make it pop
Pulling it together as the beat drops
Listen to the art
Come out on top!
Boom!
Monday, April 13, 2015
Knowledge 13 of 30 NaPoMo2015
Can we create an invention
That will will help with the retention
Of information?
A sensation in education
A societal transformation
Books of knowledge
Consumed by the ton
Making learning fun
Reading and researching
Everything under the sun
Then the trick would be
Getting great minds
To work as one
That will will help with the retention
Of information?
A sensation in education
A societal transformation
Books of knowledge
Consumed by the ton
Making learning fun
Reading and researching
Everything under the sun
Then the trick would be
Getting great minds
To work as one
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Frozen 11 of 30 NaPoMo2015
Say something!
Do something!
React!
We all think we'll be the hero when the time comes to step up against the bad guys.
Oh well if that happened to me I would...
I can't believe that happened, I would've...
That's horrible you should've...
Well you could've...
In the moment when the monster camouflaged as something... someone harmless
Decides to strike
Someone hit the pause button on empowerment
Fear froze my womanly strength
Froze my reflexes
Froze my mind
This is not the kind of thing you can really prepare for.
But when you're violated in the middle of a crowded subway car
Stuck, struck, stroke, choking for air
All alarms going off on the inside
But still frozen with fear on the outside
Its so unfair, you want to stand up for yourself.
It's over it happened, but never again
She thought until the next time she ran into a similar beast
Iced response cannot compute what is happening
Say something!
Do something!
React!
Don't just stay frozen
Don't stay broken
Don't let your spirit be stolen.
Do something!
React!
We all think we'll be the hero when the time comes to step up against the bad guys.
Oh well if that happened to me I would...
I can't believe that happened, I would've...
That's horrible you should've...
Well you could've...
In the moment when the monster camouflaged as something... someone harmless
Decides to strike
Someone hit the pause button on empowerment
Fear froze my womanly strength
Froze my reflexes
Froze my mind
This is not the kind of thing you can really prepare for.
But when you're violated in the middle of a crowded subway car
Stuck, struck, stroke, choking for air
All alarms going off on the inside
But still frozen with fear on the outside
Its so unfair, you want to stand up for yourself.
It's over it happened, but never again
She thought until the next time she ran into a similar beast
Iced response cannot compute what is happening
Say something!
Do something!
React!
Don't just stay frozen
Don't stay broken
Don't let your spirit be stolen.
Friday, April 10, 2015
Thursday, April 9, 2015
If my life were a soap opera 9 of 30 NaPoMo2015
If my life were a soap opera
I’d want you to be at the edge of your seat
Week after week
With popcorn to eat
But just like the reality of a lot of reality TV
If my life were a soap opera
It’d probably be cancelled
I’m more like sitcom status
Fat and friendly female
Wannabe funny and fierce
Far from General Hospital
Because the Days of Our Lives would be talking about All my Children…
In my classroom
Not a typical twisted telenovela
Just true tales of awkward adventures
That fall somewhere between Sunset Beach and Sesame Street with a dash of Maria la del Barrio
If my life were a soap opera
The drama for your mama
Would be a family affair
Getting just an introduction to all the dysfunction there
Unfair love arcs
Died out before they start
If my life were a soap opera
I’d stay Bold and Beautiful
As the world turns
Teaching the young and the Restless
and I’ll be back after these messages.
I’d want you to be at the edge of your seat
Week after week
With popcorn to eat
But just like the reality of a lot of reality TV
If my life were a soap opera
It’d probably be cancelled
I’m more like sitcom status
Fat and friendly female
Wannabe funny and fierce
Far from General Hospital
Because the Days of Our Lives would be talking about All my Children…
In my classroom
Not a typical twisted telenovela
Just true tales of awkward adventures
That fall somewhere between Sunset Beach and Sesame Street with a dash of Maria la del Barrio
If my life were a soap opera
The drama for your mama
Would be a family affair
Getting just an introduction to all the dysfunction there
Unfair love arcs
Died out before they start
If my life were a soap opera
I’d stay Bold and Beautiful
As the world turns
Teaching the young and the Restless
and I’ll be back after these messages.
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