There was a brown bear from Slovenia
who had a bad case of anemia.
While his kin were vegetarian,
he ate campers and carrion —
Hope you don’t meet the iron-shy bear of Slovenia.
Tag Archives: poetry
POEM: The Ekstasis of a Warm Bed [in a Cold, Snowy Land]
-To watch powder cling to sill and muntin through the frosted panes,
but not be chilled by that crisp whiteness
-To slacken on the back of spastic release – lulled by discordant heartbeats,
while feeling that they — and all — are in perfect accord
-To drift into slumber with no urgency and to awaken noncommittally,
sinking ever deeper into mattress and mind
-To love the snow for its beauty
as much as for its lack of reach
POEM: Sitting Beside a River
Three River Haiku
POEM: Plummeting Arrow [Triolet]
POEM: Lulled into the End Times
Three Ugly Kyōka
Limerick of Slovakia
POEM: Unsuspecting: or, Lucretia’s Plight
He sits outside and tells the tale,
but never lets her know
the story features future her,
and hopes for a hero.
She’ll play the lover and the mother
made wise too late to fly —
a mark with many a booster
but not one true ally.
She’s too naïve, too laidback, and
under-classed to wrestle —
a jungle lamb who, thus, becomes
the bled and the vessel.
They’ll quibble over right and wrong
as she lays in the way,
and will conclude evil was done
too late in her last day.
And sitting on an upturned crate
she would never suspect
that a listener would become
this yarn’s shattered object.