Chet R. Chieze

Beau Ninn

Gord Enuph

Yes, artists tend to notice the fine details. When presented with creative flare, these observations can make powerful connections with an audience. As your expression here has done with me, Mig.

I vote. I'm adamant about my position on key issues. The way I vote and my position on issues are indicative of my world-view. If the same is true of someone I'm considering dating, and the scenery in my world-view distorts when superimposed with theirs... we're probably incompatible.

Thanks for your time and interest folks. I appreciate your feedback.

Head above waves when I walk on stilts
and cloud the sea spray stirring the silt.

When the wiseguy's shoes tug on my legs
dragging me deeper this diver begs
a mermaid to share air with a kiss
to resuscitate the tanks with buoyant breaths.

Lifting me slowly from the murky depths
light shafts glint off her iridescent scales,
beams a shade brighter every thrust of her tail.

Pierce through the surface turn my head and see,
a cement mixing thug lurking waiting to sink me.

Dix N.Cox

Thanks, Robin and Julie.

It's good to see you are sharing your writing again, Robin.

Toes stop at the foot
of buried corpse holes,
mustn't trample dead coots
with kids and soccer goals.

Tombstone eulogies gush
chipped script effigies
mouthy cadavers hushed
embalmed expired retirees.

Thought bubbles inflated
with the stink breath hot air
of closet poets frustrated
drawing comics in dark lairs.

Ordained mortician preachers
recite trite pamphlet ads
selling creature comfort features
they exaggerated a tad.

Silk lined wooden crate
hermetic gasket seals it,
formaldehyde filled veins
throat too tight for pealing.

Crematorium furnace sparks
within it the sickness burns,
rebuild cemeteries into parks
put grandma's bone flakes in an urn.

I really appreciate it when my writing is acknowledged. Thanks y'all.

Barack Adedd

Corn kernel husk scraping my gums
honey roasted peanut butter under
my thumbnail, Ritz cracker crumbs
dusting my bed sheet
empty popcorn bag ballooning
in the fan flow on my TV tray table.

Swish of water from my Nicola Tesla glass
this stubborn skin still stuck in my teeth
gargle of coffee from my Gonzo mug
to rinse my gullet and flood fill my stomach.
A caffeinated pool for this hodgepodge to float in
some parts per million to dilute bile acid.

Ogre grumbles quiet the beast is fed,
now a few hours of shut eye
switched off the riot and laid down my head.

Thanks for the support guys.

Galloping galleon bucking gales
drowning stallion trotting water,
humpbacked whales
swimming swift from slaughter.
Command chain rift, mutiny bound
scuttled cutter sandbar aground.
Hagfish and squid, krill and flounder
dorsal fin rising circles around her,
chubby sailors splinting the keel -
she ain't built like Noah's ark,
great white hunters in search of a meal
their quivering blubber now food for a shark.

A. Jude Ickader

Trek resonates more with me, but I like elements of both.

I appreciate the encouraging motivational themes you write about, Aatheera.

Ty Neenuts