Off into the sunset …

96.          In the Storm

Roiling and swirling,
Rising and falling,
Gaining in power
Malevolent force.
Slow-building mounds
Of liquid momentum,
Tilting and tumbling
Rhythms irregular,
Pounding, propelling,
Surface in turmoil
Hurled hard against
The teacup’s white walls.

2 August 2013

Comments: I’m not totally convinced this succeeds, not least because I had to be careful not to overdo the “scale” of the waves and storm for most of […]

95.          Advertisement

Would you be in search of a bard?
Poet for hire?
Words that inspire?
Then, here, let me give you my card.
For any occasion at all,
Give me a theme
Choose rhyming scheme,
Allow me a moment to scrawl.
If you would like proof I can write—
Samples to test
At your request—
Or check out my work on this site.

29 July 2013

Comments: […]

94.          Last Hope

To be asleep by midnight’s chime
Just recently became my vow
But I will not succeed this time
Unless I finish writing NOW.

1 August 2013

Comments: That was finished at 12:58am*. Houston, we have a problem. I fear there is NO hope.

* And given that it surely didn’t take 58 minutes to write this poem, there […]

93.          Give Up

I’ve struggled, been slow,
But pressed on somehow;
With just eight to go
I can’t give up now.

28 July 2013

Comments: [ALERT: Temporal confusion abounds in the following account, which was written on July 28 and then modified five days later at the time of publication. I have edited it so that it makes sense for […]

91.          Drowning

Although it is a heartfelt wish
To swim as freely as a fish
And dive below without a nervous dread;
I find, instead, I shut my eyes
No matter how I strategize
To keep them open, staring straight ahead.

And so my time beneath the wave,
Is short, because I’m not so brave,
The reason for my timid state I share:
It really doesn’t […]

I don’t think that anyone’s wondered
If we’re getting near post five hundred
When I press “submit”
This one will be it …
Provided the count hasn’t blundered.

30 July 2013

I had thought about some sort of extended celebration/reminiscing/analysis together with a beautiful photo and some wit, but I haven’t posted today’s “100 poems challenge” poem, the materials for […]

88.          Pain

You can’t believe the agony
When ears first notice that
The note that should have been a G
Is barely a G flat.

25 July 2013 (well, technically the 26th)

Comments: I had a variety of possible ideas for this one, but some of them were too serious, and I was “serioused out” after 82. Can You Hear […]