Celebration PAD 28-1

 

Holiday Season

 

That Christmas of ’81,

my tummy resembled

a Christmas turkey,

but we had burgers,

since my first was born

three days later.

During the holidays,

we have one more

reason to celebrate.

Remix PAD 27-3

 

Day 24, If you blank, added four sisters

 

If You Knew My Family

 

If you knew my family

of my childhood, you’d remember

my oldest sister, a leftie,

banned to the end of the kitchen table,

so she wouldn’t bump anyone.

 

You’d remember my second sister,

between dad and my third sister.

We had to speak carefully;

she was squeamish. I loved chicken skin,

but I couldn’t use those words.

 

You’d remember a little red-haired girl

making her way across

an ear of corn on the cob

and dinging at the end

like an old typewriter.

 

You’d remember me,

never heeding Mom’s warning

about tilting back my chair.

But I never fell and killed myself

like she thought I would.

 

You’d remember my little sister

crammed between mom and the leftie.

One time she put olives

on all of her fingers.

Funny things to remember.

Remix PAD 27-2

 Day 24 metaphor From free verse to rhyming verse

 

Reading and Writing

 

Reading: The jet that flies you

to faraway places

in the comfort of your chair,

and to meet new faces.

 

Time machine that transports you

back one to many years

to see long-ago people,

not bombarded by fears.

 

The magic that enables

to explore fantasy,

wild landscapes and characters

no one has ever seen.

 

The rocket that launches you

to Jupiter and Mars,

Or to the unexplored worlds

far beyond moon and stars.

 

Writing: Makes you jet pilot,

Time machine’s scientist,

Magician of the magic,

and Astronaut of space.

 

 

 

Remix of earlier poem PAD 27-1

 Day 9 Weird , from haiku to dizain

Accents

 

A Southern Baptist preacher came to town.

Began a church when friends and I were teens.

And we invited those who lived around.

About the Bible none of us knew beans,

But were enthusiastic, so it seems.

So summers, kids from south came to our aid,

And helped us with the church that we had made.

From north and south, we all had fun till through.

“Ya’all are weird they drawled,” and teased and played.

And we retorted, “Yins are so weird, too.”

Fire/Ice PAD 26-3

 Icicles

 

I cicles, like spears, hanging from the roof

C apturing the sun light

I admire them first

C old and gleaming

L ong and sparkly, bulgy and pointed

E nding with a crash

S ince I clear them away for safety.

fire/ice PAD 26-2

 Fire

 

F lames flickering and dancing

I nspiring while repelling

R adiating, illuminating

E nchanting, compelling

fire/ice PAD 26-1

 

Weather Warning

 

I walked around the park yesterday. Twice.

Not a flake of snow or patch of ice.

But the sky looks ominous this morning.

The weather man has sounded his warning.

No traveling today was his advice.