PAD 21 strange

Strange

What you think normal

I think strange

You like things the way they are

I like change

You like to stay put

I like my travels

One stays calm

While the other unravels

You work away

While I stay home

You get things hopping

While I write a poem

PAD 20 wordle: relent, horrendous, artifact, lagoon, wobble, plunder

Catch Up

I will not relent

at my horrendous

to-do list

stacked up

like artifacts in a museum,

though I’d rather be whisked away

to a peaceful lagoon.

My determination won’t wobble.

I’ll go after my tasks

like pirates after plunder.

PAD 19 thing

Wrinkle Release

House work is not my cup of tea.

I’ll tell you what’s been a blessing for me.

It’s brought to my mind a little peace.

Just a spray bottle of wrinkle release.

I don’t have to iron, just spray it on,

And like magic the wrinkles are gone.

I take it with me wherever I travel

So of crumpled clothes I can’t cavil.

But I’ll tell you something funny I did.

It may make you laugh like a little kid.

One day, when the air was stinky and stale,

I thought deodorizer would improve the smell.

So I spayed it from the front to the back,

But then I discovered this startling fact.

I hadn’t sprayed air freshener at all,

But the wrinkle release up and down the hall.

It wasn’t deodorizer that I had sprinkled,

but at least now my carpet’s not wrinkled. 

PAD 18 idea

Balance

You think out of the box.

True, sometimes it’s so very

far out of the box

that it’s beyond practical.

I go to you

to see the big picture.

I’m a person who likes to pinpoint

the exact truth,

while you explore the boundaries.

You bring me balance. 

PAD 17 Blank is for the birds, Ode to blank

Flight is for the Birds

Especially when

Evil lurks about

and you have to

stand in stocking feet,

put keys, phone, toiletries,

shoes, jacket, laptop, belt

in tubs in seconds,

pass through metal detectors,

and then scramble

to collect all your stuff

and put on your shoes

before the guy behind you

runs you over.

Oh, I wish for wings!

So here’s an ode to you

as you stay home with the duo,

gallantly allowing me to gallivant.

But I wish you could

fly away with  me.

PAD 16 Haunted

Haunted

From our many moves and travels,

we are haunted by hundreds of people.

Occasionally you’ll say, “I wonder

how what’s-his-name is doing,

the one with the bright green eyes.”

I can picture him and his family

and I calculate how old

their kids would be now.

The pastor with all those boys.

The old man with the sense of humor.

The funny lady who played the piano.

I wonder if we wander about in their thoughts

like they do ours. I hope it’s a good haunting,

and not like the phantoms of horror flicks. 

PAD 15 Ritual

Ritual

R eally now, do you want to do the same things day in, day out?

I agree with the adage that variety is the spice of life.

T oday, you’ll get up and do the same thing with the

U nderstanding that all will end eventually..

A nd where will those rituals be then?

L et’s do something different.