Who Blank, PAD 14-1

 Who Thinks Poem is a Verb?

 

Not English teachers

Not students

Not dictionaries

Not Google

 

Not doctors, lawyers, mathematicians

Not butchers, bakers, candlestick makers

Not many, comparatively.

 

Who thinks poem is a verb?

People who poem. 

Dialogue PAD 13-3 , Quintain

 Revision

 

“My words don’t seem to come out right today.”

“Well then, it’s good that they're not set in stone.”

“So let’s forget this and go out to play.”

“A fine idea then come back to hone

your words and write them yet another way.”

Dialogue PAD 13-2, Quintella

 

That Smile

 

She spoke to me with sounds that slurred

And smiled a magnificent smile.

I knew I’d have to guess a while.

Sometimes, it seemed so hard, absurd,

To dialogue without a word.

dialogue PAD 13-1, questionku

 

I said, “Look here.

“A trip to Egypt.”

"Why not?" she asks. "Let's go!"

Color, PAD 12-3, free verse

 

Colors of Costa Rica

 

Blue skies and sea

Red hibiscus, jasper, red-hot lava

Red eyes and toes of a red-eyed tree frog

Yellow of a toucan’s chest and bill

Orange fruit: oranges, jacote, nance, granadilla

Browns of sloths, monkeys, old buildings

Five hundred thousand plus plants

Green, green and more green

Color, PAD 12-2, Quatern

 Town’s Closing Imminent

 

The oakbrush leaves have fallen down.

But why is this such a concern?

There once was green, red, orange, then brown.

The kids play there to grow and learn.

 

Each has a fort in which to hide.

But oakbrush leaves have fallen down.

Had privacy though side by side.

A bustling, cool, make-believe town.

 

The king and queen each wear a crown.

And they still rule there even though

The oakbrush leaves have fallen down.

The town will close with too much snow.

 

The handyman built furniture.

Among us it is quite renown.  

But to the barn it will transfer.

The oakbrush leaves have fallen down.

 

 

Color, PAD 12-1, quadrille (44 syllables)

 

Sunshine and Lemons

 

Yellow doors, curtains, trim

Reminding me of sunshine and lemons

Just like the time we spent  

Caring for our first special-needs client  

Sunshine and lemons

Happiness and misery