Cookie Monster – The Bunny

Our rabbit, Cookie, died last night. This is about her. Ode to Cookie Monster There was a young bunny That found nothing funny 'Til she found a friend Near summer's end That made her life sunny. This young bunny, it's said, Went to the field with dread But ate up the grass Showed all her … Continue reading Cookie Monster – The Bunny

A Cento for Your Thoughts

Hey, why not ask for more? Baby, that’s the way I feel. You can stand me at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down. Take a lesson from the strangeness you feel. Fate must have a reason, why else endure the season of the hollow soul? The waiting is the hardest part, But … Continue reading A Cento for Your Thoughts

The Pond

This is a Portmanteau* story. I've been obsessed with portmanteaus, and this is the latest manifestation. It's a work in progress. She was a cortle, not a bratle, hovering under floaps, her friends the, Orish, swasting around her. The splurgling of her woret was beautilodius! But abwa, out of her woret, was the Dorld. The … Continue reading The Pond

The Ridiculosity

This is a homophonic translation of Non sono in queste rive by Torquato Tasso. I'm sharing it because I laughed myself silly when I read the finished product. The idea is to find a poem in a foreign language and read it aloud and write down the words that it sounds like. It's a great … Continue reading The Ridiculosity

Some Kind of Love

Soft as a sigh, light as feather It bonds them together. If bullies did loom The other lowered the boom. At the leaving of a spouse Sharing a grouse. Through motorcycles and sickness They became each other’s witness. You can depend On your sib ‘til the end. I don't usually write verse. It took a … Continue reading Some Kind of Love