Last Cupcake (2016 April PAD - Day 13)

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Last Cupcake

He always called me

his cupcake –

his favorite sweet thing

in the entire world.

And that man

loved his sweets.

It wasn’t until

after the wedding

I found out

I wasn’t

his first cupcake –

or his second,

for that matter.

Hell, I still wasn’t

his only cupcake.

And that man

loved his sweets.

But my Glock and me

we made sure

(pretty damn fast)

I was his last.

PSC / 2016

 Penned for Day 13 of Robert Lee Brewer's April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge. 

Assignment: "Last (blank)"

For more, check out his site at:  2016-april-pad-challenge-day-13

 

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Inexplicable (2016 April PAD - Day 12)

photo by PSC / 2009

Inexplicable

 

She

was serious as the grave –

her fancy never tickled,

never blitzed (nor

bombed or pickled);

severe, unsmiling, grim,

not ever (even once)

given to whim.

He

was nutty as a fruitcake –

wholly daft (and only half-baked),

comical, absurd,

feather-brained (or bird-)

pixilated, whimsical,

goofy, giddy, giggly and

completely eyebrow-wiggly.

A ridiculous blind date

set up by friends –

a joke, a gaffe;

but they (yin and yang)

had the last laugh:

so totally contrary

fifty years later,

still happily married.

PSC /2016

 Penned for Day 12 of Robert Lee Brewer's April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge. 

Assignment: a serious and/or silly poem 

For more, check out his site at:  2016-april-pad-challenge-day-12

 

  

Storming The Keep (2016 April PAD - Day 11)

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Storming The Keep

brick by brick

she built her citadel –

defenses strong,

(turrets, towers,

curtain wall)

impassable,

(gatehouse,

drawbridge, moat)

impenetrable

(palisade, portcullis

crenellations); she’d

believed

she was

unapproachable,

un-encroach-able,

impervious,

impregnable

and yet…

PSC /2016

Penned for Day 11 of Robert Lee Brewer's April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge.
Assignment: a defensive poem
For more, check out his site at:  2016-april-pad-challenge-day-11

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Anger… (2016 April PAD - Day 10)

Anger…

… just because it’s easy

to incite

doesn’t make it right.

No matter who

(or where) you are,

instinctual

“fight or flight”

will only get you

so far.

Such

mere vitriolic

hatred

isn’t nearly

quite enough.

In the end,

our perseverance

must depend

on tougher stuff.

In this world of

raging anger

(where the raving

think they’re sane)

empathy, love,

kindness, compassion –

these are the weapons

that make us

human(e).

PSC / 2016

Penned for Day 10 of Robert Lee Brewer's April PAD (Poem-A-Day) Challenge.
Assignment: an emotion (titled) poem
For more, check out his site at:  2016-april-pad-challenge-day-10