“homo sapiens”

 

 

  

 

Had taxonomists

had horse sense

we might not be 

“homo sapiens”.

PSC / 2018

#seventeenineighteen

 

Case of Whine

Case of Whine

Properly aged

and allowed to breathe

you will produce

a fine bouquet – sweet,

slightly fruity,

silky, spicy,

a fine balance

of heady and hearty;  

but, failing that,

the results may be

more volatile:

tart, tired, acidic, bitter,

even harsh, perhaps,

 with a hollow hint of

(dare I say it?)

sour grapes.

In the end,

what you ferment

is what you decant.

PSC / 2018

Telegraphic

Telegraphic

 ARRIVING SOON STOP 

WAIT FOR ME STOP 

LOVE YOU STOP 

LOVE 

ME 

DON’T 

STOP

PSC / 2018

 

Building Cairns

PSC / 2012

Building Cairns

No one’s left

who knows the whole.

What remains are but bits & pieces –

stories retold, old Polaroids,

 mementos, and family photos 

arranged, assembled like a jigsaw

including only those morsels

we’ve chosen to recall –

a recollection of smiling souvenirs,

a portrait purged of all the painful parts

an entire lifetime condensed

into a scrapbook

of keepsakes.

PSC / 2018

I'm Not Saying

PSC / 2018

Don’t ask

who dropped these jelly beans

and scattered grassy fluff;

nor who bestrew those wrappers

from some chocolate eggs,

and peeps & stuff.

The one who frittered bunny bits

will do some piper-payin’.

And I know

just who

did these deeds,

but let’s say,

I’m not sayin’.

PSC / 2018

Let the April 2018 PAD begin!  And thanks to Robert Lee Brewer, as always, 

for providing the daily prompts (link below) to keep all his poetic peeps poeming.   

Poetic-Asides web site