Happy Halloween!

People cook this

Ubiquitous fall

Melon, this

Pepo, in pies, or use

Knives to carve faces

In them to light Halloween

Night places.

An addiction?

Here is

An example of

The evil

Religions claim

Exists; why then

Do they not desist?

Ocean in a pot

Coastal bivalves

Lie steaming in

A pot while kumara, and

Maybe chicken, get good and hot.

Best with sweet corn on the side

And for dessert, apple pie, this

Kind of annual autumn feast for

Everyone is quite a treat.

Thanks for the inspiration, Annie G.

It also separates items

Clauses cause pauses

Of a syntactic kind; they’re

Meandering thoughts

Marked off by this sign,

A neat little dot with a tail-like line.

Annually

Noting the special day when

Nuptials

Invited family and friends to

View true love in an

Exquisite promise to

Remain together for me brings

Sadness. Too short

A time we had; I will

Remember

You always.

Honoring Monsieur Henri

Precious furry, marshmallow friend, we

Enjoyed your company until

The end.

Eyes

Sensing visually the

Exact location, they followed the

Envoy without hesitation.

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She buzzes

Her warp-speed

Undulating wings

Mesmerize; she

Metabolizes

Instant sips of

Nectar in the

Golden

Blink of an eye.

Inches in size, her heart

Races at a pace naturally

Devised.

A Quechuan perspective

Humans of the earth

Unite! We ALL are

Mud with no name;

Blessed now with life and

Love and light,

Essentially we are the same.

Good memories

Mother when brief

Offers a palindrome; she

Makes a house a warm, loving home. 

Existence is but an illusion?

Where else in this universe

Of stars and spheres

Revel such beings as

Live on earth? We

Dream for all we’re worth.

Wash your mouth out with…

Slippery when wet,

Of different shapes and sizes, the

Aromatic cleansing bar

Profanity bowdlerizes.

Just the facts, please

Fiery rhetoric

Enraptures, enrages,

Regardless how

Vacuous the content may be. Let’s

Open our minds, really think,

Really see.

Zzzz...

Berth, bunk, or hammock or

Earthen plot, any of them bring

Dreams we enjoy – or not.

I bet you’d like one…

Select two slices of bread

And

Now

Decide on a spread and

What to put

In between – it

Could be anything.

Here’s to that Earl, long since dead!

Yellow Jacket

Silently I cycled, enjoying

The autumn day, when

I rode into an insect

Not meaning to be in my way. Poor little

Guy got trapped in my shirt. Yikes! That

Sure did hurt!

Relevant remnants

Terrible winds

Yowl across the

Pacific and

Heave seas

Onto our shore.

Oh, be safe my friends;

Nature will not be ignored.

Luster

Glittering chemical element

Of significant worth, man’s ardent

Love and hunger for you has

Destroyed many on earth.

Mourning

Porphyry is likely the

Ur-word of what became a

Royal hue;

Prince, that artist of 

Legend has

Earned his eternal due.

Displacement

Ever since

Unrobed Archimedes

Rose up from his bath,

Everyone

Knew he’d found something

At last.

Thanks, S.T., for reading this word out loud and inspiring today’s post.

Lewd dude

Inexcusable is his

Nasty, tawdry speech

Denigrating women!

Even his cohorts

Flee. He

Embraces a

New low that

Sustains an already

Insupportable

Base for society; is

Lasciviousness

Electable?

Triumphant?

Corrupt morally is

A misogynist man who in his

Empire brags that he can

Seize her wherever he will

And be the leader on the hill – the 

Republic be damned.

Pliable mind

Now our

Encrypted neural scripts

Undergo a

Rewriting process,

One of

Purposeful response to

Life; we

Are sentient beings, we recognize

Strife.

The key

Is

Compassion for self;

If we can reroute old pathways,

Then

Yesterday’s gone. We think today.

It won’t cause wrinkles

When

Happiness

Inspires a

Song

Then purse your

Lips and tootle

E’er long. 

Once I overheard a man whistling a lovely tune in the grocery store as he considered the apples. I innocently praised him on his ability. His wife stepped up to me in a flash and declared, “Whistling causes wrinkles!” 

Potentially

Proven in time to be

Overrated, those who

Wield it are initially

Elated, only to be

Robbed of it and hated.

Susurration

When soft murmur or

Hissing

Is heard, someone is

Speaking

Private words, which then

Evokes investigation, and

Rarely with any hesitation.  

Very old word

Negate a statement

Or a verb – that’s

The function of this very old word.

Anitya

In

Multiple, maybe

Parallel

Ellipses, our days

Reveal constant

Movement,

A dynamic of

Never-

Ending

Nuanced moments of

Change.

ENJOY!

Rollin'

Balancing on two wheels

Is already a

Kind of feat; riding like the wind is

Especially sweet.

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Decision

Considering options,

Honoring voices –

Or at least hearing them out –

Is a gift we  

Can choose to use,

Even when in doubt.

The reed

Accommodating the

Dare of facing change,

A

Person of

This versatile nature

Attunes to plans

B, C, or D, or

Lets them go altogether – an

Enlightening way to be.