1.
When you were born, you looked like a turtle -
a nose like the beak of Yertle. As you slid
through tunnels, overcoming the final hurdle,
to lay on the breast of your mother
to process the struggle; I longed
and watched with a tear of love - though
too timid to touch our tear of love.
Was I clean enough? Was I keen enough?
The nurses checked, and next I sat
in a chair and laughed, as I held you on my lap.
A delicate dance of excitement and fear.
I pressed you, dear, as near to my heart as I could.
Flowers flourished from the start of this personhood.
Scientists don't know how you've come to be grown.
Don't be intimidated by poems.
Words are easy to flow.
You already do this at 4-years old.
Monarchs on their thrones are toddlers on their toes.
Like, "Nanny, No! I won't do as I'm told!"
I want to be a father that is home.
I want to carve a daughter that is her own.
I've tried, and I try, and I'll try harder.
Words are nice, but don't heal wounds of the father.
A salve to save the overspray from my daughter
is what I would pray for if I trusted the name of the Father.
I've put my tongue on a collar.
I don't consider myself white or blue collar.
I like my shirts with a pocket and a collar.
My favorite thing to do with you is talk and color.
Be kind to the queen who sets your mind at ease.
Bring cheese or tea - keep your face clean.
Use "please" and "thank you", even though you're aging:
be polite, but don't lie, like - "OMG, that's amazing!"
My only warning is to stay warm when you're warring
- a cold muscle snaps back, ignoring fallout.
Walk outside when it's fall out.
On holidays, it's okay to go all out.
attacking from lacking understanding should be called out.
think of yourself as a tiger - playful till needing ire.
a touch from the dagger is painful and dire.
Yes, on your paw, too!
Be mindful of what you do.
Life moves in cycles, which time passes through.
Are you looking for clues? Sadly, me too.
Some are red in hue, others are colored blue.
No, not Blue's Clues, but clues meant for the true
you.
2.
On rhythm with charisma, an ill-mannered stigma.
Katanas slice through market prices and gorillas.
It's real nice to sit on hills watching the Aurora.
Are your thoughts boring into your thoughts?
Sun shine warms my crotch when I squat.
A cat naps under the black roses of hell.
Katniss is trapped from the writer's spell,
like Bela's bewitchment - a lover's peril.
May I interest you in a squirrel with a tail?
Upgrade with a quiver if you quarrel and a sail,
then take an oyster to give the pearl to a whale.
What choice is there? My belly must be fed well.
I've tasted your marrow - wouldn't save it for tomorrow.
The savages eat sorrow; I need milk with my Oreo I borrowed.
The dinghy is leaky; hole-poking braggadocio.
I'm on a yacht adding you to my portfolio.
Let me slow it down. I'm not trying to be cruel,
I just want you to follow my rules.
The right tools for the job are my mind and tongue.
The bright fool is a slob of meconium.
Vigilante ruleset; the swordmaster is zoning in.
Lords drool at the ignorant - lording over them.
I prefer flowers, pomp and circumstance.
I like the power in taking one thousand chances.
A little sweet-n-sour to keep the meal balanced.
An entreaty to a rendezvous with Persephone
is a summertime shower over me of golden glee.
Perhaps hidden in your lair alone, I wouldn't care
about the words you script. Inscribed where
they belong, in a crypt as decrepit
as the punk from whose mouth has spoken it.
I'd rather give you cash than my wrath.
Here's a few dollars for a trucker stop's bath.
Take cream for the rash and wear another mask,
so others won't laugh at your fashion.
You'd be better off in a coffin in Usher's mansion.
At least there, you'd be handsome.
A little fettered clamor to get a hands-on,
isn't what I'm into, but you do you, boo.
You can be in my crew, but they'd chew you up
and mark you as suspicious. Even bottom-feeder
fishes would be more delicious. Enlist in the army,
you're better a body, nutrition for the soil.
if you toil and toil, dreams never reach fruition.
you're barren of sustenance, via my dietician.
The goal is foiled under one strict condition:
an imposter in the quicksilver competition.
3.
A flower petal fairy zooms on her bike
an hour until scary croons come in sight
to bite at her wings of yellow daylight.
From dance to dash - a friction bright,
the moon swoons the doom of yellow's might.
The cricket's song is instructed strict.
A wicked throng of pitchforks and fire sticks.
Holding on to Abra-cadabra and fiddlesticks.
Magic in a moment is science in the next.
Fooled by a hex, then gobbledygook text.
A leaf rests on a forgotten toy chest.
The patio is littered with cigarettes.
Torn by a blackened swan's pirouette.
The look of brook trout in a fisher's net.
A mantle frozen from mismatched pillow sets.
Family portraits emblazoned as silhouettes.
A bell in the distance, expels a breath of wellness.
A ringing persistence of health and wellness.
Snow flurries flirting with fox furries;
Olive trees blurting out toxicities
In a hurry to assert the hegemony.
A tax-free spending spree of lawyer fees,
pre-written amendments to the testimony.
A process pretending to work with integrity.
Technology is betterment, somehow, allegedly.
Waterfalls are wonderful sales:
"the gods of water are felled!"
Save the simulacra from inherent crumbling.
Pave the way with Chakras and spirit mumbling.
Increase the profits with quality tumbling.
On a daisy with a bumble-bee bumbling.
a faint rumble of living free is bubbling
Orchestras obfuscate a working, zero'd-in focus.
Oligarchs orchestrate a twerking hocus-pocus.
Ambiance alleviates the ghosts of locusts -
a friend to touch the shoulders on is potent.
Resting near a spring of light is golden,
Heroes fight even as their warrior fire smolders.
Fly-over the burial, perceive burning boulders.
A robin's shell is dusted cobalt;
A robber's hell is busted in-vault.
Lava walkers love water like woks;
Suave talkers sway teachers like rocks.
Corrupted by a persistent invasion of thoughts.
Consider the gift of gray knitted socks.
Each nose of snot carries their own Pandora's box.