One More For The Road

For Totally Optional Prompts - Penultimate


PENULTIMATE

Last one, I promise...
Unless I decide to have
One more for the road

Walk The Walk

For Monday Poetry Train Revisited

And NaiSaiKu challenge?

And The American Sandwich





A NaiSaiKu, an American Sandwich and finally, an American Sentence



Again you ask me
Who? What? When? Where? How? Why? Which?
ENOUGH ALREADY
Who? What? When? Where? How? Why? Which?
Don’t ask me again

I will not deny I understand the reason why you went away.
As you closed the door, I tried to speak, but there was nothing left to say.
Lifelong love was just another broken promise you made yesterday.

If you talk the talk, you have to walk the walk, or that’s the price you pay.

GLARE, LUSTER, THREAT

FOR THREE WORD WEDNESDAY


RADIANCE

Lustre of fools gold
The glare of publicity
Disguises the threat

DESCRIBE A BALL OF YARN

FOR OBJECTS OF IMITATION


ROAD TO NOWHERE

Return, to pick up the thread
of a forgotten story.
Fibres of exposed loose end
provoke undisciplined start;
vague, indirect. Compel me
to take the long way around,
and round again, in circles;
ever decreasing circles
surrounding the hidden core.
Uncovered; plot unravelled,
I’ll know you, outside and in.
That faded exterior,
gateway to your heart; as yet
unseen, untouched…Get ready,
here it comes; the dead centre
…And it’s over…just like that.

CLOSED

FOR NaiSaiKu Challenge?


All those billions!
No new players for CITY
TRANSFER WINDOW CLOSED
No new players for CITY
All those billions!

School Days

FOR TOTALLY OPTIONAL PROMPTS

HOMEWORK

Thank God for ‘Dinner Ladies’
Part-time school time lunchtime help
Taught me more than some teachers
With their helpful dining hints

‘Drink your milk; avoid rickets’
‘Fruit and veg prevent scurvy’

Friday afternoon homework
Biology teacher says
‘Assignment for this weekend
Write about these two subjects

Calcium deficiency
Shortage of Vitamin C’

Thank God for ‘Dinner Ladies’

Crazy Beautiful

FOR NaiSaiKu
AND THE AMERICAN SANDWICH


NaiSaiKu

From August to May
At a stadium near you
THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
At a stadium near you
From August to May


(SAVE THE) AMERICAN SANDWICH

Protest singers strum guitars, tap tambourines, while protests go unheard.
Their folk-melodies range from the sublime to the totally absurd.
From ‘Combat Global Warming, Now’ to ‘Save The American Sandwich.’