Lucky
jack-o-lantern
carved and gutted hollow
only has to fake a smile for
one night.
October 30, 2009
Pumpkin Envy
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October 27, 2009
Mixed Mediums (A Play on Shakespeare)
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Oh good grief! Is this what it has come to??? Did I really write this???
This is the result of watching an MSNBC documentary, reading a book on poetic form, digesting a little Shakespeare, and mixing in a bit of melancholic obsession with the fall. (At least that’s what I’m going to tell The Bard when he haunts me in my dreams for sacrilege.) I’m also going to blame Linda Cassidy Lewis for commenting that “October rages.” (jk, Linda 
)
My husband hates this poem. I’ll consider that a compliment given his eternally optimistic disposition.
*with my apologies to The Bard
Serial killer Out, out brief candle!
Severs victims limb from limb
…Life’s but a walking shadow
October rages Struts…. then heard no more.
October 26, 2009
Apology
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Ashamed
of words unsaid
I whispered sorry
to a stone.
The crisp of leaves
scoffed at my penance
when I walked away
alone.
October 17, 2009
Form (An Opinion)
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Form- noun
1. ingenious scheme
2. designed to measure one
3. poet’s bent for thinking outside
4. the box
