Jade-Pandora

In rows of citrus trees the workers tend   My fam’ly’s enterprise a century. Among Valencia where I would fend, And since I came of age they all could see— The girl-turned-woman child is like an orange, With flesh as smooth & scented of its bloom. Don’t ever taste the skin of burnished orb; Must leave the tree, deny of its perfume. They also knew the foreman had his sight To pluck the succulent from off the tree. He could not reckon such a dare would bite, How willingly to tempt the Fates was he. Yet to his nerve & swagger I was drawn In spite the station of my pedigree. And so it was one day at break of dawn We met beneath the tree he kne...

You think that water is the color blue,   That ocean currents imitate the wind.  And where it ends beyond the height of clouds,   That’s where the sky of me will turn to black   Where neither air nor astronauts may live.   Yes I’m the sky and all the rest is air.   If not for me there’d be no atrium,   To hold within the weather and the rain   From where the cumulus and stratus play.   The teeming life that feeds on coral beds,   The orca pods who prey on lesser whales,   As porpoise with their echos guide their young.   The snow on summits where no birds can reach.   The forest at its base, bears hibernate.   The sockeye who return from w...

(a nursery tale)             Near a sleek interstate of the new Now         Of Today’s city glass towers’ gleam,         From the day’s perfect rise of Know How,         And Tomorrow of manicured dreams:               Stood the sprawl of an old shanty town         Where lush trees & green grass never grew;         Shown no mercy; a dry trodden frown         Like the tough shanty dwellers it drew.               But for all of a dirty-faced soul         Passing time in the cardboard & shake,         Moved an odd, mystic child of the shoal         Picking mussels & shells for the take.               And the name, Periwinkle, or Jill,         ...

There’s sometimes —   When the coffee flows     When the showers fall,   And I don’t feel a thing.     ‘Cause that’s when —   You would reach for me   When I hear you call,   And I’m remembering.     It’s that time —   Then I feel the eyes   Of a summer’s night,   Peering through autumn’s spring.     Taking me —   Through the years ago   In a lover’s flight,   Longing to hear you sing.       You know that     Love’s a case of hit and miss —   When the moon is high     When the sun is low,   And sometimes, baby     I need more words than this.       Searching for —   More than just a need   That I hope you feel,   Trying to reach the sky....

There comes a time   When lovers are just friends without a means.     It’s not too long   Before you find romance is just a scene.     Reality   Becomes a fact that steals all your dreams.     And then they die   When you believe there’s nothing in between...       You make me ecstatic —   Even when I’m feelin’ sad   Just because I know the truth.     You got me ecstatic —   Desperation setting in,   Has no bite without a tooth.     You spell out ecstatic —   In the dictionary there’s   A picture just like you.     I feel you, ecstatic —   Taking over me and there’s   Just nothing I can do...         There comes a time   When lovers are j...

( a Sonnet ) 🎼A boy dropped in a dime and chose B2, The bubbles in the juke lit up the place. He grabbed his date & show’d me what to do, I swayed with love’s abandon on my face. 🎼To hear our favorite song for the first time,; ’Twas never meant to be the one we heard. To dance w’ perfect guy in perfect rhyme, I listen’d to, lip-syncing ev’ry word. 🎼The way he studied me in like was such; He loved the way the music fill’d my dress. We moved around without a single touch; A curious reaction nonetheless.🎼We often change the words of how it’s sung;   This song will always be our number one.  

30/30 Loosen’d bondage, silken laces, Sin in hallow’d satin places, Tender kisses tasting traces From her lover’s oral graces.Drifting dunes like sandy beaches, What he wants of her he reaches. In the scent & shade of peaches Is the sermon that she preaches.Leaning forward gently touching Trails of salty tears of weeping. Render’d lover I am dreaming; Moon has secret, am I sleeping? As his breath meets w’ her sighing, Pressing closest, deepest finding; Yes, my love, you have me flying As the moon, with us, is rising.

29/30 (With a smattering of Alphabetical Alliterations)         THE BARNSTABLE STOCK & TRADE       (Founded circa: 1822) $1.25 US, $1.62 CAN/a copy.       Circulation: 8,703. Add 12 more if you count the cardboard settlement on the river bottom under the 4th Street bridge.         Today’s forecast was set for hot.  This evening will be less hot.   There’ll be a quarter moon on the wane.  Tomorrow’s first light will be at 5:32AM.     Bringing you the latest in our daily evening special edition.              = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =         Some of you might still be wondering why we went exclusively evening last month....

28/30 It’s ev’ry month I come collect my pay For po’ems I submit each thirty days, With bottle caps’ & buttons’ colors gay I bank inside a jar and hide away. And when it’s time I add a little more, Then jog into the DA general store To parlay w’ the clerk what I can score Who smiles & asks me what the rush is for.I say there is no time for me to waste, Apologizing for my shopper’s haste. I need to buy a toothbrush I misplaced To rid my teeth of food I still can taste. But tell me of your specials for the day I can avail, and then I must away. “I’ve china glass that chime when breezes sway And paper parasols that give you shade. Huarache sa...

27/30 The honey-nut variety   From half a dozen of its ilk.   Just bone dry without any milk,   No almond, soy or coconut.   I honestly can’t say the words.   I’m eating it like raisin turds.   There goes one flying by my face,   I tried to toss it, missed a space.   I’ll never find it on the rug,   These bastards do me like a drug!   And 6 months later, petrified,   I’ll find it laying where it died.   It tried committing suicide,   With other brothers mummified.   It’s really gross, I’ll relocate   Just ‘cause of something that I ate.   I’ll catch my death because I froze   In my car eating Cheerios!