Three Word Wednesday: depart, ignite, rotten
in “honor” of TAKS week
sparks ignite
tiny fires
in the dark
a scan would show
where the heat lies
potential can be measured
by bubbled pages with
number two pencils
dot the eyes and cross the tees
this one is rotten
it says so right here
depart from rigid and
flow with time and circumstance
find the cure the end
justify the means
the average the mundane
no magic here
no one can pull out that sword
where’s merlin when we need him
spit the words out and tell us the answer
do you know
are you cognizant
ambivalent of the requisite
documentation do you have
your papers in order
to cross the border
the gulls are singing and waves
and sun and seasoned wind
time tells but not the how
or why look into the water
seers scry and love rounds
the corners the sharp
edges pray hedges around
the knight fails
and the beggar rules
the house of cards tell
the tale the dice fell
no prescription for what ails
just love and hope
give it get it want it
need it learn it
earn it
summer heals all
Congrats to BunnyGirl – – can’t wait to read her new book Maelstrom!
Boy, I sure don’t miss standardized tests, although I don’t think they were as all-pervasive in my youth as they are now. Teachers still had time to teach us things that wouldn’t be on anyone’s test, and that was the best part.
Thanks for the shout-out regarding Maelstrom. Funny that in all my years of writing post-apocalyptic spec fiction, the novel that actually got picked up by a publisher was the comic piece I wrote after Hurricane Ike, when I was not in the mood (to put it mildly) to write about post-disaster living. There’s a lesson there, I’m sure…
Whatever the reason – I love the concept and girl – you are funny! That’s such a gift. I am so ready to get my hands on it.
Quite a maelstrom of thoughts here, too. Excellently done.
Yeah I love the pace of this, and that bit about ‘seers scry’, I’d not come across that word scry before. Nicely done!
I do love that word – glad you enjoyed it.
Well done on the poetry Dee! Bring on summer!
Thanks Jay – I am more than ready and the kiddos are counting down the minutes!
I dreaded those tests but enjoyed your stream of consciousness.
Finally back with the living: the air at the Tobin Trail Thursday was filled some kind of pollen that was anathema; the hot breeze did not help things either. Friday night’s prom and much more dancing than is my usual wont (around students, that is), left me wrecked yesterday. Better now, some lazy Sunday time to get caught up on the latest Dee poems.
Funny how something as rotten and evil as TAKS tests can still yield a very fine poem:
in the dark
a scan would show
where the heat lies
I like these, too:
do you know
are you cognizant
ambivalent of the requisite
documentation do you have
your papers in order
Did you cut a line that used to be in the space between the two stanzas? I may have just hallucinated it, the first time I read this Thursday night. At any rate, the stanza break works nicely, to free the poem (and poet, and kids) from the tyranny of the bubbled page.