Anthony Watkins's Blog, page 45

Love as a Bicycle

Its four am

and I have four choices

I could try to sleep

I could wake her

I could ride my own bike

or get up and write a poem.

 

I am up

because I cannot sleep

and I want to have

a little juice in the tank.

 

Its hard enough

to keep up on foot

when she is pedaling so fast

 

I cannot run on empty

so I sit and write

and wait.

 

She stirs. 

 

Now available!

Eleven Short Words

I wrote twelve hundred lines

Full of big words and self reflective 

Phrasings answering back

To poets from a century

Nay a millenia ago. 

 

I published it far and wide,

A tribute to my cleverness

And no one read a line.

The girl goes to the shore

And reflective of the hardness 

and temporal-ness of life

She takes a stick 

And writes in the crumbly sand.

 

Eleven words to be washed away

But a low flying plane

Carried a love sick boy

He leaned out the window 

and snapped the shot.

 

Soon it spread

Viral, as they say.

 

My epic forgotten,

Her eleven short words

Remembered for all time:

 

Come with me 

by the sea

Let us be

Sand again

Ess Rhymes with Tee

One assumes everyone has seen

The Music Man

and everyone remembers

the great speech

where the instigator

tells the town

the pee rhymes with tee

and tee stands for trouble

so they need a band

to keep the kids out of the pool hall.

 

So when I tell my wife that she is Trouble

and I know this,

because her name is Suzanne

and ess rhymes with tee

she insists they do not

but I say she needs to expand

her definition of rhyme.

 

She says there are rules

but I say we make them

the rules are what we say

the rule are.

 

The rules are the rules

the rules

are.

Soft Green Bank

Cherry branches

offer madness

never mind the blossoms

 

I saw a sign once

advertising springtime

in Paris

 

and I went

and it wasn’t

though beautiful not spring

 

and yet unpromoted

a soft green bank

on a cold clear spring

 

no one tells you about

the spiders

alligators and snakes

 

softly the canoe rows

and the thrashing

is completely off screen

Coffee Beans are Black

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