User Poetry

[Dee Q]

A friend of mine gave birth to her baby girl several weeks ago. I wrote this poem and read it to her as a gift. Forgive my bad English...

Oh baby, my baby
My little sparkling ruby
Let me sing thee a lullaby
Until in thy dreams thou fly

Then fly up high my darling
Where the stars are twinkling
Happy – they are greeting thee
And happy when thou come to me…

I give thou this life - precious
And thou give me a new one – marvelous
Lives filled with joy and wonderment
In this sweet home, we’re never despondent…

“Can thou feel the love tonight?”
Thou, me and dad – we’re all alight
With adoration and tenderness
Oh, this moment – pleasingly timeless…

[kennyc]

Nice.

[kennyc]

Dancing Woman


She dances through the park
in a world of her own
to music others can’t hear

She looks in your eye
with a Mona Lisa smile
then dips and twirls and steps

With snaps of her fingers
she side-steps along
forward, back then turn


Kenny A. Chaffin – 11/4/2013


P. S. Not much poetry going on here, but here's a try at one, first in a long time..

[xxxxxx]

I do love Poetry

[xxxxxx]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Dancing Woman


She dances through the park
in a world of her own
to music others can’t hear

She looks in your eye
with a Mona Lisa smile
then dips and twirls and steps

With snaps of her fingers
she side-steps along
forward, back then turn


Kenny A. Chaffin – 11/4/2013


P. S. Not much poetry going on here, but here's a try at one, first in a long time..

Would you like listen my poetry ?

[kennyc]

My writing is not going real well this month, but here's a couple of poems:



Timeframes


The dinosaurs (other than birds)
died 65 million years ago

Man himself has existed
only a few ten thousands of years

In 65 million years (given our current state)
can even the bones of our cities survive?


Kenny A. Chaffin – 11/18/2013




The One


Many leaves have fallen
upon the garden path

a gentle breeze touches my cheek
and a single leaf takes a dance



Kenny A. Chaffin – 11/20/2013

[Namekuseijin]

hey, kenny, Timeframes reminded me of the opening to Lovecraft's short story The Nameless City:

When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was travelling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon, and afar I saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corpse may protrude from an ill-made grave. Fear spoke from the age-worn stones of this hoary survivor of the deluge, this great-grandmother of the eldest pyramid; and a viewless aura repelled me and bade me retreat from antique and sinister secrets that no man should see, and no man else had ever dared to see.

the guy certainly wrote quite poetic prose.

[kennyc]

Thanks! That makes me think of Dhalgren by Delany

[kennyc]

Stillborn

The conditions were right
Water, sulfur, carbon and light
but something was wrong
the core stopped spinning
no magnetic arms to wrap themselves
‘round the planet’s nascent life.

So the solar wind in Hesperian days
stripped the air and water away
leaving newborn life
gasping and dying
on the rust-red surface below.


Kenny A. Chaffin – 12/10/2013

[Namekuseijin]

never thought of Mars as a stillborn. good one!



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air... still and cold
watered, my eyes grow red -
outside, dry, they're sold

.

[kennyc]

Thanks!

[kennyc]

Entitlement

There was a time when
men would give anything
to work an extra shift
to earn that extra pay.

Today they complain
about working the extra
shift because of
the holiday shoppers

They hire someone
to mow their lawn
to clean their carpet
to put up their Christmas lights



Kenny A. Chaffin – 12/22/2013

[GeoffC]

nice one and very topical....

[kennyc]

Thanks Geoff! Here's my latest....still trying to 'process' this experience:


Surreal Christmas


Son #2 is an Alaska State Trooper
who works the swing shift so I wait ‘til late
on Christmas day to give him a call.

I’ve saved the presents
thinking I’d do a live unwrapping
when we talked on that day.

I get no answer when I call
but leave a message on his cell
for him to call when he can.

Within the hour I get his call
we exchange greetings
of the day

He thanks me for my presents
says he’d opened them early
before Christmas Dinner with friends

but then got called in early
to work an accident
on the Sterling Highway.

So he couldn’t answer
my earlier call and I ask
if I should call back

Oh no he says the time is good
he’s just waiting with a dead guy
for the ambulance to arrive.

I’m taken aback,
this is no time
to be opening Christmas presents

He assures me it's fine
so I open presents and thank my son
with a dead guy by the road.


Kenny A. Chaffin – 12/26/2013

[GeoffC]

surreal is a very apt title....