mucky floodwater
rain brings too much of good thing
overwhelming force
strikes levees, homes, bridges, schools
volunteers come, help clean up
unfashionable pettiness
01 Sep 2017 12 Comments
in rhyming verse Tags: disaster, fashion, first lady, news, stilettos
what? Melania’s shoes
give reporters the blues
stilettos don’t seem appropo
snakeskin fit for a dance
paired with high-water pants
to flood zone high heels must NOT go!
aboard air force one
news reports come undone
the fashion disaster rehearsed
first lady “trumps” style
and i can’t help but smile
when FLOTUS deplanes in Converse 😉
Linking to dVerse Poetics and Lillian’s “a closet full of shoes” prompt…
when words fail
06 Jun 2014 12 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: death, disaster, fail, pain, suffering, words
Words can speak life
into a person’s soul
but sometimes words
are only silent syllables,
empty vowels mouthed
between lame consonants
not knowing where to spit.
In raw personal disaster,
how can anyone find words
that won’t do more damage
to an already fragile psyche?
Shame, blame, trite phrases
prove how small irretrievable
words only multiply misery.
Words elude both tongue
and pen when faced with a
child’s death by miscarriage,
accident, suicide; Language
languishes in presence of
slow painful suffering by
cancer, AIDS, dementia.
Who has an answer when words fail?
a poem in my pocket 
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