Hangman: Hippo Version

We know it's a game of guessing
whose name, and when and where
the x crossed eyes will be next
poor George, poor George!
zero chance, negative respect
from the hangman's knee
an eternal team of tree hangers,
uniformed, hawk-like, leisurely
capture any melanin ornament
hawk-like, yet I must admit I felt their 
cold hippo jaw molars crushing my neck 
in thousands of pounds per square inch
then as now, chump change, chump change, 
then as now gotta try anyhow, yes, we must,
cameras first in tow, we too can capture now.

Crisscross 360

I fail thru ditches,
I fail around peaks,
following which
I grow outward roots in all directions.
The only rootless failure is an atrophied approach.
I steal oddities from the ordinary
by avoiding jargon as often as I can.
Fancy phrases swell my head
like a bloated gut, boring my viewers
quicker than a drilling tool does.
I use verbs that intersect with daily commutes and invite the pedestrian on an enriching tangent.
I coordinate every detail of my artistry
like a Cirque du Soleil choreographer
creating crisscross motions in mid-air.

Roaming Geyser

Pulse is a privilege.
So squeeze your veins with thanks
as often as your hours will allow,
O infant, clad in overlapping rainbows;
Welcome to our green-blue twirl world
which comets frequent in their profuse circuits,
You refresh us like lavender oil on a rainy afternoon.
Your mother's womb is a chamber of secret synergies. Springing forth from a union of gracious deity gates, 

you are like a geyser 
of ripe, frothy, daybreak dew.  
Plum blossoms in full bloom 
envy you and your folks.
You are as kinetic as magnet eggs in birdsong,
eagerly yearning for a ball of yarn
to weave the waves of your days
into a scarf of warm memories.

Bye Norm MacDonald!

I reserve my tears for twice a year
Two days after he died I cried
In sadness instead of laughter this time

His tall tales are like 10-story buildings
whose points become references
long after the architect kicks the can.

His anecdotes are winding staircases of moths
that trip up, then delight the audience, SNL and elsewhere, upsetting standards of other comics

If you like to stretch your comedy dollar
Or chuckle at Germany or North Korea
Here is Norm, humour in human form.

Hagia Sophia

Spirituality is a chance 
for a spark to surf
through a spiral.
I'm a pagan but I would pay 
to preserve stained windows and
Arabic motifs, both of which 
exude precious patterns.
Zoom in on my pupils, and 
watch their playfully wild sparks,
kindled fiery tendencies that 
automatically refine real virtues.
Solitude loans me twin gifts—
my grand tininess near sacred 
spaces and my pulsing interest 
in guarding the holy libraries:
be they Latin or Pali,
verses or sutras,
canons or Ramayanas.

Milky Way Quartet Returns

To hate ABBA is to hate inhaling.
Which sane lover of liveliness 
can reject milk and honey? 
to rejoice in their counterpoint is
to honour the milky way galaxy.
40 years of wondering
are tapped on the shoulder 
by a rebirth of stellar avatars. 
They're a fusion of then 
and now like a solar core.
I will shout from any rooftop for you
I will groove for half an hour for you
I will raise my glass of tears for you
As you make wine from my teardrops
O Bjorn, Agneta, Benny and Frida.

Laughter After A Jinx Sneeze

Audio

Who dares explain our laughter to us?
I refresh myself, as you refresh yourself,

leaning back my head to laugh out loud with you
at the explainers and at the open naked skies,

let’s watch that arena of night horizon
while tracking the shooting stars

breath upon breath, sigh upon sigh, 
recycle your lung bicycles,

mount your heartbeat pedals with me,
cycle on and on and off.