After Math

thought this might give you a smile...
(or a grimace)


After Math

For this they are not thankful,
For a Thanksgiving wish denied,
The millions who couldn't stop gobbling,
Can you hear their collective sighs?

What they gobbled, had to go somewhere,
And now it accuses their eyes,
grimly, they will go shopping
for pants of (a) larger thighs...
-GL
[ on Black Friday 2010]

'To A Chicken'

O you to whom the dinosaur is kin,
-noble cousin of emu, eagle, and owl-
I hold it as a dreadful sin
that any man would call you 'fowl'!

Alas, it's true that birds, and dinosaurs,
and men like me do die,
but you alone, unlucky avian,
endure the fate of being fried,

O, we are awed by your unlikely pluck!
as o'er your noble head a sword hangs high,
and you serenely peck and cluck,
until... ( I wipe a tear from out my eye)
you meet your end, dissected, and with carrots, stuck
into some fiendish granny's hot pot pie!
-G.L. December 2010

1-15-11

I am lately up to my eyes in a self-imposed marinade of ED poems and biography!

Sneak Attack

What makes me smile ?
Spring's sneak attack:

Seven forsythias
blazing yellow,

Undaunted,
daffodils
blazing back!

-GL