Friday, May 31, 2019

The twist

There's a unicorn with a golden mane
Iridescent coat and a sparkly horn
She glimmers and shines
Smiling through her densely fringed eyes,
She adorns the footwear of a child in guise.
The exotic creature has a magical presence
Cutting through her manmade effervescence.
When she glides along with the child in guise
All and sundry sport a smile, perhaps of surprise!
The smile could even be a mocking laugh
Possibly of a secondhand embarrassment
On the child in guise's behalf. 
Cause the feet that slip into the golden maned unicorn
Are attached to a woman, grown up and a half.
Little does the child in guise care
And embraces unicorn shoes, humming bird bracelets
Rhinoceros pendants
And ladybugs studded to the earlobes.
In her critter company
The quirky little child in disguise
Lives happily ever after -
Go ahead, judge her!
She'll probably respond in laughter. 

Sunday, May 26, 2019

Undercover


Out of the blue
Emerges green - lush with yellow streaks
Sporting smears of light and dark
Shine and shadow.
Out of the brown
Springs green,
Shooting through the soil
Swiftly up the bark
Slithering into vein thin stalks
Spreading above my head
Like an umbrella
Shielding, soothing, swaying!
Playing hide and seek
In beams of rays
Forming metaphoric arrays
Much like this illusion
Called life?
Out of the green
Sprouts a thought
A flash of smile.
Blessing in the angry noon,
Ala carte of shelter served with inspiration
To breathe in verde
And breathe out a verse.