To be aware you've been set up to fail Does not make failing any easier. Entreaties may be from beyond the pale, But asker's confidence it will occur Infects your brain and makes you wonder why You hesitated just before agreeing. Now you've agreed to give the task a try, Your self-recrimination guaranteeing. It breaks … Continue reading June 17: The Fail Cycle
Sonnets
June 16: Surprise.
I'm glad I cleared my schedule for a day So when assignments suddenly appeared They caused me but a moment of dismay Before I girded loins and volunteered. Farewell, sweet slack and idleness of mind! Adieu commuting hours with Marcel Proust! Here cheer and masochism are combined, As by adrenaline I am seduced. But even … Continue reading June 16: Surprise.
June 15: Night Stroll
Come walk beneath a thousand blazing suns Whose distance renders them to sparkling points And let the the moistened grasses when we run With fallen dew my sandaled feet anoint. Let constellations witness our escape From suffocating confines of the home, The lucent firmament will make us gape, Its shifting beauty guides us as we … Continue reading June 15: Night Stroll
June 14: The Finch Response
Galapagos's tortoises maintain An interesting reflex when a bird Alights upon them, it's as if the brain Declares all other stimuli deferred- They haul their massive carapaces high As short and stump-like legs will them allow, With necks upraised, gravity to defy, As still as figurehead upon ship's prow. This unresponsive state lets native finches … Continue reading June 14: The Finch Response
June 13: Purpose Full
I have forgotten what it's like to lack A deadline looming just around the bend. Accustomed now, I'm quite taken aback When there's no challenge for me to transcend. My mind feels stagnant when I do not write, And sluggish at those times I do not read, Or work up well-loved poems to recite, And … Continue reading June 13: Purpose Full
June 12: Tried Patience, or, Happy Birthday, Mom!
O Sainted Ellen of the Grilléd Cheese: You fed the hungry lunch in bright array, Our childish apprehensions did you ease, And with your laughter banished our dismay, And with a bowl, as first donned by St. Loony Up the Cream Bun and Jam, upon your head Made golden halos seem supremely puny, Declaring naughty … Continue reading June 12: Tried Patience, or, Happy Birthday, Mom!
June 11: Le Pew
When through the open window evening breeze Delivers a distinctive sort of funk, I know that for some time I'll take my ease Surrounded by the stink of eau de skunk. Inhaling that distinctive sulfurous scent, Reminds me of my childhood when a whiff Of woodland musk inevitably meant That with a skunk our dog … Continue reading June 11: Le Pew
June 10: Summarize Proust
My seatmate said, “That book is pretty big- What's it about?” I truly wish I knew How to describe without seeming a prig Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. “The longest greatest longest novel ever written?” “Reflections on names and shifting perceptions That chronicle the joy of being smitten By literature and love … Continue reading June 10: Summarize Proust
June 9: Fifty Meter Freestyle
With plays and poems Shakespeare did decree The iamb as the undisputed king Of metered feet, disdaining the spondee And anapests to make his poems sing. Verses sound unbalanced with a trochee Swapped for each iamb, one foot left over, And lines that are all spondees can't not be Bland stuff that could not urge … Continue reading June 9: Fifty Meter Freestyle
June 8: Least of All Possible Evils
When deadlines change from three weeks into one Priorities must then be rearranged: Allot the maximum that can be done And hope that no one task will be shortchanged; For when there are three tasks, and two of them Involve a partner, you'll be glad you worked The solo parts: strategically condemn The groups and … Continue reading June 8: Least of All Possible Evils
Libby Weber 