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If you like me at all

–please don’t call

for heaven’s sake don’t Skype…

Don’t text me

or vex me

or sext me

or hex me

or any such other hype…

Don’t friend me

or vend me

or gripe me

or type me

a note or in stereo

don’t tweet me

or greet me

or page to

engage me

in mentioned scenario…

To reach me

just teach me

a new form of

speech, see,

including each lesson in letters,

electric’s

a technic

and snail apathetic

still *male*

~when it’s artful~

is better.

©Karen Robiscoe

Hokey-Spokey

hokey pokey

I can fit in

>when I’m bidden<

but the truth is I don’t.

Since the midden

is where fittin’

can be hidden

for most.

So I dance to

my percussion

tappin’ lyrical

beats…

Jokin’ hokey

never pokey

skippin’ rules

by the feat.

I can foot in

if I’m wooden–

I can go North ↑

or South ↓

but by nature

nomenclature

could be deemed

foot-in-mouth.

©Karen Robiscoe

 

Blending In…

 

semaphore oops

I’m putting on my blinders

turning off my blinkers

shutting down my headlights

no grander deeper thinker

 ↓

I’m settling for blander

deleting back to blanker

lockering my longing

quelling rooted hanker

It must have been a blunder

to bellow flame inferno

the rumbling no thunder

the lightning just a Sterno.

©Karen Robiscoe

 

Squall

 
 

when life has been unkind

–and waves engulfing me…

I tack rewind to find

 
 

–sublime

the brine of ancient sea,

when life has been unkind

 
 

–and I

find it hard to be…

I tack rewind to find

 
 

–the line

of squall–in scrawl recedes…

when life has been unkind

 
 

and eye

of hurricane alee…

I tack rewind to find

 
 

–high tide

and storm will never meet.

When life has been unkind,

I tack rewind to find…

©Karen Robiscoe

 
 

Bounty

 
 

Girl_Runner_shadow

Solitude’s

an attitude

it isn’t rude

but practice–

of truth denude

in interlude

to muddle

thru the madness.

In this respect

a disconnect

is no neglect of faction,

nor mutiny

but scrutiny,

producing

new abstractions..

©Karen Robiscoe

 

Gilded Tongue

 
 

the hype

I type

could be

asswipe–

the tales

I tell are gold.

No “perbole”

to verbally–

related

truths of Olde…

a Musing dotes

on Annexed Folk

to channel all the told

then poet rote

reviews my Spoke

–and Pens a

fool’s gold.

penning gold

©Karen Robiscoe