April 25, 2015 
Comments Off on 6th Sense
stars & storms & stolen stuff
feet & hands & hands you bluff
marooned & moonwalk
–roll & rock
lakes and senses
done o’clock
smackin’ palms &
brittle fish
kickin’ back &
smokin’ this
cigars & sadness
e•le•ments
share this common
–can you guess?
©Karen Robiscoe
the “Where’s Waldo?” of this…uh…pentameter…;)
stars
category 5
5 finger discount
feet
hands
5 card draw
Maroon 5
Jackson 5
Great Lakes
senses
quittin’ time
high 5
starfish
take five
pot leaves
5 ¢ cigars
5 Lamentations
5 Elements
April 24, 2015 Comments Off on What Rabbits do at the Beach
shadowboxing sundials, I
tilt tides to
fashion an
hourglass,
meticulously counting
allowed
every grain of sand
on shore as it
ebbs
&
flows
&
turns time to
dust.
starts again
talk
that ticks heartbeat’s
murmured measure
underscoring Muzak
that loops
all background
banned
~in a frayed bow~
—in string—
&
knot
&
moon phrases
from the
Dark Side
of
Pink.
©Karen Robiscoe
April 22, 2015 Comments Off on Char’Coal Styk #8
I am
built, baby—
oooWee,
I am–
like a stack’a bricks, I tell ya’
(mostly yell’ah)
and I don’t mean to be
graphemic
but you should see the
set of tittles I got on me
!!
just above my
i i
zuh
they’re somethin’, all right.
Xtra
long
&
Xtra thick
my polar opposite
&
woven through with moths
–drawn in
by their shadow–
©Karen Robiscoe
April 21, 2015 Comments Off on Knows 4 numbers: 1, Infinity, Ole Blue Eyes, and Pie
she was my
five o’clock shadow
skippin’ skeet
6 of 1
and half-dozen of the
other
7 come eleven
and kee-razy
8
a solid 9
number 9, number 9, number 9
on the
EGBDF
scale
FACE it.
It balanced out…
weight! weight! weight!
(the power of 3’s)
there’s 1 or 2 things you might not know
(alphabetically speaking)
first—she didn’t believe in time
and
B,
she couldn’t tell it
(it heard, but didn’t really listen)
and
in summation,
only used clocks
as a verb.
hickory-dickory
duck.
©Karen Robiscoe
April 20, 2015 2 Comments
red is splashy
isn’t it
the color of
anger,
hunger,
passion,
and
some Mike & Ike’s…
Primary to Christmas
you have to ask yourself,
would Christmas be as
Christmas(ee)
without green?
Survey says no
–as do poinsettias
naturally
when they’re feelin’ chatty.
ask Alice.
Yellow is red’s
close second.
Bright enough to blind,
it represents.
word
and those words might encompass
sun,
intellect,
at work
warnings,
and
brick roads…
a bitch to keep tidy
Easter, too,
Easter would less eggy altogether
beaters
wouldn’t it,
without yellow, but you have to ask yourself,
where would Easter be without purple to complement
all that brilliant yellow?
I can’t say…
or see–on account of the blackout shades worn to mitigate
all
-that
–brilliant
—yellow…
Blue.
Blue must be mentioned
passive-aggressively
but mentioned
…
missing celebration
it nevertheless
calls images to mind
“hey images!!”
images like
sky
okay: sky.
bells,
books,
bluebirds,
happy twits
and
moons…
okay: one
and ubiquitous as blue might be
you have to ask yourself
I insist
where would blue be without orange?
Van Gogh insists, too, and quite possibly first.
The primary point being:
what comes next
seconds
is every bit as vital as that which
preceded it.
rainbow.
©Karen Robiscoe
prompt: all the pretty colors
April 20, 2015 Comments Off on opera glasses
if you wash off
rhyme
take away
rhetoric
raise
curtain
and
presence cast
(the aforementioned hoping for some sort of ovation?)
you’ll notice the players
are mimes…
confounded by the reality of
glass box.
©KarenRobiscoe
April 19, 2015 Comments Off on as per Verse
Blue so long, I only want
to finish the Van Halen
rainbow
–before Midnight—
gather all my
public pieces
into 1 Republic
–forgotten aim of Simple Minds–
trip with King Harvest
–the light’s fantastic at dawn–
and white flag Anti-Bellums
–no G.I. Jane–
clear down to the
Billie Jean
–blowin’ in the wind…
©Karen Robiscoe
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