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Rate of Exchange

Rate of Exchange

I am a gap girl–

a hand-struck

lucky penny

unfound

despite redolent obversity

–collecting

nicks

&

knocks

&

scuff

&

scratch

&

dents

&

dings

from a coin flipped

heads, you lose!

into a grate

that’s ungrateful, despite

well…

being a grate!

beats 2 outta 3 tho

¢

–in cracks I expand–

like tar

like spackle

like a life-preserver

’cause I am crazy amorphous like that

every now and then

my portraiture

peeks

up

&

out

spent but unused

my pretty patina

just vague recall

that I

am

a LUCKY penny

lucky…

¢

every now and then,

my etched silhouette turns,

alloy neck craning

to allow my sightless eyes

to peer from that storm drain…

Gazing at where I might have spent my time

// through a forest of stamping feet //

passing by

unaware.

Soft Cell

star_gazing copy
 
Maybe we are all just part of the Godhead

each one of us—

cells in His body,

the cosmos: His plasmic soup

the planets: His bones

the stars in your eyes: His eyes

all stars, I mean, since He’s built a little differently, I think,
 
 
 

–pulsing with stellar energy & Pearly Gate-orade–

I’ll bet God gets His licks in at the gym!

Maybe His moles are our cancer,

and don’t get me wrong,

moles are lovely—

Marilyn’s & nocturnal, both

(I like ’em anyway, even if they’re more 7-year-scratch than itch, since who’s to gauge beauty, really? Isn’t all Life beautiful? Part of the greater whole, the mole–

part of the Godhead,

but hey,

someone’s got to go.

Cells regenerate to stay dynamic

in all bodies

great and small, and moles are infamously deep cover.

Maybe the Einsteins

Keplers

and Hawkings

are part of the Godhead brain,

and

Van Gogh

and

Mozart

and Debussy…

Dickinson,

Poe

and

Pollack….

maybe they are

part of His

He’art.

©Karen Robiscoe

…don’t forget the–

4 square

Freezer Aisle

heart

(remember to defrost!)

Snacks:

Eye Candy

Sugar

Entertainment:

(Doh! left that outdoors!)

Household Supplies: 

Unconditional Love

Time

Hardware:

um…

Staples:

WD elbow grease

Produce:

Content

¢Karen R.•

 

 

Wood Eyelashes

the log-in my “i”

–it’s jammed in a bottleneck–

Karen Robiscoe dba CHARRONs CHATTER

SOS…you see.

©K. RobisKo

Note: it bears mentioning this haiku is all about the innuendo–rather than “in an Endo”. In 17 syllables it incorporates: scripture, Zeitgeist reference, homonyms & multiple double entendre …;) PD irresistible to this tongue-in-cheek gal.