OTI:thirteen poems and notes:5/30/16

Open To Interpretation

Minuet in G

What instruments might we be?
Watteau's violin for me?
You, Madeline's cello?
All the Seven Seas will hear our tones,
All the electric dreamers.
Minuet in G?
Yes, surely,
Proceed!

Tombs

Changeless change
Frozen time sentries
Everywhere stand guard
Over unknowns' tombs.

No Hoods No Colors

It's a gentlemen's agreement
Not to assassinate one another,
And sit at a round table,
No hoods, no colors,
Just hard long looks.
Our agreement too!
We relax on her marlin snout to tail fin
Black deck,
Mirrored to eternity,
No hoods, no colors,
Just hard long looks.
Overboard, just for a swim,
We dive in droves,
Smiling, dying with laughter.

Woe

I don't know,
I might be mean,
And folk maybe say,
'He's ugly and mean!'
Maybe ugly too,
I don't know.
Oh, woe,
If you think of me so low!

Devil Dogs

Nope, we don't leave off,
Never ever,
We're dogs on your graves.
Send us on some hell task?
It's done.

Wait

What I tried to say
Is I don't want to command you,
Make you stay in any way.
This dance is okay,
But if your thoughts are elsewhere,
And distant seems my story telling array,
Go.
It's okay.
My thoughts for you will stay,
Here,
And wait.

Refrain

I think too much,
And try to explain
What is plain:
Seeing me
Seeing you
Seeing me,
My refrain.

Repair

Poverty is pathetic,
Sure,
But what children have accounts?
And if with your wealth you are indifferent,
Only with wealth to wealth repair,
Your castle I'm in
Is just an amusement lure for shows,
No adopting home for growth.

Laconic

It would seem I'm someone
By the wayside
Not the someone of your dreams,
But you're in the ditch,
Let me help you out,
I'll be platonic...
And laconic seeing you on your way.

Pebbles

Are you a clam so closed
That the only way I can open you
Is with his perfumed words?
I can't have misjudged,
You're so lovely to see.
Like an octopus,
I wait with my pebbles.

Cans

All along the long field of rusted barbed wire
The long long rows of lowered helmets on either side
Like crushed ration cans in a dump.
"I hear that in the future"
"There's a dive bar"
"Where everyone knows your name."
"Cheers, mate!  Almost time to go!"
"Oh!  You know the place!"

Dragon

Quixotic, I'd say I am,
And you my Dulcinea,
My knightly acting
Having convinced me,
Creating my own heraldry
That your genuine noble Knights
Find amusing,
Quixotic.
I hear a dragon nearby,
"Just a windmill!" they say,
Hmmph, what do they know.

Periods

So, the day being so,
I rolled out to the above and below,
A morning cool and overcast,
The flower girl's first customer.
Arrived, a bit lost, finding again,
'Sorry it's just me,'
'Providence knows I try!'
Oh!  Wait!
Is that your mom?
Yes, pop too, grandma over there, and yours?
Here.
Ah, nearly same years.  And 96!
He's Samoan, and period punctuates everything he relates with laughter,
  as Samoans do.
Time will come when no one comes around ( laughing).
Yes.
Good to meet you, Bro!
Yes, you too, see you
(Both of us laughing)!

DolphinWords

Notes: Minuet in G...see the movie Electric Dreams...Tombs...so charmed I am by the Chinese military girls on Parade, that now and then it's on my playlist...thereabout one discovers other Parades, and the changing of the guard at tombs of the unknown soldier...No hoods, no colors...hoods is short for hoodies, monk like sweatshirts with hoods...colors...emblems gangs wear on their vests/jackets...Woe...needless to say, in some circles I'm not well liked!...checking Devil Dogs, I found the origin of 'do you expect to live forever'...which looped back into No Hoods No Colors...no, I'm not a marine...but having been acquainted with so many, I feel like it!......Refrain...spot on!...Repair...I repaired a line with 'repair' and it made the whole poem, though some other lines need fixing too...Laconic...laconic...Cheers...pop's favorite show...Dragon...Cervantes' Don Quixote...oft referenced!...Periods...all words have synonyms, double meanings, puns, word play's much fun...add rhymes and you have a poem...Memorial Day is every ones day, and my going on not to take anything away from anyone's specialness, for anything, or anyone...Wait...what I'm trying to say!

'can you hear me down there?'
--Electric Dreams

:)

DavidDavid