OTI:five poems and notes:5/5/17

Open To Interpretation

 

Maybe You

Maybe you

Can salvage something

From my wreckage.

Come sit with me,

Artemis.

For a start,

I like your knees

That you show off with

Your short dress.

I certainly haven't meant

To be of your school.

It just worked out that way.

Aphrodite wouldn't have me,

Something about being flimsy.

And now, how am I to persuade you?

What offering can I give?

Oh, you're off running with the deer,

Those big tendons

Behind your knees

My view left behind.

Second Hand Store

Oh,

Even the second hand store

Has gotten to be pricey.

From the white truck

I drop off old books

At the warehouse docks,

A bin provided by an attendant

Who is helpful,

Do you want a receipt?

There's a constant stream

Of drop offs

And I roll out from my

Waited for parking slot

And find another

So as to shop awhile

In the second hand store.

Oh,

I'd be embarrassed

That you'd see me

Scruffy as the jumbled shelves

Perusing the aisles.

Maybe that's all I've become

Having seen so much

From old books and such,

A second hand touch.

Maya

So,

You wished so hard

But didn't speak it

Having fore sworn speech

But nonetheless

He turned up

Dead as a door nail.

And later on,

Someone you loved

So much

A sudden in a pool of blood

On a day normally given

Over to gifts just for you.

Enough to go

Into a funk again

But not enough

To shut up again.

Rhea

Rhea arrived on the scene,

Red pantaloons and black blouse

Over her black skin,

Captaining her Red Ship

At the Black Wheel

Escorted by the Eastern Flight

Of Red Dragons.

DolphinWords

Notes:  hmmph...no sooner I figure something out than something comes back in...oh!...

No Sooner

No sooner
I figure something out
Than
Something comes back in.

...ral...anyway...as afore mentioned, when I paste text from yahoo mail into the blog editor, it shows up double spaced...along with the usual editing, I then have to restore the text to single spacing...well, I accidentally left the editor after only typing one added word to the long pasted double space text, and to get back to it, in the list of posts it was the draft at top, it opened single spaced...all of it!...go figure...so that's what I do now, go out and back...and now of late, even the slightest touch of the mouse wheel sends me all over the page, usually a scroll up instead of down, as my fingers first touch on the wheel sends it up...really annoying!...still working on fix...(update: fix was to put a new battery in it...okay now!)partial is to go into control panel, internet setting, advanced, unclick smooth scroll (a ways down the list of advanced options)...there are more advanced fixes I gather from crowd sourcing this...I'm not advanced...a bit 'flimsy'...hmmph...reference Artemis' and Aphrodite's eternal quarrel...reference Prince's rasberry beret from the second hand store...reference Maya Angelou and her cookbook, the first one...a surprise take home from the second hand bookstore at the Library...Rhea...would like the Black Deck Tales to be inclusive...and not at all sure how to go about that...in World of Warcraft, when one makes a new toon, they have options for skin color, hair color, style, clothes, facial features...messed with Red Dragons and White Dragons, Blackship and Redship, etc....hmmph...reference Rhea the Titaness...

:)

DavidDavid