Disdainful looks from you are welcome guests Like sunshined rays once storminess has passed So it were criminal to praise you less In deigning upon me your glares to cast The key to opening a heart so locked Remains an unsolved mystery to me But I’ll awaiting of your timing find If you’ll resolve imprisoned…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Rooster
Year of the Rooster Contest for June
Okay, it’s time to play. We are going up again this month, and still looking for hearty souls who want to shoot the moon : ) So, you can write a haiku or a piece that is exactly 100 words or a piece that is exactly 2000 words Here are this month’s triggers: Father’s Day…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Mother’s Day Fine Dining
Every Muddah’s Day, my fahdah, tell, we going out fo dinner. Only ting, he only like eat Chinese food. Instead of going one regular chop suey house, he tell we going Waikiki Lau Yee Chai. My bruddah tell, “We going Waikiki Lousy Chai again.” We gotta wear shoes and nice aloha shirt. When we get…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
I wonder often why Shakespeare did write
I wonder often why Shakespeare did write Those hundred fifty-four love sonnets dear For whom he meant each one inspired delight For whom each one was meant remains unclear Enamoring all those poems instinctive dreamed Of golden youth’s renown he would ensure Of women dark, fair, pretty, or less deemed Of age’s contrasts and swift…
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A Tribute to Mothers
Carter spoke as if he were witnessing yesterday’s event from a distance; another critical phone call received from his fifth grade teacher, his father’s failed containment of anger, the baseball bat… Pulling up the sleeve of a light jacket, he bared the bump and purple bruise blooming on a thin bronze arm. He knew the…
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In a folded envelope
In the folded envelope that bounced, along the stones of the WWII Memorial at National Mall, stopped by toe of my last pair of USMC issued boots. Written in the hand of a boy just learning to write cursive, was a letter. Dear Granddaddy, I haven’t forgotten you. I hope I was a good grandson…
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Dirt Sellers
Last night I Googled “Buy My Happy Horse Shit,” something realtor Willis J. Everist once said, giving the straight scoop on what makes the world go around. Google offered Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski, so I opened an article on Bukowski, who once wrote, “Grate art is horse shit. Buy tacos.” For what it’s…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Rooster
Year of the Rooster Contest for May : )
Okay, it’s time for the May Contest edition. I’m in England right now, so the cues might also have something to do with England : ) And yes, we’re going up again this month. So you can write: a haiku or a piece that is exactly 100 words or a piece that is exactly 1888…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Firsts
He slowly shuffles into the office, his left leg a step behind him. At the previous visit, wrinkled hands rolled up the leg of his pants to show me the long ravine scars. “One remindah, even tho I no like remembah,” he said. “Vietnam wen fuck me up real good.” We both sit down, and…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rooster
Honolulu Marathon 2007
A first marathon Add big-feet, small-shoes conceit– Yield bunion baptism.