Before work

Rudder or not 

Here I come

Denis Streeter    4/29/21

where i go

sharp pillow in the back written in pine
not much left to shine
pillow the moon
muffle the dream
catch the cow
moo the moon
needle in pine
what's left for you
this new direction
snores my pillow awake
don't that take the cake
knowing the rhyme is wrong
just for the sake of a so
so i've been told
but it's so easy and automatic
a computer could create it
if a computer was my brain
mapped out poorly
if not creatively
however that may be defined
these directions shift
like a caved in iron
an interrupted knee
a cavernous tree
a ruptured bee
it could go on
it might go on
it won't go on
i'll let it bee
go to sleep my little baby
the moon is nigh 
the sound is nount 
the ocean green

denis streeter   4/17/21

it's in the ways

when they disappear
they're all gone
gone with the wind
fledgling in a bowl
when the gift catches fire
there is no more
laughter in abundance
the news gone blind
blind with nothing left to do
gone around the campfire
watching what to do
a blind mess walking through
a surgeon's hat a messy coffin
trap doors open and shut
wandering what to do
a tree hides a ghost shivers
blind see deaf hear
wandering what to do
a grassy hat a toad a steer
passing over
what's wrong right between
a featherbed catches the worm
the rest are watching and praying
the bed looks comfortable
hiding a peculiar way
sun shines moon gathers dust
it's not in the telling
it's in the ways

denis streeter    2/25/21

where it goes

what is needed no more
a cast an olive an altar
state of being coincide
a beef a mule a fool
hiding behind the jester
open wide follow inside
jackrabbit lantern stew
follow inside you
open the door and follow some more
it's not that it will.  it will
falter your horizons
testing doors that bathroom you
giving no asides
a pauper a pen a fool
live beside you
living on you
no flea for portable
just living on time
an order for living
spinner snap order that
a paper comes handy
merry go round 
as luck would have it
in jester form
roundabout the floor rides
is it beer or booze
float the paper cake
cut from magazines
pulp for filling
sawdust for your mind
it's not so easy when you're joking
the joke disappears
what did you say
don't say that.  it's not funny
that's okay, it's out of my mind
until some trick becomes fey
try another word will you
but words are hard to come by
most often misunderstood
and on the way down it's sleep
sometimes better that way
and then there's dreaming

denis streeter    2/6/21

transform

there are times
when I can look out on deck
and think that I am the luckiest man on the face of this planet
it's 10pm.  i turn the deck light on
in the distance is rain streaked with light
words can't capture the magic
light and water comes closest
energy equals mass times the speed of light squared
this view from my deck
you can not see
you can not feel
is a moment of time
a moment of quiet elation
magic to bring the dark times light

denis streeter   1/31/21

history of the mind

 

to pull a pick

to pick a pack

you don't want this

you just want that

a bathroom tore

a flood of time

a stick of wool

to prick a rhyme

a tinker ship

to troll the wool

a winding whip

to tame it full

to add a job

you don't ask why

you do not add

you nair apply

ice cream for plot

but don't know why

the dream's upset

the need not cry

the creature said

just go to bed

or fish instead

inside your head   

you wake before

the raven's crow

just say no more

defer to poe

you want some time

a little more

to eat a rhyme

you can't ignore         

i bid farewell

two lines are left

i know you won't

be much bereft

denis streeter    11/21/20

a walking

a bucket
a man
a riddle a plan
ride the barrel
round the block
where the fillings are fat
the chicken  slow
the pitter  pat
the fox you know

denis streeter    11/22/20