H2O Plus

You float much better 

When water is salty. 

The taste, however, 

Is somewhat faulty. 

So instead of the sea 

I prefer the Great Lakes, 

Pleasantly free 

Of this flavor mistake.

Branson & Bezos

I'd like a trip to the edge of space... 

Just, you know, for a change of pace.

Glitchy

In dreams, a thing’s stable nature 

Is subject to sudden erasure.

And Yet It Happens

How sad to see a passionate mind
Fall prey to thoughts of a poisonous kind.

Wasted Effort

I’ve been trying to convince 
Friends from Australia 
That it’s summer right now… 
So far it’s a failia.

 

Such Stuff

Some dreams feel real but when I waken

It seems that I have been mistaken.

Incipient War

Menelaus and Helen 

He felt it was beneath him to compete, 

Undignified to plead a lover’s case. 

His worth, he thought, was plain upon its face - 

No need for honeyed words to make it sweet. 

But now he steeled himself for dread defeat, 

Not ready, quite, to grant it with good grace, 

Unable to accept they could erase 

The joining that had made his house complete. 

To woo, to win again, could it be done? 

She knew him, but she knew him all too well, 

And now her mind was wrapped up in the spell 

Of newly dawning love, a dazzling sun. 

So… how on earth could that heart be re-won? 

He hitched a breath and stepped forth into hell, 

Hoping that he would somehow live to tell 

A tale of love triumphant, re-begun.