LEANT boldly, full sails at beam reach,
ARRAY of small craft scudding under the sun,
DRAFT, not of commerce, but for summer dreams,
AZURE lake alive, spirit wind’s joy as motive force.
2022-06-11 words
LEANT, ARRAY, DRAFT, AZURE
Distress
AN ODE I wrote but yesterday,
BEGAN to recite by
AUDIO, but young May cried!
CHASM opened in my way.
Leap
CHASM like Leviathan’s maw below, the only
AUDIO the echoes of my jackhammer heartbeat.
ANODE to cathode, leap like a spark, I told myself. Then I
BEGAN the countdown.
See more at Notes by Steven.
Let there be
ANODE whence power flowed: speech, divine
AUDIO, sounding out the Let there be!, giving birth to stars, skies, earth, trees, and humankind.
CHASM bridged, maker to made, speaker to hearers drawing breath and hearing words—words by which all
BEGAN.
2022-06-10 words
ANODE, AUDIO, CHASM, BEGAN
Beware!
RAJAH, with care, opens the jar;
COBRA pokes his head out, just so far;
PIXIE sets the snake to bite the mare’s
SHANK, which raises all the rajah’s fears.
Foiled
COBRA staff in hand, ready to
SHANK that Ali Ababwa and take that
PIXIE from the sultan for myself, but
RAJAH the tiger was unaccounted for.
See more at Notes by Steven.
Homage to Mystery Men
SHANK Casanova Frankenstein, Blue
RAJA[H], with a spoon! Fiesty
PIXIE, Carol the Bowler, has your back,
COBRA—no, remember, it’s a skull—in her bowling ball.
Easily one of my dumbest ones, but an homage to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Men
2022-06-09 words
SHANK, RAJAH, PIXIE, COBRA