Onion’s Progress

Such a small thing, full of layers
To have turned us all to vile players
Oh! The punsters we’ve become
Because of Ascalonicum!!
Poor Dilyn’s most nightmarish fears
Come haunting from a vale of tears
Soon we’ll hear the poor man screaming
Chopping ‘til his eyes are streaming
Gashing, slashing, cleave and cut
Foul memories of Pizza Hut!

And Bards who once were all so chic
Now laugh until they start to leek
Poor fellow must be so distraught
Sweet Lady Em’s gone eschalot!
Wicked night-mare’s turned to stallions
Distinguished Bards are now rap-scallions

Vidalia, Bermuda, Italian red
Like a noxious wind, the scourge is spread
The evil of this baneful fruit
Goes all the way down to the root!
Save your eyes from scent that stings
Just say ‘NO!” to onion rings!
Like a warning tale from old John Bunyan
Damnation, hell . . . the cursed ONION!


~ A POEM ~
by
Himself
the Lord of Misrule
Ace of Anarchy
Duke of Disorder
~ Foister Von Ripster ~


This poem is for Dilyn
May he never have to face
Another
ONION

The Dreaded "O"

SCRAMBLED!

SCRAMBLED!

SCRAMBLED!

Normal

Normal, Norman Doorman, doormat
Laundromat, Land-grant, Grant’s Tomb,
Trombone, Onions, Bunion, Bunyips,
Yipping, coyotes, whole notes, passing notes
Passing out, outside, yard, yard-arm,
Arm circles, cycles, circuit, Circe,
Pigs, wigs, toupe, touche, touch-not, not,
Note, notability, nobility, hillbilly
Billy goat, gloat, float, flotsam
Jetsam, Jetson’s, Flintstones, Fred
Freed, Fried, Deep-fat, Deep-sea, Diving
Driving, arriving, arising, rising, dough
Dough-boy, solider, spy, tinker, gypsy
Dancer, flamenco, flamingo, pink,
Beautiful, bountiful, bounteous, bouncy
Tigger, tiger, trigger, titter, laugh, giggle
Gargle, gargoyles, Duomo, Dumbo, elephant
Obelisk, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Saxon,
Norman, Normal . . .

OMG! I didn’t think I was ever going to get here! Someone’s brain is not particularly . . .NORMAL. Well, ‘normal’ aside, I can see that the inside of my brain is about as tidy and orderly as my office. There were a couple of jumps there that are pretty wild . . . elephant to obelisk is rather odd . . . and about trombones and onions . . . don’t even ask! It made sense at the time.

It was interesting faucon, but I don’t think it’s my forte in life!

Life, soul, sole, singular, lone, alone, a loan, advance, progression, recession, depression, melancholy, holly, ivy, twining, snaking, naked, nude, bare, are, exist, live, life . . .

It’s slightly addicting, even when you’re brain is scrambled, fried, and/or sunny-side-up, 7up, Sprite, pixie, dust . . . all we are is Pixie Dust in the wind, dude.

Feather-Stone Woman: Lit From Within

Maya

“The power of illusion, false appearance
The veil that deludes the Divine . . .”
Not this Maya

Here is a shaft of clarified light
More real than any mirage of a dream
A bright lazar of understanding
Ceaselessly searching meaning
Seeking deeper, casting further
Questing clear

Between spiritual reality
And the physical world
Not a veil at all . . .

A lightening rod


©Edwina Peterson Cross