Marching into the new year

Recall lessons the year imparted

As the year joins dearly departed

From memory old lessons retrieve

When new year’s new days arrive

As travelers from the old passage

We are bearers of new knowledge

Let us go without useless luggage

Into the new year, our new college

On the march with time

What exactly is time

Is it a clock or chime

Does it have a prime

Or round like a dime

I truly want to know

For then I may grow

My timing is so slow

I’m sorry I have to go

Good Health is Wealth

Their virile selves some did neglect

And saw their perfect health abate

In failing health consumed by debt

Discovered perfect health is wealth

The wealth of health you never see

While cash you guard with jealousy

Take care one day you don’t regret

Preserve your health for it is wealth

Trample not your neighbour's wings

If you're blessed in riches ample

Never upon a neighbour trample

A neighbour’s wings you rumple

You will need in times of trouble

Solitary Self Examination

In the serene arms of noiseless solitude
In the noiseless arms of serene quietude
Are the crossroads for meeting with self
There you reach for life’s elevated shelf

There you spend time with you in search
In search of the roads and shelf to reach
In such rare moment of quiet meditation
You will find purpose in self examination

Pleasant People Are Fun

The pleasant people’s charms

Will drive you into their arms

They are happy and they live

Pushing spirits up to achieve

You're searching for a friend

A long-term friend to the end

You must choose a happy one

Fill your days with pleasant fun

Have a merry Christmas

Be peaceful and happy on this Christmas Day

May all your desires come true in every way

C.U.

The Greed of Christmas Sales

City lions garbed in corporate suits

Have roiled my sense of the astute

I offer them sheep for their greed

But the lions want to see me bleed

I am not sure if you follow my drift

In this seasonal time of merry gifts

Rising prices are sharp like swords

Shops are lions all extracting blood

Be careful what you drink

With that cup from which you drink

She could that your heart hoodwink

When you drink you ought not blink

And she might then her plans rethink

Search for number one

At the moment you begin to search

You begin research for one to catch

By natural laws you must remember

That you are always first in number

If heart desire is what you’re seeking

Discovery might not end in one being

You never leave any research undone

Because you are the only number one

A Picture of Your Elegance

Lovely dress you wore to the festival

Radiant smile you wore upon arrival

If I took a picture would you be upset

I want to see them again after sunset

I confess now that I did take a picture

Which my mental imager did capture

A picture I preserved like a sculpture

Cast iron that time may not puncture

You have such elegance found in few

That flows so naturally for those true

Permit my captured soul to find you

At a sunset festival this time for two

The Return of the Villagers

Ancient drums eulogized our names
Praise titles our virtues did proclaim

Wily gongs announced with acclaim
Our storied entrance plus our fame

Excited by the long seductive songs
Entrapped by those wayward gongs

Intoxication that our longings moots
Our longing souls finally in our roots

Listen Young Girl

Street powers he portrays

Will surely lead you astray

Such traits you like in men

Lead girls to the lion’s den

I’ve said this once before

And I’d hate to be a bore

But admire a virtuous trait

You will find a better mate

Celebrate East and Celebrate West

I danced when we were glad

You sang gladly for faces sad

But much of the excited feast

Celebrated the sun rising East

So the day we saw a golden sun

Resplendent in its evening turn

We traveled West in festive rest

To celebrate a sun setting West

Rain and Fire Spirit Form

I wish I were a hurricane

I’d run and never wane

You’d run but all in vain

I’d catch you once again

If you were a rainy storm

I’d wish for a firestorm

Rain and fire spirit form

One is cold one is warm

Hindsight Wedding Ring

Spied you in early hours of now

When twilight has taken a bow

You journey back into her arms

Kind gentle vigor of her charms

Were you in your second youth

Did you discover her new truth

Did you find a forgotten spring

Kneel and offer a wedding ring

Seasons Lessons

Seasons come and seasons go

They faithfully travel in a row

The cycle teaches you and me

Nature makes our life so free

The cycle teaches futhermore

Free air, free trees, evermore

Nature's wealth is even more

Let’s seek vanities nevermore

Leave her secrets in the past

Let us not untangle these riddles
Her secrets should remain fiddles
In these times and days so good
Let’s not into the riddles intrude

On the fun boulevard of friends
Untangling riddles never amends
A good friendship not yet broken
Let’s live by wisdom well spoken

Where does your love reside

Where does your love reside

In your strides or deep inside

Does your love just lay astride

In upside down of woe betide

Upside down will never abide

‘Cause love does not  misguide

When you place it on your side

It shines like a brand-new bride

Destiny Always Guides You

Run to answer the call of destiny

Walk and you get there not early

Be wary of all thieves of purpose

Sole purpose destiny will propose



In running to meet destined fate

You will need no human mandate

Even if you suspend all the senses

Destiny leads us across the fences

A genie and my wish

I saw a genie late at night
Late at night when I write
I knew before she'd vanish
She would grant me a wish

I wanted cash considerable
But it would be predictable
I asked her for a cryptonym
Just a rhyme for “synonym”

The silly genie mostly ranted
My wish was never granted
And here I write late at night
Wishing she would take a flight

Thanks for the Shoes

They fit me like a glove

Like perfect two in love

I’ll wear them tenderly

As monuments for thee

The shoes are really me

Make me taller and free

You really can me please

With little gifts like these

Expired Marriage License

Inspired by annoying hip-hop

She led me to an uptown shop

Of diamonds, golds and rubies

Said it was a shop for a hubby

I took a short look at the prices

My thoughts were full of vices

And I said to her as I perspired

‘My hubby license has expired’

We went to a downtown shop

Boyfriends shop open nonstop

The prices shocked my senses

I wished I renewed my license

She said Clothes Make the Man

She said clothes make the man

Into the hands of those she ran

The men were sharply dressed

And she, wide-eyed impressed

But hear some thoughts of mine

Thoughts on men’s clothing line

Since we men dress for her eyes

She’s right ‘cause she’s the prize

Do You Miss Me?

You were my sunny story

My finest morning glory

Girl, you got me cultured

My heart lovely captured

I grope for stories of you

Especially when I’m blue

In the twilight I often see

Glory days of you and me


Does he know you’re fine

As I did to make you mine

Do you talk or think of me

On days when you are free  

Sugar and Honey

When the night seeks your attention

In ways deserving of sweet mention

Always invite some sugar and honey

Going on your merry night’s journey

Sugar will spice up the nightly travel

Rouse and dormant energy unravel

Honey speeds you up to destination  

When the night seeks your attention

Killed like a mouse

One man who was unfit

He did his wife mistreat

From his house she quit

And told her friends of it

Man who was her spouse

Called her cowardly louse

She ran back to his house

Ran him out like a mouse

She will dance for finance

Her dance hypnotizes senses

Your inhibition she dispenses

So your touch loses defenses

You discard all your pretenses

For your finance she will dance

She will never dance by chance

If you are ever short of finance

Goodbye to dreams of romance

The Tragic Hero

Thrown up the pedestal of heroes

Up pedestal of smoke and mirrors

He is intoxicated by crowd cheers

And depressed as cheering clears

Watch as he surely falters and falls

Harder than a blind runs into walls

Many a man has been ruined thus

Careful, cheers are often not a plus

Avoid the Wages of Rage

Inconsolable negative courage

Shook a life of glittery privilege

So dejected and stewing in rage

Now transformed on new stage

Rage extracted a lifetime wage

Wage on preppy life mortgage

Here is the lesson for every age

Don’t ever let rage you upstage

  

Show Girl From Russia

Stunning beauty of Russia

Swift cure for male inertia

Hypnotic and alluring aura

Stole hearts inside Georgia


Like queens of old Prussia

Like geisha of ancient Asia

Her exotic dance mystique

Made men’s defenses weak


The fine girl had no name

A mysterious stylish game

The mystery and her fame

Set desirous hearts aflame