Lullabies and Goodbyes

What are lullabies and goodbyes

but words sung and spoken?

What are words

but thoughts outwardly spun?

Thanks to lullabies and goodbyes,

now you’re set a spinning

Thanks to lullabies and goodbyes,

now your thoughts are a whirling

When come lullabies and goodbyes

but at the very end?

At this end where they have last reply;

and to your dreams, you’re sent

Dreams where lullabies and goodbyes are not

Dreams where thoughts cannot be outwardly caught

Puppet Afire

Guilt can do the craziest things

to the puppet woodenly stern yet slack

mouth and hands and feet and tries

to be tripped and drawn on string

The puppeteer goes wild and blind

lashing wide and fast

the puppet is pulled from end to end

but the string still won’t snap

The wooden feet continue to dance

upon the coals of heat

lit afire and burning deep

while the guilt continues to keep

To keep on moving and going while falling

is to keep them entertained

to keep on smiling and dancing while bawling

is to continue on their game

Guilt can do the craziest things

lashing wide and fast

lit afire and burning deep

is to continue on their game

Monochromes and Metronomes

Wrote my first Villanelle for AP Literature. Here it is!

I see the world in monochrome.

I feel the world in devotion.

I hear the world in metronome.

One color put to use in and out of home

to keep the norm and cause no commotion.

I see the world in monochrome.

A metrical tick tick, unfree to roam

from the synchronized, fixed pulse and motion.

I hear the world in metronome.

Varying the hues, unafraid of the single color home

base; each tint, tone, and shade is a brand new notion.

I see the world in monochrome.

Staccatos and legatos played - resonating within the dome

with crescendo and diminuendo - orderly, yet filled with emotion.

I hear the world in metronome.

In one, continuous, permanent sight and sound tomb,

are variations unknown and new found depth set in motion.

And I still see the world in monochrome.

And I still hear the world in metronome.