Category: Rhyme, Verse & Poetry
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Size 20
So yes, I’m size 20 – an incontrovertible fact I’m way past cuddly and curvy, so let’s just call me fat. “She must be greedy and lazy, to let herself get to that size” they speak without understanding, one day they may realise. It’s so much more than just eating – this chaos that lives…
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Dip my Head
I dip my head under the water, to be re-assured my heart still beats rhythmic and strong pulsing life throughout my body I hold my breath, it gently slows but just like my grief eventually I must let go © ceenoa 10/5/2014
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Brown Water
I love it when the water’s brown, I run the bath and sink right down, for water from the sky is fine, it doesn’t smell of pool chlorine. On other days when it is clear, I turn the tap and live in fear, of the pervading water smell, full of noxious, added chem-i-cal. © ceenoa…
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Coffee in the Evening
I know I shouldn’t drink coffee, this late in the afternoon, it will keep me alight, through all hours of the night, and make me howl at the moon. but oh, it is so warm and frothy, all milk, and creamly divine, I sip it all steaming, I’ll forfeit my dreaming, for this seldom drunk…
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The Canine Cure
I long for the canine cure with a passion as strong as it’s pure for the screech of the dog catchers van which will allow me to be who I am but, oh he is sneaky, this dog as he slinks in trailing the fog the eddies and pools, all shades of grey that smother…
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RaRa
I am a cat, I sleep, I eat my day is full of this and that I stretch and yawn sleep on the lawn my life is so exhausting. The woman leaves and then returns I really wish that she would learn that when I meow “please feed me now” I do not want…
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A Visitor
In honour of your visitI “swiffered” all my floorsI drew the line at dustingas it’s always such a bore I hung out all the washingand then I brought it inI even washed the dishesand emptied out the bin I stripped my bed and made itwith sheets so clean and freshI tidied all the messy bitsthen…
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I don’t do Math!
What does it all add up too? the seconds of my life, count them off in gratitude, daughter, sister, mother, wife. No number can ever tally, the measure of our worth, the answer is in living well, each day upon the earth.
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All in the name
I was his universe, but now I’m old, and youth shines in you, will you love him more than I? I named him after Merlin, A Mothers choice, for wisdom, so I ask you, Are you trying to steal my Mer, maid?
Ceenoa 
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