Clackety Clack of the Cosmos (c)

Life savers and chocolate
meet
Tic Tacs and peanut butter.
"Will it work?"
"Will it work?"
all heard the cosmos mutter.

It started out so grand.
They thought it might stand.

These two starry eyeds.
They seemed to do a lot of kissing,
and besides

They had waited awhile
for something this bright.
Gone that extra mile
for something seeming right.

The flavors did not mix,
and the two
ended up in quite a fix.

The cosmos sighed, "Oh well,"
when it all went to hell.

"Even though it may turn out the same,
we move on to a brand new game."

"Let's see, candy corn and chicken,
meets, sausage and Gator-aide.
Now let's watch this love quicken."

So they play on with the hearts
of men and women,
many beginnings and false starts,
to occupy their endless time
where they sit bored in robes
churning margarine into the sublime.

And what of the two lovers
fate tossed by the side?
They live separately with their separate foods
each in their separate double wide.

Rainbow (c)

Rainbow©

She picked the rainbow from the sky.
She placed it in her palm.
It rested there with magic glow,
The ebb and flow of calm.

She curled small, soft fingers
Around it in her hand.
It shone there but a moment more
Then turned to grains of sand.

Sifted through and down,
She could not catch a grain.
From her soul the rainbow fell
Like winter's hardest rain.

We watch it fall away,
Into the weft of time.
A love so lost, forgotten
Replaced by lonely rhyme.