Tuesday, December 28, 2021

sherku: dumpster

Your wish will come true

When it gets warm

We’ll do the deed

And toss what

We don’t need


My poetic promise for a dumpster to be delivered when it is warmer, poetically delivered for Christmas (and posted here after) so as not to spoil the surprise


Monday, December 27, 2021

Birthmas sestina

 Birthmas sestina - December 2021


Allison’s `birthmas` wish list called for a Satellite

Phone so she could go camping in the Wild.

Her mother would sleep better with such a Connection

Always possible. How often does Allison Explore?

Usually a week or two a year with her current Work

Schedule so buying a unit didn't seem too Practical. 


Moneywise it would seem more Practical

To choose from among the rental Satellite

Units. If her job requirements changed, Work

Might allow for more time in the Wild,

Or on the other hand, even less time to Explore

So the demand could vary for this type of Connection.


If the demand was for more Connection

Time, then the cost/benefit might make it more Practical

To review the purchase options and Explore

The real system services that such a Satellite

Phone would provide while out in the Wild

Or around, whether for play, or for Work.


With college admissions her current calling for Work,

The summertime is the ‘offseason’, so maintaining a Connection

When camping in the woods, or deep off the road, and in the Wild

Doesn't seem to be a major work factor. Some other Practical

Work calling could change the need for such a Satellite

Phone but we’ll cross that bridge or Explore


The options presented when the need to Explore

Is raised to a current requirement; that is, If her Work

Actually changes. In the meantime, a Satellite

Phone will remain elusive until the Connection

To a scheduled trip to the outdoors makes it Practical

And a periodic rental will be enabled to tame the Wild.


Let’s be clear, her mother’s wishes are not Wild.

Mothers nature is what it is and for Allison to Explore

Can run counter to the Practical

Desire of her mother to care and Work

For her children at all times. So a Connection

Can be helpful albeit expensive if by Satellite.


Hence, in Practical terms, a pending trip to the Wild 

Raising the need for a Satellite phone to carry and Explore

Whether for Work or play, should prompt a parental Connection to execute this gift.


For AMS




For those interested in what a "sestina" is, I used the following to come up with the format used here:

 

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

sherku: PFAS

So PFAS

Is so cruel

It's Teflon

Protection

Silently

May kill us




sherku: irony

The system

Designed to

Protect him

Punished him

For why he

Was protected



sherku: unfair

It's unfair

Why redo

The formula

Leaving so

Many kids 

Out of scope



sherku: indoor evergreen

Why bring indoor

An evergreen

String it with lights

And watch it

Slowly turn brown