Send me on my way

  I

Wooden ladder leans to the house, accessing short roof ledge, 

hawking Romeo to visit Juliet, send me on my way

All 3 cars backed in the driveway, no hurry to get home, 

time blocking ready to leave, send me on my way 

Strolling along the shady side, cooler by 10 to 20 degrees, 

tomahawking the temp, send me on my way

Text on the page just sits, spoken words fill the air we breathe, 

squawking the life we live, send me on my way

The tail of the letter q apparently evolved from the tail of a monkey, 

rollocking play with questions, send me on my way 

What is better, an answer, or a discussion leading to a better question?

sweet talking much more discussion, send me on my way

  II

Doing anything the proper way is best, I go fishing for words, bushwhacking impatient dictionaries, send me on my way

Tiger lillies welcome drivers to Weikert, lining the curving roads, flocking along Buffalo Valley, send me on my way

Life’s issues play in a rainbow of color, the key is managing the gray, peacocking between spaces, send me on my way

My hands were wet when I was at the source of the Nile. Dry now, rocking the source within me, send me on my way

Blue hydrangeas didn't bloom last year, frost caught them just as they were about to, gawking this year's splendor, send me on my way

Sunlight dances on Penn’s Creek, lengthens the glistening flow, cyberstalking the deep, send me on my way

So Sherlock, go make space for the silence to be broken,

knocking down doors, opening windows, send me on my way 

In response to Rusted Roots’ “Send me on my way”   https://youtu.be/IGMabBGydC0 and multiple contemporary events

Advice from the corner

 I

I bought a new basketball when I retired, planning to be ready to shoot

some hoops, yet it sits in its the box in the corner

Neighborhood natives will give you directions to go down a ways, and turn 'where such and such used to be' on the corner

You can save time cleaning by doing the visible spots first, if it seems to pass the white glove test, inspectors may not check in the corner 

I'll drink any beer the first time, after that, only the really good ones make it to the shopping cart, the rest will remain in the corner

MA needs more housing, especially that which is affordable, yet there are those that won't approve building something down on the corner

Plan, share the plan, talk about the plan, adjust the plan, many minds will do better planning together, otherwise you can end up in the corner

   II

You can get a book through the Minuteman library network, easy peasy, just like it was on the shelf, at your library, on the corner

He sang the song, as if he owned it, but finding out that his wife actually wrote the lyrics to the song blew me off the corner

The webinar shared insights on listening trends, some broken down by age group, some made sense, some could have stayed in the corner

She is such a breath of fresh air, yet some powerful men despise her so much, they work hard to keep her in the corner

The agenda was to plan for the event, which they found out as the meeting started couldn't happen, someone was not able to come out of their corner

There is a relationship between a thing, and the word for the thing, otherwise the concept would need to remain in the corner

Sherlock, those in the know need to share what they know, or folks will fill the void with anything else, forcing those in the know to dig out of the corner

sherku: fooling

not just fooling
with words
playing
with ideas
riding emotions
to live well



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Inspired by the Geraldine R Dodge Poetry Festival

sherku: scattergories

Family teams
Played at
Scattergories
So calm, then laughing
Looking for words



What is a sherku?   


Written in the aftermath of my father's funeral. For more on Jerry's Story visit here
http://jerrysherlockstory.blogspot.com/

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