Ponderable polemics, poetic

WordPress site of poet Mark Lucker

Haikus

  • Three for the New Year

    Resolutions less revolution, more ‘what am I fighting for? and who will yell ‘Charrrrge’?! Pledges calendar decrees! resolutely resolving! inability Reality good intentions, all calendrical mandates change? calendar pages – Mark Lucker Read more

  • One line

    as goes the ending so goes the fresh beginning; life’s merry-go-round Read more

  • Hummel a few bars and they’ll fake it

    carnal garden gnomes filling my shelves with tchotchkes; time to trim big leaves Read more

  • Antipasto!

    Dinner with my Valentine; wine and Sinatra Fine haiku-be-do-be-do… Read more

  • 2011 – 2012

    2011 “Give it a sixty- two, Dick. It had an odd beat; could you dance to it?” 2012.1 promises proclaimed vast improvements vowed compliance deferred 2012.2 January’s hope March’s actualities December’s ‘oh-ohs’… Read more

  • Third day

    no hens French, partridge, doves. Lover’s budget limit: dinner, KFC Read more

  • savor

    egg nog (with nutmeg); ambrosia for us mortals. holiday manna Read more

  • shorthand

    text wife: ‘Dory?’ It cannot also be ‘hunky’ as I am elsewhere Read more

  • Elapsed

    this morning; turkey sat stuffed, coveted. Tonight you sit stuffed, turkey. Read more

  • Thanksgiving, redux

    drumstick, pumpkin pie; gastronomic clichés of the non-routine day Read more