Ghosts

It is daylight

but they’re here

whispering platitudes

in my ear

Their spindly fingers

touching my hair

My spine tingles

hard to bear

I quicken steps

my heart to ease

but they hang tight

I feel the squeeze

Please be gone

please leave me now

go quench your thirsts

on another’s brow

No

Wait

be calm 

Have some compassion

these touches they steal

are

their  daily ration

“Ellecee”

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Wanna

Here I am

Manin’ at ya

honeyin’ my way

inta yer pretty lil heart

There you are

Blue eye’in me

Ya cherried yer lips fer me

Ya smiled into my gut

Here I am

Words teamin’ on me tongue

Can’t quite get em out

Wanna hero up

Wanna, wanna,,,

Ellecee

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Wish

I see your big eyes

stare at me

I hear your song at dusk

Is there a handsome

prince for me?

within your

slimy husk

Ellecee

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for

Motion to Amend

To the powers that be

(whoever is thee)

This petition to you

For an amendment or two

The heavenly virtues

We’ll leave them  alone

At least ‘till our children

Are all fully grown

There’s a couple of sins

We’d like you to tweak

A minor adjustment 

is all that we seek

Lust between spouses

Thee should permit

Without which these partnerships

Surely will split

The next sin is gluttony

here we humbly express

Without it our holidays

could all end in distress

Christmas and Easter,

thanksgiving and such

Just are’t the same

When we don’t eat too much

With penalties lifted

from only these two

Those remaining five

will be easier to chew

Ellecee

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Darn

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More's the pity,

gone again

A killing frost this dawn

impales my budding plants

sown before May's full moon

Some things never change

Ellecee

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No Can Do

"I love her with my soul and body,
If you fall in with such a lady,
Read it, and give it her to sing."

 From: The Ballad Of Villon And Fat Madge - Poem by François Villon

Should I give this, thus, my ladylove to sing

as example of our passion tried and true

A stern reaction this would surely bring

in innocence such thoughts she never knew

She might well think my character askew

that I would offer such a raunchy thing

For this love of mine is not simply a fling

or some rakish and befuddling coup

And so, I, to save my lady’s love, must fling

this bunkum to the side and start anew

Ellecee





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No Second Chance

Can I borrow metaphors
from imaginary toads?
To explain my no second chance
for another life
Another chance to wax eloquent
Another chance to make up
for lost causes
Is there,
unbeknownst to me,
a reprieve?
My DNA lingering
within my children,
my grandchildren,
my great-grandchildren
yet unborn
How long be that?


Ellecee





In response to today's promnpt from imaginary garden with real toads

 ''second," in any of its forms, is your prompt for today.  To name a few: second helpings, second chances, coming in second, seconding a motion, second sight, a second set, second in line, second child, second growth, second to none, only a second, seconds to go.....  (Of which there are approximately 2,505,600 left in this month.) 

Meetings

"You look young for your age"

he says and

She laughs out loud

and says

"not really"

and then he wonders

what she means and

he's not sure now

if they should meet

after all

but if he says so

what will his excuse be?

since he's been acting

so eager

and then she says

"are you there?"

and he says

"Yeah

how about the Sylvia

on Sunday

at three"

"ellecee"

Written as a bit of fun for

Prompt Nights – Come chase oh fleeting thoughts of the moment – [42]

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