March 26, 2009 by kim.

Here is a poem I wrote at 6:30 in the morning one day when my mind was racing, as it usually does. I just wrote what popped into my head, and this is what came out:

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Slack-
Jawed
Staring into space
Rivers of drool
Drying on my face

Slap-happy pappy
Walking down the street
Earwigs and horny toads
Jumping at his feet

Dreaming, dreaming
Buzzing all the time
Words of nonsense
Making up a rhyme

Wee hour morning
Kitty crying loud
Jotting down words
To liven up the crowd

Here we go
Jogging to and fro
Have you seen
Jellybean
Gnawing on my toe?

Silly words
Silly words
Splash across the page
Have I tried
Even once
Acting out my age?

Gingerbread
Cookie dough
Make a little man
Try to do
Better than
This
If you can

Silly billy
Polka dot
Shiver cheeky poo
Blidder bladder
Silly sauce
Cock-a-doodle-doo

Crazy girl
In her jammies
Singing songs
In her panties
Lyrics, lyrics
On the page
Will she ever act her age?

Why-fore
Seven score
Billy’s on a shelf
How can she talk so much
Only to herself?

Post-it note
Candy bar
Wriggle wriggle free
Sitting crouched
Pigeon style
Chin upon her knee

Words are slowing
Dawn is growing
Magic’s at an end
Words are slipping
Dawn is dripping
Now put down your pen

That was weird
Billy beard
Almost turned away
Make me shiver
Got a sliver
Take the ball to play

Going, going, going,
Gone
Sleep it is a-calling
Head to bed
Bump my head
Look – the sky is falling

Tilda bilda
Pumpkin pie
Can I ever
Catch your eye?
Ticking clock
Slow is slow
Now I really
Have to go.

11/23/08 Chicago 6:30am
Copyright © 2008 Kimberly P. LoDuca

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May 3, 2007 by kim.

I’ve been trying to think of something to write up here for two days, and can think of nothing! I almost regaled you with talk of candy bars and my longstanding obsession with the chocolate/peanut butter combination (Peanut Butter Twix - yum!) or about too much corn syrup in foods such as bread and yogurt, but they just weren’t working. So, I’ve decided to post another of my poems in the hope of buying some time until I can think of something more lively to write.

This is one in my collection of “Corporate Poetry and other Oxymorons”. Now if I could just get an illustrator…

Executive Sloths

Executive Sloths shuffle past
Ever…so…slowly,
Moving like an eight-legged mammoth
In blue and pinstripes.

One of the four heads
Turns to address the other three
While they take up as much time
And space
As possible
On the way to their destination;
Never to pass this way again.

© Spring 05
New York

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April 25, 2007 by kim.

I’ve been hemming and hawing about putting some of my poetry up here on the ol’ blog. I don’t know why - I guess it’s a vulnerability thing. After much encouragement, I thought I’d post one and see how I felt about it later. This is one of the more positive ones that I wrote when we went to the Guggenheim Museum with Chris’s sister Julie and her friend Tina last Saturday:

Yellow Cow – Franz Marc – 1911
(picture courtesy of www.guggenheim.org)

MOO

Yellow Bessie
Mooing happy
Bluish blotches
On her fanny
And side.
She jumps into
The bright red orange
Sailing over
Greenish fronds.
Peach suns set
Behind blue mountains
Dreaming happily
‘Till dawn.

4/20/07
New York
Guggenheim Museum
©2007

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