Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 A Quilter

Dwight D. Eisenhower be

A quilter in his younger days,

Helping mother, Ida, as she

Encouraged Dwight's work with her praise.

A tumbling block quilt that they made

Is still a cover on a bed.

In Ike's birthplace home it's displayed

As a future President's spread.

Many a quilt was pieced and done

In their simple, humble home by

Eisenhower mother and son,

With love and skill both did apply.

Quilting with Mom helped Ike indeed

Learn patience he would later need.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Wear and Pair

A picture of a hug and kiss

By a young couple is meant to

Advertise some clothing on this

Couple to seek to sell that who

Ever wears these clothes can also

Reach such passion shown by this pair.

All who purchase these clothes will know

Pure ecstasy because they wear

The clothes designed to make the make

For wearers any time and place,

Well outfitted for romance sake,

And no wrinkling from hot embrace.

I scrutinize the pic and scoff,

"When couple couples, clothes go off!"

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Depressive Heat

Politicians and bureaucrats

I'm doomed to hear most everywhere,

Depressing me with all their chats,

Spinning lies out in their hot air,

Enveloping me in foul heat.

Mass media aids and abets

For my attention to compete,

Leaving me with vexing regrets

That I allowed myself once more

To be recipient of blow

From government blowhards galore,

Causing more depression I show.

Buffoons of politics I tell.

"Take you hot air and go to hell."

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Romance of Poe

"Romance," a poem Poe did write

In respite from horror and gore

Makes romance for him much more light,

First as a parakeet before

Poe had matured and still a child,

Teaching him the words to belie

While being in such woods so wild.

But when Poe's older, unknown why,

Romance into a condor turned,

Aggressively pursuing Poe,

Instilling a passion that burned,

Perhaps something he should not know.

So Poe concluded with his rhyme,

Romance flew at him like a crime.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Feline Design

The Amur leopard, name for me,

The rarest big cat in the world,

Cautious so others do not see,

Sometimes prowling and sometimes curled.

Very few of us in the wild,

In the Russia mountains homeland.

Long golden furred with black spots styled,

And bushy tail that sways so grand.

One of the smallest big cats though,

Up a tree I can carry weight

Thrice as heavy as me, I go.

Don't carry it down, cuz it's ate.

So if I'm hungry, and comes you,

Then up a tree may climb us two.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Pond to Ponder

Try to let my mind be a pond,

Each and every feeling a fish,

Can better let me to respond

More calmly and less outlandish.

For any time and any place

Different feelings come and go,

Be glad or mad or sad, each case

A fish swimming in my mind flow.

If be the pond I'm mindful of,

And stay in non judgmental state,

Then I may observe from above,

And not get in a caught up fate.

Sometimes I've a bad day at school

When I forget to be pond rule.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Just Fly Away

Along came a spider, you sing

In your whining tone, calling me

Evil woman you were running

With, cuz caught in my web you be,

Where I filled you with candy lies,

While eating you up as your fate,

Just like I do with all you flies,

Who I entrap as willing mate.

But now you whine the same sad song

That our relationship is done,

Becuz I done you oh so wrong.

But you keep coming back, dumb one.

So fly away, you little fly,

No more taste for such sour guy.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Awkward Laughter

Zoom meeting with my company,

Everybody was listening to

A presentation made by me.

A good job I sure hoped to do.

Could mean promotion if done well.

I feared public speaking a gob,

And had anxiety like hell,

So focused to do a good job.

The company president rose,

Forgetting, I guess, that he had

No pants on, as his bareness shows,

I laugh uncontrollably bad.

Stop laughing was a failed pursuit.

I had to put myself on mute.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Killing Time

In a box of plastic bags, I

Was taken by folks on a boat,

Filled with garbage in packed supply,

I was tossed in the sea to float.

Not long after, a young male whale

Thought I was food and swallowed me.

I was the cause of him to ail,

Cuz in his gut, blockage I be.

Death took a long and painful while.

Now at sea bottom he does rot.

Still stuck in his system, so I'll

Just be patient, cuz time I've got.

When from this whale carcass I pop,

Maybe float back to the sea top.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 A Turtle Failure

Some say the earth is on the back

Of a giant turtle to go

Through space and time on cosmic track

Till inner peace all earthlings know.

And so evolves the humankind.

Science and religion both be

Abused to twist the human mind

To trip too much too selfishly.

The giant turtle had to tell

Fellow reptile aliens that

Carrying this world became hell,

With earth a worthless habitat.

This turtle's telling earth above,

Too weighted down by hate, not love.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 The Hummingbird and the Sunflower

Nectarivore, the hummingbird,

A lover of nectar indeed.

So with the sunflower occurred,

Benefitting mutual need,

This flower liking this bird for

Pollinating ability,

And in turn gives nectar galore,

The hummingbird's pure ecstasy.

So over the whole summer, these

Two do encounter often so

One and the other, each do please,

Giving and taking to bestow.

Sometimes a lucky human may

Photograph these two on display.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 My Purpose Fulfilled

The bakery's open late at night.

Since early morn here on the shelf

I've sat as others, left and right,

All have gone and I'm by myself.

My comrades succeed but I fail.

I have to wonder how and why,

Sitting alone and growing stale.

In sprinkle spurts I start to cry.

I feel the hole within me get

Bigger and emptier I am.

The shop door opens, there's hope yet,

As the excitement fills my jam.

This donut leaves the bakery shop,

Late night snack for on duty cop.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Flowers Then Shoes

Prompt of a flower prompted me

To think of the hibiscus one.

But when the prompt changed to shoes be,

Hibiscus verse can still be done,

Cuz in Asia another name

For hibiscus be shoe flower,

Cuz the petals were ground in aim

For black shoe polishing power.

Thus hibiscus for a long time

Had petals ground into black hues,

Prompting my shoe flower in rhyme,

From flower prompt to prompt of shoes.

So pen a poem I done do,

Prompted by flower then by shoe.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Because of Me

"Love me my Guinevere," you'd plead.

"Stay close by my side," you'd beg me.

I knew you loved me, yes indeed.

But true to you I could not be.

You were my lord, my king, but I

Could not be faithful as your queen.

Lancelot I loved, I won't deny.

With you and I, he came between.

Then you, my king, and he, my love,

Because of me, began a war.

Filled with the sorrow and the blame of

This, I could not love anymore.

I returned to you when I died.

Lancelot buried me by your side.