Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 What to Die For?

So many times I'd thought about

Killing myself to end my pain.

Though I hated my life no doubt,

Maybe if I chose to remain,

Living would get better for me.

But sadly, the more the time passed,

A better life was not to be.

So I made up my mind at last,

I'd be better off if I died.

All my pain and troubles would cease.

So I committed suicide,

And really hoped I'd rest in peace.

My death was no blessing, but curse.

I'm reborn into a life worse.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 I Am Grateful

Who am I? I no longer ask,

Because I know the answer be

I need to be up to the task

Of gratitude filling up me.

I had to hit my bottom when

At last I asked for help to live.

And gratefully I did begin

To learn to take less, more to give.

Since I am human I still err,

But then seek forgiveness divine.

The good in me I try to share

With others as a gift of mine.

I hope will always be pursued

My living full of gratitude.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Wicked Winner

The Aesop's Fable told about

Race 'tween the tortoise and the hare.

The tortoise won as it turned out.

And the fable went on from there

Unpublished cuz it did portray

The winning tortoise really had

Beneath the shell a wicked way.

What happened to the hare so bad!

When the loser hare turned his back,

The winner tortoise snuck up to,

And jumped upon in fierce attack.

There was nothing the hare could do.

The tortoise anxious lips did lick,

Roasting that rabbit on a stick.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Let the Last Laugh Be Mine

This is Captain Ahab and I

With my log have no other choice,

Since away from my ship, but try

To make my last entry by voice,

And hope it's heard by my first mate

To then be logged that I have found

Myself tied to ironic fate.

By my own harpoon rope I'm bound

To my nemesis, Moby Dick,

Who with his tongue will soon take me

Into his mouth with one foul flick,

Then a snack for Moby I'll be.

And so I wish with my last breath,

I cause this whale to choke to death.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Miracle for Me

As a young kid I once did peek

In a puddle and saw that I

Was what as a grownup I did seek,

An astronaut in unknown sky,

Exploring where no human had.

But on this mission, marooned now

In deep space, my outcome looks bad.

Maybe some miracle somehow.

Then suddenly appears a light,

A portal opens in the black,

For me a miraculous sight,

As a young kid is looking back.

And pulled through that portal I be

By the young kid who, yes, was me!

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 White Knight

Into some fog the white owl flew.

Deciding a rest would be good

Until a clear sky would renew,

The white owl landed in a wood.

And right away happened upon

A lovely damsel in distress.

So to her the white owl was drawn

For possible aid to assess.

The damsel had taken a fall,

Causing her ankle to be sprained.

Already she'd made a phone call,

And forthcoming help was attained.

To assure the damsel's safety,

The white owl kept her company.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Muddy Waters

Prisoner of his I did be,

Kept in a bathtub in his house.

Though very nice he treated me,

I still considered him a louse

For taking me against my will

From my home and all that I knew.

At first the fear of him did fill

Me, but fear left and anger grew,

Until time came I pulled him down

In the tub water where he stayed

In my firm grip as he did drown,

And rid of him was this mermaid.

But I haven't any notion

How I'll get back to the ocean.