Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 You Better Me

My mind and flesh are often weak,

So what I do and think are wrong.

Too often I do fail to seek

Your guidance that keeps my soul strong.

I know I am a sinner who

You went to the cross to forgive.

But sinning, I oft think and do,

Not the way you want me to live.

You are my Savior and I need

To keep You always close with me,

So any and all thought and deed

Of mine will with Your blessing be.

My Lord Jesus, to you I pray

To help me better live God's way.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Apple Biter

A married preacher, I oft go

To the houses of ill repute,

And take the Bible I well know

In saving sinning souls pursuit.

Tonight I'm meeting with a soul,

Once was a him now is a her.

Bible in hand it be my goal

For a salvation to occur.

But the devil has taken hold,

And so seducible is me.

Her price is paid, my soul is sold,

And off to sinning I do be.

I bite that apple once again,

And let Eve pull me into sin.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Business Cards

My Valentine's Day routine be

To get 500 pink cards and

Write a short poem lovingly.

Then with sweet scented perfume brand,

Spritz each card so that there's a smell

Strong to flow through the entire house

To pique curiosity well

Of both recipient and spouse.

I sign each of the cards "Guess Who?"

Then to Mr. or Mrs. I

Send out the 500 cards to,

Hoping one party will reply.

The reason that I do this is

Good for this divorce lawyer's biz.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 With You

For a long time I lived my life

Believing I was all alone.

I caused myself such stress and strife.

The blame and shame was all my own.

But then that glorious day came

When into my life I brought you.

And I would never be the same

In how I think and what I do.

For now with you I can know of

All the goodness my life can share,

Giving and getting back such love,

I'd never known was always there.

Thank goodness, Jesus, truth sure be

That you have always been with me.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Chugwater

Chugwater, Wyoming was named

From a tale of a bison herd

Hunted by tribe hunters who claimed

Jumping over a cliff occurred

By the bison to get away

From the hunters, and the long fall

Made the herd quite thirsty so they

Ran to a stream nearby and all

Began to chug water therefrom.

And this caused a very loud sound,

Alerting the hunters to come,

And the herd was barbeque bound.

If named for the most most chugging here,

The town would have been named "Chugbeer."

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Worse Than the Dullahan

I see a dullahan tonight,

An Irish folklore headless guy

On a black horse and such a sight

Does mean that marked for death am I.

Searching for his soul he does roam,

In a bad mood, losing his head.

I guess I'd better hurry home,

And get there before I drop dead.

Thank goodness I don't have too far

To go to get home with my life.

Time and money spent at that bar

Means that drunk I must face the wife.

No doubt when the wife smells my breath,

I'm gonna prefer facing death.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Longevity

The universe will live on long

After eternity is gone.

In 1967 song

The Rolling Stones sang of trip on

A starship through the universe

On a 2000 light year roam,

And told of loneliness in verse,

Being so very far from home.

The Rolling Stones still sing on Earth,

And the universe lives on still.

Some still wonder, for what it's worth,

Living the longer, which one will?

The Rolling Stones do seem to be

Just rolling on eternally.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Pest

I was sitting, having some lunch

In peace and quiet of the day.

As on a salad I did munch,

Suddenly her face did display,

Startling me in my time and place

That she would interrupt me so,

Overwhelming me with her face.

And for what purpose, who could know?

At me she continued to stare.

I could not eat in front of her.

And she did not appear to care

That my lunch was ruined for sure.

A human lady bugging me,

An annoyed ladybug I be.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Maid Made Mess

Ever since we got married, you

Called me a messy this and that.

So to keep peace, what did I do?

Hired a maid for our habitat,

By taking on a second job.

But still from you I had to hear

This and that complaints by the gob.

No pleasing you, it did appear,

Except the pleasing that you got

From doing the maid on the sly.

This irritated me a lot,

So decided that you should die.

I staged you in a car wreck, yes,

When you were found, you were a mess.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Naming Me

Birthday when I turned five years old

How I got my James Baldwin name

To me Mom and Dad this tale told.

It happened on the day I came.

Mom told Dad that my time had come

To be born and so the two got

Mom's things together and left from

Home with the destination sought

Of the hospital where I would

Be delivered, and Mom and Dad

Thought a corner street sign was good.

That's how I got the name I had.

James Street and Baldwin Street did be

Hospital where the folks had me.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 My Late Twenties

In my late twenties I recall

Being a drunk since my teen years,

But functioning well through it all.

I could stop anytime so "Cheers."

I'd been engaged but called it off,

Lied incompatible  was why.

But at the real truth I did scoff.

Wedded to alcohol was I.

A good job I had kept, thinking,

Job reviews good, so I'm okay,

And funding source for my drinking,

Which I did each and every day.

Ten more years into hell I sunk,

Then recovered being a drunk.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Kingdom Come

For any king to rule true worth

The king must only rule for good,

Against all evil on the earth.

Only truth and righteousness should

Guide forth the rulings that be known

In a kingdom by one and all,

From the king sitting on the throne.

For this God will bless the king's call.

When God deemed too many kings had

Abused God's gift of power then

God knew that earth was prone to bad,

And sent his Son to forgive sin.

Jesus Christ, King of kings, came to

Promise worthy His Kingdom true.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Sharing of Wisdom

The tribal chief was gravely ill.

The shaman had done all he could

To try to heal the chief but still

The shaman's efforts did no good.

And so the shaman went to find

The bison, who spirits had told,

Had the knowledge within its mind

Of curing herbs it could unfold.

The shaman found the bison and

Was allowed by the bison to

Place on its head the shaman's hand.

Then knowledge flowed between the two.

The herbs the bison would reveal

To the shaman, the chief to heal.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 At Their Mercy

I overhear the two of them

Talking of me, her and him.

She tells him to commit mayhem

By killing me just on her whim.

But instead, with napkin and cup,

I watch him bend to where I'm at,

And very gently scoops me up.

We go outside their habitat.

He lets me loose with this to say,

"Goodbye spider and off you go."

So of course I scurry away.

Some humans are humane, I know.

Meet these two again, I'm quite sure,

I will thank him, I will bite her.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Easier Said Than Done

There is an ancient fable that

Tells of a meeting of mice on

How to outwit the fearsome cat.

The best idea agreed upon

Was to the cat attach a bell,

So when the cat would come and go,

The mice could hear the jingling well,

And cat's whereabouts mice would know.

But one old and wise mouse did ask

The question none had answer for,

"Who of us should perform this task"

"Of put the bell on the cat chore?"

The moral of the fable is true,

Easy to say, but hard to do.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Valentine for Marlena

A special valentine be for

Marlena Dietrich, oft in love

With many him's and her's galore.

She and her husband would talk of

These many affairs of her heart.

Beautiful and glamorous, she

Was one of a kind work of art,

Loved and adored by so many.

From youth into her seventies,

Marlena's love life loved on strong,

One whom many could love with ease,

Whether for a time short or long.

For Marlena, this valentine,

I wish she'd been a love of mine.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Fever Exchange

Off to Alaska I did go

To strike it rich finding some gold.

Winter came, it began to snow.

A cabin sheltered me from cold.

But all the snow piled up so that

For several months I was stuck in

The tiny wooden habitat,

Wanted to jump out of my skin.

Enough necessities but not

WiFi, radio or T.V.

So bored awake, so slept a lot,

Getting more and more stir crazy.

Gone was the gold fever I had,

Replaced by cabin fever, bad.

Sense Sonnet - Tickler

 Get Rich

I wanted more money and so,

Being lazy and not too bright,

In a clearing with room to grow,

I planted a money tree, right

Where I could go and withdraw from

Whatever money I should need.

Critics were saying this was dumb,

But I doubled good luck indeed,

Planting hibiscus all around

That money tree cuz such bloom is

The lucky flower so I'm bound

For big payoff, golly, gee whiz!

So in that clearing I will be,

If anyone's looking for me.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Mata Hari

Mata Hari, courtesan who

Used her skills for profit and fun.

A lot of spying she did do

For both sides during World War I.

Affairs she carried on both with

French and German blab johns to shock

The prudish with some fact, some myth,

Secrets she got from pillow talk.

In due course as the war did end

Both sides did charge her as a spy,

Being between the sheets foe's friend,

Tried by the French, sentenced to die.

Mata Hari with one last nod

Blew a kiss to her firing squad.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Queen Numbi

Beloved Queen Numbi, old and ill,

Saw a light, as the tale does tell,

Greater destiny to fulfill.

White lion on a star that fell,

Sent by mighty sun god to give

Queen Numbi special power to

In good health and in long youth live,

Helping her people right and true.

Upon the winged white lion, she

Was often seen with birds on high,

Reigning with all her majesty,

Best for her people to supply.

Queen Numbi dead on one sad day,

The white lion flew her away.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Pangu

Pangu, the oldest Chinese myth,

Came from the primordial ooze,

Primitive hairy giant with

Horns on his head, who then did choose

To create the earth and the sky.

The sky be yang, the earth be yin,

Both were kept separated by

Pangu keeping his body in

Between the two as both did grow.

For 18,000 years he stood

Till sky above and earth below

Had fully been formed as both should.

Pangu finished his task of worth,

And became part of sky and earth.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Sarah Boone

Sarah Boone with her family,

Slaves in the south, did escape north.

A dressmaker she came to be.

For better dresses she went forth

To make better ironing, to wit

Inventing a contoured board

That into garment sleeve could fit,

Allowing shifting to afford

No wrinkling, so a nicer look.

Padded board, collapsible to

Easily be stored in a nook.

Her success in dressmaking grew.

In 1892 she sought

A U.S. patent which she got.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Playground of My Life

At times my life's like a playground.

There are many fun things to do.

My favorite's the merry go round.

I always go with my friend who

Is there to catch me as I slide

Down the slide to a safe, nice end.

On the roller coaster I ride,

And don't stand up, thanks to my friend.

When in the jungle gym I get

Myself stuck there once in a while,

I can count on my friend to let

Me get unstuck and make me smile.

A happy place the playground be

When my friend, Jesus, is with me.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Sweet Revenge

Hubby was cheating on me and

Flaunting affairs in front of me.

What Hubby did not understand,

A revengeful gal I can be.

So one night Hubby came home late,

Bragged, then went into the bathroom.

Knocked unconscious by me, his fate,

Then pushed into the tub to doom.

As the tub filled with water, I,

Instant tea and sugar then spread.

When there was sufficient supply,

I then pushed under Hubby's head.

Hubby gurgled, then death did meet.

Indeed revenge can be so sweet.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Pulitzer Applies

Joseph Pulitzer said that crime

Lived by secrecy and he did

Be an example for a time,

Winning in his election bid,

Missouri legislative seat,

Which everyone including him

Thought he would go down in defeat.

He ran really just on a whim,

But an illegal winner cuz

Pulitzer, elected too young,

He knew that to be truth that was,

But said nothing by pen or tongue.

After his term the truth came out,

Pulitzer's secret crime no doubt.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Where There's a Wool There's a Way

When the sheep slaughters  the wolf may

Sound impossible and absurd,

But truly happened on one day.

A small lamb wandered from the herd.

A wolf seeing the lamb did jump

To eat, but was grabbed in mid air,

Then dragged through the grass by the rump,

The wolf then chopped up by a pair

Of very sharp hooves that did bleed

That bad wolf to dry as a bone.

A happy ending was indeed

That any lamb had ever known.

That wolf slaughtered by that sheep who

Was a very mad mama ewe.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Sonnet 145 (Revised)

I snuck a peek at an email

In which she said the words, "I hate."

No time to read in whole detail,

But left me in an awful state.

That hate was for me I was sure.

Next time she saw me, she could tell

Something was wrong, so I told her

Of the email, I felt like hell.

She gave a look like to a child,

Was quiet as time ticked away.

Then finally in words quite mild,

On email hate, had this to say,

"Be assured that I don't hate you,"

"But hate some sneaky stuff you do."

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Arguing Aftermath

No more talking, they both sit down.

He sees her arms take hold her knees,

And looking at him with a frown.

He chooses to put her at ease,

And gently one hand holds her arm.

His other hand pulls back her head.

She lets herself accept his charm,

Feeling his lips on her neck spread

A tingling sensation through her.

And he knows he's made the right choice.

Communication shared for sure,

Without a sound in either voice.

Their first argument is all done,

And making up is so much fun.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Valentine's Day Blues

I was lucky that the wife be

Easy to please Valentine's Day,

Not expecting too much from me.

I was happy that was her way,

Cuz that meant that I could spend more

On my girlfriend for real good stuff,

The wife's gift just a token chore.

A cheap something was quite enough

To keep peace in my married life.

Coming Valentine's Day of course,

What would she like I asked the wife.

She said she would like a divorce.

This broke my heart, I can't pretend,

Much more than I wanted to spend.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Cancer the Crab

I'm at home in Lerna lagoon.

Hera, queen goddess, called on me,

"Cancer the Crab, an opportune"

"Time to kill Hercules does be."

So on her mission I was sent

To sneak up on Hercules, who

Was fighting the Hydra hell bent.

Back stabbing him I was to do.

But Hercules saw me sneak up,

And stomped me with both of his feet.

Very unhappy Hera, yup,

I now a pile of dead crab meat.

For effort, Cancer the Crab, I

Was put by Hera in the sky.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Why?

The young always ask questions of

Why is there so much war and hate

And not enough of peace and love?

For answers the young always wait,

Hoping someday the truth to know

To be a truth of good not bad.

But that day never comes, and so

Answers hoped for, never be had.

And as the young become old, there

Be the same questions from the young.

But no good answers old can share,

So old must lie or hold their tongue.

Less peace and love, more hate and war.

Why is still asked as asked before.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Proper Sky Etiquette

The golden rays of the sun asked

The silver clouds coming their way

If the clouds could be kindly tasked

To help the rays brighten the day

For all upon the ground below.

The clouds often heard such request

From sun rays quite politely so

The clouds would do their very best

To make such movements as would please

The rays, so the clouds did arrange

Flight paths differently on the breeze,

Resulting in requested change.

As the golden rays shone on through,

The silver clouds were told thank you.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Dropped My Thought

Sir Isaac Newton, thinker he,

Thought he would sit down one fine day

Right under me, an apple tree.

A thought I had but could not say

Was that this thinking human would

Be a perfect one to take with

A theory I thought was quite good,

Gravity be real, not mere myth.

Somehow I had to give him my

Thinking on this gravity thing,

So picked one of my apples high

To take my thought in a dropping.

This thought I had could not be said,

So dropped an apple on his head.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Fairy Tale Re"trolled"

The "Three Billy Goats Gruff" tale need,

With added truth, be retold goal,

Exposing those darn goats indeed,

Heaping abuse on me, the troll.

Those three goats came one at a time

To cross the bridge where I was at.

The third, without reason or rhyme,

Tossed me into the river that

Made the goats think that drowned I be.

Then those goats made a story up,

Eating them was desired by me.

In fact I was their victim, yup!

Truth their fairy tale did not note,

A vegan troll does not eat goat!

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 El Ganador

I am a La Mancha windmill.

El Ganador is now my name,

Because a battle did fulfill

My destiny for winning fame.

Don Quixote with Sancho rode

To me and Quixote yelled out,

"Giant" which I knew did forbode

A bad encounter, and no doubt

The kook charged at me with his lance.

I broke it, threw him from his horse.

He bemoaned his defeated stance.

Then Sancho  helped him up of course.

Tale moral is how delusions be

Like tilting at windmills like me.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Science Project

A requirement in science class

Is a project be picked by each

Student and allow time to pass

For picked life environment to teach

Both good and bad that does display.

My studied life environment is

A small planet far far away.

To prepare for my final quiz,

Study is mostly by remote.

But several times I've traveled there

For closer observation note.

Progress is slow, I am aware.

I call my science project, "Earth."

I hope in time results prove worth.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Kiss Confessed

They would arrest the one I kissed.

That was the deal with them I made,

For money I could not resist.

He would not know that I betrayed

Him, just coincidence that they

Came right after the moment I

Would kiss his cheek and then would say

Innocently, "Greetings Rabbi."

And then away they'd take him and

He'd never know what I had done

With them for his arrest so planned,

Not know I was the guilty one.

But I kissed Jesus Christ and he

Then knew the Judas I did be.

Sense Sonnet - Chiller

 Object of Desire

The metal sculpture caught my eye

In the antique shop as I browsed.

I picked it up, I don't know why,

My curiosity aroused.

It was two men in a fist fight.

Both maybe a ship captain and

A first mate were who I thought might

Be taking pugilistic stand.

I bet a woman was involved,

Somehow setting one against one,

How most men's disputes be resolved.

Being that woman would be fun.

The captain and the first mate be

Turning their attention to me.

Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Mother's Baby

My world is filled with lots of pain.

On living I have lost control.

It's getting harder to maintain

A healthy body, mind and soul.

My mother tries to comfort me,

To reassure me that I still

Can restore inner peace to be,

For a good future to fulfill.

And mother knows best I am sure,

Protecting me from bad that's hurled

Upon my being, I trust her

To be here for her baby world.

My mother holds me in her hands.

The pain I feel, she understands.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Pisces

In constellation, Pisces, be

Two fish connected by a string,

Tale told in Greek mythology

Of gratitude for a saving.

Mother, Aphrodite, and son,

Eros, goddess and god of love,

Both to a river bank did run,

Because they faced grave danger of

Being harmed by monster, Typhon.

Into two fish they each became,

And jumped into the river, gone

From the danger of monstrous aim.

In thanks, two fish placed in the sky,

Connected by a string to tie.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Two Gals on the Run

To my neighborhood she does roam,

And carrying weapons with her.

She's getting too close to my home.

Some action I need take for sure.

And so I make a lot of noise.

She sees me and I make my move

To let her know that she annoys

My senses, and it would behoove

Her not to mess around with me.

To make my point clear, just in case,

I start to run at her and she

Runs from me, I love a good chase.

Human females should be aware

Not to annoy a mama bear.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Significant, She Did

Significant other I need,

Cuz sign-if-I-can't surely is

Applicable to me indeed

For getting done important biz.

Any good credit I ever had

Is now long gone, and yes, the wife,

Who's credit's good as mine is bad,

Signs all the stuff for me in life.

The wife accuses me that this

Is my only purpose for her.

And so ended our wedded bliss,

A last signing for me for sure.

Sign if I can't, she did for me.

The wife signed the divorce decree.

Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Abolish Blasphemy Laws

Definition of blasphemy

Is being sacrilegious in

Word or deed of a deity,

And deemed to be offensive sin.

In many countries there still are

Blasphemy laws forbidding this.

Some penalties for go so far

Imposing death for such remiss.

All such laws need abolishment.

Judgement should only come divine

When proof is truly evident,

When humans reach the end of line.

No doubt this will be the firm call

When Communist China rules all.

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday is first day of Lent,

Forty six days to Easter when

I am reminded to repent,

And ask forgiveness for my sin.

On this day upon my forehead

A cross made of ash is there placed,

Reminder that when I am dead,

My body back to ash will waste.

But because my sin, God forgave

Taken by Jesus to the cross.

My mortal soul Jesus did save,

And heaven bound from earthly loss.

Ash Wednesday is reminder of

My salvation with Jesus' love.