Insomnia

“INSOMNIA”
Original art by
Audrey Schwartz Rivers
© 2013

For Olivia and our AWOL dreams:

Sanctimonious sleep

swat mosquito minutes

While seconds drip

Daymares vex

REM not

Torpor tortures

Fatigue’s final falter

Alarms tattle

 

 

Tweeted on Friday, April 5, 2013 at 4:25 pm CDT

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Evil Monkey

With appreciation — and/or apologies — to Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane)

 

Evil Monkey lurks in UR closet still

Hoochies w/ Gucci

Poos in Choos

Adds notches 2belts

Nests in dirty laundry

Witnesses childhood

J’accuse!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tweeted on Monday, January 7, 2013 at 4:28 p.m. CST

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“Evil Monkey” is a character own Fox-TV “Family Guy”

created by Seth MacFarLane

copyright by Fuzzy Door Productions and 20th Century Fox Television

Sea of Tranquility

Apollo 11 Cmdr Neil Armstrong after Moon walk
NASA photo

Remembering Neil Armstrong:
RIP in your beloved ocean 

 

Enough rock&dust shrines

Leave no deified relics

tomb photo ops

star dancing

Stay distant as Luna

Harbor in tranquil seas

of primordial dawn

 

 

Tweeted on Thursday September 13, 2012 at 11:28 a.m. CDT

following National Memorial Service

©2012 by Audrey Schwartz Rivers and Poetweetry

Premonitions

Sibyl spoke

Damned prophesy

Psychic volt

Days aflame

Dreams jolt

Omen,anecdote? 

Cajole eternity

Gift,Infamy?

Challenge blasphemy

Catastrophe!

Tweeted on Monday, August 27, 2012 at 6:20 pm CDT

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What’s In A Name?

Re: The ongoing conflict among academic, literary & Concord elites as to how Henry David Thoreau’s name should be pronounced…

Ask a rose

what hybrid scents Spring best

if Will or Gertrude writes most true

Name=identity

but not thoroughly

captures the essence of you

 

 

Tweeted  Sunday, July 29, 2012 at 7:24 p.m. CDT

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Abyssinia, Larry

In Belated Memory of Larry Gelbart:

George waits “U assumed central casting?”

Plautus sings “Comedy@Last”

Mac says “ICU got the fax”

Danny makes room

as Johnny deals cards

 

Tweeted: November 13, 2009   4:23 pm CT

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Ella’s Songbook

’tiskit’taskit lost

my man

somewhere o’er the rainbow

here’s that rainy day

don’t worry ’bout me

it’s only paper moon

follow yellow

Basket

Tweeted: October 8, 2009 9:58 pm

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“The Velvet Frog”

For Mel Torme:

I called U “The Velvet Frog”

Sorry but

U sing mellow & jazz riffs raspy

like Bro Ray

Nite fog rolls off Gulf & tree frogs

croon me 2 sleep

Tweeted: October 8, 2009 9:57 pm CT

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The Lion

In memory of and with profound thanks to

Edward M. Kennedy, “Lion of the U. S. Senate”

Lion roars

and all creatures rise

not in fear

but to hear

to heed the king’s sage majesty

as he walks gallantly

into the darkest forest

Tweeted: August 27, 2009

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Vick-tory

RE: Michael Vick signing with the Philadelphia Eagles:

Pull wings off bugs

boyswillbeboys

Harm blackcat on H’lloween

teenprank

Hunt 1st buck

= manhood

Fight dogs

rich football hero

Tweeted:  August 14, 2009

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