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

© 2013 by Audrey Schwartz Rivers and Poetweetry

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Mobile Post: Not For The Squeamish

Because I have such squeamish friends on Twitter, Facebook and WordPress, I’ve been forced to change the title of the poem “Colonoscopy” to “Worm Hole”.

Chicken!

Look for a new — and more politically correct — poem later today

Geesh!

Floaters

 

“Floaters”
Original art by Audrey Schwartz Rivers
© 2013 Audrey Schwartz Rivers & Poetweetry

Cornea corona

Noon fireflies

Cinder snow

Weiss webs

Captive slug trails

Dancing ants

Twilight tiaras

Opaque omens

Black hole avarice

 

Tweeted on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 6:15 p.m. CDT

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Worm Hole

“Worm Hole”
© 2013 by Audrey Schwartz Rivers & Poetweetry

 

Serpentine Satan

Arse Auger

flush away Eden

pilfer polyp parasite

I warp into fetal labyrinth

curse each centipede inch

tail between legs

 

Tweeted on Monday, April 2, 2013, 8:30 pm CDT

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What Thomas Wolfe Said…

“Stucco”
Original Artwork
© 2013 Audrey S. Rivers
All Rights Reserved

“And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there.  

It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.”

Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again

 

I don’t exist here

not in dust

nor echoes

UR stucco heart jagged

gate fixed

Yet perdition leaks in

w/mourning doves’ censure

effacing refuge

 

 

Tweeted Monday, February 11, 2013 at 6:33 p.m. CST

Jack of Hearts

Artist Rendering by
Audrey Schwartz Rivers
© 2013 by Poetweetry
All Rights Reserved

 

Knave bluffs

leers retrograde rebukes

cuts hand dealt

draws black aces

Guilt’s trump card

Since he already lost

goes all in

Jokers wild

 

Tweeted on Saturday February 2, 2013 at 4:57 pm CST

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Genocide

A pilot whale appears to cry after she and baby (rear) captured at Taiji, Japan for entertainment trade
[Photo via By Bhavna Singh @Bhavz09]

Once our friends

split-fluked ones

invade Cove

Spears rage

Nets drown

Families culled

From sea womb torn

now orphan Calf

forever slave

Weeps

 

 

Tweeted Friday, January 18, 2013 at 3:44 pm CST

Poem © 2013 by Audrey Schwartz Rivers and Poetweetry

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[Photo via Twitter By Bhavna Singh @Bhavz09]

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

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Rituals: At Thanksgiving Day

Happy Forgiving Day

distant kin

eat hearts out

Sudden death play-offs

tackle tribe rivalries

siblings ledger scores

Discard all leftovers

 

 

Tweeted on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 11:07 p.m. CT

©2012 by Audrey S. Rivers & Poetweetry

First Born

Anointed

blue ribbon shrine

pristine shoes

Daddy toe waltzes

bedroom sanctum

car keys

genetic guilt

default executor

Last shovelful of dirt

 

Tweeted on Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. CT

©2012 by Audrey S. Rivers & Poetweetry