Category Archives: Poetry

Frost on my Windshield – a Cherita

vision obscured

ice frosted
opaqueness

glaring
diffused light
driving blind

~kat~


Roadkill Cherita

black crow, cackles,

buzzards prowl, circling
predators in black on blue

cars swerve around roadkill,
a heap of fur, unrecognizable,
its death vapors rising

~kat~

I swerved ’round a dead skunk on the road this morning on my way to work, slightly smashed from tire treads, a fluff of black, red and white. The sky natives were restless. And so, another Cherita documenting life on the edge of drear.

 


Rain Grey – A Cherita

Raindrops on double-layered, resin-laminated glass

heavy, grey fog obscures the distant mountain vista;
scrawny winter trees, black-wet, line acres of partitioned asphalt

I sit, sipping jasmine, sugar-sweet tea under fluorescent yellow strobes
and see my red fiat 500c sandwiched between two SUV’s, my escape from the madness
what I wouldn’t give for a puddle to stomp but the grated abyss has devoured it

~kat

Another view from Cubicle-World on this bleak winter’s day captured a la Cherita. I typically lunch at my desk…blah…blah…blah. And occasionally I am pleasantly interrupted from the drear by my muse…or maybe it is just the rain.   🙂


Grappling with fate

grappling with fate

nothing thrills me more,
not fortune, nor happenstance…
serendipity
rouses my soul to believe
in kismet, in providence

felicitous flukes
that bind us intrinsically
you know…pure magic

~kat

For Colleen Chesebro’s Tuesday Poetry Challenge inspired by these words and their synonyms:

Destiny: fortune, serendipity, happenstance, kismet, fate

Challenge: rouse, thrill, grapple.


Lab Rat Cherita

I am a lab rat, an ‘esc’ key click away from madness,

trapped inside a three–walled cubicle…three? Cubed?
forced to stare at an LED screen…read, respond, delete, repeat,

while typing onto a carpal tunnel-mitigating, wrist-supported keyboard
for hours and hours and hours and overtime, darkness to darkness,
the edge of lunacy teetering on a swiveling, ergonomic chair on wheels.

~kat

Another Cherita…As I may have mentioned…work this week is a BEAR! 🙂