Romancing the Rain
Rain dances bring rain
if the dancers continue
until the rain starts.
Sour Senryu
If
the milk is sour,
it
doesn’t matter whether
the
cup is half full.
Snare of the Sierra Madre
Going
for the gold
will
do more harm than good if
only
gold matters.
Elmhurst Streetlights
Our
hometown streetlights
soft
sirens gently calling
brought
us home at dusk.
War of the Words
In
a war of words,
the
better part of
should
be discussion.
Cave
Fighting
to decide
who
is right is very wrong
in
so many ways.
Freedom of Improvement
The
right to write wrongs
should
start with sincere efforts
to
right our own wrongs.
Forsoothsaying
“I
told you so,” means
they
think they knew the future
now
that it’s the past.
Ken Gosse usually writes short, rhymed verse using whimsy and humor in
traditional meters. First published in First Literary Review–East in November
2016, he has also been published by Pure Slush, Home Planet News Online,
Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and others. Raised in the Chicago, Illinois,
suburbs, now retired, he and his wife have lived in Mesa, AZ, for over twenty
years, usually with rescue dogs and cats underfoot.
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