Titles In Perpetuum

On the Inside of a Walnut Husk-

Vociferous Approval:

The Paradise of my Despair

Here on the Hill

I’d Finally Arrived-

Here on Hillside Road

Where Noisy Clocks

Cluck Like Chickens-

Bells Ring

The Tone of my Despair-

Where Dogs Love Barking,

I Crave Eternal Silence

And a Pen,

A Flyswatter

Cokeman Cometh Hither

Like Slick Words-

Smiling Paints:

And the Truth of a Canvas-

The Irony of Mona’s Face

She’s a Tough Nut,

Beyond Picturesque Hillsides-

A Rare Bit of Madness

Amongst Controversies Contemporary

And Modern Woes-

Quintessential and Essential:

Mona’s Blatant Mockery-

Exquisite, Her Lines

Abstract the Sketch,

Her Lingering Smirk-

And She Laughs Well

On Hillside Road

And Abroad-

Poetry like a Blow

Prose like Peace-

She Snickers from Without

What a Piece,

And Her Smile-

A Masterpiece

In Reflection-

Abstraction in

Oily Inks,

A Picasso Mademoiselle

Puzzle Pieced,

An Ironic Pang-

The Slaves Watch

Unlike a Coo Coo

Cezanne’s Peaches,

A Cherry

Unremorseful Prose-

As a Tear Sweats

Rolling Downhill,

Laughing at Nothing in Particular-

Machete Blades

And Stabbing Words, the Blues-

A Song in the Key of Patience:

Holiday’s Haunting-

Dizzy Highnotes:

Tapps of Freedom-woe-

Intellectual Noise

On Unseen Scores-

Thus the Hypothesis Sirens

Hypocritical Dissonance

For Proverbial Pros-

Stars Against

A Midnight Cerulean-

Dotting the Sky

Like a Fallen Meteor-

Honeydew Melons,

Honeysuckle Juice-

Sweets:

A View of my Comet-

Comments on the Artiste

And Her Life, His Sorrow-

Marguerite

And Her Love-

Purple Doves,

White Hyacinth,

Poppies Red:  A Memoire

Mama Showed Me

Wings (the truth of flight)-

A Self portrait

In the Air-

The Heir of Beauty,

A Canvas of Wanting-

I Like It Like This-

A Cathedral of Hope-

Old Cadillac Grilles,

Rims of Awe-

Cracked Paint

And Whitewalls-

Colors of Me

Colours Are Me-

Mahogany-sand

And River’s Turquoise,

Translucent Love-

Treks In Solitude-

Wind of Ghetto-lust

And Backroad Dusts

Pecans in December

Smells of July-

Let Me Eat Cake,

September’s Pie-

A Portrait in Tedium-

A Masterpiece of Perseverance-

Dali’s Tree And My Clocks

On Rugged Feet

I Stand!

Copyright © 2003 Jacquii Cooke