More Poetry by Robert R. Woods

June o6, 2o13

   Okay, I promise that this is the last of this silliness for a while. I'll get back to the longer poems soon.

Mo Better Random (W) Rites

There's a rogue sparrow
dancing on the lawn!
I don't know what he's

happy about...
he's a damn sparrow.
 
Simply put, everything is simple.
No more complicated than
Einstein's theory of relativity:
"If it ain't relative to me,
I don't want to hear it."

 

Morning has arrived... again.
And tomorrow (if we're lucky)
it will do exactly the same thing.
But wouldn't it be nice next time

if it arrived just a little bit late,

rising from a different direction,
riding a mountain bike?

I never loved you
I hope you know that
I only pretended to
to give you a good reason
for leaving me

 

I tried counting peanuts
to fall asleep
but the elephant
in the room
eat ‘em all
now I'm wide awake

The problem with Human Rights,
every damn human being thinks

he deserves them.

 

I was afraid of this

when I should have been
afraid of that

 

I was thinkin’ ‘bout you

but then again
it could’ve been
you were thinkin’ ‘bout me
                   —Quantum Philosophy
—rrw o6-o6-13