Studying

So busy with my studies

Too many words

My brain being fried

I need to take refuge

From endoplasmic reticulum

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet

I've so much to learn

And not enough time

I read all the books

Eyes scanning the details

Nothing much going in

Backup brain is needed

Jo Anne Kennedy

April 2015

(49 words using backups, scanning, refuge and endoplasmic)

Looking at Life

Our two kids happy

Running around the garden

Having fun after preschool

Sitting watching them

With a carling in my hand

Life just seems right

Drinking to avoid

The allurements of life

That I revolve around

Just trying to cope

With all that life brings

Life is a rollercoaster

Jo Anne Kennedy

April 2015

(49 words – using words carling, preschool, revolve & allurements) 

The Election

They act like lions

Stalking their prey

Proving they are manly

They stand on their altars

Wanting us to bow down

And kiss their feet

They wish for concurrency

Relating to their ideas

Fighting for a reinstall

Why should we vote?

What’s our prize?

More fighting and failed plans?

Jo Anne Kennedy

April 2015

(49 words – using words altars, manly, reinstall & concurrency) 

I Mourn

Beside my bed

On the night-stand

Is a picture of you

I cannot forget you

I stand at your grave

My eyes filled with tears

As I mourn the loss

Of my little adventurer

You are always with me

In my mind

Unbearable pain

Like a skewer to the heart

Jo Anne Kennedy

April 2015

#writing dare – 49-word poem using the words nightstand, grace, skewer and adventurer. 

An empty meadow

An empty meadow

Grass growing wild

Daffodils blooming

And daisy’s everywhere

A pretty sight

Colourful and bright

In comes a lamb

All new and innocent

Running through the grass

A spring in his step

Enjoying the sun

And frolicking in the grass

Here comes his friends

All wanting to play

Once an empty meadow

Now a play park for the lambs

Jo Anne Kennedy

© April 2015

Champagne Supernova

Champagne Supernova

Playing on the radio

Driving down the freeway

Left-hand playing the air drum

The sun is shining

Friends are with me

Drink is flowing

Not good for some

Vomit on the floor

Smell is real putrid

Then the earthquake comes

And the car is all a tremor

Jo Anne Kennedy

© April 2015

49-word poem dare to include the words Supernova, Left-hand, Vomit and Tremor

Unspoken Promise

Unspoken Promise

You and I

Together

An unspoken promise

Of forever

Never be alone

Always you and I

Together

For always

From birth

To death

United as one

Never apart

Love always

It’s unconditional

Thank you

For all love received

Jo Anne Kennedy

© April 2015