Zombie Flamingos

Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…maybe even with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, R is for … Rhyming, a little.

Innocent

I walk into the kitchen, find glass on the floor
I think, I cannot take this crap any more.

I call out “Oliver” but no one replies
I walk to the hallway to look into his eyes

“Not I” his face tells me, I do not believe
He’s innocent. No, he will always deceive.

He tries to convince me “It’s Lucy, I say.”
But I’ve got his number, this cat won’t get away.

And yet later, when my workday has piled up the shit
Oliver nudges me and on my lap he sits.

No matter the assholery he might cause
I will always forgive furries breaking the laws.

Thanks for visiting my 2026 A to Z Challenge – Letter R.

Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…maybe even with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, Q is for … Quickly post this before anyone notices that I forgot…

Music Festival for Nervous Musicians

Rows of seats wait
outside closed doors.
You hear faint screeches —
violins, clarinets —
perhaps a paradiddle
from within.

A woman, hair in bun,
stereotypical glasses
of one with nothing else to do
but greet competitors,
look them up and down,
direct them to “Sit…
Wait to be called in.”

So you sit, and others sit,
clutching flutes, violas, trumpets,
or the nothing at all
representing pianists or sopranos.

You appear from warmup rooms,
dens of intimidated or intimidating.
Hoping you are good enough,
ready to perform

in front of judge, jury.
Executioner.

Just kidding.

Only an examiner…
and someone else’s mother
throwing shade as you play.

Thanks for visiting my 2026 A to Z Challenge – Letter Q.

Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…maybe even with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, P is for … Procrastination

Procrastination

I take thee to be
lawful and faithful
through joy and sorrow,
laziness and distraction,
postponement and delay,
demotivation and …

Or maybe I’ll wait
until tomorrow.

Thanks for visiting my 2026 A to Z Challenge – Letter P.

Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…maybe even with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, O is for … Oops…I forgot to post yesterday.

And not only that, I forgot that A to Z is only six days a week not seven, so I had gotten ahead off myself and not am behind…hopefully I will be on track now after today.

I felt a graduation in my spine (inspired by Emily Dickinson)

I felt a graduation in my spine
tingles running down
as students finish,
long years of study

They sit gowned in black,
caps perched,
tassels draped, ready
to move from right to left.

When names are called,
diplomas pass from hand
To hand. The audience,
they all were seated until

mothers, fathers, sisters
brothers,  rise up
And then I heard them
lift hands, applaud.

They walk across the stage,
return to seats, drop down
and watch. Then stand, toss caps,
and finish, not knowing what’a next.

Thanks for visiting my 2026 A to Z Challenge – Letter O.