Random gentleman I met at a MUNI stop in San Francisco who let me know he was a poet seeking publication when I asked for directions. He goes by Catvonhaufecooper and can be reached at 415-331-1461. Said he’d found that when he stopped pushing things and simply looked around him for opportunities, that the very things he sought from the world arrived.
Dreams Venetian
Legends and maps
With currents Venetian waltzing
With salt and sand churning
With gravity pulling
Arriving departing reliably
Upon light lunar clear
Laguna Veneta bocche di po
Waltzing churning pulling
Legends and maps
Reliably clear
Mountains and canyons
With currents Venetian rumbling
With sun and shade meshing
With balance holding
Vanishing slowly silently
Upon darkness still
Castello Franco Veneto, Vittorio Veneto
Rumbling meshing holding
Mountains and canyons
Silently still
Treasures and trenches
With currents Venetian forming
With silver and gold sinking
With ocean owning
Closing concealing mute
Upon mortality slumber
Mare Adriatico Golfo de Veneza
Forming sinking owning
Treasures and trenches
Mute slumber
Gondolas and canals
With currents Venetian roaming
With eclipse and tide yearning
As one sharing
Veiling unveiling softly
Upon sphere somber
Piscine serenissimi
Roaming yearning sharing
Gondolas and canals
Softly somber
Take Them Give Them
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Dogs are one of the family
Everybody needs a mutt
Romantacy pit bull lives the life
Take them to the movies
Stroll them in the park
Take them to the parlor
Listen when they bark
Give them some advantage
A little behind the neck
Give them a name and a collar
Spoil them, what the heck
The grass I walk Paki
It’s called dog park
Dogs real eyes realize
Take them to the country
Let them roll in mud
Take them to a concert
Hope it’s not a dud
Give them a biscuit
Learn them how to sit
Give them a doghouse
Watch them sleep in it
Ever take a dog to the ocean
Salty water with sand
See flip dog paddle
Take them with you hunting
Let them off their leash
Take them to weekday funerals
May he rest in peace
Give them to your neighbor
You’ll be Mediterranean bound
Give them a pat on the head
Say you are a good old hound
Prota Punka is my sheepdog
Her favorite number is 3,283
Thank you Miracle Grow
Take them to the ball yard
Possibly one at bat
Take them to view fireworks
Ooooh, look at that
Give them a thorough brushing
Seven times a day
Give them plenty of water
Music they will play
Dogs are boys and girls
Male Karass, female Duquesa
Excuse me hardly nearly
Take them to the Laundromat
Observe tumble dry
Run them to the library
Novel about private eye
Give them a muzzle
Keep them out of jail
Give them a bone to bury
Archaeologists will unveil
Pipette is a silver poodle
Wears two top-know bows
Ready to go now
Take them to Hawaii
Six months quarantine
Take them when you’re camping
In case the bears are mean
Give them a birthday bash
Blow candles out on cake
Give them undivided attention
For canine sake
Surfboard Lost
One rage approaching
Fury of possessions fighting
Falsehoods told
Preceding the gods
Kingdom’s vegetable
Herbage
Plants perennial
Creatures in motion living
White water wave
Wave white water
Water wave white
A surfboard I am
Skegs atop lost
Down upside floating
Debris splinters surround
Encountered trillions
Loft visionary undimming
Gesture wanes calm serene
Falsehoods bartered
Preceding the gods
Waters body great
Masses saline
Inlet insertions
Creatures in living motion
Wave white water
Water wave white
White water wave
A surfboard I am
Ruins fragments buoyant
Salvation away shrunken
Removed remote
By ocean current swept
Undertows tubular
Horizon unworthy descending
Image obscurity belongs
Falsehoods brazen
The Reign of a Poet
An emperor
One time ago
Desired to venture
The mountains high
To remain elevated
In the fourth season
Axis revolutions eighty
During his distance covered
Of the empire
Aspects prospered
Sufficient fully
All possible became
Homes of currency
Soil cultivation
Fishery
Of public purchase
Commodities
Hire reward
Moons eighty elapsed
High the mountains
Plummet commenced
State satellite downward
To the empire return
The emperor recurred
A rustic
His return unawares
Events unexpected
Astonishment struck
The emperor inquired
In my peremptoriness
Who is showing the way?
Language of imagination
She uses in converse
The principal is a poet
A short time ago
Act of falling
Empire began
From her body
Her head severed
With a saber