The Auld Country

[Johntee]

Did you miss your Scottish,
apostrophe re?
and in England
dogs cool by their pants.

[Johntee]

These one time things

carry a ring.

Sophist cliff,

spit abyss,

who rails

the hang-nailed...

[Johntee]

Unlucky in life
unwrites love.
Depersonalise
the verse above.

[Johntee]

Shades of Autumn


Cobwebbed with the dewy dawn,

paled by the rising sun,

here the mist has come
...

[Johntee]

Everything can be ignored,
after all pain's just a word
and cancer, for some, can be cured
and Sen. McCaine hasn't been floored
...

[Johntee]

The read made me think AtL.
You've pulled me out
of my comfort zone
to my default
questioning response
in Trash Talk

[Johntee]

Trash Talk (or Message in a Bottle)


How many words turn to dust

in the Desert of Romance,

and how many verses...

[Johntee]

Western Germany was shamed by the West,
after their defeat by force, but in the East
The Party kept the carpet handy
and brushed-under...

[Johntee]

Shame can be a good thing too.
As well as you
it set the Germans right.
After their descent to night
mares of concentration,...

[Johntee]

Not a gloss, look upon it
more as a mechanical transliteration,
Google's AI perhaps.

[Johntee]

Not observed for some long time - - -thankfully

[Johntee]

A haiku
to end all

[Johntee]

harried strut of charms--------- Chaste support spells
the scraps of learning -----------potency of mind
tumble up in armfuls

...

[Johntee]

Territory


Life, in terms, is given to all

to make from it what they will,

to stand their ground lest they...

[Johntee]

Being beyond me to
improve others work,
I offer Evanascent
as a complement
that you may see
its' patrimony.

[Johntee]

Cheese for dreaming
late at night,
a shiboleth
of fearsome fright
rendered by films
black and white
but where's the...

[Johntee]

Evanescent


Remembering, you write of love

which all desire and some would have,

and claim it deathless as...

[Johntee]

I take it the tune must be "John Brown's Body?"

[Johntee]

You recognise,perhaps, my steal
of chalice from your commonwealth
of words.

[Johntee]

Thanks Grant, two days has changed the sun's position enough that the moment won't recur this year.