My Mind Travels (A Nonet)

My mind travels to places unknown
Meeting people from many places
Yet I never leave my desk
Papers stuffed in corners
Some scattered about
Stories undone
A writer's
Quest for
life

The Baseball Sleeps

The baseball
Sleeps inside the glove
Summer has
Worn him out
Football season is coming
His vacation earned


Another shadorma.

Ron Paul Places Fifth

Ron Paul placed 5th, in the Iowa Straw Poll, gaining 9% of the vote. Many of the liberals at Politis1.com made fun of Dr. Paul on Friday. One guy predicted he would receive only 1%. Republican front runners McCain and Romney failed to reach the 2% mark. Now here on Sunday (the day after the Straw vote) these same bloggers are still saying the Texas congressman should drop out.

This shows that not all conservatives support the unconstitutional war in Iraq. I’m still hoping Ron Paul makes it to the Arkansas Primaries.

Fifty Yellow Balloons

Fifty
Yellow balloons
Drifting by my window
Waking I wonder if it was
A dream

This is a Cinquian. Syllable count is 2-4-6-8-2. When writing this I thought about that song in eighties about a 100 red balloons.

Rattlesnake City

In Rattlesnake City
The moonlight had never shined
Poison reigned supreme
A small lamb offered his life
Bitten in his heart
Leaving a bloody red scar
The rattlesnakes mocked his tomb
A lion appeared
With a crown upon his head
His subjects shouted
As the rattlesnakes were consumed
The mooonlight then beamed
On this noble conqueror
The red scar on his heart glowed

This is a Naga Uta, a non-rhyming poem. Syllable count is 5-7-5, with the last two lines 7-7. Also there is no line limit.