Unpalatable Truth

Sweetest poison

White crystals all around

Delectable ice cream

Cakes and pies – obvious to the eyes

And yet this poison

In deceptive foods it hides

These carriers of sugar

Prey on your liver, heart, life’s blood

Can you taste it?

Yes and yet

The populace are slaves

Rise up then!

Claim your health

From sugared fiends

Cast out the culprit from your house

Your plate, and cultural demands

Life is still delightful without the sweet tooth

And fear the night of Halloween

Not for the ghosts and ghouls

But the candy freely given

There’s more tricks than treats in that goody bag!

Written for dVerse in the style of Futurism, which is aggressive, makes use of free verse, and advocates change.

For more information on how sugar impacts your health visit SugarScience, which is run by health scientists from the University of California, San Francisco.

Elegance

I see beauty

Elegant tatted lace

Stops my breath

Demands the skill be mine

First try

Knotted thread; nothing more

Still the vision persists

And so do I

Mentor, tutorials, time

More time

Until that tantalizing beauty

Is mine

Tatting is a form of lace making. It is exquisitely beautiful, but is also one of the trickiest fiber arts to learn.

Written for dVerse.

The Madding Night

Flaming sunset

Paints prim houses ghastly

Ocher, crimson, darkening blood

Specters glide by

Thin sheeted doppelgängers

Passing shuttered windows

Locked tight against the night

Penetrated by banshee cries

Orange glows on every porch

Pumpkin lanterns

Spark to life

Exchanging madding grins

With the ghouls

 


Madding - acting in a frenzied manner.

Merriam-Webster has an interesting article of Halloween words. Some are more specific than you'd think.

Written for dVerse

Homophone Fun

Chic

Around the park take a peek

Dachshund, collie, and a peke

Glossy furred, stand at their peak

How dog shows can interest pique!

Peke is a short form for the Pekingese dog.

Cair Aureate

Air clear and bright this day my only heir

Dear look to the forest where run the deer

Pair by pair under golden hanging pear

Hear finches warble flying there and here

Hares fleet footed dart between maidenhairs

New kittens mewl learning what mothers knew

Bare bone facts for adventures they will bear

Flue warmth; spoken softness; where phoenix flew

Cair Aureate’s wealth all this; soon thy care

Peer well from castle to watery pier

Fair sights and sounds all come with the same fare

Tears or joy come walking its many tiers

Blue skies or gray I bore each way the wind blew

To face each wind stalwart is thy task too

Maidenhair is a kind of fern.

"Cair Aureate" is a Shadow Sonnet. In this sonnet form the first and last word of each line are the same or homophonic. 

Written for dVerse 

Sparkle

Atop the snow capped mountain side

Something shines brighter than the snow

Gleaming; flashing with every stride

A unicorn with brilliant glow!

Hooves of diamonds glistering bright

And sparkling crystal prism horn

Catching and scattering rainbow light

Unicorn dancing in the morn!

Such a scene so scintillating

Will never from memory fade

Yet for a display so blinding

I’ll behold the unicorn with shades

written for dVerse