Perfect Poet Award Week 46

Thank you Jingle and Company and all those who nominated me for this award!

As part of my acceptance, I nominate Liveonimpulse for next week’s award and offer a lighthearted haiku:

Feisty kitten leaps

attacking dog who turns and

growls her discontentment.

©2010 frayedges and http://www.frayedges.wordpress.com.

Happy Rally everyone!

Outstanding Poet of National Poetry Month Award

Thank you Jingle and all who voted for me. This is great!

White trash

Photo courtesy of Morguefile

White trash sitting on the patio, flicking cigarettes into tall grass.
Junk strewn about the yard
A camper rests on cinder blocks, sending roots into the ground
slowly rotting into the littered landscape.

White trash collecting cans, every penny helps.
Old man throws back a beer as kids scour the roadside for aluminum.
Old man looking like a fool, trying to be cool
with a cowboy hat wrapped in snakeskin, skin dirty, clothes dirty.

White trash dumpster diving looking for a score.
Amazing what folks will throw away. Just wipe it off and eat it.
Dinners made from government cheese and church hand outs.
Those rich folks don’t know what they’re missing.

White trash I was born to but never was.
Reaching for the stars, brushing off the dirt, the grime.
Staying one step ahead of myself.
Spent a lifetime trashing that.

©2010 frayedges and http://www.frayedges.wordpress.com

The Celebrate Poet of Spring in 2011 Awards

Woo hoo! Another Poetry Rally award! Thanks Jingle and all who nominated me. See you all at the next rally!

The Perfect Poet Award 4 Poets Rally Week 38

Thanks to Jingle, Leo, and all who voted for me. I am once again proud to post the Perfect Poet Award from Jingle’s Poetry Rally. Below is my acceptance haiku.

For next week’s rally I nominate dragonkatet

Mealtime

A feather blocks light.
The worm writhes in agony.
A bird chirps content.

©2010 frayedges and http://www.frayedges.wordpress.com

Photo courtesy of morguefiles