Sentences: Simple, Compound or Complex

Sentences can take you off track

don’t let them
distort your words, form a crack, 
cause mayhem.

Learn the form
to transform
Ohhh yes!

Say what you mean
keep it clean
use sentences that are
simple, compound or complex.

Do it right, get some fame
learn to ask questions,
make statements and express
strong emotions, then sign your name.

Anybody
can be amazing, in this convoluted

maze of words learning to express,
like a master in a game of chess,
asking questions to get answers
telling stories, becoming authors.

Today we’re here, tomorrow there,
with this treasure chest of specs
using sentences; simple,

compound and complex. 

Did you work on our rap song? I asked,
Not yet, but I have ideas. You stated.
We have to get it done, I commanded.
What a great job!  We shouted.

Look what knowledge did for Shakespeare,

F. Scott Fitzgerald, and R.K. Rowling
brought them fame so enticing
book deals, movies and theater.

So much money and lavish praise
for their sentences:
simple, compound

and complex. 

Anybody
can be amazing, in this convoluted

maze of words learning to express,
like a master in a game of chess,
asking questions to get answers
telling stories, becoming authors.

Today we’re here, tomorrow there,
with this treasure chest of specs
using sentences; simple,

compound and complex. 

Coffee Pot Formation in Sedona

Great Grandma’s Lap

She was turning eighty

he could barely sit upright

but she held him strong

close to her heart.

His fingers touched her arm
baby skin on paper thin

one giving love

the other taking it in

One cycle ending

the next one starting

tick, tock, 

time passes on. 

Hart Street Mayhem

I was sitting in your house

on Hart Street

the new owners had five children,

two girls and three boys,

they were crowded but happy

packed into the small space

with the big yard and plenty

of space but it seems
the road had been closed

to accommodate drag racing
for the weekend.

Drivers revved up their engines

screeching across the asphalt

coming to a stop at the finish line.

Visitors from all over milled around

so residents sold trinkets 

along the sidewalk 

making a little cash for all their trouble.

The neighbors were worried with the changes

then you wandered in upset with the crowds

rushing to the restroom to fix your Mohawk

glad you moved out when you did.

Two dogs started to bark

then we placed our bets 

for the next race

waking-up before the 

night was done. 

Cold Snap

Reports of a cold snap

heading down from Canada
a frigid mass of cold air
ice crystals on citrus fruit,
highways like skating rinks
layered clothing a must
to withstand the winter freeze.   

The sun will shine through

during this polar front
making the less experienced
dress inappropriately
chilling to the bone 

forcing them inside with a fire

and the family dog close by

to keep them warm.

Dreamscape Wedding

Water rushing through the streets,

washing away cars and flooding homes

a wedding in a propped up shelter

the bride holding her dress above her knees

tiptoeing barefooted into the lighted room

standing with her new husband, 
until the ceremony was done.