Boardwalk

I drove up to a town today
with a carload full of friends
we laughed and ate and walked about
on a boardwalk without end.

The sign claimed that it was so big
the biggest one around
that floats on ceder shaped and nailed
The pathway we were bound.

And after walking 'cross the waves
Bonnie did turn and hurl
"The sign did not to us declare
its the boringest in the world!"

Waters

Sometimes

I look to the dark waters of the heart

for inspiration

but often

I prefer

the clear creeks of the mind

it's easier to see the bottom.

Getting up

I'm so human

I am reminded of that

daily

and I realize

that I will fall short

and I will mess up

but that is the point.

Deadlines

Another couplet short and sweet

for there are deadlines that I must meet

Holiday

Nothing deep for ya'll today

perhaps I take a holiday

BP

When you take water
out of a river
and put it into a tube
then suck away
all the air
the water will boil.

I boil too sometimes.

Sunday

Sunday is a peaceful day

a time to stop and rest

a load of poppy that sure is

I bare have time to dress!

If at first...

If at first you don't succeed,
try,
try,
try,
try,
try,
try,
try,
try,
try,
try,
try,
try,
try,
try,
try,
again.

Making Up

When the lights go out
and the people go home
I stand in the parking lot
and look up
around
side
to side
and wonder if should go
or if I should say.

Lollipop

Sickly sweet

like the string of red

that hangs from the end

of a kid's lollipop.

Never will it fill you up

but it still tastes good

as much as you hate

to admit it.

Quiet

I think
when all is quiet
and only I exist
that this is how it was at the beginning
before boom
before it all started.

Ring Ring

Two calls today
leave me confused
like I am about to eat
after fasting,
both hungry and thirsty
not able to decide
whether I should pick up goblet
or fork.

The Middle Way

The easy way

is lots of smiles

a well-placed hand

moments of abandon

dancing in the rain

with lots of whispers

with one winner

and one loser.

The hard way

has all the same things

except both win

and lose

at the same time.

Poem 2

I post a poem most everyday
here it is for you to see!

BYU-59 UCLA-0

The Bruins came to deseret

to see what they could do

they felt real fancy coming off

a recent double-u

Well Cougars come on pretty strong

with dog breath on their nose

they would have won it anyways

without celebratory throws

The third worst blowout ever seen

by yellow wearing bears

I am so happy yes I am

I just could throw a chair.

Poem

A flower grows from the snow

a flame in a field of white

to be trampled

underfoot

a wolverine is coming

and he's hungry.

Sausage Wars

There lived a Prussian scientist
Who's mouth he would not shut
Otto the King quite disagreed
and called the doctor out

"You pick the weapon, scientist!"
The royal taunted neat
"I pick two German sausages,
One with undercooked meat!"

"No thanks," Bizzie did acquiesce
Not being one to gamble
"Today is not a dueling day"
Or something he did ramble.

Translational Blues

I'm just a peptide chain
looking for structure
looking for my cofoactor
looking for my reaction.

I twist
into what's possible
like when I was five residues
into a helix
and bumped my proline
and it was better to be a beta sheet
the whole time
I'm hydrophobic anyways.

Oh to be stable!
minimize my strain
clear my sterics
but I will sacrifice for the whole
better a side chain conform
than a motif collapse
into unfavorable disorder.

Unless it is beautiful disorder
for sometimes
that's what's needed
to get the job done.

I fear
that by the time
I find my form
I will feel the gentle embrace
of a thousand ubiquitins
who whisper sweetly
as they drag me deep
into the blender.

Blender

Faces spin
blurring together
like a peach smoothie
leaves me hungry and thirsty.

Let me sit
with bread, meat and water
at a table with few chairs
to eat my fill.

Wax Statue

You do not know
my face in a crowd
like wax dripped
over bronze
only an impression.

A talking candle
that may brighten your face
but tells you nothing
from inside.

I need the warmth
of the individual
to melt cuticle
and bare metal.

Private

I wanted to share
but not today
I'll write it in a private place
where only I can visit
because
I'm the only one there.

And so you bait me
"Ask me anything"
but the only question you could answer
I would never ask
because only I can answer it.

Earshot

Waiting
for a cry
that will never come
so I will run
until the sound
couldn't reach me
even if it were there.

Directionality

It may seem
that there are a million
places to go
people to see
things to do
and that
they all lie in different directions.

Really
those things
that are most valuable
all lie in a line
and we can pick them up as we go.

Apathy

It's starts in my chest
a tingle of apathy
and spreads throughout
and there I am
like Spongebob himself
ready for anything.

Cubbies

We keep our hearts
in little cubbies
love, hate, happiness
and when they are gone
and we want them
we reach into the cubbie
even though there's nothing there.

Poor Affinity

I relate
to the enzyme
of all life
Rubisco
who grabs carbon dioxide
and sends it to be twisted
and turned
into sugar.

But he doesn't like carbon all that much
and has a wandering eye
and will even settle for Oxygen
when there's enough of it around.

So here I stand
in the midst of Oxygen
(about twenty percent atmospheric)
looking for some Carbon-
gratefully more than one in a million,
but not by much.

I hope I don't fix an Oxygen
because then
it takes a whole lot of work
to make things right.

Two Haircuts

I have two nieces
now both have shorter hair
they give watermelon smiles
in the pictures
like Jack-O-Lanterns
except these pumpkins
have hair
that now
is a little shorter.