The sun and moon seem to kiss: people like to monitor.
Both appear to join for a yin-and-yang rock star show.
People on earth enjoy the sun and moon’s big O.
***
National Orgasm Day (the 31st of July)
reminds me of these rhymes (they’re how I reply).
This poem Glows was in the In Celebration…Eclipse Poems & Stories booklet published by SCCLD
(the Library District of Santa Clara County),
and it was published (also years ago) in a Milpitas Post issue.
The memory of my poem still does continue.
this diver considers flavors like vanilla bean.
This diver’s hunger is deeper than just a morsel.
Without a spoon, this diver eats with a snorkel…
***
World Snorkeling Day (the 30th of July)
reminds me of these rhymes (they’re how I reply).
This poem Ice Cream Scoop was published (years ago) by Milpitas Post.
Continuing is the memory of this poem I wrote.
when it finally arrives
after a long dry spell.
***
Rain types parentheses
wherever it makes contact
it’s making waves.
***
Rain Day (the 29th of July)
reminds me of these thoughts (they’re how I reply).
These 2 poems Rain and Curve Effect of Rain were in a Milpitas Post issue.
The memory of my poems still does continue.
on page 6.
Here’s the link to the issue:
https://www.ovview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Issue-14-VOL-16-7.28.2023-FINAL.pdf .
This poem is a longer version of my work that Milpitas Post published years ago.
While that work is one sentence, the version in OV View has two more.
Negativity can also be found in this blog via the following link:
Negativity did not sound so bad for a nudist
and/or recommended,
and on an encouragement-level
that’s high and strong enough to require the mashup
of check out and recommended).
***
After watching Barbie (released in July),
I’m reminded of these thoughts (they’re how I reply).
This non-italic poem Checkommended was in a Milpitas Post 2011 issue;
the memory of my poem still does continue.
The movie Barbie is checkommended, splendid, reflective,
resilient, feminist, progressive.
Ferrera’s key role and the rest of the cast
keep improving this film from its first scene to last.
Beaches, brains, brilliance: this movie has
and causes more respect, applause, and also laughs.
will need a lot of hamsters.
Or a very big one.
***
Perhaps the first carousel happened
after a bunch of real horses
did not feel like galloping in circles
and with poles sticking out of them…
The sight of a carousel might even disturb a horse.
***
National Merry-Go-Round Day (the 25th of July)
reminds me of these thoughts (they’re how I reply).
These 2 non-italic poems Ferris Wheel and First Carousel were in Milpitas Post issues.
The memory of my poems still does continue.
And while I did not submit that “sight of a carousel…” line to Milpitas Post,
part of me wishes that I did. That line can feel like a ghost.
There was a customer wanting to buy just one thing
inside the store where she was shopping.
She saw so many products that were worth gawking at: So many items, so many options.
Should she buy that designer T-shirt? But it might shrink, it’s made of cottons.
One hour later the customer’s ready at the counter.
She’s pleased by what she’s buying but then she’s disrupted by something louder!
Shining lights and sirens from a police car and a fire truck parked in the parking lot.
They surprisingly remind the customer of what she’s really forgot:
Her five-year-old son and her three-year-old daughter
were locked asleep in her car in 85-degree temperature and for an hour.
A policeman had shattered her car window to save her kids from summer heat.
Firemen had also arrived to help out and bring relief.
The mother-customer runs to her children. She got distracted by her purchases.
She’s now paying a shameful price, having to deal with Child Protective Services.
***
Children’s Day in Vanuatu (the 24th of July)
reminds me of these rhymes (they’re how I reply).
This poem was in a Milpitas Post issue.
The memory of my poem still does continue.
And while I wish that customer’s negligence was only imagined,
the situation in this poem actually happened.
(because that glue gun is hot).
They stuck together nicely,
a glue-melting relationship.
***
Hot Enough For Ya Day (the 23rd of July)
reminds me of these thoughts (they’re how I reply).
This poem Glue was in a Milpitas Post issue.
The memory of my poem still does continue.
has been car washed.
***
A parking lot lane got blocked by a 4×4 limo
that was parked in a space reserved for the handicapped.
Maybe the driver of that 4×4 limo
suffers from brain damage…
***
World Brain Day (the 22nd of July)
reminds me of these thoughts (they’re how I reply).
These 2 poems Car and Parking Lot Lane were published (years ago) by Milpitas Post.
Continuing is the memory of these poems I wrote.
quick entry to the room.
No more tickets left;
fanatics screaming swoon.
***
A ninja that enjoys something a lot
will probably give it a five star review
(maybe even throw it too) *****
***
The release of Barbie and Oppenheimer (on the 21st of July)
reminds me of these rhymes (they’re how I reply).
These 2 poems Ticket and Ninja were published (years ago) by Milpitas Post.
Continuing is the memory of these poems I wrote.
When Deadlines Become Zombies 