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A foggy head
laying low in a foggy heart.
A ragged start.
A sinus silo
filling in with pressure grain.
What a pain.
Little I think
above the mucus descent.
My thoughts are bent.
A nasal muse
a mist to be sprayed.
How I prayed.
I saw my dad with a Kleenex
hanging from the right side of
his nose.
Time froze
as I remembered him saying
hello with the dangling
participle waving in the wind.
I guess it is better than
watching a drop form on
the tip of his facial protrusion.
I’ve watched that too.
His leaky facial fawcet
running up a bill.
I wanted to tighten his ear
to dam up the trickle.
Lefty loosey righty tighty.
I suppose the muse cut through
the mucus today

and I am on my way.


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11 responses to “>Sniffle”

  1. Gigi Ann Avatar

    >LOL…. Someone has a cold? I loved your poem, very descriptive. I could picture your painted word picture right to the end.

  2. Brian Miller Avatar

    >nice. i hate colds…you really got going there int eh middle though…nice…

  3. Claudia Avatar

    >awesome what you can make out of an ordinary cold…

  4. cianphelan Avatar

    >Tis the season of the cold…the college campus, I know, is one giant roving mass of sniffles and snot. It's where my mind went as soon as I read your lines; that and the desire to be as far away from the roiling, potential vat of sickness as well. One thing I certainly don't need!

  5. booguloo Avatar

    >If you think its buggers but its snot.. sorry..The nose tickle/burn.. hate when that happens.

  6. Laura Avatar

    >This made me laugh out loud. You are so crafty! I hope the mucus thins out soon 🙂 Bless you.

  7. Dulce Avatar

    >AtchooooThis is great how you describe a cold… omy!

  8. Tess Kincaid Avatar

    >Sinus silo. I love it.

  9. Steve Isaak Avatar

    >Love the end-stanza on this.

  10. SY Avatar

    >I swear I blowing my nose throughout most of this read… I love it. great read. you're a talented writer, Jerry- Sy

  11. nance marie Avatar

    >the kleenex in the nose thing…my dad would do that tooas does my husbandit must be a guy thing

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