Remorse

I'm sorry I ever said it
In anger the words were flung.
What folly we speak in a lovers pique
When temper controls the tongue.

My hasty remark was silly
And I wish I had it back.
For the moment, dear, you went out of here
I thought of a better crack.

A Dozen

Twelve years
An undeniable dozen
An unspeakable fact
A lightning ignored

Twelve years
Two hands plus two
Divided by war
A thunder rumbles

Twelve years
A dozen division
Hangs in suspension
A storm ripping

Twelve years
A dozen multiplied
Unspannable width
A shivering chill

Twelve years
Add six minus six
Residual sweetness
A sunray shines

How cool can u b
It's fun to haiku, JC
Soo easy - - u c?

psst... if I was really the best, my haiku last line should have read:
soo e z - - u c?

I Wish I'd Looked After My Teeth


Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth,
And spotted the perils beneath,
All the toffees I chewed,
And the sweet sticky food,
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth.

I wish I'd been that much more willin'
When I had more tooth there than fillin'
To pass up gobstoppers,
From respect to me choppers
And to buy something else with me shillin'.

When I think of the lollies I licked,
And the liquorice allsorts I picked,
Sherbet dabs, big and little,
All that hard peanut brittle,
My conscience gets horribly pricked.

My Mother, she told me no end,
"If you got a tooth, you got a friend"
I was young then, and careless,
My toothbrush was hairless,
I never had much time to spend.

Oh I showed them the toothpaste all right,
I flashed it about late at night,
But up-and-down brushin'
And pokin' and fussin'
Didn't seem worth the time... I could bite!

If I'd known I was paving the way,
To cavities, caps and decay,
The murder of fiIlin's
Injections and drillin's
I'd have thrown all me sherbet away.

So I lay in the old dentist's chair,
And I gaze up his nose in despair,
And his drill it do whine,
In these molars of mine,
"Two amalgum," he'll say, "for in there."

How I laughed at my Mother's false teeth,
As they foamed in the waters beneath,
But now comes the reckonin'
It's me they are beckonin'
Oh, I wish I'd looked after me teeth