Vacation From Mundane Tasks

Silly Poem
Written By Matt Antis

Sand spills from loose lips onto the matte page
Chiseled stone lips that stole my beating heart
My dry pen smears short loose words that are strange
Scratch a camel, add a cart. He’s my transport

Mind pulled behind the Bactrian camel
Snowflakes fall in the desert. Get me out
Blink twice slowly, hold to change the channel
Warmed by lantern light in a tiny tea house

Knocked on my back by an overgrown cat
He bows from the waist as he pours a cup
There’s a hair, not sure how to approach that
Pieces placed, game of wit until sun up

My feline friend retires before dawn
A strumming seahorse minstrel takes his seat
I’m lulled and losing, and roused in the lawn
And slide on wet grass via baking sheet

Copyright © 2021 by Matt Antis. Originally published in Poet’s Guild’s Poem-A-Week on May 22nd, 2021, by Ink Jot Kingdom.

Matt Antis

Matt Antis creates online as a freelance writer and novelist who formerly lived as a serial small-business entrepreneur. His life’s goal is to share knowledge, encourage, and challenge others through a coach-student relationship.

An unexpected deployment with the Army in 2009 halted his scholastic achievement, but! He learned the bulk of business in the proverbial trench elbow to elbow with a team of professionals who he is forever grateful for.

When he’s not being a husband, dad, shooting his bow or training parkour, you can find him teaching Sunday school, advising parkour gyms, writing for inkjotkingdom.com and his wife’s children’s book website, whitneyantis.com.

https://inkjotkingdom.com
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