Pina Colada

“Pina Colada by Maisie Aletha Smikle

Pineapple shrubs
Coconut shrubs
Coconut dropped
Pineapple budged not

Coconut collided
Merge and integrated
Pineapple conceded
And both succeeded

Coconut collision
Pineapple integration
In total collaboration
Pina Colada emerge standing at attention

Pineapple
Roseapple
Starapple
Green apple

Red apple
Yellow apple
Eve gave Adam an apple
Adam ate the apple

The apple seed got stuck
Adam made no fuss
The apple seed grew
And became Adam's apple

Plant an apple tree
Plant an apple shrub
Plant once sow once
Reap for a lifetime”

― Maisie Aletha Smikle

Lord Take All The Glory

Hallowed be His Name

Gods Great Weather

They Call Her Blessed

“They Call Her Blessed by Maisie Aletha Smikle

Car smashed
Home snatched
Grocery eaten
Clothes taken

Undefended
Uncontended
Offended
Assaulted

Respected
Envied
Educated
Loved

Arrested
Suffered
Bled
Died

Lived
Played
Studied
Understood

Trampled
Alienated
Suffocated
Toxicated

Invisible
Conspicuous
Talented
Favored”

― Maisie Aletha Smikle

Sad Savages

 

“Sad Savages by Maisie Aletha Smikle

Savages make selfish deals
They claim what they steal
Pay a penny for steel
And feast at every meal

The more they have
The more they brag
They slaughtered the hogs
And took their sheltered sty

Let the hogs live in the sky
My oh my
For indeed it is hog heaven
We have plundered till the clock struck eleven

Celebrate we must on the eleventh of the eleven
Every year till half past seven
For we have chased elephants from their habitat
Where they once freely roam is now our home

Savages fortify barricades and borders
Wishing the world would stop turning and refrain from gathering
Afraid that what goes around
Will some day rotate back around to them

Savages spy from the steeple
Looking lurking and listening always suspecting
For they have observed
To expect what they served

Never at ease are the savages
Always jumpy anticipating the worst for others
And the best for themselves
Pointing always away from themselves”

― Maisie Aletha Smikle

Let Me Walk With Thee