Jurgen Goth's Limerick Challenge

Jurgen asked for a limerick to be written with these words:

• lagoon
• candelabra
• rhubarb
• propensity

It took a long time, but I finally came up with a solution:

The Limerick

"My daughter Lavinia's propensity
"To chew rhubarb and men, well, incenses me!
"But your daughter Barbra and her candelabra--
"Loons in lagoons, that's immensity!"

© Dan Goorevitch, 2005

Descending the Subway Stairs

Softly the shoes pace, the concrete now a carpet.
Spring and the billowing flesh, like marigolds, blooms in the garden.

I descend the combed concrete to where a slender violinist and her beau
lean against the tiles, the soundtrack a revolving door.

and I stand staggered by the scene at that checkpoint
where men and women pass in padding percussion

then take the stairs to the sun past the blind beggar I ignore except to think:

“Lucky him, his vision, “to be even more invisible than me.”

© Dan Goorevitch, 2001, 2007