Message (an acrostic poem)

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Making vague marks upon my vellum

Exaggerating nothing and perhaps everything.

Scribbles perhaps more profound than bible verses.

Scribbles perhaps filled to the brim with silliness and absurdity.

All of it sprinkled with truer-than-life fiction.

Giving a weight to the paper that no old wind could flutter

Except no one will ever be able to decipher its…

Review (an acrostic poem)

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Reading books was always a chore for Melonie

Every page was a struggle for survival with respect to staying awake

Viewing the text made the words devolve into scribbles

It was enough to give her a migraine just thinking about it

Even the pages would cut the wafer-thin skin of her fingertips

When she finally was done, it was all worth it when she left a one-star …

Lunch (an acrostic poem)

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Looking at his sandwich, he wondered if there was a better way

Unless sliced bread was the height of sandwich technology

Now he pulled out notebook and began drawing diagrams and writing notes

Completing one design before discarding it for the next, and after some time many pages were filled with scribbles

However, soon the clock told him to go back to work, and the sandwich was still there, taunting him