Lifelines

“Will it go round in circles, will it fly high like a bird up in the sky?” Do you recognize that line from a Ringo Starr melody? To be a copycat…I got a poem ain’t got no rhyme, gonna share it with my friends. We hear often about the circle of life but our time here on this planet is full of lines from the time we go online till we go offline.

Bloodlines relate, frown lines worry,

Laugh lines tickle, hairlines recede.

Jawlines silhouette, tan lines mark, waistlines expand or shrink.

Hemlines raise…eyebrows, As may pantylines and necklines.

Long lines annoy, hort lines invigorate, invisible lines baffle, buried lines mystify.

Fire lines battle to save timberlines that provide.

Baselines normalize, guidelines instruct, fast lines motivate, slow lines exasperate.

Beelines hasten, direct lines bypass, lifelines extend.

Fishing lines feed, trotlines catch, towlines secure,

Clotheslines remind of days gone by.

Outlines summarize, staff lines inspire, brake lines monitor.

If one redlines, the cops may materialize.

Phone lines connect, party lines eavesdrop, fiber-optic lines digitize.

Hotlines protect, dead lines silence. Landlines…what are those?

Electric lines illuminate, gas lines empower, pipelines polarize,

Waterlines saturate, highway lines connect, roof lines protect.

Skylines dazzle, shorelines harbor and coastlines suffer in hurricanes.

Horizontal lines lengthen, parallel lines conform, diagonal lines transform.

Jagged lines cut, dividing lines impede, vertical lines heighten,

Intersecting lines complicate, center lines symmetrize.

Smooth lines please and smeared lines frustrate,

Especially on the lids of eyes.

Lines of latitude and longitude map, airlines soar,

Train lines crisscross, boundary lines mark,

Borderlines nationalize, front lines fight for them.

Headlines notify, bylines identify,

Deadlines earmark procrastinators.

Plot lines twist, timelines chronicle,

Datelines locate, flatlines memorialize…Life.

(For April 2023)