In Between
So, here I stand amid the briny surge That jostles surf upon the shore, Review another breaker’s jade converge With bristling foam. My gaze is keen Upon the far horizon, like a door That blocks …
Category: Metrical
Leviathan
A massive moon cast mournful red Upon the silent sea Where wandered, lost to land and hope, A pack of piratry. Aboard the Rapax they had roamedFrom Holland to Cathay,From Sousse to Santos and had …
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[ From out the Frozen North he comes ]
From out the Frozen North he comes,Areek of fetid sugarplums;He bears a sharpened blood-cord caneAnd drags behind an emerald chain. The midnight clear is rent by cryOf Carole Singhers, first to die,And bleak midwinter’s silent …
You’ll See
Oh the Whos are who-whoing, they do that a lot. How I wish I could silence them with a garrote. They who-who in the morning, and all through the day, and then half of the night …
All is Calm
Though headlines clamor, voices blare and bitter arguments abound in every fearful sector where the chaos of the world is found, each hibernating embryo refuses to restrain its flow of love beneath the silent snow. …
Heaven Blessed
Let me tender such devotion for the gift of happiness,With this heaven sent emotion I am well and truly blessed. For the joy of all my senses I am humbled and bemused,Love shall break down …
I went to look for poetry
I went to look for poetrybeneath the midnight moonout where the potholes pocked the road,and spotted a raccoon. He’d torn a dumpster open widelike caught and gutted prey,and two green eyes peered back with allthe …
I heard the dirge in the mists
The mists lay soft on the valleyan emptiness shrouded and stillthe chill in the air went through meas a tune echoed over the hills My heart clenched in deep trepidationas an eeriness sat with my …