The Scorpion's Touch
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“The Scorpion’s Touch”
Under glass
the sound cuts out sharp
just like under water
and we run out of breath
like insects running around
frantically out of time
we are ...
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Categories:
antares, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
END TIMES : TWO
...END TIMES : TWO
End time dramas continue
to unfold as foretold
tribes of Judah and
Gad united in ether
descending conspiring
to pull Matrix strings
across rooms boom
death Will hidden ...
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Categories:
antares, allegory, change, courage, death,
Form: Rhyme
Abducted by far-right Aliens of Antares
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From the cradle, I leaned left before I could even talk,
Tossing my applesauce leftward before I could walk.
I marched in every protest before I turned thirteen,
When I wasn't red, then I ...
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Categories:
antares, freedom, humor,
Form: Lyric
Blame
...A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else—John Burroughs
Blame
Underneath a belt of stars in stratosphere’...
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Categories:
antares, fate, love, lust, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Comets Taking a Self Guided Tour
...Comets taking a self guided tour
So many to drink in without a slur
Mystical and genuine, both are a plenty
Antares is a fundamental of my entity
The only commonality is their drawings among the ...
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Categories:
antares, appreciation, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Merry Christmas To All
...Light! Oh, light that Christmas tree gaily light,
Intoning angels fly, light flickers to full delight,
Beneath twigs lies my gracious Christmas gift,
From my kind heart and hand I bestow you,plea...
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Categories:
antares, blessing, cheer up, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Catch a Ride On a Comet
...Catch a ride on the tail of a comet
Breakneck speed: Hold on to your bonnet!
Dodge bits and pieces of space-debris
Obstacle course on the celestial sea
See the planets as they orbit the...
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Categories:
antares, flying, planet, star, universe,
Form: Rhyme
When Scorpio Goes Dark
...Antares' red glow bears firmly down
upon plush, chartreuse carpet
lying prone against the obsidian expanse,
blanketing sections of a remote
blue sphere, purling,
spinning helplessly
through...
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Categories:
antares, space, stars,
Form: Free verse
She Is Nothing Like the Stars
...She Is Nothing Like The Stars
She is nothing like Sirius,
But her eyes are the bluest blue.
Nor is she like Antares
Yet her skin has a warm, soft hue.
Her hair is like the golden Milky Way
Dr...
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Categories:
antares, absence, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
A Dream Too Far Distant
...Night revolves in stillness,
reaching for the dawn.
Orion, Taurus and the Dogs,
yield to Deneb and the Swan.
And there in deep south rising,
a blood-tinged, pulsing heart,
Antares, stinger an...
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Categories:
antares, anniversary,
Form: Quatrain
Still, It's the Laughter
...Not knowing then when we penned the verse called, 'Chimes'....
That it would seem as a prophecy one day unto this loving heart ?
An anniversary His child their; imagine ? What becomes remains; real
N...
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Categories:
antares, angel, art, autumn, love,
Form: I do not know?
Spaceship
...Once upon a time...
A little boy and a little girl
Looked up at the stars from the planet below
Seeing the moon hang bright in the sky
Said one to the other, I wonder... I wonder, if there we could g...
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Categories:
antares, children, dream, flying, space,
Form: Free verse
Still, It's the Laughter
...Not knowing then when we penned the verse called, 'Chimes'....
That it would seem as a prophecy one day unto this loving heart ?
An anniversary and his child their imagine ? What becomes remains, rea...
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Categories:
antares, art, baby, cancer, love,
Form: I do not know?
You Turn Me On
...You turn me on, you make me misty-eyed,
My nascent science of love, years back,
When I followed you downstream, to bloom it began,
The sight of flowers blossom, in earnest we did invest,
Your frail h...
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Categories:
antares, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Hunter Stars
...HUNTER STARS
Fears half-hid behind curtain, faces sallow,
Two small kids shivering at the cold open window.
We look trembling at the stars across the black -
A thousand guys in the dark se...
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Categories:
antares, childhood
Form: Couplet
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