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The People with Wings

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 The People with Wings
 It was a huge photograph of an eye – an amazing eye that now drew everyone to Mecca.  It was said to belong to one of the ‘People with Wings,’ and, was the only evidence of...

Categories: batwings, fate, future, myth,
Form: Haibun

Night Magic

...Unfettered mind in the deepest night, 
files on batwings to immense new heights.
While nestled dreamers immersed in sleep,
meet with night things in dreamtime’s keep.

Crickets and fr...

Categories: batwings, dream, philosophy, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

BUSHMILLS IN BUS STATION

...Her hair's so black, the blue is breaking through.  
Centre-parted with furrow crown to fore, 
Perfectly placed and kept in position 
As pretty red ribbons bind the bunches.

Her face is crazed ...

Categories: batwings, life,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Don'T Take Your Cards To Texas

...I gambled down in Geogia and up in Tennessee
I learned the game in Reno way back in eighty three
I took a train to Dallas to show 'em how it's done
Now I'm sittin' by the highway holdin' out my th...

Categories: batwings,
Form: Couplet

Once Upon a Dark Dream

...The beautiful obsidian butterfly A kachina doll                                                     Given to a young native girl, by the eldest women in the tribe,                    ...

Categories: batwings, character, dark, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

The Skin Were In

...Our skin when young was soft as a cuddly baby kittens,
getting turkey necks and batwings only leads to wisdom,
will not ever admit defeat,
as I look at my new crows feet,
at least we still have s...

Categories: batwings, age, animal, humor, wisdom,
Form: Limerick

Anvil Bob and the Stranger

...The sun was down when the batwings swung
An' Anvil Bob walked in.
Bob's name came from the blacksmith trade He's stronger than strong men

He was more than mad, he looked fierce,
There was blood...

Categories: batwings,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

The Yellow Dog

...The Yellow Dog


A skinny yellow dog walked 'round
Needin' to find some shade
The dusty little one street town
Was hot as God has made

He eyed the flagpole in the square
No shadow could he ...

Categories: batwings,
Form: Quatrain

My Wife Was a Spook

...My wife was a spook ,she lived in a  secret little nook
                 She spooked all the old houses of Thomasville Oak Brook
                               She loved to cook crispy batwings
  ...

Categories: batwings, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick

Boomerang

...What fools do sing of Karma?

Justice meted out like some kind of sick equation as though
any thoughts or theorems are constant.

I'm sure Pythagoras and Euclid would be very proud of all of us....

Categories: batwings, cowboy-western
Form: I do not know?

Black Friday

...Oh, my God, the time approaches,
digital fever spreads and encroaches
upon the mind with batwings of fear,
grey and flapping, loud and clear.

Tremulous hands clasped on a coffee mug,
the worst...

Categories: batwings, allegory, life, time, drug,
Form: Verse

Icon

...I am blinded by her image, 
A lone sainted visitation, 
Marching on the snow swept steppes, 
A ghost in isolation. 
I glimpse a tribal statuette, 
On white-gold desert plain; 
A stallion black ...

Categories: batwings, love, mystery, passion, uplifting,
Form: Verse