Dark Eclipse Takes the Kitty Fall
...It was strange
the cars,
like stand alones, all unoccupied,
dotting the dark wet stained streets,
the moon licking puddles
like a stray dog thirsty
checking its reflection
for a friend, ye...
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Categories:
bedsides, dark, moon, sun,
Form: Free verse
A Mother's Thanksgiving
...Mother's mornings, we're getting up, she's thankful for waking,
mother's days, we're at school, she's singing while she's cleaning,
mother's noons, we're eating lunch, she's with dear fri...
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Categories:
bedsides, appreciation, beautiful, encouraging, growing
Form: Monorhyme
No Mans Forest
...As dawns early light softly strokes cotton candy skies,
Puzzle pieces of precise size share sights of early morning rise,
To lie witness on fire’s bristles of swiftness as she draws upon life.
Fr...
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Categories:
bedsides, animal, image, nature,
Form: Imagism
Baba Yaga
...An eerie mist spreads across the swampy moors,
At midnight's tolling hour, beware peasant or royal,
Whom travels the hidden roads and lost by ways, lit
From the light of the elliptical moon.
Here...
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Categories:
bedsides, adventure, fantasy, gothic, halloween,
Form: Free verse
War
...How has it dawn on us so soon when we hadn’t even achieved much?
Why has the marketplace ceased to buy and sell so scanty the streets wither away
The clouds becomes more darkened as smokes ascend r...
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Categories:
bedsides, bereavement, death, soldier, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
Two-Faced Necessity
...Hope is a fickle, contrary mistress,
tormenting the most courageous of hearts
and soothing concern with a soft caress.
She occasionally lurches what she starts,
like a roller coaster with faulty bra...
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Categories:
bedsides, confusion, hope, life, drug,
Form: Terzanelle