Stags
...intense . . . to begin with, belayed by hours
hewn soliloquy through obverse platitudes
benign, betrayal among friends, in grounds
of open mouths, a kraken of tongues regale
upon which bar the co...
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Categories:
belayed, celebration, drink, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Time's Rebirth
...Reality pregnant
gestation released
Facts have been fathered
new mothers beseeched
The door to tomorrow
swings only one way
Birthing conception
—redemption belayed
(Dreamsleep: December, ...
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Categories:
belayed, time,
Form: Rhyme
Cadets Dress Ship
...The tweet on the pipe called the muster fall-in
The cadets all fell in with nary a din
For now they’d be grouped for “Hands to Cleanship”
To dress up the ship afore the Old Man's pip-pip
Well-t...
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Categories:
belayed, military, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Outfoxed In the Henhouse
...I'm compelled to view some media, such as,
FAUX NEWS, like an illusion they portrayed.
Since their deception is masterfully crafted,
With multiple diversions . . . & truth is belayed.
A...
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Categories:
belayed, political,
Form: Rhyme
Bemasked
...Bemasked
Behind a happy mask
Beneath your guise of joy
Belie sweet wounded eyes
Betrothed to dreams unlived
Belayed for these few hours
Because you smile tonight
27 Apr 2014 - Dave Mohn
Let's Ple...
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Categories:
belayed, poetry,
Form: Verse
Such Gifts As These
...G rowth requires the reins of pain, the curing singe of fire
I nside we shrink, we quiver, quake but we rise inspired
V ictory through vice, challenge hardens resolve, lifts higher
I nnocence belaye...
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Categories:
belayed, faith,
Form: Acrostic
Lifter
...Was it self mutilation or lack of self of control,
That catalyzed my desperation to seperate my skin from soul.
I walk alone on this sphere, broken by love rebuilt by fear,
I scream against the wi...
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Categories:
belayed, faith, happiness, health, hope,
Form: I do not know?
Nevernever
...There are three of you, and I wonder now
For which do I fight, for which is my row (ra-ow)
For the past, where I lived so happy so free
I craved only moment, I gave all present me
I let it al...
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Categories:
belayed, lost love, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
The Red Road
...The Shaman sits upon the sand,
the sand of ocher clay;
between the walls of ruins tall,
where ancient one did lay.
The sky above, the earth between;
took in her sincere pleas
tinksha’s toned,...
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Categories:
belayed, dedication, devotion, on work
Form: Sonnet