Best Abridged Poems

VIVA LA ELVIS

In Tupelo Mississippi, twin baby boys were born,
To Gladys and Vernon Presley, but sadly one passed on.
They named him Jesse Garon, their hearts so full of pain,
And then came Elvis Aaron, a breath of sweet refrain.

One heart beating for the two, their spirits...

Continue reading...

I let an opportunist within my circle of trust

He slipped a rufi in my wine
I was too naïve to question 
my sudden lapse of memory

I tremble at what might have been

I was like putty in his hands
it happened so easily
I was so naïve

My destiny was...

Continue reading...

You!! You, I say you on the guitar?
Do you know who you are?
Or are you just an angel without a name?
I see your heart my sister!! And you do not sing for fame!!!
No, you live and love and play and dance to praise that man...

Continue reading...

An Abridged Story of Wine 
The bottom of the nave used to be a lake’s bed, but one night, 
when moon was white as search light and the sky maroon, 
the lake vanished. Dead fish and toenail clippings at the bottom, 
but the soil was...

Continue reading...

All in this world are natural,
We the men making differences.

All we love the roses,
Is it only for her glamour ?

Someone love the loftiness,
Is it only for height ?

Someone love the sea,
Is it only for a dive ?

We love opposite sex,
Is it only a seasonable agreement...

Continue reading...

It was the twenty fourth of December nineteen fourteen.
Troops were English, French & Belgians, a bloody war was the scene.
A sound was coming from the German enemy line.
German soldiers were approaching on that day and singing in voices fine.

A cry of “Merry Christmas” from the...

Continue reading...

Skeleton quay - abridged for Give Me Goosebumps contest



When the sniper fired his rifle and his faithful canine fell
A second bullet found his heart and he went down as well
Might we stay together, somehow he deigned to try
His last exhale the whispered vow, Lord, we...

Continue reading...

The northern lights A Butt-whack And A Prayer To Mom And The Albatross...

Continue reading...

All I had left   was a man


           I told him I  was sick and tired of life.


               ...

Continue reading...

My dear brain, forgive me, won't you?
I've filled you with alcohol, time and again
My heart's silence drowning the head's tin can
Once and for all I am delivered to you
Forgive me, won't you?

Give me time, an agenda if you must.
Make me a shoe salesman, a bird-watcher,...

Continue reading...

I once wrote a poem when i felt really cynical 
  all the letter's had pointed sharp edges. 
 
another time i wrote a poem about a drunk dyslexic
 it read in mumbles from right to left. 

and this one time i wrote a...

Continue reading...

I’ll keep this short, 
that all may know
These words I write, 
I write to show

Please do a poem honor 
and read it again
Don’t let first time through 
be simply the end....

Continue reading...

The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris

I led a boring life.
The end.

All joking aside, now the epilogue.

As a bookish fellow born January 13th,1959
he attended school and got promoted
as a mediocre student,
who honestly nearly failed every grade
courtesy my nasty, short
and...

Continue reading...

Whispering Angel: Strength of the Babes

		Blubbering baby, newborn to this Earth 
		Tell me why you wail and blubber at birth?

Could you be afraid of this Earthly Circus?
Well, don’t be afraid and don’t be nervous.
I shall hold your hand, so don’t be anxious.
We are all on...

Continue reading...

Route 66ish No 10

There was a young girl from Nantucket,
Who collected her eggs in a bucket,
One fell on her toe,
So she really let go,
And cried "Gosh! Now I won't have to crack it!"...

Continue reading...