Best Apocryphal Poems
ApocryphalI give my life to the wind; to
the fossils, the spirit, and the earth.
I leave my thoughts to the termites that
linger beneath the sod, to the falcon in the
firmament, and to the animals that mate on
our planet floor.
To my mother: a word and a prayer.
I...
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Categories:
apocryphal, absence,
Form:
Free verse
MariahIs the wind alive? That’s what the Choctaw believed.
The Apache called it, apocryphally, “the breath of the world.”
To them, the wind is the trickster you never see,
a joker on the plain of life.
What’s always arriving and always leaving?
What’s as old as the world, yet forever...
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Categories:
apocryphal, weather, wind,
Form:
Rhyme