Best Discolored Poems

How do I tell you that you’re beautiful?

How can I be different?

How can I express my attraction?

When columns upon
Columns
Of testosterone filled wolves
Dressed in rented Italian...

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Sewing machine, long idle, gathered dust
     In a house where a maiden's dreams were crushed
     An open...

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Walking a tightrope across my inner self…
                  ...

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Stretched along the silent winter garden
  thrives a cold, dark dirt blanketed in olive decaying leaves.
Beneath the food of natural fertilizers, life emerges from...

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I was walking through the forest
Saw a leaf on the ground
It looked discolored and tattered
Exhausted and dreary
So I turned it over
Was so colorful and bright
So...

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Upon the desk the Great Poet’s pen ;  covered in dust, lays unused
The discolored , unfinished POEM speaking, a LOVE never defused
The Great POET’S...

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Hate,
You came to me
When I was a child

I don’t want you to
Be near me
Ever again


It was during WW2
Japan ruled
Koreans obeyed

One day 
Mother came home
With tears...

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Wings of an Angel that are not so white...
                ...

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Sometime after midnight, it had rained
Putting out summer’s sultry heat
The sky had its face washed clean
And wiped the grime off Earth’s soiled feet
	
The dawn is...

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old faded polaroid~
the memory of yesteryear
distant and discolored
snapshot of a past
vague but not forgotten



AP:  Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on March 7, 2020...

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The old man gazed at the sun about to set
And its molten core soon to dissolve in the sea
Scratching his head with tremulous hands
And running...

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An arthritic flesh

Hesitant wipes off deteriorated lens

Every exhale,
Another tragic sulk unto morrow’s pit
Flaunting suicidal fallacies

Off-white flag motions
Signaling mercy under liar’s duress

Muted pride
Cracking dusty knuckles

Penetration’s decrepit...

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amidst my walls
a discolored rose
a wedding photo
a collection of memories
 
a discolored rose
a moment of mourning
as fragile as life
 
a wedding photo
of lovers once parted
united...

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I just made it in time for Mary's funeral, it had been raining
heavily all day but the sun came out through the clouds.
And as I...

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Discolored meadow
overtaken by swollen clouds,
comfort the wild tree...


Are there blue mountains
beyond the unfrequented prairie?
Find the horizon...


No cowboys on horses; 
no coffee brewing on logs,
while they...

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