Best Dotting Poems

October: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...

Read more of this work...

Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

Read more of this work...

I loved you once like sun rays love the earth
Like drenching rain that brings with it new birth
I loved you once like waves that reach...

Read more of this work...

I fall down
deeper and deeper
into oblivion
nothing
only darkness.
the sounds of evil
dripping into my ears
slithering farther
and sliding down into me
filling me with echoes.
terror courses through
my veins
into each...

Read more of this work...

Two little sparks
enlightening the dark

(tidal waves tugging on the heart)

One named Amelia, the other Aurora:
Completing the scenery --- fauna and flora.
But Borealis, she has no...

Read more of this work...

Asters litter beds in rainbow colours
Berries red and black slowly growing
Clover adding bright patches of green
Daisy's dotting the rolling lawns
Enchanting us with their beauty
Fox gloves...

Read more of this work...

Raven hair splays across her pillow in soft waves.
Olive skin as smooth as the satin on which she lays.

Golden locket with their images, rests upon...

Read more of this work...

 A Dream

I patiently waited for you all the day long, my beloved.
Even the tired, orange, afternoon sun long ago drifted off to sleep.
Nighttime arrived...

Read more of this work...

I skip one stone across the pond,
an oblate onyx dotting i's
in footles of a vagabond
who tiptoes after tiger eyes.

Perhaps the ripples left behind
are teary runes...

Read more of this work...

Here in warm sunshine I sit,
near by a beautiful lake.
Many birds in the tree like to flit.
Long lush branches the breeze likes to shake.
Pretty birds...

Read more of this work...

Let us be; we are fine.
Our hearts are broken,
and we do all cry;
we show our emotions in blood and metaphor;
you sit and smile at my...

Read more of this work...

Of you, this my journey 

~

Wide eyed illusions
of spring flower wishes
With maple trees dotting
the land that I seek

Open and lonely
I stroll through the valleys
Where grasshoppers...

Read more of this work...

I miss him
Yes I miss him
I miss his tenderness and fondness 
I miss his gentle composure and  his masculine aura 
I miss his constant...

Read more of this work...

I loved you once like sunrays kissing earth,
like drenching rain that brings with it new birth.
I loved you once like waves that reach for shore,
and...

Read more of this work...

white wind pushing clouds
blueberry birds dotting sky
twinkle in cats eye...

Read more of this work...