Best Essentially Poems

(Dedication: For Paul Callus)


Time and space dance
Sorrow meets cheer
Sync with tact


Joy ever fades
Nothing much remains
Dust gathers


Joy even tempts
Offers nothing new
Dinosaur bones


Charm feeds
Empty charade
No escapade


Charm leaks
Messy...

Read more of this work...

Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

Read more of this work...

When ‘He’ decides to destroy one and all
I’ll spend my last day in this old snooker hall
My cue in one hand and a beer in...

Read more of this work...

Sheriff Koplin has ridden East to gather a few other folks who decided to leave the city and head West, hoping to settle in Milton...

Read more of this work...

Who am I is a question,
That baffles and confuses me.
Aren’t I a stranger to myself,
When in me angels and demons cohabit,
Dwelling side by side.

Sometimes I...

Read more of this work...

Senseless

What is it inside the heart of man
That cannot appreciate another’s suffering
Were we born with this senseless implacability

Is it from life itself we grow these...

Read more of this work...

Black kid with malice as my main 
enemy
Spending time wondering: 
How in the hell did this get into me?
With tendency to be rude
Extending my attitude
Pretending...

Read more of this work...

within Zieglerville, pennsylvania

genuine snow white hair 
upon her noggin doth adorn,
perhaps she will divulge to me (in private) 
after i croon (to said lass), 

the...

Read more of this work...

When I am gone, and from this world have flown,
I would admonish you to not forget
That I have loved and cherished you, my own,
And even...

Read more of this work...

P- potential
U- underestimated 
P- presents from Heaven
P- pretty cute cuties
I- important to all that are awesome
E- essentially they are never really gone, just hidden!
S- so...

Read more of this work...

"The Formidable Gambit"



Silence 
calculated and distinct

conspiring with rules
plays within the 
confined squares

of a strict and
ruthless mind
preying on all moves

untraceable 
unpredictable 
irretrievable 

in the opening move
the...

Read more of this work...

We are all essentially African. That's where humanity first took birth.
Some then left Africa to populate every land mass on planet earth.
Those of us who...

Read more of this work...

Life started out pretty well, of that I won’t complain,
Somehow then I lost it, god knows I can’t explain.
Melancholy has taking over, Good times have...

Read more of this work...

chill breath
of dawn lights
upon my window-pane-
nighttimes promises
freeze into crystal


NOTE:Essentially a tanka in English is a 3 line hiku(SHOW)& a 2 line couplet (TELL) comment...

Read more of this work...

***AND NOW GOD BRINGS TO YOU… ***

Ladies and Gentlemen! 
Through the auspices of
Our Glorious God’s
         Creation ...

Read more of this work...