Best Excerpted Poems

Scientists claim the big bang was the first sound ever, not knowing how hard milkyway had to beg forever so they could team up to imitate us, first in supernovas, then in rainbows and Pleiades clusters, and they kept trying over and over and over...

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Gusts upon the green blades buzzing with synergy
While morning sun rays placed its striped bee patterns
Cast upon my face like some radiant Zebra energy
From across the universal rings of Saturn


excerpted from "Saturn's" Rings posted May 2019 on 4-22-20
for Rithimus Divisa 3 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Gregory...

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The Parrot and the Woodpecker may turn...
    [Sung by TEnicayccal Cellappa]        Translated by T.Wignesan
 
mAnkiliyum marankottiyum                   ...

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excerpted from "For an album";
Adrienne Rich (1987)
...
Our story is of moments
when even slow motion moved too fast
for the shutter of the camera:
words that blew our lives apart, like so,
eyes that cut and caught each other...
...our story is
how still we stood,
how fast."

That still fresh old photograph...

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Two Aloha-shirted Hawaiians 
of generous girth were strumming 
their ukuleles 
on a small stage in front of the hotel’s poolside bar
in the late afternoon, 
rehearsing for the night’s performance. 
It must have been the low season,
as both bar and pool were deserted. 
and the singer,...

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(for those in Kwangju: May 18, 1980)*
after Dante

Taking this peach within the mouth, the tongue 
hovers around its sunset skin like a lover
and its Sappho sweet bite is heaven. A song

of honeysuckled rivers is like your
kiss… The night is in July. At once
Platonic love is...

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May 29, 1957: …have to think about getting a thesis director…know no professor yet in the department…someone suggested i get hold of Derek Fogg for an intro to the big guns in the philosophisches Seminar…can't bother him too much…i like the way he lectures…lively, informative,...

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Truth, Falsehood, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Verdad, Mentira

Note: I've tried in vain to upload, since November 2, 2013, the following poem: "Words uttered in a subdued voice in order to constitute a dedication, Translation of Carlos Bousono's poem: Palabras dichas en voz baja...

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IF ever I had a country : XXI - XXII

" I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly...

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Three Sisters

Three sisters sitting on a stoop 
Like Autumn Summer and Spring
Reflective Introspective and Serene
Contemplating the past present and beyond
Givers of life from the womb to the tomb your love is eternal
You nurture children into women and men  
Mothers of the Earth life's sweet...

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Patty Cat, Patty Cat, 
Sheath your claw;
Rat-girl and Cat-girl
Rollin' in the straw.






Excerpted from Wisewomen and Boggy-boos: A Dictionary of Lesbian Fairy Lore (Austin: Banned Books, 1992)....

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Merry Mary Blackberry fairy
	will you marry me
Cows that play the live-long day
	have come to sample thee.







Excerpted from Wisewomen and Boggy-boos: A Dictionary of Lesbian Fairy Lore (Austin: Banned Books, 1992)....

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Your teeth, locked in steel jaw force,
         sink further into my skin, I wince.
You release.
        Your growl bespeaks your passion.




Liberum Divisa 7 Poetry Contest
Gregory Richard Barden
9/2/21

Excerpted from my poem ...

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Top notch legal scholar Erin Go Braw
     (less concerned about being fair versus
     abominable, irrevocable, and execrable
     unforgivable oversight most holy "M" & nonce)

cabinet of high priests,
     sans spelling...

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The song of the lark returns

          To the edge of the woodland

                    She greets me cheerfully trilling

As...

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