Best Foresaw Poems

The muses all march to their own rhythmic drum
Or saunter or scamper in their favored time
The poems will come when they come, when they come

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BEGINNINGS

The WORD was there before the dawn of time
the Trinity communed in sacred tongue
with sounds unheard, unspeakable, sublime
they uttered words of their unending Love.
With power...

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On December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians...

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Isis stole my son.
My hand was clasped, tight, I swear
Our fingers entwined, as he tugged me, eagerly, around the fair

From the ducks, to the teacups,...

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Death by gypsy violin
Will push you out then pull you in
Requiem for a burning pyre
Raising twilight ashen choir

Up beyond that frozen place
Up beyond all time...

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Am lost a wondering wing, should have settled on some greenish fig
 pains are tormenting stings, don't know what morrow brings

I cough out a little...

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Continuation from previous poem

We reached the footer of a castle steep,
Seven times by walls encircled very tall,
Defended by a river hard to leap.

We overpassed it...

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Our religion forbids all 
games of chance guys
We ain't allowed to 
indulge in that harmful 
enterprise
But no one can claim that 
gambling is at all...

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They suggested that I was just a toddler moving fast.
As they wine and dined, I heard all of them say
She will be sent to the...

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Before the world was
made to suffer for
the mismanagement
of people’s assets
by corrupt bankers

there were small groups
of wise men who
simply looked and
foresaw the truth.

They got rich
We got...

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When I was a boy of three,
My sister much older than me
Raced me to the teen-age stage
Where we seemed about the same age.

We knew that...

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My daughter was 9 yrs old when my wife and I first separated.  I tried to get custody; was 
granted joint custody, but the...

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I’m scared you’d make me happy
that you’d make me smile at the thought.
That when I’m around you, you’d make me laugh 
so hard that I’d...

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Mama you never told me,
Neither dad nor you aunt,
I was shocked mama,
How was I to know?
You never told me.

 I never knew that love can...

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Now as the years passed by everyone became so tired
the heaps of things scattered around became too much to bear
some benevolence was certainly grand but...

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