Best Journeyman Poems
A JourneymanA Journeyman
Prologue and Epitaph:
I am the fool, the jester, clown, a harlequin, charade, façade of many
shades and colours, mascara over broken fragments, dead and gone
1) Megalomaniac charlatan, lost in destruction, finding the path, the touch,
the miracle and Universe, discover magic’ sight on the route to meaning.
2) Beyond...
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Categories:
journeyman, life,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Journeyman, Walt WhitmanThe Journeyman, Walt Whitman
Acrid smoke drifts over this lifeless battlefield…
Forlorn cries escape from his tattered journal, bound in silence…
From above, Vultures circle lazily, stung from below, the burning
Eyes of the gray-bearded one, give them pause…
Off in the distance, cannons boom, as sons and brothers...
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Categories:
journeyman, on writing and words
Form:
Narrative
Sad Journeyman of DeathSad Journeyman of Death
Sad journeyman of life’s unending tests
bides time in loathsome sojourn cross each dawn
respecting naught but future’s numbered breaths
a-weep upon the touch of bloodied thorn,
Aroused to madness ‘neath the scent of war
bathes in the fearful prayers as fleeing life
soaks the rusting fields of...
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Categories:
journeyman, death, family, war,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
JourneymanInstinctively moving through time, my judgement results in my pain, at times it feels like this
world is unfamiliar or just does not entertain my triumph. Too many days endured
emotionless, thoughtless, does my heart beat in vain because it has not a purpose.
Recognizing...
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Categories:
journeyman, adventure, art, caregiving, confusion,
Form:
Verse