Best Minefields Poems

Her reveries slant the compass of time: 1970s. Minefields now roar through blurred visions. She retreats into dots of space to live in the moment,...

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Your thought-balloons are filled with wild and magical freedom ~

until madness seizes your think tank 
trapping your ceaselessly chirping ideas 
within the teeth of its...

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a flustered tango of Gypsy moths 
drumming the porchlight; chalk artists; 
the endemic disappearance of farms—silos lost 
in unkempt fields;  space stations; the sunlit-scent...

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"LUX VITAE" 
(A Christmas Poem for Georgia)



Golden Light guide her Home
Surround her with your Love
Give her Courage to always find Faith
in you Sacred One

Place your...

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As an era of rage and power surged forth;
there were Nam warriors crossing the line...
did they have fate, did they have a choice 
but crown...

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"The Call of the Grimoire" 


when Exalibur was retrieved 

from the rock, then foolishly 
and irretrievably lost 
in that dreadful battle most worthless

the imps encouraged...

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The colour of an uncomfortable truth

Bullets of ecstasy white powder clear spirits
shots into nothingness forgetting looking away
Translucent syringes monochrome devastation
fighting for a better world wholeness...

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Nowadays I find myself
In church windows reflected
By the surface of my tea,
Too hot to drink.
I try anyway,
My nose against a brick wall,
(This Jasmine is my...

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I saw one journey end and another begin
I saw my world changed and in a spin 

I saw another end - the end of the...

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The Path to Purple


Crimson chakra at the base the sacred perineum short lengths waving
           ...

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Through gangsters with guns scowling sad streets of sin
Through bad hearts that get broken and they never mend
Through pitfalls of peril on roads of ruination
Through...

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The 1AC is a shot in the dark. 
When we use interrogative strategies
we create zones of visibility and possibility.
The potentiality for deliberation
towards a new politic.
...

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For Natalia Kills


Are the majority
of things in
life controversies?
It seems like
there is always
another side
of the story
You have to
maneuver delicately
amidst the minefields
of trepidations that
pester your 
daily routine
Even...

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betroth yourselves
to old houses of Charlottenburg
let yourselves be mollycoddled
by the petrified rain king
buy yourselves a shiny armour
of a former seraphim
call yourselves bourgeois, 
dear ambassadors of...

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die on your feet or live on your knees
live as a slave or die bold and free...ringing that bell screaming liberty
mental minefields, thorns and thistles,...

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