Best Mustered Poems

Set upon the new world stage within the burning fires of hell. Silently posed factions of the elite, suppress the true inherit of Mother Earth....

Read more of this work...

When your befuddled mind
Forsakes upon the ragged edge
Of swirling darkness;
Where eternal night awaits
To sate upon purest innocence
Besides an open grave!
When the gravity of your perils
Be...

Read more of this work...

Youth, Life, Love And Its Most Precious All

When young, life was full of joy and great thrills
I recall that was how happiness feels,
a new toy...

Read more of this work...

It was in the mists of morning, beneath the rising morning sun,
We had come to conquer Ft. Langley, It was me and Al and John.
We...

Read more of this work...

My eldest brother, nine years old,
Thought he could break a horse.
Our mother strictly forbade him.
A mother’s right of course.
Her young son mustered all his wiles,
Hoping...

Read more of this work...

Dispatched by Mark Antony to fetch his queen
An Egyptian with beauty of world renown
Five-thousand mighty Roman warriors sailed
Committed to driving Egypt’s army down

Cleopatra was basking...

Read more of this work...

With the autumn
like the trees
I turn
and shed my graces
bare
but for mustered 
reservations
for a long nights 
depression
that's as faithful
as the seasons




11.30.17

Composed for Russell Sivey's
Choose A Topic:...

Read more of this work...

We had a garden gnome named Griselda
the bane of our small bungalow
she was nasty and mean, at times quite obscene
the worst that you ever could...

Read more of this work...

Once upon a time I was in love with him beyond any balance of the imagination 
that you could ever imagine or even read in...

Read more of this work...

Being lost seems to be my only option these days
Confusion appears to outweigh common sense in my life
My ability to reveal truth from lies has...

Read more of this work...

the cultivators

taught how to walk and talk
they approached as a group
each with a bowl of bread
given unto them by a lord
trying to speak and be...

Read more of this work...

I knew when I opened my eyes,
That last night was my last night here.

I felt it in my soul, as I lay there,
Listening to the...

Read more of this work...

There was a little painting in my yard
It was of me
I had a colourful palate with a bunch of brushes
I had no clue 
of how...

Read more of this work...

Most leery was I at the introduction,
not knowing if poet or possible seduction?

but after a while I mustered  "hellooooo" 
and 15 years later I've...

Read more of this work...

A TRIBUTE TO MY BROTHER HUBERT W. HINSHAW, T/SGT, U. S. ARMY
             ...

Read more of this work...