Best Perished Poems

Who is noble to pay respect which springs from within?
Respect cannot be hidden.
Who is grateful to have the past gratitude?
Respect is the best human sentiment which has no other substitute.
Who is charitable today?
How many does to you a kind word say?
Charity means an act of...

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There was a thing rolling on the corner of the street
Round, hairy, small, but not hard to notice
And a body, lying faced down on the corner of the street
So fragile, so young, so small, hard to miss.
I heard the scream of a woman, and sounds...

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Those that believe might is right
   Are itching on paltry issues to fight

           Show them in the mirror of gone by times
The perished Cyrus and Caesar’s might...

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tall pine trees burning
in californian wildfires  ~
lifeless silhouettes

Written 20 august 2019.

Syllables' checked on How many syllables.com.
5/7/5.

For trees haiku contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin....

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Lung cancer ended his life, that's a terrible thing to go through.
He starred as the bully who beat up Clark Kent in "Superman II".
In 1977, he starred in "Martinelli, Outside Man".
During that same year, he also starred in "The November Plan".
He guest-starred as a minister...

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Breathless panting as I sat waiting my abusive ex husband to return from his big job with Ciro Gargano dynamite gas cans golf balls with draino two hand grenades finally dust pans used to pour gasoline around each entrance and exit of the tailor shop...

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They tell me that I perished
   But I've never felt more alive
And the warmth of your presence
   Still lingers in my mind.

I ventured longer than an arm -
   Beyond the dim horizon -
Further than a murky quasar
  ...

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For all that perished in the fire of your love,
I now offer you everything, the past, the present, my whole life.
I still hope, one day, to see you return,
For I have kept those years, ready to give them back to you.
Those years, rich and wild,...

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