Best Prow Poems

Achilles, The Journey To Troy, 
(Part Two) of (Part One-titled, Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal)

Achilles, The Journey To Troy

Woe! wretched horrors Olympic gods...

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she leans back and points bare toes at clouds
chains creak their rhythmic squeak, hypnotic loud
taken aback, her hair sails slipstream flung
downstream freedom for a moment...

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O' Shadow, This Soul Dares To Ask Of Thee

O' 
shadow,
pray tell more
before midnight clock scores 
and in its echoes lays to waste
souls yearning for life's...

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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...

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Like love ones come to view a parting ship
Before the anchor lifts
And its iron lips prow the salty waves
We journeyed from our busy day and...

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Among the cries of lonesome gull
  A crude cross-slash, grinning skull

  Below the tattered crimson sail
  Those that did weather the fiercest...

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Midnight Email



Night burns both ends of the candle
Full bent upon those wilderness horses
Tearing in their stampede chains

As this scarlet sangria swallows its taste of regret
Heated...

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Acciaccatura

And filled with stars and the land
A pale gentle hand turned the hourglass 
Of my soul

Stalking the alabaster moon 
I rejoined once more
Those who follow...

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My Sweet Darling, Where Has Thy Spirit Flown

Before me, there a beautiful lady stood
Pray I, my eternal love you see
Fair maiden, forever this true love...

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The night holds such gray, when beating wave and tortured sky compete
      "Still round the corner there may wait, a...

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IN   MY   DREAMS

In my dreams  I have seen  it:
The shine of the varnished hull
Sparkling in the reflected brine-light,
Shedding each...

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To bathe at last in your sweet love,
And melt to your embrace,
To linger long with our first kiss,
Then drown in silk and lace.

We've sensed the...

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achingly ...
he still recalled
as if but a day hence ...
the air still moved, tender
the earth a-sole, still trembling
grasses parting like swells for a mighty prow
dust...

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I who have dwelt long
 On the keeping of a vow,
That which is folded into 
  Steel --
And hammered and drawn --
The making and...

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THE      ICEBREAKER     KRASIN    -     DAVID    AND...

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