Best Sedentary Poems

Tide returns in eight,
shell weighs heavily on land,
patiently waiting.

For “Journey” contest...

Continue reading...

Darkness forsakes beings liberty. 
Pain that carry misery. 
Gate of colony power breath of that locked system.
Sea of dead chained. 
Faded face of a ginger violence is just a name. 
Hate and Love connect. 
Knowledge is pregnant. 
Dear not fight, dankness turned to light. 
Ginger...

Continue reading...

Sylvia stays sedentary still seeking superiority 
Sometimes summarizing situations so subtilely*, 
Suddenly somnambulistic, she slips silently
Sensing some sarcastic silliness, soon senility. 

*alternate, archaic spelling for “subtly.”

SECOND PLACE WINNER
Written June 28, 2022
For "Begin With a Letter" poetry contest
sponsored by Angela Tune...

Continue reading...

Surely God is good,
Surely to Israel,
Surely God is good to Israel, 
Surely God to pure hearts,  
(please don’t call me Surely)
Soitenly God-Blessed are the dear-heart folks?
Who shall have attended God?

But 
As for me

I slipped, I stumbled, I hit the ground running to heavens to...

Continue reading...

Yesterday I thought of going to the gym
for a minute considered going for a swim
then I remembered I had better things to do
convinced I could come up with a thing or two

Today I was thinking again of going to the gym
but soon gave up on...

Continue reading...