Best Simplified Poems

Gazing down along the zealously
Monitored borders of well clipped
Evergreen Privet hedges.
Standing watchful guard over 
Divisions
Re-enforced by concrete posts and
Darkly stained, wooden, wavy-lap 
Fences;
Age-old neighbourly disputes,...

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I wish to make a case for justice
For I feel quite justified
Here at the court 
of love's dominion
My grievances surely
Will be satisfied

Your crime is one...

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Battle of the Sexes 

A Collaboration Between: Pandita Sanchez and Eric L. Boddie 
Written on September 30, 2015


As beautiful and smart as you are, 
you...

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Love, joy and peace
three virtues, over-simplified, 
three fairly well-understood character traits
desired by friends, rejected by very few
who live in community with others.

Patience, goodness, kindness
Patience, I...

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Battle of the Sexes 
A Collaboration Between: Pandita Sanchez and Eric L. Boddie 

As beautiful and smart as you are, 
you always seem to take...

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For what shall come of morning tides


Pure heart so fine in charcoal skies
of breath my mind does see
This captured feeling locked inside,
alone as to believe

For...

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Alliteration For The Literate



    Periodic poetry pantomimed in pain
        Resistance being reasonable like runaway rain
...

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Over x steps we will plot
after y steps up to site.
This is the way we create a body.
This is the beginning and this is end.
One...

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[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]

SM
“The...

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are we crazy or just contrived 
lazy or simply self-involved? 
are we insignificant, significant 
or just like everyone else 
deranged on the outside 
swimming through...

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Lately, perhaps due to the Covid lockdown,
I find myself thinking about
past pleasures;
the little things, I've all but forgotten.
Like my first trek in the woods, alone,
one...

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magnifica
      noblis
       so insigne&variegated
a mosaic 
        ...

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Simple Mathematics, really.
To eliminate one component
To solve a problem quickly.


I’ll form the problem into a manageable state,
By easily eliminating an unwanted variable.
Now, just what variable...

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Well organized organisms are wary of defense
these shields defy all odds to justify the integrity of our borders
the enemy’s need to conquer and the drive...

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- Sunrise 

Nature's artwork painted with authentic brushes
the palette hanging on a nail at the door
The painted areas melt completely with the paper,
and become one...

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