Best Sloughed Poems

 For a time,
I want to shed my earthly existence 
Like the sloughed skin of a snake
To rise high and still higher like a bird
To sail beyond sunset, to fly far, far away
To soar into the seamless skies 
To levitate in ether, to feel weightless
To...

Continue reading...

Fancy Light  (COLLAB) Dr Ram

by~ DR RAM:

Once her tumbled hair was bright with flame
That her eyes sapphire with twinkling stars 
And her lips were never to be missed to kiss. 
She accepted a man who offered her bounty
 Knowing there was a beast in...

Continue reading...

My fingers grasp at the void, empty-handed...
My heart lingers at hollowness, emptied out...
reminiscent when time got wrinkled, worn
when night and day left,
and only nothing remained.

The embers of my burning words
 wither into the palest of ashes,
it makes me think of dead skin cells—
they are nothing...

Continue reading...

(not to take too seriously; I think I am immune 
to my "enemies" by now!)

How near to us are foes we can’t resist
when cells, like terrorists that we can’t see
accumulate!  What parasites exist
within our very homes!  We can’t be free
of them, and even...

Continue reading...

Fancy Light - A collaboration
Fancy Light - Dr Ram -
Fancy Light  (COLLAB) Dr Ram

by~ DR RAM:

Once her tumbled hair was bright with flame
That her eyes sapphire with twinkling stars 
And her lips were never to be missed to kiss. 
She accepted a man who...

Continue reading...

"free from conditioned belief
 no agenda on our shelf
 vibrant as the light of Self 
 life flows on all by itself” 
- Unseeking Seeker

All I wish is to be my genuine self
Free of all agenda, unshackled and free,
And flowing like a winding river
Over shoals,...

Continue reading...

Nautdah
Nautdah, they called you, 
In your real life they named you,
When you knew yourself,
When you lived out on the unforgiving plains.

As Nautdah, Comanche captive, 
You Became Comanche; 
Leaving behind the girl
Who was Cynthia Parker
Sloughed off like an ill-fitted skin.

You gave birth
To their greatest leader, Quanah
In...

Continue reading...

A year ahead my skull was taken by a diatribe- storm
Her face formed a bead in an invisible dorm
That was right I did feel with a warm wet street
They pressed their seeds into salamander kit
The first thing I did hate; “No, it was not norm”

I...

Continue reading...

Into space, a rammed ship the passing Star spewed.
Feverish, life into its bowels forever doomed.
Survival hopes by a tumefying Sun aerified.
The void, blindly the last ship hopefully roved.

About a new demesne the space travellers were excited.
From afar a blue planet, with alleviation, they sighted.
Secretly nearing,...

Continue reading...

To say her goodbyes, she was forced to wait,
'til final mourners long since departed.
Twin jet-black feathered wings shaken out straight,
forever alone and broken-hearted.

Celestial voyeur she'd once proudly been,
observing Mankind from Heavenly seat.
Had focused on one, much to her chagrin,
a pure, honest man, no trace of...

Continue reading...

This poem was inspired by the interviews by Earl K. Pollon and S. S. Matheson conducted with native Sekanni peoples who were negatively effected by the flooding of their communal homelands by the building of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam. “This Was Our Valley” tells that...

Continue reading...

A rippling of shivered skin
Convulsing tides of sweat
Induced spasms of chaotic
Visions of cataclysmic madness

Choking down pharmaceutical
Faith in medicinal fists, full
Of killers
Of pain

Where writhing in torsions of hotness
Lapse fleetingly into delicious
Snatches of delusional sleep and
Dream; among corpses of influenza victims

Laid bare by blinding
Headaches splitting
Muscle mucus into...

Continue reading...

]=           THE STRANGER MAN  (1)

Once a foetus when I began the venture
And sloughed from the cove of the womb
Now closer the monstrous possessions 
I built of life on the foundation of a tomb;
Thus, wherein...

Continue reading...

Tumbled hair eyes sapphire with twinkling stars           
Never to be missed to kiss were her pouty lips.
She accepted a man who offered her bounties.
Knowing there was a beast in him though.
She thought he is now...

Continue reading...

Bottomless slumber, tumbling,
Like a babe down the stair.
You sloughed off your wrinkly skin,   
To iron out the wear.

The ugliest vestigial uterus,
Swallowed me up like a pill.
And I writhed inside as she opened wide,
And reached in to keep me still.

I slept for many a...

Continue reading...