Best Symbiosis Poems

We are blighted wards
Sordid, trepidatious scars
Haven's wall too darkly far
Eden's thornbush guards
Caught behind our safety bars
Still, we count the free range stars

4/02/20

For 'Pick a Title - Vol 15 - Sedoka' contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
theme: symbiosis...

Continue reading...

Symbiosis 

Sitting on that rock 
Like a suburban mermaid, 
You look like a lost girl 
With a long sad story to tell.
So honey, why don’t we 
Mosey on over to Wide-track Town,
Where the freeways meet in purgatory;
There are singing hipsters there,
Dressed in the regalia of...

Continue reading...

From wind that cried then softly died, until at last it merely sighed,
A memory wrapped in imaged song, without the need for right or wrong
A cornerstone of long ago, when life still had somewhere to go,
A memory intertwined with dreams, at least that’s how yesterday...

Continue reading...

Somewhere in a rugged sunny terrain
a bushy-maned pony kicks up his heels
amid biting flies in a grueling summer heat.
An elegant cattle egret hitches a ride.
Devouring grassland insects, his daily diet,
the egret helps his buddy in his plight
keeping the flies at bay while loping along
together through...

Continue reading...

I feed upon nature
and it feeds upon me
I drink from its waterfalls
and swim in its seas
I pluck some of its apples
and find shade under its trees
I rest upon its rocks
and run across its leas
I bathe under its sun
and dance beyond its breeze
For it is I...

Continue reading...

sea anemone
    clown fish hides in tentacles ~
        not an enemy...

Continue reading...

torture pain and death
unselfishly I embraced
for you to have life...

Continue reading...

In a circle
Of first graders
Who looked out
With suspicious eyes

On the playground
Next to the 
 jungle gym
No breaching would realize

  A little hand
Reached out
to bravely
Pull me inside


His little heart
Knew in protection
Exclusion
Still divides


Perhaps as myself
He's stood in the outs
 Or had earned some rank
In the friendship...

Continue reading...

"Each experience is locked within my heart and only I hold the key..."

“Dad, I’m going to straighten your closet for you,” 
my wife said as she set upon the task of pulling out his 
clothes and refolding and re-hanging each item.
“I have to go to...

Continue reading...

We were best friends. 
We were lovers.
Inexorably linked.
For such a commitment-phobe, I fell in love quickly.  But I didn’t fall, really.
I dove headfirst.
I chose her.  No, she chose me. 
She was always lurking in the shadows.  She always knew I was The...

Continue reading...

for years, your hungry maw had fed
on salty tears and blood I'd bled
you suckled without thought or rest
on milk of kindness from my breast

you chewed upon my weaknesses
and slurped them up for sustenance
clasped tightly like a foul remora
you sucked me dry and howled for more

and...

Continue reading...

Slippery, and soaking wet, we cling to one another, 
smelling of each other's sex, and cleft for e'er together; 
yearning, craving, bodies fused in blessed consecration, 
sequestered, and a world away from din and aggravation. 
I enter you again, my love, my manhood thrusting deep,...

Continue reading...

Like tyrant Trojans
pandemic prophets proclaim…
Habitual horrid hosts
the wolf seeds the lamb,
Fallacious fevers encroach-
masters of mayhem dictate.



( 5,7,7,5,7,7 syllables) 


March.17.2020
Pick-A-Title-Sedoka
Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh

Placed 1'st...Thank You...

Continue reading...

Times are hard and they always were
Poverty in blood bleeds the heart
Deprivation in breath sheds the tears
Struggle in steps squeezes the sweat
Life in tatters needs a stitcher.
He became one and always was.
The faithful sewing machine
Morphed into his third hand earning
Turning nights into days he didn’t...

Continue reading...

and the rough guy shouts  
from the construction site,
in a language I can't yet 
grasp,

and his weary wife brings him
pork ribs, a lunch;

why?...there's a deli nearby:
maybe they like it that way,
maybe he shouted, "I love you"...

Continue reading...