Best Unsmiling Poems

Silent
is she whose
sharp mind
unraveled;
she died.

This woman,
friendly,
loved to gab
and laugh.

Unsmiling
in her 
casket now. . .

her face
is strangely

beautiful.


May 13. 2019 for the 'Charlieku New Form' Poetry contest...

Read more of this work...

A deserted old house stood off the county road a little way.
To keep apace of living I rushed by it almost every day.
For years I'd...

Read more of this work...

A wounded animal retreats to the scrub,
where anything worth saving lives.
It licks wounds inflicted by a wicked wind whipped world. 
Filled with big stone faces...

Read more of this work...

She stands there in knickers,
A cap on her head,
Looking tomboyish, truant and tough
And a cigarette dangles
From unsmiling lips
To warn all she’s not taking their guff.

It’s...

Read more of this work...

Today was April Fool’s Day,
reminding me
of lighter times.

While listening to the news this morning,
I yearned for the traditional,
“Gotcha, April Fool.”

But all I heard,
reflected an unforeseen...

Read more of this work...

Through tinted glass, I see cars have lined up outside, like a java-thirsty snake who waits to strike at the employee working the drive-through window.
I...

Read more of this work...

Heart Of Stone

What a heart wrenching piece of news..
In today’s spread of daily news…
Boldly headlined ‘Mom: No Forgiveness”
It was about filial hurt and devastated dreams....

Read more of this work...

At the local Walmart (some of us shop there)
a young woman was standing at the self-checkout 
with a huge cart of groceries, sobbing her eyes
out....

Read more of this work...

Night follows day in bitter hungry monotony,
as wane laughter dies upon parched lips,
and ignorant innocence is trampled underfoot
at every corner of the decadent deserted plain.
Homeless...

Read more of this work...

In the middle of the universe I stand
Pencil and pad warming my palms 
All around pictures hang like the solar system 
And my heart fondly...

Read more of this work...

THE CRYING WILD CREATURES.
Nzongi Mwero.
Oh, we recall the bygone times,
The days of the golden past,
That chirping with our merry mates,
Flying around the parks,
Gone the joys...

Read more of this work...

Coronavirus

our air is fouled
so full of these deaths, and
cries of help and agony
all across the globe

there’s loud gray’s elegy, of
sun turning inducing death gray, leaving
more...

Read more of this work...

SMILING FOR SMART

Arrogance of your silence, stinking attitude
Rotten breath from your mouth, saliva with virus
Beauty painted in ugliness of your expression
Your niceness is enveloped by...

Read more of this work...

Traveling with a purpose by One who went before us,
to do this in order to obtain our Royal Priesthood.  Enter
Heaven's gate.

The quest is to...

Read more of this work...

Dawn hurls a new day in rites of passage;
Awake to new rays with obvious message.


See that ageing face unsmiling serious;
Time sculpts change in place with...

Read more of this work...