Bites Poems - Poems about Bites

Lighting Tomorrow Memory’s lantern near empty unfilled Each night in the darkness to flicker until Your eye without warning a flash unexplained Forever relighting and fanning — the flame (Dreamsleep: June, 2025) Shamal Winds Lost in the deepest recesses of myself And happier than I have any right to be The hidden regions my newfound oasis A Bedouin convert — home among the sands (The New Room: June, 2025) Infestation The American Dream becoming a nightmare ... Conscripted by strangers new thieves in the night Usurping our freedoms embedded among us Invested in nothing but — what they...

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Another cold night And he was here, right next to me His face over my shoulder and hands wrapped across my belly. Caressing me at times, teasing! His lips alternating between bites & soft kisses Leaving marks wherever possible. Just when i was levitating in pleasure, Something loomy stuck my mind. It whispered hundred things. Of all, What hurt the most Was how many people...

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Love Bites Love Makes: You Think You're Better Than You Are; Because: You're Better Than You Think You Are: At Least. "Hey! What About Them?" Why Won't You: Shut Your Bloody Mouth!? *** You Broke The Skin. -Gray Squirrel 06-02-2025...

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There was a young man named Fred (the tooth fairy lived in dread) a wild flamboyant from afar the spice island Zanzibar a singer he'd been and sang a good song with four-octave range in the band called Queen tho' considered 'strange' with plus four in the upper jaw he had more teeth than most once nicely depraved now dead and gone when he gave up the ghost shuffled...

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Forbidden Ground Wandering beyond the limitation of death Trespassing through the back gate of forever Maundering alone in a virgin wilderness Witnessing the future destruction — of time (Dreamsleep: May, 2025) Bookends Enough to be absent he fumbled the words His mind ever vacant new truancies heard Those spaces beyond him those spaces behind Bookends of fruition — unspoken defined (Dreamsleep: May, 2025) Sognefjord Waiting A mile past tomorrow a glacier lies at rest New...

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Who Bites Who First Dog Bites Man Or Man Bites Dog ...

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Who so maligns a noble man, None but his own self tends to stain, The ash thrown over head, On one’s own head gets spread, O indulge in no smear campaign. __________________ Translation |28.01.2025| wisdom, Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom called Subhashhitam. This verse warns us against maligning others. Doing so reflects on one’s...

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The distance between the stars is stone deaf. Diamonds die last, stones are blind but all knowing. Man is a blip on a self-made monitor. Sound bites are a poets last resort. ...

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Loyalty is not royalty or power Being absolutely trustworthy That others confide in you Fearless of betrayals or denials Sharing dreams and secrets Without hesitating or pondering. Loyalty binds companions The bond that bind all together Both the master and apprentice The watchword of Nations Without loyalty no establishments Loyalty yields cooperation. Where there's no loyalty There's always competition Where...

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Festival Of San Fermin Running the gamble — living the dream (Pamplona Spain: July, 1977) ‘Pathway To Hell ...” Money is to promises what bureaucracy is to care Chasing lost indemnity — uncertainty’s despair (Dreamsleep: August, 2024) The Lost Garden A bad seed illy planted Fallow —and alone (Denison Iowa, September, 1967) Au Chante The pathway to happiness Goes through —the open heart (Midway Airport: August, 2024) ...

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Verbal Foundlings Free or blank tomato tomatto Without rhyme’s link there’s no bravado The verse left orphaned all kinship spurned As unconnected words crash — and burn (The New Room: July, 2024) Death Grip The tighter we hold on The faster — it slips away (Dreamsleep: July, 2024) Now Is Now Freedom in the moment the past is the past Throwing off chains — tomorrow recast (Dreamsleep: August, 2024) Reaching Back Closer in the distance than what endears my touch I focus on...

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Abeyance Raging against the machine Dying in the light Counting the hours till darkness Waiting — for delight (Dreamsleep: July, 2024) Storm Clouds I wanted to speak my mind until I changed it I wanted to write a book without the critic I wanted to fall in love until I lost her I wanted wealth and fame — without the thunder (Dreamsleep: July, 2024) Cosmic Shelf A Shooting Star In A Mason Jar Preserved And Waiting So...

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I am bound and chained to a very tight leash Now the stillness hangs lifeless in the air Icy tentacles grope, grab and squeeze My breath is taken away, I do decree.. Darkness has snuffed out the warming light the trembling fear has started to begin the hand of death has taken away all of life goose bumps run up and down...

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Blessed Quietude Audibly we rise and fall But Silence ... is the language of God (Dreamsleep: June, 2024) Lost In Place The past is never where you left it Tomorrow — delegitimizes today (Dreamsleep: June, 2024) Groupies Liking ... sometimes better than loving (Keith Richards: June, 2024) First Step Standing at the crossroads and knowing that you’re there Going left or going right coin toss or a dare Pushed by fate determined into sorrow, joy,...

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Mariah’s Return Mistral wishes blow hope to tomorrow Intention most sacred — ushering wind (Dreamsleep: June, 2024) Cupid’s Bow Indifference and hatred are blind — but not love (Dreamsleep: June, 2024) Godot Waits Minding his business biding his time Dodging the bullets — fate preassigned (Dreamsleep: June, 2024) Divinity’s Wind Masters of War Victors of Time Sultans of Glory Martyrs Sublime (Dreamsleep: June, 2024) ...

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