Do You Remember Those Seals
...do you remember those seals
the malleable anchor
i told you i would learn to sculpt
chiseling the seal you wanted
you threatened to fill the bath
a freezer for the fish
buy a place in the count...
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Categories:
blas, absence, farewell, remember, self,
Form: Verse
Salient Arguments
...salient arguments
whirlwind across the floor
rugs of rolling hills
closets filled yet more
the ones we never speak of
portraits fleering
infinite mirrored reflections
walls of respective dista...
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Categories:
blas, endurance, humorous, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Today I Will Wander To the Brothel
...today i will wander to the brothel
those divine friends of Jesus
where i will intercourse
with the ladies in my growing Spanish
write some lines to ponder
while they wash clothes and bathe
i th...
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Categories:
blas, anger, death of a
Form: Free verse
I Suppose They Will All
...i suppose they will all
be soon to depart
the danish girl
has removed her top
the germans will soon follow suit
the french girl
will arrive soon minus everything
there goes the male tourist
d...
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Categories:
blas, humor, men,
Form: Free verse
She Sells Goat's Cheese, Not My Favorite
...she sells goat's cheese, not my favorite
plying the beach ramada to ramada
at times she sits with me
lowering the basket from her head
her clothes are worn, patched
i roll eggs, beans, chorizo i...
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Categories:
blas, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Waiting In the Silence
...waiting in the silence
for the energy to run aground
yet what flotsam the surf gives up
it will have to keep
i always jetsom, i never lagan
Humpty Dumty, friends with superglue
are not always r...
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Categories:
blas, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Boat Is As Weathered As His Face
...the boat is as weathered as his face
it is his life, his treasure
steering the prow to sea hours before dawn
and in that darkness, the nets are set
small talk meanders the ponga
time to catch up...
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Categories:
blas, culture, fishing, life, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Birds
...i admire and love
these creatures we call birds
watch in envy the soar, dive
those landings of awkward elegance
internecine territorial disputes, my laughter
salubrious songs of the morning, my ...
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Categories:
blas, animal, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
We Poets Are Waiting For the Moonset
...we poets are waiting for the moonset
sitting on my balcony, evolutions shamans
now wandering the beach
we are solving every social ill
while walking Blake's path of excess
to some palace of wis...
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Categories:
blas, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Somewhere In the North
...somewhere in the north
snow lies at your feet
the avifauna still gather
upon the roof
where you would scatter crumbs
for them, our broken bread
mumbling about a one loaf love
i am having t...
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Categories:
blas, lost love, love hurts,
Form: Romanticism
The Coward
...Cowards die many times before their deaths…
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 2 ~William Shakespeare
spouse
a souse
classic grouse
a big girl's blouse
portent ominou...
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Categories:
blas, language,
Form: Other
San Blas
...No man can resist a stay,
a jewel of sovereignty
where real boys play.
No inkling of poverty
can describe your land,
its beauty and its deserted clay.
Strangled by loss of wisdom
they come t...
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Categories:
blas, places
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Princesses Hiv and Aids..Got a Speaking
...Princess HIV/AIDS A-Speaking
"Mankind,You Know Me as HIV/AIDS..
With all due respect I really dont care about
your Philosophical Bla Bla Blas about Me..
Who does Man Say My Ancestors Are..
L...
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Categories:
blas, confusion, health, natural disasters,
Form: Didactic