Bolted Poems

Demon of Witches Tower

...An ominous water tower
Stands tall in Starin Park
Barricaded by a spiked fence
Iron clads the stained-glass windows
A steel door bolted shut
What secrets lie within its walls?

On the night of...

The Bell Witch Legend

...
    
        It's told John Bell, North Carolinian
        shot dead a brutish scoundrel he employed,
        got off scot-free, and went his merry way.
        Life as he knew it soon would be...

Flowers Rain Shadows

...
                               flowers
                        choke up water,
                   the petals that drop flat
                rain quits my photosynthesis — 
            I believe...

Never meant to depart

...For weeks, my hands searched your side of the bed,
Yet emptiness mocked the warmth I desired.
Our love now lives in a distant, closed past,
Where memories refuse to fade or dim.

That morning yo...

Hopping Trains

...On Friday nights we’d sneak into
the railyard and wait
in the shadows 
between the floodlights for a train
slow enough for us to hop,
our hands already tingling
with the promise of flight.

W...

My Nightmare

...I remember the night he tore me from light,
From the home of a friend to the jaws of the night.
A grip like a vice, no mercy, no grace, 
My head in a whirl, blood drained from my face.

He curse...

Laika

...They called it a seat,
but it was a cradle of fire—
metal-wrapped, bolted shut,
no window,
just the hum of wires
and the memory of old Moscow snow
still clinging to your pads.

They fed you w...

While You Wait

...
It's just a row of laundromat chairs—
those molded plastic ones, 
screwed into a fake strip of tile.

The whole setup’s bolted to the lunar crust
under a plexiglass dome.

Every seat holds s...

Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I

..."Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watche...

Memento Mori

...
I saw them spinning in the field
and felt a wonder at their dance.
Astonished by their silent shield
I paused, as in a trance.

I watched and then began to move
with each note of leap and son...

WHIN-shine-

...Such as in spindled spongey bargains lips
Casted both bolted skullduggery
Sappily candidly preside barrowed bricks
Philanthropy balled head lettuce apple tree
Restted rustic gondola swaying hips
...

Ten Gallon Hat

...I come from the borough of Queens, New York
My classmates call me a Klutz and a dork
Those names pervaded my soul, taking a toll
Being at the bottom of the totem pole.

Then Dad took me to the t...

Laura Norder 2 - New Balls Please

...Laura Norder took her gun and strapped it to her thigh
The skirt she wore was so damned short she had to strap it high
And stood there on the corner where the street lamps dare not tread
She waite...

Your worth Doeth shine

...
Held back not, 
Truth timed walk.
Proceed without cane,
Proceed without fault.
Clear pathway, clear head, calm heart.
Depart, foolish fleck 
Fictional debris
plays no part
Neither dust nor ...

Jolted by bolted days

...Beauty painted by nature in the clouds,
A big umbrella that shields not the crowds,
Pitter-patters and everyone is soaked,
Thereafter, sunlight anger is provoked.

Brushes not coloured by oil or...

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