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Brandied Poems

Old and New 1: Circus

...OLD AND NEW 1  : CIRCUS

Giraffe on anxious heels
bought in Sandton, toddle 
along with intense haste
a dream point unheard
lipstick smudges, mascara 
leaks of AK47 dust she rifled

Bullfrog...

Categories: brandied, africa, change, conflict, emotions,
Form: Political Verse

Her Brandied Beauty

...Amidst wistful notions
   
   to revive his parched heart,
      
      he craves to be ladled with her ardent spirits,
         
         to be cradled... in the tulip of her essence.


Sus...

Categories: brandied, beauty, longing, lost love,
Form: Free verse

The Irony of Fate

...In a moment of juvenile jealousy 
he envies his red rival

with its intimate and greedy embrace of her angels’ share
of honey and vanilla spice
as wet stretchy hands of fervent fabric
possessiv...

Categories: brandied, age, desire, fate, irony,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Arduous Delights

...She felt utterly drenched 
 in his intoxicating  poetry
whetted her insatiable
   hunger for allegories'
     drunken semblances,
quenched an arid thirst  
     parched of reality,
as she full...

Categories: brandied, allegory, allusion, passion, poetry,
Form: Prose Poetry

Seasonal Walks In the Park

...baseball, bird, change, childhood, games, holiday, lost,

“Seasonal Walks in the Park!”

A walk in the park after a springtime morning rainfall 
Is to hear the droplets fall from bent branches o...

Categories: brandied, baseball, bird, change, childhood,
Form: Free verse

Like You Want Me To

...She to her lover:

My greatest gift to you 
Is to “make love to you
“Like you want me to.”
I want you to guide me
To whisper it in my ear
Share with me your need
Let desires be freed
With th...

Categories: brandied, relationship, sensual,
Form: Free verse

Rose-Lynn

...Far within the forest deep,
where Pixies play and the Willows weep.
There lies a pond with lilies pink,
that within the night, the stars do wink.

Those that the pond loves and feels,
has respe...

Categories: brandied, adventure, fantasy, imagination, nature
Form: Rhyme

Once Unnoticed Pieces

...Fractures of time…
Brandied words spoken…
Sweet ardor…
Flowing from her fingers

A master creating…
Elucidations…
That fiery love…
That still echoes within

Finitely endless moment…
Her en...

Categories: brandied, introspection, life, love, passion
Form: Free verse

Inebriated Platitude

...Sign right here on the dotted line
where everything is almost fine
and sip the sip of brandied wine
a thousand biting berries.

Step right up and don't be shy
today's the day you'll almost die
...

Categories: brandied, people, sad, social,
Form: Rhyme

Echoes In a Bottle

...Here, on the isle of plantains and regrets
the saplings were left in mocha soil.

Four silver stalks, grafted in lime,
upright in slippery shadows of coconut palms.

Brass insignia rings left i...

Categories: brandied, adventure, people, places, sea,
Form: Free verse

Wrists Inclined To Labor

...Curling 'round the wrists of men
scent of soda, salty skin
burning asphalt and the like
mentholated, acrid sky
Simmered hint of peppermint
lager froth and dart board dust
brisk of midnight on t...

Categories: brandied, life, on work and
Form: Free verse