Meadow Butterfly
...The butterfly, its crimson mottled wings
flitting in the delicate Autumn breeze;
uncurled proboscis taking sweet nectar
from early dawns, newly opened daisies
does not regard the corpses of the m...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, beauty, death, life, violence,
Form: Free verse
Chasing the Gray
...
Suddenly over the sudden years
I have felt an encumbrance; I sense an albatross -
the weight of sundry uncharted days.
Times I chronicle today as if I were a wax cylinder
or a broken spool in...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, poetry,
Form: Free verse
How did you get their names so wrong
...Thor did not live up to his name
He was skinny, weak a petite Fontaine
Wren, his brother was a Herculean guy
Brawny and strapping, he caught many an eye
How did you get their names so wrong?
I...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES
...MULBERRY TREES AND BUTTERFLIES
Don’t go back to heavy sleep
dwell in the wakefulness
of I AM THAT I AM
here mulberries and butterflies
beckon across filtered fences
which you can comely cl...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, butterfly, change, color, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Brawny Ale
...A frothy crown, pale as the whites
Of eyes widened with fascination,
Perched on a robust body, deep as molasses.
Brooding; concealing a warm rapport.
But still so condescending, its stout postur...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
A Kiss in the Dark
...
It was meant as a lark -
walking with him that day in the park.
He was the boy who used to live next door
back in town revisiting his days of boyhood lore.
Kind of cute he’d been back the...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, happy, romance,
Form: Rhyme
St Patrick's Day
...Are not Irish Eyes
always smiling?
IN the Blamey
at the stone – at the family
pub, celebrating life’s cheering,
brawling, grinning, deeply etching
proud ethnic tone – in the
lilt of his sweet...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, celebration, dedication, drink, family,
Form: Free verse
Chapter 155 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: HoMeCoMing
...Date: April 2051
End of the first week of April
late morning.
The Hakim Family was preparing
For a quick exit. Desharah DJ
Sashi Amadeus Amani and Jordan
And Justin were in Desharah and...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, best friend, birth, black
Form: Prose
Bird of Hope
...
I am the bonnie bird of hope,
That lives in brawny bosoms deep.
And flies up the steep mountain slope,
That rises into unknown skies deep.
I peck the shadowy doubts away
In the dappled shad...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, bird, confidence, courage, faith,
Form: Kyrielle
Post-Morden Juke Box Experiences
...
There are time capsules in the rural Mid-West,
not retro constructs, but temporal dislocations
that remain as was,
for lack of a reason to be other.
Small town restaurants are steeped
in a c...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Snapping Turtle
...Snapping Turtle
Brawny and mean
The reptile is seen
Oozing out of the mire
Like a prehistoric dinosaur.
The snapper stares
While smelling the air,
Keenly attentive
For lurking pred...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, nature,
Form: Verse
V Vogonized-------
...Vogon is zgone signs nhow wonder as they wander ye
The ships have imploded, muted mouths misspoken be
Capturedra are the humanity they look like cus
Just like us, splicky lick
Just li...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Vogon Poetry
A Meadow For Autumn
...A meadow for Autumn
Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me
lichen kenning myself
as Rip Van Winkle
except being repurposed
as oldest li...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, animal, appreciation, autumn, creation,
Form: Free verse
Chapter 110 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Damali Desharah Dj
...Date: June 2046
Damian traveled into town to
Observe results of the Deuces
Bar renovation. Joshua Godfrey
Barrington Shadir and Matthias
We're in the gym trying to play
A type of crue...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, birth, business, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
Chapter 107 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Family Festive Fountain Market Jamboree
...Date: January 2046
8:45 am in the Damian Domaine
Some are sleeping some are peeping
What are we eating? Said Molly to
Dolly. "What ever we can?" She replied
While still sleepy eyed checki...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
brawny, child, chocolate, confidence, family,
Form: Alliteration
Related Poems