Carapace Poems - Poems about Carapace

The Calico Box Crab

...Once, an aged fisherman was heard to speak
from a boat on the shore of Chesapeake Bay.
His voice, like every bone and plank that did creak,
(as the ocean waves came in to splash and spray)
about ...

Blunderbuss Bongo

...Destruction, thy name is wrath!
By God, do the math!
Walk thee down the warrior's path?
Take a bloody bath!

Chunks of bodies broken?
A fight! To reason stand!
What hath Hell awoken?
O Hel, c...

X And Y

...At the end of the Civil War in a distant land where most animals parted ways, one specific animal hid and stayed in different habitats to survive.  This animal has travelled many lands and seas over ...

Shadowy White

...Shadowy White

With A Staff Of Sequoia
 Woe-Fully
  Stir All The Seas
   To A Dread Deeper Hue… 

More Green!
 More Red!
  Now More Blue, Again…
   Deeper 
    Blue…

***

Tidally Spre...

Flickering Fate

...Core of ancient planets where the outback grows a-wild;
Wind atop the atoll high, hearken to thy child!
Desert flower, where is love? Where is grace for me?
Someone get me God above! Fate and fanc...

Star Child

...Late at night
or on the threshold of another dream,
I power up my time machine
and travel over the temple tops
of an as yet unchartered heaven.

The mind flips over
as if some spectral hand
w...

Santa We've Been Outta Touch

...Santa Claus, we’ve been out of touch 
and I don’t ask for very much 
but I have needs, and I’m in Dutch

I want to see the light of day
oh, and can you give me a sleigh
and a way to forget yest...

The Almond Tree Blossom

...You tasted spring’s young almonds green;
sweeter than vestal nectarine
then all your innocence is lost;
forever to the wind is tossed.

The seed you planted long ago;
time will see it ripen and...

Apostate, Apostrophe

...Apostate, apostrophe?
Faces in the crowd?
Scenes in plays, dramatic be!
Bury deep, O shroud...

Queens of high end greatness?
These exist, but are rare.
Golem, gold. Take thy best guess!
Coul...

Heaven's Harpsichord

...Harpsichord in heaven?
Cubic or spherical?
Bread, O baker? Leaven.
Just flicker as you fall...

Dancing lights apace in space?
Watch them in her face.
Ghost, vanish without a trace!
Gold, cas...

Wave Trawling

...Where the tide licks a sandy beach
a running ripple
thins to wash a ring of rounded pebbles -
there, a muddy ribbon
trickles through brine rinsed trinkets
surged up as a slosh of time
f...

The Painter

...

Lure of mirage
in deranged dunes,
dances in
dandelion rhythm 
with oasis dream,
illusion inscribed
in sane sands of time,
sliding continuum
with desiccated travail, 
thirst unquenched,
...

Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite

...Wretched emasculated celibate anchorite

(any relationship between the following poem and living persons -
namely the writer of these words ranks as purely coincidental and fictitious).

neverth...

a beautiful dream, slowly dying

...The earth wept for no reason 
under a soft articulate noise 
of auctioned lives, 
a beautiful dream, slowly dying.

Rottenness seeks in the soul
righteous prey,
grown from pure moment...

Argh the bane of daylight savings time November 3rd 2024

...Argh... the bane of daylight savings time – November 3rd 2024

Hour hands clock back
sixty minutes of Autumn
round about same of month
every year, what a bummer,
an inconvenient truth
diverged...

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