Casement Poems

The Reynolds Library 'Poetry society meeting exercise'

...In the small town up the road from the farm where I grew up,
the library was in the town hall,
which was also the fire station,
which was also the jail house,
and later the Plumber’s place.

It...

Through a Tiffany Window

...USPS Stamps Contest 7-24-25 Stamp Chosen American Treasures Louis Comfort Tiffany 2006  Tiffany believed stained glass was a spiritual experience.
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Another Fine Spring Day

...Another fine spring day gently dying,
Subtle variegated colors and
Tender vivid greens are dappled now
With golden flecks and dollops of buttery sunlight.
Shadows begin their mysterious, meticulo...

Through My Dormer Window

...
I was gently awakened by euphonic cooing
of mated doves perched on aspen branches
whose golden leaves rustled sweet silver songs
I rushed to open my wooden dormer window
and hum a g...

Powder Keg

...To see one is rare but to buy one is obscene.
A tall snob. She casts frowns from under her gables.
He, the new owner, is in the cellar to clean
Dusting and throwing out boxes without labels.

Ca...

Those Pain-Filled Moments

...I sit brooding on my doorstep, begrimed,
Loneliness, like a ghost, within, settled;
Sunbeams, outside, spread lavishly sublimed, 
The current of existence-whirls nettled...!

My little daughter,...

Ode To Keats

...Oh, standing by thy greenish grave ! 
I ponder for thousands of times
I write and write and then tear out 
Hundreds of notes hundreds of rhymes

Thousands of nightingales I heard
But for thy ni...

Refurbished Children's Stories: Rapunzel and the Really Bad Hair Day

...When fairy tales were in fashion, before true love was rare,
A prince wooed a maid who was flaxen and fair.
He came every day and patiently knelt
Before the dark tower wherein his love dwelt.
He'...

Refurbished Fairy Tales: Cinderella, If the Shoe Fits Part I

...Once upon a time...

Once upon a time, in France, a storyteller fella
Wrote of a girl named Cinderella,
Meant as a fairy tale romance.
Her daddy died when she was young, and she was forced to sh...

Python

...Homes at the edge of a jungle
must be built on stilts
or the dead will bubble up
through the floor when the rains come.

That is why, when the python
eased its way through a wire casement
abov...

New Sores Become Old Sores and Grow To Mature Into Scars

...

I saw blue memoirs fell from momma's eyes, as she looked into my brown retinas. Swiftly she removed my medicated glasses, a dominant gene I carved out from papa's bottled eyes. "Oh!  sorry D!...

The Basement Cellar

...The window is long and narrow,
the casement-sill a brooding lid far overhead.
The glass is dirty, thick, and warped.
It is not a window made to see through.

People live in higher rooms; they dw...

Tom and Molly

...Tom, the rebel cat was obstinate and stray
Though active, intelligent, quick and strong,
He always kept himself unfed for long
Till he hunted and got his own prey

His old master, for this, had ...

Contour of Hinges

...she stumbled over her own shadow

on course for one more restless night

a candle on the window sill flickered

bade farewell to the day’s struggle

scented with the fragrance of sweat


i...

Canticles

...guileless in my green days i climbed to the tip of my toes
to hear a tree and the wind
clap a rat-a-tat code outside my casement window

i was a follower then of minuscule choirs
small voices no...

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