Cept Poems - Poems about Cept

Now we can hold hands

...I'll be back before it gets dark 
after we get tired of playing king of the hill.
Sun sets so late in summer
against the willows..
sometimes I forget.

No, it just isn't so.  
I don't always c...

I No Speaky

...


I no speaky . . . 'cept better'n you!


Hide white-crime
behind white-erasure;

that this brown skin'll ne'er
win your view, unless

more light lights-upon
your vacuous “Truths”;

f...

Three Rocks

..."We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" ~ Oscar Wilde

I hold three magic rocks, in my hand
Rolling them over and over and over
Leaving this reality behind, far behind...

Healing of Joshua Tree

...Some may look to distant Mars
among radiant stars.
Get to the desert, you'll find more
much nearer ours. 

Nearer than any man knows. 
Ancestral, celestial bones, 
secret kept in Mojave's bota...

Geoffrey Chaucer translations 2 by Michael R Burch

..."Cantus Troili" from "Troilus and Criseyde"
by Petrarch
translation by Geoffrey Chaucer
modernization by Michael R. Burch

If there’s no love, O God, why then, so low?
And if love is, what thin...

Shell: Jane Grey

...Shell (Jane Grey)

The Knights are all lining up
to have their taste of me.
Because I'm quiet and demure 
of the weak and tired and pure
they lock us up forevermore. 

Their whispers and thei...

Kibbles and Bits

...There’s simply no quibbles;
    my dogs love their kibbles.
        There’s really not much else to say.

In an instant, they’re gone,
    reappear on the lawn,
        changed a bit in the usu...

Our Family Vacation at Pine Tree Inn

...
    A few scattered yellow wood cabins
       a swimming pool surrounded by pines
    
    a pier to fish from, a lake not to go in
       ‘cept for the stinkpots* and sailboats                ...

I and the Village

...ogling the green man - triangle between his nose and the dairy goat

scytheman spoils - dreamy village, ‘cept for the upside-down violinist

green man wears cap and St. Andrew’s cross -
        ...

Life

..."One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love."
Sophocles, Greek Poet

I have forever loved you my dearest.
I'd nothing to give, 'cept love, sincerest.
T...

When Emotions Cease

...
  Intimate, but only so cozy
    passionate, but just to a point
  What once seemed rosy
    forever disappoints… 

  When kisses no longer breathe
    and emotions cease to seethe
  What re...

analogy allergy

...
I’m not one but a whisper -
          I’m nothing ‘cept a sham
               a pharaoh for the faceless
     and the finer freaks, I am

cormorant for the chinamen
          rusty wire wraps...

Utterly

..."I love words, because they're mine. Utterly, completely mine. I can share them with others. I can keep them to myself. I can use them over and over again. No matter what I do, they'll always be mine...

I AM ON THE BEATING PATH-

...-cept' you B presents
in the demeaner
you R in

I AM ON THE BEATING PATH-

ReSiStIn
trapped in nightmare dreamer
RECALLING

I AM ON THE BEATING PATH-

Whom am I to be emo...

When The Stork Returns

...

Dusky, azure sky looks down
The ochre earth awaits you
Near and dear have a deep frown
On the deathbed, you know too

Time is coming pay no heed
To the wonders of this world
You...

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