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Coltish Poems

Haunted

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Darkness. 
Eyes widen more and more,
trying in vain to see.
Then other senses compensate, 
I hear the faint rustle of dry leaves. 

My body caught in the shock of fear, 
refuses ...

Categories: coltish, boy, child abuse, death,
Form: Dramatic Verse

ah, wassailing!

...We’re in NYC - at last - on Christmas vacation, and it feels like a pardon.

It’s amazing what can happen in just a few wild and change-filled hours. One minute, seemingly, you’re in a picture post...

Categories: coltish, christmas, holiday, humor, new
Form: Free verse

Fine Day

...A fine summer day,
a Peter Pan day,
a day in the never land of youth.

Daisy wore a dress, not good for climbing.
I wore tight shorts, not so good for climbing -
yet we climbed.

Daisy was up...

Categories: coltish, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Appalachian Moment

...Hill country
snow is thawing
The wind is a Spring scented ripple
- coltish

Nature for a little while
asks: "come and play"

Of course you smile
Long years are released
from that tightly pa...

Categories: coltish, poetry,
Form: Free verse

A Kept Woman

...Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a mascu...

Categories: coltish, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Upon a Shore of Innocence

...When we went down to the sea
it was low tide,
we picked shells and rescued star fish.
We were young enough
to fondle and fall for romantic dreams,
A tidal love licked at an innocent shore.
At t...

Categories: coltish, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Plenipotentiary Eve

...PLENIPOTENTIARY EVE

Shrinking violet ~rise~
Stay not in ultraviolet haze

Lovely ~lavender~ destress
Unfurl your coltish legs

Adopt Eve’s consanguineous power
Release your adam...

Categories: coltish, adventure, confidence, self,
Form: Verse

Old Guy Desires

...I still look through
young man’s eyes,
          though
skin and bones are
aging,
my mind’s eye
disagrees with it, 
          despite
what mirrors
displaying.
How could I have
these coltis...

Categories: coltish, age,
Form: Rhyme

Gentle Breeze

...Bewail paltry ministry that gentle breeze ch aunt.
Impatience and dream hack milestone and whisper, a hailstorm of ornery ilk hum.
Go by the gentle breeze and bring hope.
Leif Leif kink lackey of ...

Categories: coltish, life,
Form: I do not know?