Culled Poems

Cloudburst

...
Cloudburst, furious flood

Damaging drains, soiled soil

Erosion, gully, death.

Boiling mad torrent

Sweeping, digging, dragging.

All unto the stage 

where the earth 

swallowed th...

Garden Of Beginnings

...In the Garden of Beginings
Projects failed or flowered, 
Left to grow or to wither
Many being overpowered,
Each an experiment, 
A blending of force
Each left to follow its
Own individual  cour...

I Think We've Won

...Headlight humanity; 
The cherry-red brake lights,
Becoming florid totality with the things your eyes do to them.
                                       You destructive little thing.
You keep your...

Wishing Well

...Stella Williams was eight years old, living with her widowed mother-
Happily, though a bit lonely, like powder blue skies, sans sunset color.

The Williams lived in a rural area, with no c...

Message From the Council of Five

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We come from realms beyond your sight,
A council bound by cosmic law,
To warn you now of endless night,
Should mankind fail to mend its flaw.

The stars have watched your rise and fall,
Your ...

Sprawl Of Quiet Stars

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inside a space where quiet trails
I watch a starscape reel through the night
to taste new charms of heaven's sprawl--

lucent the new light waking laced leaves
like a satin ribbon tw...

Joy Chorused

...Bite that pseudo-thumb at the world, 
sit a moment in solitary confinement;
Your ideology is so blissfully bent
it favors crooked instead of curled;

No need for sour vocalizations 
culled line...

The Monologue of the Vampire who changed his name to Dorian Gray

...The Vampire who changed his name to Dorian Gray 

(A lone voice whispers)


I've seen crazy things
Mortal man should never see

Done and experienced acts of such depravity in candle lit 

I...

Forward

...You hear so many say, “Forwards,”
a slogan of the day,
especially amongst lefties,
it’s all some of them say.
As if it’s always a good thing,
an unbreakable truth,
(Not to mention an easy sell
...

The Finest Arts

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    Makeshift art 
      patches of cloth
    second-hand music
      on textbook drums

    Cuisine foraged
      from lawns untended
    literature culled 
      torn pages blended

   ...

Bear Good Fruit

...Does a rose bush bring forth cacti? Do tulips bloom bluebells?
Do grapes appear on Clematis vines? Figs on Banyan trees?
The instinct of creative blossoming, in each creature dwells
There's a clas...

'Peaceful Campus Protests'

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   Shouts of ‘Only one solution – 
      an Intifada Revolution’

   at protests described as ‘peaceful’
      by pundits expert at circumlocution  

   130 suicide bombings; countless stabbi...

Yellow

...Marigolds, pansies, sunflowers, tulips, and carnations
Bird or beast, fish, or all mountainous valley temptations
Zircon, sapphire, topaz, citrine, jade, garnet, and beryl
Gold, brass, copper, or ...

No Brave New World

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  In the meta-versed binaural wish song beats, 
skid row streets of the bottomless pits of Metropolis/ Thebes, 
you are quardoned off and printed in a likeness 
wronged-vaped, winged
to the w...

Whisper

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Quote By: Nat King Cole,  "You call it madness but I call it love "


A whisper of dreams landing on my pillow  
arriving on the nightstands of amber afterglows  
surrender to me an...

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