Evened Poems - Poems about Evened

Echoes of a Victorian Christmas

...Men in tailored suits 
and satin waistcoats,
gold watches peeking 
out of their pockets,
walked arm in arm 
with women in wide skirts ~
hooped, 
crinolined, 
elegantly sculpted.

Their tigh...

Rainsticks and Drums Native Chants and Pagan Dreams, remastered

...

Amazon mist  and rainy mornings green as the day God made them 
dropping from a moist sky full of even grays and sheltering light 
peaceful music playing from the spheres of a dense forest drea...

A Puff Piece

...Politics
in Hyde Park
was at the end of a shtick

FDR’s mouthpiece
a cigarette holder
suspended over
his spinning wheels

Pearl Harbor
a puff of smoke

It was a new deal
It was big

Th...

The Pub

...Leather and oak
Whiskey and smoke
Exhaled in a languid defense
Of an evening that’s spent
In a mist of ferment
That eventually lifts all pretense

Quietly tight
As you sip through a night
Of...

Rainsticks and Drums Native Chants and Pagan Dreams

...Amazon mist  and rainy mornings green as the day God made them 
dropping from a moist sky full of even grays and sheltering light 
peaceful music playing from the spheres of a dense forest ...

The Horrible Duel

...Two men died over a woman who was as beautiful as a jewel.
They both loved her and they both died when they had a duel.
This horrible incident occurred in the year 1802.
Two lives were lost when b...

Luv Talk

...LUV TALK 
(Browned-Cents)

Chivalry lives, it’s not dead so I’m still opening doors
You said you'd be with me for life so I just evened the score

It’s hard for a poor at heart to find true LUV...

Morning Joe

...This morning Joe got up to get ready for bed,
Wife poured his coffee and toast over his head
He put on his pajamas with a favorite red tie,
And set out for work as a local international spy.
He c...

Chains

...so...
what's it going to be
first or last link...or maybe...
somewhere in the middle

to...
eradicate responsibility
for so much....buried in time...
from start to finish

that...
life's f...

Slavery's Children

...The lines were blurred for prisoners who slaved
in mines or rowed the heavy wooden ships
for years, while overseen by men depraved,
who tormented and drove with leather whips.

As lines were cro...

Fast Eddie and Cherry Girl

...HIS THUMB HELD OUT ON THE MIDDLE OF AN EMPTY ROAD
HE CAN'T STOP SWEATIN, THE SUN BEATS DOWN
HE TAKES TO HIS HEALS WITHOUT LOOKIN AROUND
HE LIGHTS A CIGARETTE CAUSE IT SEEMS HE'S GOT NOWHERE TO GO
...

A New Start For a Broken Heart

...No clouds only bluish skies
Since the day you caught my eyes
Making my heart flutter fast
Forgetting my painful past
Of the men before you who
Left me alone, sad and blue
Lying, cheating and mu...

We Killed All the Butterflies

...I stood in the middle of a rose garden
I watched nature map out its own pattern
I quietly listened out for the budding
And heard the sound of a bee buzzing

I stood in the middle of a rose garde...

Emo B

...there came up from the projects a Brooklyn youth
holding anger in his eyes he came at a big surprise
with two turn tables with a mic he was ready for a fight
rattle his cage at such an early age a...

The Ballad of the Blossoming Bull

...foggy spirits unfurl from his flared nasal crypts,
with each snort and snarl and curl of his lips,
the bull stands before me, unshakably strong-
he knows who I am, and I must prove him wrong.

i...

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