Forgiveness Helps Me
...When someone violates my trust through betrayal, theft or rumor,
I look into our mutual emotional bank account.
Is it red, limping, crying and hurting?
Is it turning harder than a gallstone?
If...
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Categories:
gallstone, self,
Form: Free verse
The Fire
...Carry it gingerly to the backyard,
it is a nursling yet ancient,
as stiff as chard gristle, as soft as lead,
as hard as a gallstone.
Open your hand.
see how it glows coal black.
This is your ...
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Categories:
gallstone, poetry,
Form: Free verse
On Wanting To Become a Bachelor
...Less any objection with the missus,
versus never experiencing living alone
well...yes during that rough patch,
(sans during early adolescence),
I existed in a bone
huff fied impenetrable cocoo...
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Categories:
gallstone, culture, education, eulogy, father
Form: Light Verse
Dracula and the Dinner Guest
...DRACULA AND THE DINNER GUEST
Here lie all parts of my retelling of Dracula, originally written by Bram Stoker. I have never read the book but was drawn into the synopsis that included my favorite ...
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Categories:
gallstone, conflict, dark, death, drink,
Form: Senryu
The New Stone Age
...Grinding stone,
Mortar stone,
Remaining of Stone Age,
Gallstone,
Kidney stone,
Paining of IT age!...
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Categories:
gallstone, age, change,
Form: Light Verse
Drifting Falls
...Phasing between the
dick-numbing taste of
reality and a silly,
iron-wrought daydream
about **** stars smothered
in applesauce.
It takes a reliable method
to tame your oranges, and to
tuck t...
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Categories:
gallstone, courage,
Form: Free verse
Digesting Affection
...I swallow my secrets,
sharp little shards of the bizarre
that would gossip of my weaknesses
if allowed to converse
with the light.
One by one,
they scratch along
a cervical bridge
betwee...
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Categories:
gallstone, introspection
Form: Free verse
Sometimes In the Night Alone
...Somtimes in the night alone
I get up to visit your throne
On bended knees for children
The outcast travelling far
From the rest of heaven
Sometimes to beg for a star
Nights can be dark when c...
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Categories:
gallstone, faithme, star, me, star,
Form: Verse