Gapes Poems

Thirty Knots an Hour

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         His very bones smell of ocean
            beard lashed with its salt
         On land, rubber legs awkward
             he gapes and he gawks

         But rig him up a mast 
     ...

Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks II

...I hate it when a girl rolls her eyes,
because that means she's on to my lies.
And then it's harder to get her
to let me under her sweater,
and then on to the ultimate prize.

Cross My Heart and Hope To Die

...{Three o'clock on a December afternoon,
the sky is opaque as my nature has stood out, the rain drizzles down my windows and I am distinctly reminded how it once drizzled down my back; the lacquers o...

Traitorous Eye by Charles d’Orleans translation

...French poems by Charles d’Orleans in modern English translations by Michael R. Burch



Traitorous Eye
by Charles d’Orleans
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Traitorous ey...

Animating Innate Vibrance

...The “Bench” sits proudly among the trees,
perched high and overlooking the beauty of the water down below.
Exquisitely black, it seems to hypnotize,
beckoning you to stop for a spell.
...

Ancient Poetry

...In the wild, grey wilderness of gealtach mind 
madwoman's scáth, shadow self, I unwind 
sraith scream echoes, 
physics contorted in taibhse pain 
As I walk the ridge, druím, 
of my own private d...

The Happy Accident of Life

...Tell me the clouds aren't hung on fishwire

That it's chance should trees reach such like a spire

That even with elements scrambled so dire

This Earth can recover and shan't ever tire...

Raining in Summer

...I watch my verdant eyes  envious as the botanicals  blossom in a sandstone sunrise glow, 
I am a forlorn figure wandering in my fog of fears, 
I cannot omit my icy turbulent tears, 
Our short saga...

Our Favorite Toys

...We, children love to build lego blocks
Our knacks never run out of stocks;
We can make miniature city,
People, animals, houses, flowers
And a lot more! So colorful and pretty!

Legos ar...

Whispers of Wisdom

...Written: October 29, 2023
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Truth aspires in amorphous silence.
Upset, drowned men's bodies rise in impatience.
Man squandered...

Decayed

...Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George MacDonald
 
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Deep Night

...It's the glove pitching with the dark;
It moves through the wings of a crying skylark.

It storms through all your soul's language—
It gapes from that bleak wreckage.

It's the vault around the...

The Payload

...
"The Payload" 

The payload 
came crashing down
like rain expelled
from the fat belly 
of a ruinous pregnant cloud 
bilious with buxom promise

it came crashing down 
...

Connie's the Women Without a Ticket

...Connie's The Women Without A Ticket 

I sit at a bar, starring at other couples
I admit I had a few
No, not relationships 
But a few beers to ease the pain
Today's not any different
I keep...

Refugees

...From the dark arenas of violence,
from the shackles of oppression,
from a land reeking of the smell of blood,
they flee bloodied and bruised.
     
these scraps of humanity,
alienated f...

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