hinterlands of thee netherlands
...alternately titles: I got noose for you,
Yours truly doth garrotte tee
another itsy bitsy,
betsy wetsy easy breezy read.
oft times ('specially
these latter unsainted days and nights)
in wh...
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Categories:
garrotte, analogy, birth, death, environment,
Form: Free verse
Magical Euphonia
...A flowing stream had inevitably given way.
To gently rest and recover in quiet splay.
Of the nectar stream of her fantastic brain.
Neural links coagulated on stale sustain.
Savo...
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Categories:
garrotte, analogy, beauty, black african
Form: Sonnet
Mellifluous
...a mellifluous trickle had given way
to licking her wounds in silent arrest
of the honey flow of her beautiful mind
synapses clotted on stagnant display
like burnt marshmallows on a fire
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Categories:
garrotte, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
A Sliver of Nirvana
...In cut throat fashion the sadist kindly applies the garrotte
The guitar is a bit out of tune and needed some tension
Two love birds in soft tune and no further strings attached
Lights near...
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Categories:
garrotte, fantasy,
Form: Lyric
Great Escape
...Gurus religion and spiritual leaders encourage us to kindly
Reflect on meaning and soul for the sake of compassion
Existence before essence takes another stance on ethical life
As Sartre lie...
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Categories:
garrotte, courage, death, depression,
Form: Acrostic
Manic Melancholia
...Manic Melancholia
He flew high as a kite with no ceiling concealing his madness
A hawker plying his trade with all prayers lost preying on reason
Sold out flapping wings and the wind soaring...
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Categories:
garrotte, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Unshackle My Verse
...Poets Hanging from a Poet Tree
Poetry in motion is perilous a dangerous pastime a thing of the anachronistic
past in the global villainous village in which minds are colonised for the greater
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Categories:
garrotte, bereavement, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Tribute To Robin Williams
...Give Them His Love
Wife was beautiful when she walked by
And she always, really caught my eye
Like someone I never saw before
Who I would want to see much more.
My husband always troubled ha...
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Categories:
garrotte, bereavement,
Form: Couplet
A Comrade Like Ben
...A Comrade like Ben
A statesman like Mandela diplomatically
suspended the necessary struggle of opposites,
gummed his fragmented land together with reconciliation….
exploiters to exploited , mur...
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Categories:
garrotte, history, inspirational, loss, political,
Form: Elegy
Unwind
...Unwind
I see before me an interminable
Ages and hours repeated in seconds
Their voices I never heard
Stretch out
Creep-able
Yawn at the very least !
Un- breathed promises
To wait
Ga...
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Categories:
garrotte, timeme, me,
Form: Free verse
~crisis of Faith~
...Silence endures soft tremors,
so offering gallant trophies
secreted down nonchalant talk,
keeping gall, like erratic cells
stored deep;
perhaps soulless.
Soliloquies strum machinates,
sof...
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Categories:
garrotte, confusion, faith, sad
Form: I do not know?
Open Season
...Shooting fish in a barrel with an AK-47
Or merely tripping on the bench in the park,
Where the leather whacks on willow
And a stairway to heaven
Plays in the lost pavilion in the dark.
Cucumb...
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Categories:
garrotte, allegory, life, parody, social,
Form: Verse