Those Little Silver Things
...Running through the forest on feet of clay
wet to the skin claiming every animal heartbeat
as my own
imbued in soil thirsting like a wolf
the goatskin drum beats, on and on
Wild berr...
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Categories:
goatskin, animal, heart, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Doxologized
...She had many sad stories,
they were filed away, labeled,
color coded;
tales presented as apocryphal bibles.
He would listen as she pulled them out
of her droning breast,
intoned then as if re...
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Categories:
goatskin, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Bahamian-That's Who I Am
...Born in a country that is a paradise,
Free to worship God as we please,
Free to express our mind by any means,
Determined to foster democracy for all.
Taught the value 'everyone counts',
No ma...
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Categories:
goatskin, appreciation, community, culture, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Something About Bars
...In the After Hour, afterlife, away from
borough and a woman. I bellied barstools
for balance, contemplating the ensuing draft;
Rumpkin, to be exact. The taste of nutmeg
calling forward a wayward...
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Categories:
goatskin, betrayal, break up, conflict,
Form: Narrative
Morountodun
...Morountodun,
this is the place you'll find me
like the prey of a shrike
choked through by your thorny words
When the chase after Omo Ogun with your heart
Failed to be anything worthy to steal th...
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Categories:
goatskin, husband, travel, true love,
Form: Free verse
Adventures With Paul
...A slow train toward eclipse is adventure this time,
Two friends sharing new quest till I run out of rhyme,
In four days moon path's wisdom will darken the sun,
But if noise from a drum can save...
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Categories:
goatskin, adventure, beauty, celebration, friendship,
Form: Quatrain
Artistic Justice
...1:
There are days I feel older than dust,
Still, my knees and hips manage to rust,
Self-expression's quite nice,
But fame skates on thin ice,
Some feel pleasure when you fall through crust!
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Categories:
goatskin, fun, humor, love,
Form: Limerick
Alarm Clock
...Broken clocks with wooden blocks
And the power is out again.
Cold burning hands lifted up with a little
sacrificial parenthetical nonsense
"Yuletide noreaster winding down"
Of course it will...
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Categories:
goatskin, analogy,
Form: Blitz
In May When the Nomads Migrate To the Forest-Side Meadows
...In May—When The Nomads Migrate To The Forest-side Meadows
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Give him, a glutton, Excessive doze of the drink—
An ancient Arabian queen would give his king at b...
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Categories:
goatskin, romantic, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Shore Temple of Mahabalipuram
...The mirtangist may never willingly hear
may not want to hear
the multaiyam announcing his cue
nor the melodist aware of the flautist's right
to the change in the raga
the plucking of the yal strings
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Categories:
goatskin, devotion, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Bigfoot's Ancient Great Granddaddy
...Who is Bigfoot’s Great-grand Daddy?
Whether living in a city or on the mountain side,
People from the world around astound us with their views.
He’s nine-feet tall, a hairy thing, uprightly he f...
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Categories:
goatskin, imagination, mystery, philosophy, religion,
Form: Quatrain
I Had a Dream When I Was Young
...I had a glistening dream when I was young
Bright as an orange on October tree
Near as the horizon on the rim of the sea
Sweet as mango sweating in the grass
Clear as the crystal of the hour glass...
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Categories:
goatskin, imagination, philosophy, dream, longing,
Form: Free verse