Grimed Poems

The Wuthering

...The high moors slant giddily over gritstone edges
where torrents overflow gallons of sky.
Grouse are blown sideways
by a bone-twisting gale.

The land is harried by fishtailing winds,
a sparse ...

Enduring Part Two of Illness Journey Poems

...*** ENDURING ***

(A Part Two about my recent illness, following “Lunacy Loo Flies.”

Fear
Stepped into the holes of my weakness
To impede my pace to recovery, 
Absorbing the basic radiant lig...

A Foregone Conclusion

...Life has surely broken me.
I’ve flunked out at Everything.
Why consider equally
When Options just desert Me?

Too grimed up, I cannot see
A single reason surfacing,
Hiding Places changing,
Co...

Saint Hilda's Tears

...We were always a little ash white,
the girls always a bit cleaner;
the soap always green carbolic
the toilet paper always slick and hard to scrunch,
six year old bottoms always a little sore.

...

Circle of Love and Self-Regard

...CIRLCLE OF LOVE AND SELF-REGARD:

Here's now a real prevised time...
Some people only get you grimed,
Since you don't disclose your plans,
For them to know what's on your mind.
Even if you acce...

A Mirror Up From the Earth World

...A mirror up from the Earth world
Was brought,  and placed before God.
"My billion and one likenesses!"
Angels with grimed hands just nod....

The Last Frontier, Part Ii

......Gutshot snarled at Sid’s strange reaction.
“I don’t care if a century’s gone by.
You murdered my brother, and I made a vow,
to take vengeance for Paul before I die.”

Sid just shrugged back a...

The Fusillading of a Freedom Fighter

...Such an ironic plight in blinding light of day,
his appreciation, the cruel blindfold o’er eyes,
after his dark time served in dank cell of dismay,
taken out at dawn, a bright morn for his demise....

Tozzath

...Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank, 
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombada...

The Manchester Ship Canal - Part One

...Glancing down from breathless heights,
Amidst climey sighs,
The looming colossus awakens from slumber
And stretches across Thelwalls linear skies.
The hot engines hissing steam -
Recalled from f...

Through the Valley

...They have been hiking  for a lifetime  landing upon harsh rocks and dry land, 
ragged and torn battered and bruised they are not coming to amuse.
Last night I watched the moon as it completes its c...

A Lifetime Tradition

...Grandfather relaxed
While I cleaned his grimed toenails—
He was a tugboat captain.
It was tradition,
As soon as he fell asleep,
I painted his toenails red.

© February 22, 2012
Dane Ann Smith...

A Joke On Ellie!

...A Joke on Ellie!

There once was a boatman named “Ellie”
Laughter jiggled his belly like jelly.
He was a fun loving bloke.
That loved to play jokes.
Guess who played one on him; it was Kelly!
...

Pour It Out

...The swaying of bamboo outside,
The ever-flushing ocean of air,
Spoken through the tongues of leaves...

And this is merely outside my bedroom window.
Oh no, folks, I needn't go anywhere on my da...

Cage Rebellion

...If they cage me...
  confine with concrete
cold under feet
  absorbs into soul as I grow cold
Breathing the air
 that isn't there...stagnant wrench
of condemned and contrite
Locked down night ...

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