Grizzled Poems

Salty Barnacles

...Son of a Sailor, this Sailor it seems,
Salt weathered, grizzled, bed feathered,
Softened endless schemes of fulfilling his dreams.
In time, his mind, became untethered.

Was clearer each day, wo...

The Rung

...It would be a lonely trek
across the icy slopes
and devil's crevasse
where only ghosts of the damned 
dare to go.

I travelled day and night with little rest
broke bread with pica and marmots
...

Ivory Flakes

...Oh, lovely snowflakes,
from billowy clouds, 
plump with expectation,
you break free and come tip toeing lightly
on tiny feet, gliding and dancing,
through the air in crisp December.
...

Marley's Ghost Revisited

...If it isn't my old friend Ebenezer,
why you ugly grizzled geezer!
Have some tea (or soup) of barley,
This is your pal, Jacob Marley.
You needn't be so ghostly white.
There is no reason for your ...

the US election

...The USA Election


The near future is catching up
the American presidential election  
is looming 

This time, there is talk of a woman,
who has charmed many with her
furious laughter 

Th...

On being emotionally bankrupt

...On being emotionally bankrupt

Sentient beings distraught
psyche rent asunder
courtesy false accusations
heated words exchanged like gunfire
pox upon the house of Deborah Hunter,
a vicious vin...

Let them bite and devour

...(do bed bugs eat beds)

I can’t shut my eyes at night
Delving deep in the darkness
Slight splinters of light
Revealing the shapes of my room
But still my eyes seek deeper
Let there be grotesqu...

People Watching

...I’m a people watcher 
A thing I instinctively do
Please don’t take offence 
If you see me watching you
Walking, such a common thing
We do every single day
But so many people seem 
To do it in ...

A TANKA PROSE afterword

...
I walk through the glade
colour enlightens me-
 in my mind's eye
abstractions rainbow
my persoective

The soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,shadowing the speckled sallow s...

FIRST DRAFT

...Mural Musings
the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation
as
...

Get out of my head mister chatterbox

...Get out of my head mister chatterbox!

Ransacking treasure trove 
of maximum headroom.

To remedy a fate worse than death
or orange hair oaf becoming 
forty seventh president
or contracting o...

BLITZ of coloured words

...the soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,
shadowing the speckled sallow saffron 
a bluish buff upon the cochineal;
brilliant boneblack
grizzled the engrain
citrine carnation
as
the fallow flax...

HAIBUN in detail

...The haibun can be a standard(where haiku etc follows the prose) or afterword (where prose follows the haiku) or prose envelope (prose para haiku,para) verse envelope(haiku...

Christmas Alone

...Buttered pancakes, hot cocoa, cinnamon sticks,
Knitted neck shawls, all buttoned up jackets, "Phew,"
Some are ice skating, or skiing, and sledding,
                    ~~"Ohh Little......

Font Din Black

...Font Din Black

so u real??? 
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dopey: elegy = flaky, goofy, history: iffy, 
jumpy, kooky: loopy, matty, nappy, nippy, 
sketchy material prone to find the r...

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