Hauled Poems

I Love You

...I love you…
not in the noise of blossoms
screaming their radiance into spring
but in the way roots strip themselves into 
world's silence, quiet, hidden 
yet steadfast in every tempest

I love...

Every Remaining Last God

...Covered by cloud the out-of-sight tops of soaring towers,
Buckling under their own weight, beginning to topple from 
Those airy heights;
The gaping breach - the once impregnable outer wall!
The i...

A Cowgirl Momma, Carved by Faith

...The nights get cold on that prairie land,
But she don’t break—she takes God’s hand.
With a baby girl tucked close at night,
She leans on faith when there’s no end in sight.

She’s patched old je...

At the Graves Gate

...Checked by www.howmanysyllables.com>syllable_counter

"A grave wherever found preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.” Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Popcorn and Needles

...I remember how 
you used to roll
your popcorn popper
across the floor grinning
and not paying attention
to where you were going—
and how happily you 
pretended to drive
the rusty ’49 GMC pick...

Time Wasted

...Time Wasted                                                         Looking at the news nowadays still has me in amazement, oh how fast love and kindness turned into hatred, it's so much easier and h...

A Mystery of Love

...A Mystery of Love

Who can understand. Why would a person
sacrifice himself in such a way. Spat on,
slapped, falsely accused, deprived of sleep,
given no food, unquenched thirst. Hauled
before ...

A Study in Charatcer

...A Study in Character

My aunt…. 
wears jewellery that winks as she walks
and she always has a sharp, shivery look
that you pay attention to …just in case!
She makes the world around her nervous...

Beowulf translation by Michael R Burch

...Beowulf Excerpts
anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 8th-10th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

LO, praise the prowess of the Spear-Danes
whose clan-than...

PainKillers and Immunity

...
{"Corrupted abandonment issues
 swathe me as a probable hazard, and I remain far from sane, I coat over my sentiments and violate the evidence so nonentity would find the remnants of my body, 
I ...

Descent And Ascent

...

It’s been a while when I felt frozen on the ground
Hotchpotches of skills around, I touched them one by one
With overwhelming joy, l took them in one luggage
I hauled and under a stagnant lake...

butterfly messengers

...from above a hum, a gentle pop and they appear out of thin air 
large as Right whales out of the sky they pour in like colorful dreams

gliding down on papered metal wings, the airborne clan desce...

Why you forgave me

...#Why_you_forgave_me?
I have broken you to pieces, took away your immediate peace, pierced your heart and worst broken your still recovering spirit, wronged you in every possible way, faught you when...

Replaced

...Lumbering bulldozers grind 
and rip trees and shrubs
from the empty lots, competing
with gas fumes, the noise 
of trucks, and honking horns 
on the busy thoroughfare.

Two gracious houses,
on...

Too Close to the Edge

...Memories of a bleak childhood triggers deep pain in him.
Whenever he thinks of that dark day, a thousand blades cut through him.
Shocked by the ferocity of that memory, grief comes in, dragging his...

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