Heft Poems - Poems about Heft

I Don't See What You See

...Sparrows enjoy a certain reputation
For intimacy and hope

Crosby Stills and Nash sang of them
In Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
As compatriots to the morning
Air
With guitar strums and high notes

T...

Hollow Frame

...A boy walks slow through halls of glass,
His shadow flickers, thin as grass.
Each step a secret, each breath a theft,
Of hunger’s war and weightless heft.

They whisper when they think he’s gone...

Contemplations For Joanna

...Contemplations For Joanna

Propulsion forward through the entropy toward the finish line 
Expulsion toward nothingness from a population in decline 
Repulsion formed at courts of corruption by th...

Twin Talents

...Twins two headed, thy talents.
What on earth to say?
O kings majestic, paid rents?
Otherwise dismay!

Viralized infection?
Excuse means cut it out.
Downward thy direction?
Challenger lost his...

Trying to REM ember the waking stage of an emotionally tormenting dream

...The following account predicated on partial fact and a healthy dose of prevarication with an attendant overactive imagination.

Trying to REM ember the waking stage of an emotionally tormenting dre...

Trickle Fickle

...Trickle, river fickle.
Step lively by the side.
Fate, thy strictures tickle!
Hell, Heaven, woe betide!

Wind atop the high cliff wall?
Funeral, thy pall.
Cherry blossoms, heft to haul.
End Ti...

It Is To Be

...
Written: April 20, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh

Quote "Don't grieve, anything you lose comes round in another form,"by Rumi

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The Day You Left

...It was 6 years ago,
But it feels like yesterday,
That I said goodbye to you,
While trying to keep my pain at bay.
We grew up in this town,
We got 7 great years,
Little did we know,
It would al...

Religion

...
For me
religion must have a solemnity,
a heft like towering cliffs, places 
of silence and the majesty of sunsets. 
Religion must be big enough to hold
vast forests, extend beyond
the furthes...

Moomy, Smoke and a Pancake

...Sweet mother, Virginia Slim wedged between your fingers,  
that last light willed to die at the rig
of a darkened room.  
You—half-goddess, half-ghost, pinioned in some still-life setting
of tumb...

What I’d Do For Love

...I knew that when I fell for you you didn’t feel the same but if I had the chance there’s not a thing that I would change

And If the stars were falling and you said you wanted one, I’d go and catch...

Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i

...Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine

     ("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered 
after assassinating Julius Caesar.

     Alte...

his December 17th 2024

...This December 17th, 2024...

alternately titled: a literary retrospective when holiday times living hand to mouth in Penn Valley fraught with slim pickings and yours truly felt utterly miserable th...

MISERY pidgin

...Misery :
intro:
afta all di wealth and fame im accrued,
afta all di wild parties im threw,
afta all di promiscuous and gypsy women im chewed,
afta all di aba made friends im drew,
and afta all ...

one second before creation :maybe:

...
if mankind ever comprehends everything ~ there will be nothing left 

sighs god to satan i’ll be outed ~ and you can wave goodbye to theft

well i’m a psychopath smirked satan ~ so exempt from ...

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