Sonnet Human Poems

If  lesser chimps bow, trail alpha male’s tail, 
A filly fawns on husky horny stags, 
Show willing hinds to a dominant male, 
And paupers...

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Why dare I task thick clouds on their own turf
With smug like immortal engraves my wing;
The rain— for my feather to wade and surf
like lightning...

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We don't approve, you know. Approve of what?
The folk who go to London, or who don't
The folk who get the flowers out, or not
The folk...

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The human spirit is a wondrous gift
bestowed on us by God the day we're born; 
instilled within our souls to grow and lift
the hearts of...

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We love to type & classify
we find it hard to wonder why
the quirky & eccentric mind
off mainstreet,much enjoyment finds
We seek& seek the poet's voice
in verse...

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This merciless break of Man's loose authority. 
The individuals who are fearful of their own mortality. 
A few fields generate a plentiful supply. 
Field rabbits...

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Peace
by Jerry Thomas May

When I gaze out my window to beauty as far as my eyes allow me to see, 
In the glass I also...

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In clouds of spring fresh whispy dreams prevail
They tell of joy as hope in hearts arise
With youthful frolic's yearning wishing wells
In fairytales seen through poetic...

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you see me a monster
an angel in disgrace
for I plucked my wings out
just to honor the human race

inconspicuous yet dark
a disciple with a mark
all they...

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I treated this strange creature  with great care
I  knew she was not human, so unfair
She looked like my old cat before it died
Someone...

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The Princess and the Pauper
by Michael R. Burch

for Norman Kraeft in memory of his beloved wife June Kysilko Kraeft

Here was a woman bright, intent on...

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If Keats could have seen through Hubble’s eyes
when the sonnet ‘Bright Star’ he wrote,
meaning its telescope-imaged skies
with those stellar tableaux afloat,

would he have noted ‘aloft...

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He stood under the pregnant purple moon,
          As silvery balloon spores danced a-breeze,
   ...

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It seems that Everybody Loses Friends,
Loved Ones, Children, Lovers, Wives, Husbands, Too
It’s like a palimpsest that never ends,
Words, scraped off and rewritten, till right through,
You...

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The human experience

We enter this world with a soulful cry
as children we're gifted the skills to live
Nothing satisfies our questioning Why?
we learn, make mistakes, then...

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