Hurls Poems

cruel masters

...sometimes there are cruel masters
who sneer and inflict pain for no reason at all.
i do not know where they come from — why do they come at all — or where they go
and so i am always afraid. 
toda...

SEA WANTS ME

... SEA WANTS ME

Waves are here for the winners
spirals floating in turquoise 
dance ululating undulating 
blue bright sight
a point with paddle board
to soar sanguine Seas
I know not w...

The Wind

...

I like the wind 
when it flutters
and flaps bed sheets
hung out on a line -
I like how it sweeps
patterns across fields
of tall grass and sends
whispers through 
the trees.
I like to see...

When night descends, the ink of darkness drips over memories

...When night descends, the ink of darkness drips over memories,
masks unravel like silk under the touch of the silent wind,
the role I wear in the daylight becomes a shadow that dances,
in the dark,...

My Carbon Footprint

...(“Something From Nothing”, 2024, original encaustic)

My Carbon Footprint

As the rest of the world hurls into the future 
Some of us are just left behind.

This year, this season, this...

Cracks, Cuts and Curls

...

Capsulate, wrenching wore around the nook
Never asked to swing her lips and hardness hook
A scary flood of fumes, fire her tears
And the invoice innocence of her beats
Enormously resonant as ...

Cages We Carry

...
When I was a kid, I learned survival’s first lesson
That protruded from my veins 
The world divides from the the hunters and the hunted
The tiger etches its laws in the shadows
Hawks hold the c...

I Saw a Storm of Ice and Stone

...I saw a storm of Ice and Stone,
Curling North the footed hill;
From which grows the cold and bone,
Beholden to whom the beggars kill.

The ashen clouds above the alabaster-
A sieve to the dense...

Literary Feud Among - Pt 2

...Step Forward McCarthy vs. Hellman 

What is this The Digital Crucible of Truth?

On a stage of scrutiny,  
          titans c l a s h—  
McCarthy's words, a web of accusations  
S l i c...

Gift of Recovery

...“The gift of recovery should be a coveted treasure. It’s the hand that adds stars to the night sky.”  
                      - Quote by Poet 

He couldn’t see me for who I truly am, 
He didn’t un...

Talk like adults, child-like

...When debate gets personal and inflamed,
You cry: 'Why can't you talk like an adult?'
'Why can't you engage in adult conversation,
 without the claptrap, rants and rage with hurls of abuse and name...

Narrow Margin

...Placed Second in: 
This or That, Vol. 23 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh


                                    Narrow Margin

             On the twelfth day and twelfth month of the y...

drought

...heat hurls haunt heartbeats
parched earth's cracked mouth is in plea ---
cobras on frog-hunt
...

Winter Slumber

...Placed Fourth in:
2024 Poem not for Contest Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One



                                          Winter`s Slumber

                       When the ground is dra...

The Great Reset

...("Bye Bye Safe Journey", 2014, original pen and ink and oil)

The Great Reset

As the modern world hurls towards tomorrow
more and more of us are swept up,
languages, dress, myths and be...

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