Memory Imagism Poems

The whiteness is blue, and wet, and fluffy to the eye,
Even when it is not.
It brings hot sweet cocoa and warm mittens into the memory,
Twinkling...

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THE LAWNS OF PARADISE



Dim road in Moscow’s winter taxi.
Maybe our Uzbek driver’s memory 
Drifts  to Bukhara,Tashkent and Samarkand: 
The shifting sands  and the...

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Tolerance

I

In the eyes of dim light,
She blankly stares in plight,
As she ties her crimson wings,
The broken soundbox slowly sings,
Frozen symphonies melt in her numb ears,
As...

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seasoned leather catcher's mitt ---
nine year old's nose ~
...transport...

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Generous they are by spirit and mind
Just by listening to their thoughts
Their excelence attract thousands 
Each time craving to give more
They foil themselves to remain...

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An Old Copper Vase – A First View

a rustic object
with 
a worn-weathered look 
symbolizing
both
an artistic beauty
and
a metaphorical grandeur

when filled
with a few
red or yellow roses

it resonates
a...

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The sound of a turtle dove
Reminds me of two hearts totally in love.
Words spoken last Sunday, now a memory
Told as a lively story.

Your engagement is...

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People-shaped mists
Lapping, overlapping, floating.
Silent laughter, boxes and candles mingling;
Ribbons winding, curling bows;
The spirit man-designed year of our Lord;
Suddenly ending, suddenly beginning.

Love, lingering like a warm...

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Overwhelmed by his love,
My lover set out to weave a tent for me
A house, with me in which it would delight him to dwell
A grand...

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a childhood memory...

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Little escalations
Have turned into another scar
Self medicate on self harm
I spit upon my own self reflection
A mirror of self deception
Exasperate my own intentions
Of my own...

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On Facebook I created a page and named it as "dude what is this crap"
She advised to change it to "It would have been better...

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fertilization upon ovule 
   via spermatozoa automatically 
   gearing linkedin anticipated birth 
especially upon confirmation conception 
   did sex...

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Alone
silent with no sound
lie objects quiet near
exposed beneath billowed clouds painted white 
in skies of listless blue 
where thoughts rumble loud but silent through
the morning...

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yesterday's 
       trauma
in flashback...

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    THE NIGHT LIGEIA DIED
Out of the bleakest darkest memory
that I'd endowed to what must be
there came a burning to my mind
as...

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CHI - RHO    IN  THE  BOOK OF KELLS 


A millennium and more since it left the Scottish shore,
Chi -Rho ...

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Once on Cecil Place
fledgling flagstones freckled
like summer faces
in Septembers of taut cypress.
Now neglected planters are urns
for my young ashes,
crypts gaping silent screams.
Blistered doors do not...

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Drought.
Another cold, dry Autumn.
Like farm workers
exhausted rain clouds 
lay down their burden.
The dead voices of summer 
sing spirituals,
the water streaming
from the eaves 
like harp strings.
Were...

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Eternal whispers of the sea,
Cry out to me;
Lively gusts of music,
Flowing through the conch.

The conch shell,
It reverberates
Every feeling that it has felt
All over;
Melodies,
They come to...

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