Katana Poems

The Last Supper

...Our candle refuses to consume the night,
it lit only to paint our shadows on the round mud walls
We were splattered greys of thin paint, mounted bold and unbowing,
guarding our supper like the anc...

Coagulate

...
Finally my blood began to coagulate,
surrendering to wounds from constant battles.
I was fading in shades of an Autumn leaf,
crumbling to seasonal trials,
yet, searching for a remedy
to preven...

Mad Molly Shaw 2 - Molly Stands Firm

...[If you’re a glutton for punishment, you
Can find ‘Mad Molly Shaw’ using the poems
Tag at top of screen]
              ****

Mad Molly Shaw wasn’t mad anymore
But sometimes a name kinda lingers...

Katana Slashings

...Do words serve the meaning,
or meaning the words

Simply delivered,
complexity heard

Muddled presentment, 
the message undone

Brevity pointed,
to pierce zero-sum

(The New Room: Decembe...

Mad Molly Shaw

...This is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar 

She walked into town wi...

Unknown Soldier

...The call of assembly long overdue 
named the forgotten from ages thru
From countless wars of eras ascended
pain still fresh, wounds never mended
The screams before the darkness took
Their lives ...

Prima Nocta

...12/17/20
"Prima Nocta"

No matter how hard I think
Still can't find the missing link

All night long I drink
I'm on the brink

No, I don't need a shrink
Or to consume more zinc
Trying to s...

Katana :: Arkaham Ballad

...


Katana, famous sword, used by
Samurai in Japan.
In ancient Japan for sword fight
they were taught to use their full might.
High order fight by man.

High order fight by man wit...

Wordsmith

...contrary to
conformity
finding com
fort in in divi
duality she's
the redhead
in canada
that uses
her words
carefully
and her
pen as
an anvil
knowing
which word
even before
writing it ...

Narcissist

...It is but new,
It’s something we knew,
That you and we,
We would never be.

Preach a speech, a leech so sly;
Would play a tune, a stanza,` a cry.’
At which you’d grin; lie, deny,
Woul...

Forged By Fire

...katana ~
swordsmithing
honoring ancestry
expertise passed down
generation to generation
proud reverence to familial traditions



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on June 13, 2021 for...

Katana

...Sharpest were the words 
and the eyes and the elbows
of those nearest, not dearest,
and nearly as sharp the words 
and the eyes and the elbows
of those oddly at arm's length.
Neither could be a...

Kiai Fire

...Samurai writer
Bushido inspired
Katana withdrawn
Edge hardened by fire

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)...

My Beautiful Lady

...My beautiful lady
Wields a mean katana
And you dikeledi
Don't love your rapist
The stockholm syndrome...

My Awakening Part 2

...Thought I was going mad..
Bonkers maybe
And I told God I was sorry for thinking I was thee
And casted the thought away from me..

Then that's when it really got weird

One or so months later a...

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