Long Cleverness Poems

Rian sat puzzling in his suite in the Keep.   His thoughts in disarray,  jumping from one concern to another without any logical order.  He sat before a desk that once was...

Read More

Poetic Encryption Like Ancient Egyptian

This terror and threat to poetic clarity,
Becomes a pet rock for some poets.

Words do count for sure, but so does
Clarity unless poets put a mask on.

Encryption can be used to mask...

Read More

1.

                                  ...

Read More

Crumbled like dust and I began to stumble like ashes with a gust of wind – that’s what I felt before exchanging smiles and goodbyes…
Oblivious obviously…removing the plank from my own eyes of deep-inside-prideful lies
Memorably,...

Read More

Environment of elegance emerges and Solar System shimmers anew in our lives
We need and want to shine...waiting till the Kingdom of Glory arrives...arrives...

Burn negativity into the flames
I’m sick of your silly little games
Burn negativity into...

Read More

Warped up lies
Illuminated goodbyes
The reason I hear his cries
Hopefulness and its highs
Amid the optimism, hidden inside
Utopia and its understanding lifts me higher than high itself and ultimately wins the window of my heart's mind
Tribulation and...

Read More

The season, spring year 2031. 
One year went by and 
Delilah was 4 months pregnant 
When Molly Was 6 months 
pregnant. Other Then that, the
passed months were
Unremarkable. The ages of 
Damian's children and their 
Mother's...

Read More

Controversies have been circling ‘round my head
Regrets need to be let go – instead…
Dread gets in the way
Today isn’t so gray
There’s this deepness in your voice that I love most
It’s a thing that I won’t...

Read More

FM
“ShallowMan, if you’ve conflictions
owing to your mind’s addictions
to subconscious maledictions,
due to doubt in old convictions;
tell me now of your afflictions.”

SM
“FactoidMan, I must confess
I understand you more or less
though subtleties provoke distress,
and even more your fine...

Read More

Human beings we are
Each searching for are own happiness 
Fearing the possibility of living a life of misery
We are not born with hate, only the will to survive
Only the unloved hate
In this world we try...

Read More

Rageful, brazen, mentally strong and no stranger to dangerous, yet precious attitude of gratitude at the same time
Imagining a river of remnants a-flowing
Vivacious, momentous memories spent with you in my leisure-time...flick a dime of delight...

Read More

I thought that it will be just a dream,
That YOU and I will become ONE for real;
Before, the least thing that I could do,
Is to be a dear friend to you.

We’ve known each other for...

Read More

Singe out the shame...the shame...
Stop blaming me for your mind game
Tame these flames...right now...
Somehow, I will be taking a bow

He, the Lord, is a mountain above
His spirit shimmers and soars like a dove
Merciful and mindful...

Read More

Another look at the birth of Christ on that heavenly night has forced me to ask myself a few probing questions. What if I were a shepherd on that heavenly 

night? Would I have frozen...

Read More

SUGAR, SPICE, SOUL


 

Oh, yes~ my friends, that is what poet friends are made of!! 
Givers, in the main, not takers. You can count on their constancy. 
They read you more than once a year....

Read More

Branches of beans wave most predominantly in stormy weather but heavily prevalent are the many climbing chimps whose antics please the spotted cloud and cause a clap in the sky. But half a cup of...

Read More

War World II was raging over this
southern Italian town* spared by a miracle...
a deluge that suddenly occurred: 
a night of blasting sounds, of rising flames 
as American planes bombarded its buildings;
the Nazis fled to occupied...

Read More

We had a garden gnome named Griselda
the bane of our small bungalow
she was nasty and mean, at times quite obscene
the worst that you ever could know!

Her garden mate, Gregor, had feared her
but one day he...

Read More

Word in words logically scraping speech
Word of words unlock hardened heart as priest preach
Word by word's exposition gain ground as sounds beseech
Word for word's daring compliment duly change to teach

Divided in divisions attentively awaiting wide...

Read More

(Double sonnets- Part Two)

Death First Knocks, Fear Then Enters, Plea Given 
Double sonnets,  Part Two

Death thy bladed hand, I gladly let pierce
That my end be grand, and my faith be fierce
Hollow words you spoke,...

Read More

If I am such a wicked person as to go on a mindless killing spree, do you honestly believe that taking away my gun is going to stop me from finding another way? I'm sorry...

Read More

He claims to be better and different than all those who came before him.
Yet, if he is different, he is likely to become like all the rest when he arrives.
Beware of those who align themselves...

Read More

He'd return after decades
Spent in imagination. Month
spent in reality. He'd return to the
House of comedy,here,to crack
an heart-taking,wits-arresting,Emotions-
devouring,Land-quaking joke.
He'd return with a robust neck
Seasoned with weeping nerves.
The joke cracker,Let's hear.....

Before he return'd
The gym-ed rodents embroided
with pleasant...

Read More

No hope in mind…
In love and blind
Forever…and ever
I always love her…
Treat yourself right
tonight
“I’m stronger than I
realize, 
I’m not alone,
& I’m not a failure”
Treat yourself well
and don’t hurt
yourself tonight
Give in to God’s
Word of Woe-less,
Remarkable Wisdom
…your world...

Read More

Once his brown alpargata shoes trod countless miles,
imagination burst from his vivid, traveler's eyes...
He traversed valleys leading to azure mountains,
and heard a chant sung with vivacious tones.


Like the invaders of the past that built sturdy...

Read More