Long Conan Poems

1.    John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2.    Alfred, Lord Tennyson 
3.    Sally Aline Mae Beller
4.    Charles Edward A. Berry
5.    Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce...

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Sonnet Doubles, A Poet's Deeper Thoughts 

I Will Not Fiddle To New Hollow Tunes

I will not play fiddle to hollow tune
nor beg day, be lit by pale light of moon
life to have worth, must not...

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I have known:
   of wise detectives catching crooks
   of "Thought Police" revising books
   a shipwrecked family named Robinson
   of lion, witch, and wardrobe magic
   Heathcliff's...

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I used to watch sunsets in your eyes. But something changed, I began to catch you in 
lies.  Don't act like it's strange, and seem surprised.  Your tears can't heal my pain. ...

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“Nice to meet you, Mr. Holmes, I am enormously elated,
how it all started, may I ask, though somewhat belated.”
“I was working silently solving intricate murder cases,
until Conan Doyle picked me up from many sleuth faces,
narrated...

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The 44th President “one who is blessed” in Swahili,
Happens to love his wife’s Shrimp Linguini.
His desk, in the senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy!
Renegade Tried to make it in to an all black male...

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7/25/21


Until infinity
In any vicinity
Let me put it out there officially
I smoke and drink religiously
Call it the holy trinity
Initially
You'd think it does not mean s*** to me
And that all of it was done deliberately
Don't need your...

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“Holmes, what is the secret of your glory, 
What keeps us thrilled and rapt right to the end?”

“The hook of a swell detective story -
Quite elementary, my modern friend."


“Your methods by deduction, I must tell,
Earned...

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Those who write are a special band,
a close knit community, who most times stick together

However, though we are banded by either,
a special gift, or chosen profession
we kind of all ride the stormy weather,

Reading works from...

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“Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of,...

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As a boy Charles fished on the Thames riverside
He had a songbird, a dog, but life took a slide
His father got him a dead-end job in a Scottish town
It became a vortex bringing him down.

He...

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His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
—Arthur Conan Doyle

Sky of Fireflies

Might I return to the night, alone,
except for the pitter patter of rain,
except for the thunderbolt of fireworks,
somewhere in the distance, rather
close, yet...

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MARVEL 1960s

As I journey into mystery
I come across the tower of shadows
Into the chamber of darkness
I'm found tales to astonish
Hulking and giant men
Sub marina
Involved in tales of supense
Iron men and american Captains
Oh! but strange tales
Doctors...

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a carvery the sadistical it plough the salt on pewter it swords poles, rods, 
it makes that satic it means a Conan, it twilight it scourges, it raid the emcamp it ask not
a baby humanity...

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Around us see May flowers, all in bloom
Let's gleefully start to shed Pandemic gloom

There's much less need to give each other lots and lots of room
Because no longer must we meet - if at all...

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I AM A MAN WITH AN GOLDEN EYE
AND THATS' WHY I DON'T BOTHER ABOUT MY BRAIN DEAD
ALL I WANT IS TO ENTER THE DRAGON
- IN THE SHANGAI NOON
'COS I AM A DARE DEVIL AND ITS...

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RADIO VOICES 


Thirty-three and a half minutes listening to the static; 
I'm one big ear! hoping to hear a message 
from the other side... 

Beethoven has an unfinished symphony he wants completed, 
Arthur Conan Doyle...

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 Near Living Waters a bond is Forged
 Gilded Hooves and Wings and Swords,
 Feathers of Fire and Light Scintillate Ablaze
 I Saddle Up and Ride the High Heavens Way,
 Flailing Beams of Radiance, Zion...

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At my college graduation
There most likely was a speech,
But my memory of whose it was
Is simply out of reach.

Yet today celebrities can claim
Commencement’s greatest prize – 
All those celebrating graduates
To bolster and advise.

Surely Conan, Oprah,...

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Fafhrd, Conan, Tarzan...
They could all beat me in a battle!
But when seeking true love,
I'm the one in the saddle.

But I'm the foolish one,
cause I had a dear love near,
though I took my heart to the...

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