Long Consented Poems

I cry at baptisms, funerals,  and touchy movies. There are more                       ...

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How the housefly gets attracted to organic decay
and an infant child traces the voice of its mother
are nothing compared to the intense attraction
Michelle and I possess on the guy owning not a strand of hair...

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The Lay of The Best Man - Part Two


I will not understate my distaste, but I do not hate. I rate hate as being irate
Shall I underrate the spate of your hate as you devastate;...

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My youth minister once told me that seventeen was too young to have felt the pain that I'd felt. She told me that seventeen was too young to be so corrupted, so scarred. According to...

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In the beginning, all that was, was living light eternal
Vibrant in time and space dissolved ineffable peace
Pulsating endlessly in a singularity transcendental 
Sans identity, with no attribute, we were and still are
One without a second,...

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He was ever gentle with her
always careful
composed
never passing the boundaries
never asking too much
a man of his culture
and bearing
didn’t move too fast

She was a flower
pristine...virginal
a flower he had plucked
from her family’s garden
with their blessing
she was safe...

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Tommy swore he heard him whimper
his mother said it to be the wind
his dad said overactive imagination
but I did hear it, here we go again

Tommy would put out bowls of water and food
his mother would...

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CHAPTER 11b The Island Kingdom, continued...

In an ocean-going vessel
Now this group of island warriors 
Journeyed on an expedition 
From the island to the mainland 

Han could sense a strength of purpose 
And a loyalty between...

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(continued from Where do the Flowers go in Winter  Part One)

We buried her today
                    ...

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De Andy Lee (part one)

Talks about the little Lady Lee and me,
It all started at the first flight
Our adventure had an origin---
From Off-ego was where we met
So dazzling was her beauty that
Caught my eyes at...

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The Lie

I am an insect waiting to be squashed!

I stare hard at the ground
as if fascinated, enthralled by it
while, above, eyes of cold-cobalt  
wait to gouge and burrow out 
any self-belief that might still...

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Disguised as an Apple Computer Technician.

He initially hacked Macbook Pro laptop.

He (alias Harvey Specter)
planted seeds of suspicion
that criminal activity prevailed
within my geographic area in general
or questionable individuals
lurked within or without
Citizens Bank in particular,
and suggested yours...

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I had known and interacted with him for at least twenty years.                       ...

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Bring Peace to Whole World

Introduction.

This is Jim Horn who loves writing poetry and posting it
on Poetry Soup. I also hate typing. It is now 0500 in the
morning and I am just starting to prepare my...

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Thank you, for excavating from dead tongue
Under midden of lies
The archive of our own history
The outlines of identity
So we under obscurity white sheet
Could find resurrection of self
In another voice oppressed
But unconceding of its comeliness.

Before I...

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Swamy consented to give interview to an Australian team of six men
None of them expected such a stunning miracle that awaited, then 

Swamy outlined at the outset oscillating health of the mother of one of...

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The Wuhan experiment concealed,
The cunning crafts devised,
Myriad of ignorant mass their targets,
An agenda unmasked, 
Polluted atmosphere 
Forged idea of a prepared viceroy.
"Mask up"
"Six feet"
"isolate"
Inauguration of the control game.
People's servants turned tyrants, 
Ignorant bunch of scallywags...

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To find the girl that I’d love best (A Sestina, 19 May 2014).

I thought to set upon a quest;
One that would put me to the test
So I left my cold and empty nest
And proceeded with...

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Love’s Lonely Quest

Are we programmed from Above
To search for everlasting Love?

Or is it from some other place
To seek the Other’s lovely face?

Is it some cruel joke,
That those that love us might not stoke

Our hearts with...

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Our thoughts are whispered in the cool night breeze. 
I often fall into this snare when I opine around your demise. 
The breeze whispers, and the spirit hangs tight for my appease. 
I've completely failed...

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Deception in the Church

Deception church, it is here today
just exactly as the Lord had said,
and because of it many churches
are slumbering and most are already dead.

Yes, dead to His Spirit 
and dead to His glorious...

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Soul Mate
By Rick Rucker

In what seems to be unlikely, at best,
I have been singularly Blessed,

Living through three score of years,
With many joys, and some tears,

A Goddess was made known to me,
Who said she wants to...

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She's cotton candy sweet a whole line to buy her as hungry boys waited patiently. But 
Once they got to the front of the line and handed her their money and took a bite out...

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There was no accident.
It is an entire generation your failures have delivered to the flames.
Beneath your crumpled suits, betrayals show their seams.
You deconstructed without rebuilding,
demolished all bearings, weakened respect, dissolved hierarchy —
and now you mourn...

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When asked by a friend to be in on a panel
to participate in a discussion about a subject
matter of a very sensitive nature, I consented. 

When I arrived, I learned that it was going to
be...

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