Long Darcy Poems

"What sort of world
be home to those
who goes about
judging all souls
of what they do
be right or wrong
and how'd they know
of this-and-that
be bad or good
be alsoooo, true
lest they were told
from the same lot
who walked the walk
and...

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Pride and Prejudice: The Lacking Margins

Pride and Prejudice, a passionate novel by Jane Austen, published anonymously in three volumes in 1813. A masterpiece of English literature, composed with penetrating wittiness and exquisite character delineation, it...

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Behold Beatrice, Pitcairn
the paradise sunsets lie in Tahiti
sunrise, the folly of Easter
islands, sanitoriums, deluded, denuded
limbos and purgatories, the never evermore
Polynesian metaphors transmigrate my mind
O to graze with the deer, dear
the tree never falls silently
lizards scatter,...

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my chair was in the path of totality
a thin ribbon about seventy miles wide
moving West to East
it does this because of at the equator
Moon's shadow moves  eastward
at a greater velocity than Earth's
rotational velocity causing...

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there is a gravity to you
whenever crossing the room
it is an existence that bends light
into an aura capturing my every breath 
a plasma that penetrates every atom within
with memories of long ago
when you first walked...

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Resting it ever-so-gently on her
            shoulder, the young girl twirled
              the...

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What would long John silver say?
About our current strife?
How about Mr Bumble?
Would he just moan to his wife?
What about young Oliver?
He wouldn’t ask for more,
Or What of Hero, Harry?
Just Complain to Dumbledore?
What of traveller Gulliver?
A...

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you wondered in
with a Cheshire grin
eyes made for sin
I'm all in 
ready for the trip
next hit or miss
the spike of lightening's strike
not once but twice
blinded by the flashes
streaks of color found
the long way around 
an...

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Last line...
on him black eyes did sit........drat Cricket...Don
It didn't help his hemmaroids,
Cos I downed old Darcy Pitt.
They wouldn't let me bowl,

the nasty game of Cricket.
an out you go hows that!
twisty ball gets ya wicket,
sneaky buggers...

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Painted on a plaque above the doorway
Reads Mr. and Mrs. darcy come on in
 There’s a red rose in a glass case on a mantle
And a chair right next to him where no one sits
And...

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At the station Paton stares at me from the train bound for Johannesburg
He leaves a note to remember to mop up where the roof leaks
This is after the British take Achebe and I's gods away
before...

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the devil walked in the room
first thoughts are to exit calmly
a round of sounds complete his entrance artfully
chimes, alarms, a decadent trumpet plays the senses curiously
mysterious it would be to refuse a grave impulse as...

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Give me Heathcliff kind of love
That haunted Wuthering Heights
Obsessive, demented love
That spoke to her ghost at nights

The love that tore at her grave
To hold her close one more time
The love that lit up his face
Made...

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trapped in a snare 
captivated by the glare 
a primitive trap its clear
the startle from a borrowed gesture
provoked the out gunned deer
trespassing all fear
the perch on the measure of a wire 
hovering the dawn of...

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sunshine bends a knee in vigil
seeking absolution's hell
the steeper edge of steel
balance beam of a trail
the driving wheel 
is Spiked for the kill
a heart in trespass
rigged like a printing press
cut from raw intensity
a Bad seed...

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So absorbed I become,  I must hold my breath
While reading of love's unrequited quest
A tissue in hand wipes a tear from my eye
Enthralled with such bliss, I joyfully cry!

Cover to cover, each novel tells...

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The annual carousel convention was about to start.
Darcy Diamond was excited, this was close to her heart.
She usually won a top prize for being beautiful or something.
Then she noticed her arch enemy, Carousel Dee Deetle...

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So in love with your character was I
As I watched you on screen.
My eyes were captivated by your presence..
I watched you dance, play the piano, and write
I fought this feeling with all of my might...

You...

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