Long Flittered Poems

I was sitting on the back porch ‘bout an hour after dark
When I couldn’t help but notice a tiny pulsing spark.
I thought it was a firefly – It had that kind of glow
But I’d never...

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He sat himself down on the edge that evening with the gravest of sadness trickling with his tears and a whimper that shook his body. As he fixed his position to one more suitably comfortable,...

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I was drifting north, looking out for work,
found myself in Iowa, in Des Moines,
a polka band was holding a concert,
they needed roadies, so I thought I’d join.

The work was easy, just moving heavy things,
and helping...

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(Original poem)
Frozen ripples of moments

When in the hued horizon the crimson sun rose
I saw you flash across my dew latticed meadow
Chromatic glare of dawn flushed your satin face
On flow of time the ripples of my...

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The Shadow and the Light 
Struggling to at last break free 
My shadow slipped from under me 
And stole away into the night 
Seeking shelter from the light. 

It tripped into a forest dark 
Then...

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There once was a land
they called Beautiful Tree
the best of the lands
where the birds want to be

Then, there were only
the Cards and the Jays
no other birds had yet 
flown in to stay

Nesting in groups
with a...

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When my daughter was young
She went to a ballet school
The teacher thought it would be fun
To teach some fathers ballet too

She found all of six of us
Who were willing to take her dare
As long as...

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My first encounter with a brown bat was at Long Lake as a kid. It was in the dark of night. I was in a rowboat with a friend guiding the boat. I was watching...

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The tormenting time came in my life with the future at stake,
when writhing in the crushing clutch of smothered suffering, 
my burdened heart broke and bled in the inflicted pining ache, 
I didn’t find the...

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On a hill stood the mansion,
with a landscape that looked neglected
and too frail to mention,
The entrance was winding,
missing the tiles that used to adorn,
The cascading vines looked droopy and
forlorn,
Inside, the floor boards were shaky
and the...

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 A perfumed breeze with summer lavender 

Shapeless smoked clouds had come and gone 

Through verdant valleys I strolled along 

Honeycombed hues warmed the new dawn 

A golden butterfly glided in the distance 

I just...

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At six, he wildly chased the fireflies 

thinking these shiny bugs bits of gold 

slung down from the stars for him to hold

he prayed that God would find him a net

hoping soon to catch a...

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A lightning collision
The train wreck born of mountain side
A thick black Eden held as a chalice in the far 
Reservoirs of each moon high star-flung eye
Braught to the corners as an incident
Of which to rubberneck...

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Across the war torn atrophy,
A decomposing cracked corpse,
Shakes and splits in the sovereignty,
Of the rounded Earth which warps.

Annihilated by the angst of grouped race:
A false duplicitous spell,
Cast by the convention of crooked space,
Filled by the...

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The air called life flowed with the current of serenity, 
my butterfly heart floated in the rippling zephyr free. 
Its wings designing the lattice of your identity,
flittered with your enticing charisma to charm me.

The horizon...

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A tormenting time came in my life with future at stake
when writhing in the crushing clutch of stifling suffering,
my bestowed heart broke and bled in the pining ache, 
and I found no consoling arms stretched...

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The forlorn wasteland of deprivation traversed
by my indigent life that tried long so very hard  
to smoothen the angularities of the obtuse mind.
Swirling in egregious whirlpool of indignation,
sucked into the abyss of despondent delirium,
I...

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My life faced tormenting time with future at stake,
writhed in the crushing clutch of stifling suffering,
my bequeathed heart splintered and bled in yearning ache, 
no soothing arms I found reach out to me to cling.

In...

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I hold three magic rocks, in my hand
Rolling them over and over and over
Leaving this reality behind, far behind
Transported to the land of Fay I stand.
Standing in the midst of beautiful clover,
Every fairy smiling at...

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The desolate wasteland of trepidation traversed 
by my jagged life that strived relentless for so long   
to smoothen the innate angularities of serrated mind, 
swirling in the egregious whirlpool of sucking indignation. 

Siphoned...

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Twas the night after Christmas Two Thousand Ten
Fulton Street was dazzling, pristine and a glow
An evening we'll remember over and over again
For it was a night as pure as the glistening snow

Christmas music flittered through...

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Tired Angels

 He was a lucky man by his side angels walked
or perhaps flittered a little jostling as they all wanted to be near him.
Absentminded, he came near the fiord walked across.
He was out cashing...

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Camera

Once I found a camera, swept up
on a beach. I picked seaweed off 
it like strands of hair, unwashed.
A crab’s claw, no body of note,
clasped the shutter as if protector,
a titan from the deep: the...

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I thought I would take a tiny walk about 
A field of wild flowers was calling my name.
I sat among the Queen Anne’s lace, enjoying the sun.
She beat upon my shoulders a bit as I...

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she flittered, she flew
taxing her wings, little sputtering things
with each teeny-tiny flap - a sparkle of gold
twinkled her wee little sky

up
    up
        up

she goes

faerie friends...

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