Long Hardcover Poems

Here's the deal...
   This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts. 
   The 1st...

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How cool this was for this happy couple - a Christmas baby!
 
                  A Very Special Christmas


A little...

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Children ARE Worth the Risk


“What‘re ya’ doin’ for Christmas, Carl?” the nurse’s aid inquired, “all our kids are coming home,” she proudly let me know.
“Well...me an’ Joan believed,” I answered - “when we tied the...

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This is based on a truly sad story from the late 1930s - 


Late one August afternoon - the year was nineteen ten - a hero - from my point of view - was quietly...

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World's Blue-Ribbon Blank-er


A friend of mine, who constantly complained about his spouse, naming her the 
reason for his totally boogered life,
Swore to me there couldn't be...and hadn't ever been...in all the world a more 
revolting...

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Some things and projects are started but never finished.
Some other things were never intended for you to finish.
I knew a lady who told my wife and me about a book she was
writing. The entire plot,...

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The sky has dug a hole in the cloud
it's fuc**** triangle's fault  I can't see the pigs
stratified societies 
revitalized on schizophrenic base of
finger pointing minority
staring at fragmented people 
seeing them as dispensed particles 
that...

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home again, jiggety-jog
oh, how kindly my castle welcomes me!
the pungent loves of earlier meals and my dear one's perfume
Je Reviens and Acqua Di Gioia

like manna for the sensual senses
a weary man dripping from a weary...

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Was round about the 60's
And I a budding teen
Was influenced and touched
By a program I had seen

Rod Sterling was the narrator
Of a series quite well known
With weekly visits to a world
Named the "Twilight Zone"

And to...

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Inspiration clamors: demanding attention, in need of expression,
possessing my thoughts on this cold winter's dawn.

"Overcast morning!" Wind chimes ring out, a whimsical message,
orchestrates music, played to the rhythm of an odd melody.

Snowflake whirl; dancing about,...

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Every Night You Come Home Smelling
Like her tenderness, when i ask i become the 
Guilty and you the innocent "okay am sorry
Let's drop" and with a cheeky smile you head to our room .

Ancestral ghosts...

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My Lady of the Aisles walks so headily between the texts.
Her switch is but a libracation,
Within the words laid down and spread before Us.Such passion there was found in reams. A first edition,  pressing,...

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When spines of hardcover are marked with ink
upon their pages, old cedar drifts on
through brownish sheaths wrapped in pulp, distinct
with plots and main characters long forgone.
 
And my thoughts journey unto realms untold 
entering regions...

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the sunrise of your sacred love,
paints the hollow desert in my mind,
scattered grains of windblown thoughts,  
frozen remnants from another time,
your liquid brush scrape shards of pain,
from deep within my dark terrain,
and like a...

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The newborn baby looks with its wide eyes
When the dear mother moves away, it cries.
The mom's aura fills smiles and makes it well.
"Love weaves a mysterious magic spell."

When the child babbles, the father gets thrilled.
Cuddles...

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Anglo-Saxon rulers were interned in the Orford castle.
Its polygonal edges secure the town's harbor from dazzle.
Many tallies of feral men caught in fisher webs hassle.
In 1826, Joseph Turner intended a hardcover poetry book.
On his trip...

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There is my beloved, sitting under the Sun,
Tenderly is how the wind, embraces her waist,
Bitter because he cannot carry her away.
There is my beloved, sitting under the Sun,
The sea is calling her, swiftly striking the...

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