Long Huntsman Poems

"The discrepancies are many, the dalliances are few,
both pitched against one dynamic, lifelong achievement"

Poking through the woods of the Mill Grove Audubon Estate,
suddenly came upon an ivy-covered studio shed
tucked away amongst foliage near Perkiomen Creek,
apparently...

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A tale of greed, power, 
deception, discrimination and 
love. 

Miller, daughter, king—
All the actors are present
Except the small man. 

The king summons the miller 
for some reason. Summons a 
humble working man. 

Miller, shaken, scared,...

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Look at the eyes, windows of the soul.
Then the intent, link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc9En9WUzI8







"The Queen's Slippers - Part 1"




There is an owl it perches
on my heart
digs it’s talons in like
nine inch nails piercing
thick skin gone thin
it softly...

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"At the Seat of the Catacombs of Amygdala"



 
"...the curse ruled from the underground down by the shore
And their hope grew with a hunger to live unlike before..." The Curse



Violet Black the night is...

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One day, little Red Riding Hood’s mother told her to deliver a basket of food to her elder grandmother. 
She told Red not to talk to any strangers and to stay on the path to...

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It's a wonder young children still turn out all right
With the stuff that gets crammed in their heads every night.
Things like visions of sugar plum fairies and sprites,
Or a thousand tales of Arabian delights,
A frog...

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"The Queen's Slippers - Part 2"




There goes my heart
with bags packed
no turning back
or final wave
seated hooded next to huntsman
innocent, gauche, temperamental
There will come a time
to save,
but save oneself
on this dark road,
one must -
There will come...

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These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an elegy Goethe wrote for Schiller...

These are selected XENIA epigrams with...

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!!!CAVEAT LECTOR!!! This one's a bit naughty, dear readers...

You've heard of Snow White
And the story reported
Of the seven wee dudes
With whom she consorted.
Well, here's the actual skinny
On what really occurred,
Just another example
Of how stories get...

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I am if not a man of routine  
A glass half full is a still a big spill if it tips
I can't believe you’d let those words slip 
So make like Pluto and demote...

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After years and years of pounding city streets,
I turned my back away for one of those bush retreats,
where gum, ti-tree and wattle; lovely natives of Australia,
marched me into battle - with 'one bloody Cicada.'

Now if...

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Hector McLean.
Not Grandpa, nor Grandad or anything in between,
He was simply Uncle Hec to us, was dear old Hec Mclean.
The Western District, up Casterton way, from where he hailed,
And stories of his youth up there...

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One in a million, gazillion, bazillion
Worth more than gold dollars a trillion or a billion –
You are my beacon, a Christian, love driven.
No heathen, no herdsman, no huntsman or felon.
No elfin, no ermine, no coward...

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Comrade
Tie rollerskates to pólice
Horses hoofs
Piss on the grim parade
From the roof
Of the dept store
Slip a fortune cookie note
That reads
´give me liberty or death
Or chicken chow mein ´
In the pocket of a
Passing pope
Arm the homeless
With pitchforks
&...

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Sands of time, a world sublime
This unforgiving life
Try you may, and though you pray
The pain cuts like a knife

Easier each day, or so they say
Time will heal the saying goes
Tightening rope, losing hope
Despair that no...

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In aquamarine ran off my warmth traversing 
mild meadows with swallows of ash 
past the pink sunset 

Three cherry cardinals swooped past partly pleased 
the brook trickled near 

Evading were than icon imaginings 
the following...

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The huntsman and his peregrine

Woods was all his belongings 
The huntsman's only pride and his holy livelihood 
Flew an injured peregrine to his land one evening 
Her quill feathers perfumed of mountains and coastal
She was...

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It's the midnight dance, last call before the lights go out and the harvest moon glows brightly in the darkness. The room is full with partners sweeping close, hand in hand, floating liltly across the...

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“The princess shall prick her hand on a spindle and die.”
  
Out of sheer jealously
- No other reason-
An evil fairy placed such a wicked spell
Upon a baby girl
 
Such an act of hatred
Towards such...

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The huntsman kneels to examine his prey
A lovely young lady, who’s gone astray 

The arrow of love was pierced in her chest
She woke the next morn after the nights rest

She gazed from the ground at...

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An apple red as blood
Here you go dear 
Take it with cheer 
It's sweet as sweet can be 

If only you would run away 
Or something like that
My mirror just won't let me be
As I...

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The hunter knelt to check the muddy ground.
He was perplexed. The tracks were heading north.
No bears had caves on this slope of the hill.
The quicksands were not very dangerous
but deep enough to block the wild...

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Lonely and in coldness
Mice hiding in burrows
Alone with no sunlight
“There is no wolf” some cry
But the wolf is quite real
Real as the sun itself

Waiting for him to pass
While the wolf lurks for food
Cares not for...

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Scampering from behind the picture frame,
Harold the Huntsman dares to make his fame.
The challenge was set by all his mates,
to make the humans tremble and shake.

Harold makes his way down onto the chair,
a lonely lady...

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"Infatuation is the intense yearning to be 
intensely yearned for" ~ quote by poet

My Cassiopeia - how tenderly 
you smiled upon me in my awkward days,
as unashamedly my eyes would gaze 
in disbelief upon such...

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