Long Lofted Poems

The new roves are not like the old,
They purvey an unwieldy aspect
To their elderly kindred folk;
Even on this steep hill forms encroach
Upon an edifice grand of bygone grandeur;

 So to ‘Ghurt Muire’ that Jacobean domain
With...

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Dragon of the Night, O'Winged One Lost in Flight,
Shattered dreams and scattered leaves blown in sight,
Whispers of smoke and fiery stroke lofted on midnight
air,
Tales of wonder and loneliness cast upon a creature so
rare.

Cast in cave...

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I know the Bear.
     watcher, courage
          unpredict(ability)
I know the Snake.
     wisdom of initiation

I know the Wolf.
I know a...

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I believe in man is more than meet the eyes
Not quite God, but potential almost there
Body from the earth the thorough worth denies
But God in us more than wisdom can share

For there upon the ground...

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The Trolls of NeighCassier smiled
as they undermined.
They acted sweet and welcoming
:but they were mean and rude and
unkind.
The evaluated situations with
prowess and assortment and hust
they made enemies of the dwarfingdores
and smuggled there squashes and stuff.
There women...

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Bat and Gat were reading one day:
just too rainy outside to play.
They had opened a book;
pretty soon they were hooked,
and they both got carried away.

Curiosity sang a sweet tune
‘bout a cat and a cow and...

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The emblem on the pendant
was new to all of the professors
they sorted every detail
from end to end
they sampled and examined
until were lofted dumbfounded.
a miracle: something that
made all in attendance
stop to notice.
They looked one another in...

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My thoughts are of survival.
The things that were and now forgotten,
seem to claim a patience  that the earth imparts—
soft decay to spite the years spent underfoot
and celebrating change with silence,
waiting for the chance to...

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Young Father Murphy, Parish Priest, 
he rang Archbishop Moore, 
advising him he suddenly 
had taken rather poor.  
"I'll not be fit for Sunday mass 
as I'm confined to bed, 
I'm hoping please your Eminence...

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Virgin skin and smiling eyes
lightly steps in black disguise.
The shadowed depths to travel in
‘neath lofted moon’s pale unveiling.
Spirited way on her lover’s calls,
sneaks through silent mirrored halls,
through the arch of guiltless pleasure,
down unknown flights of...

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Sunlight has come, and the newest has day began 
With the sweet sound of sleep lay in curls beyond 
Wear limbs and rest, above heavenly skies waiting 
A flurry of voices to come from little...

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Lost in My Senses

What wondrous night so warm and magical,
I saw you through the tangle of leaves, the breeze gently kissing your delicate cheeks.
You weaved slowly to and fro as the yellow Chrysanthemum moon spilled...

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By Izunna Okafor



Beyond the shrubs of Sahara 
Lifted a munt of brainy bond 
Over the Mississippi of Ethiopia
Lofted a penner with his hunky thoughts

Across the bridge of a foreign land
Hovered a book of beautiful pages
Tightly enclaved yet...

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(Cold Harbor, Virginia, May 31-June 12, 1864;
1,845 Union dead, 788 Confederate dead)
	
	
	
	cathedrals rise,
tall arching boughs, crisscrossing limbs,
lush, leafy rooftops lofted high
and rustled by warm tender breeze;
green rooftops shimmer, reverent,
while casting shade to consecrate
this hallowed ground,
	this...

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P ower held with in my grip, Run bastard, run.
I nnocence once taken can never be un-ripped.
C olorful the names they'll call me now, hateful;
k eep your pity, you've not poisoned my soul. 

Y earling...

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Some Say Golf Game

Some say my golf game is really great,
And to go again I sure can hardly wait;
When balls have been hardly driving,
People are astounded and need reviving.

What the most surely would surprise me;
Badly driven...

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within this barn one has seen  the hours long spent
days on end without excuse but always with much content
before the rising of the sun to end of the horizon
cattle here, cattle there and aloft...

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I have one great thing that comes so warmly
Tears soaked in love.
My darlington -- pigmy doll.

I rolled my heart like a roller on your tiny cage;
I dewed the evening tide in your leafy page. 
I...

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Remembering the pool 
down by the port
where at times we use to swim
sometimes with friends 
sometimes alone
at times beneath the moon
black and blue beautiful hues
arm in arm just me with you
the stars above ignited a...

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An auburn glow 
of freckled comeliness 
not young not old 
a little thick set 
like a mature cat

When we pass a book 
between us 
our fingertips withdraw 
scalded by small print 

The room is crowded...

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I found John today.
John died yesterday. 

I read of John today.
I vibrate now to his pinch.

Somewhere by a poisoned river
a dead man was born...
Somewhere by a noisy airfield
a pre-writ obit finds me -
The news can...

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Lucent snake
                                 ...

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What wondrous night so warm and magical,
I saw you through the tangle of leaves, the breeze gently kissing your delicate cheek.
You weaved slowly to and fro as the yellow Chrysanthemum moon 
spilled its molten gold...

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A vessel freed from foggy moorings
With lines so fine as these
Should lift her sail 
And tack and weave
And  waltz  in rhythmic ease
Shed off those slimy weeds of green
And freely sail life’s seas
Then sing...

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Burn me
in the hour of brightness,
floating in my pyre
alone.
Lay with me 
all I love-
nonhuman.

Set in 
the oaken craft,
          (crypt),
I drift towards
openness,
as flaming arrows
lofted at me
ignite
my longship
in...

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