Long Nut tree Poems

I wonder if everyone
has a most dreaded dreamed
nightmare worst way 
to conscientiously drop wrong dead.

Mine is claustrophobi-recallish buried
half alive at best is worse
in a wooden rough pine crate.

I'm feeling angry with those who raped,
then buried...

Read More

Fears Chains (Haiku)

First line 5 syllables
Second line 7 syllables
Third line 5 syllables
(7 syllables)

Caught within a snare
The paralyzing peepshow
Seduces you there
(Making itself intimate)
(undressing for your favor)
(Fairydust of lunacy)
Scrolls, parchments, bark, at the moon)
(Self fulfilling prophecy)
(Demons of...

Read More

Before you gather nuts off the ground
I caution you, look around!
You never know when a nymph may be nearby
and if it took their fancy,
they will squash you like a fly.
For those who commit such a...

Read More

I remember those days when just a kid,
the old ten shilling note, and the odd quid.*
Teddy boys in their drain pipes, fur collars
smelling of nicotine, street wise scholars.
Conkers,* glass alleys* and comics as well,
bow and...

Read More

Written: October 09, 2023   
Coconuts Poetry Contest           Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Over the tropical sun, where palm trees sway
I'm depicting palm fronds with a...

Read More

You waited to die
Until my brothers and I could stand
Beside your bed, the killer within silently,
slowly devouring all that had been you.

Michael, the youngest, so like you--
His face a mirror of your own,
The gruff farmer,...

Read More

Are you sleeping, brother John?
The cock doth crow, to let you know,
if you be wise, tis time to rise.
If you see a barber, shaving a pig, 
ask how many hairs to make a wig.

This is...

Read More

I   HAD   A   LITTLE   NUT   TREE

I had a little-nut tree
Nothing would it bear
But a silver nutmeg
And a golden pear.
The King of Spain’s daughter 
Came to...

Read More

There is a rocky path,
small fields on the left
and a mysterious forest on the right,
a fairyland.

Cold creek among the trees
running towards the lake.
A red short wall decorated with nettles
and a gate at the end of...

Read More

An Albatross and a Seagull
nested in a Nut tree. Both
Male birds often went to
the seashore to catch fish.
One day the Seagull went out
and bought back an anchovies
and a large clam snout. He didn't
care for snouts...

Read More

The midnight sea, 
Seeps through me, 
Departing me from melancholy.

Into thy branches of blissful breeze, 
Within a ray of sunshine enclosing;
thee by sensual Symphony.

Beneath thine silver chest-nut tree,
Amongst thine swirling dwellers,
In a womb thy heavens...

Read More

....is both dried berries and nut tree,
by the leafage, the sunlit the phizog,
oaks skirted the edifice's entree.

he never mentions his mother as unreal.
as I involve my mother, did he prevent her?

mawkishness -
spawned a popping sound,
What...

Read More