Long Phantasy Poems

Hark and listen well, if those foretoken in the eyes of hungers lust
Trapped in their illusion, trampling the Stars into dust
Forced with the detestation stench by the swamp of absolute disgust
Thou blackest scorpion be accursed,...

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Unquotable quotes: Poets, Poetasters and Platos – XXXVI

     For James McAuley – in remembrance of a memorable week in Cardiff 1965 

The greatest poet ever is NOT Homer, Lao Tse, Ovid,...

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When the cows come home to roost,
	or the crows are grazing grass,
It’s time I wrote a rhyme,
	until yesterday returns to pass!
If bats in the belfry stay sleeping,
	until the clock strikes the noon of day,
Tis then...

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- 252 - fireflies - 

      phantasy times dream
      luminous in the pitch dark -
      does not charge in rain…

...

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With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear

 Virtuoso Maestro unleash 
       a Composition Grandioso
...

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Peering beyond reach of human capacity
I revolve around the sun in a solar orbit,
Looking deep in space for origins of bygone
Going way beyond anyone has ever gone,
Exploring unknown world of astronomy
Searching light from first stars...

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I Have Seen The Stars Fallen

  The pageants veiled, and gnawed at gladness,
  As prism from far inter-stellar space;
  And they eclipse and the luminosity fa’e over the
  phase,
  And...

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I landed in an online dreamland with two more.
You know these fictitious men with surreal fame;
One dreamt of hunting a big phantasy fish for...
And the other went on tossing a sky-high claim.

The first one plunges...

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My altered sensorium goes berserk
when I hear four - letter words like nuke and kill,
love and hate, repeatedly.
The decrepit age full of abused prisms
deflects the sunrays for warlords.

Here I am ripened in pain of a...

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Queen Bilqis, flaunting tenacious catastrophic beauty,
A lady which appeared seductively mesmerizing, for hypnotizing prey with pleasurable eradication,
Advocating lascivious submissiveness upon men,
Attraction outlining her elegant physique; manufacturing desirable sin.

The mastermind of Insidious phantasy,
Evil cloaked beneath velvety sweet coco...

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Queen Bilqis, flaunting tenacious catastrophic beauty,
A lady which appeared seductively mesmerizing, for hypnotizing prey with pleasurable eradication,
Advocating lascivious submissiveness upon men,
Attraction outlining her elegant physique; manufacturing desirable sin.

The mastermind of Insidious phantasy,
Evil cloaked beneath velvety...

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Grammar Series
SECOND CONDITIONAL

If I were a gambling man as my sin;
(I confess an occasional flutter)
Then if I had an acceptable win,
 I would buy myself some new schmutter *

Note: it would make my verse more...

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Nature Wonders

I stand in awe as nature wonders
Of raucous waves and roiling thunders
Rushing streams released as winter thaws
As nature wonders I stand in awe.

Spring awakens, her heartbeat quickens
A pulse of sap through bare boughs thickens
Fields...

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MOON RAKERS

The old tale goes in Wiltshire when
They wisely played the parts of fools
In deception of the Revenue men
Employed dumb faces and farming tools

The Brandy kegs you see were hid
In village pond sunk out of...

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Strange creatures in the night descend
   Waiting for death, in winged flight.
   With banshees wailing, Fates portend
   Another star will shine tonight.

   Dark forces now by sorcery
...

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