Long Plenipotentiary Poems

IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXIV

IF ever I had a country proud of its sacred Soul Patrie
And if ever by a long shot I was nominated - not spuriously elected - Chef Ministre...

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Dedicated to Robert Lindley. Warning this tale is dark.

THE DOVE

A bloody stain upon the sheets, how cruel!
Soulless weight of the wretched beast who’d rule.
With his bare paws and downward thrust he’d crush,
Rake over the virgin,...

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IF ever I had a country : XLVI - XLVII

			XLVI

IF ever I had in Andromeda a country
And if ever by rights I were the Chief Collision-Conglomerate Six-Star Plenipotentiary
I'd moot and execute a permanent plan for...

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Lemony pines spring from my Summer mind,
dangling their scent, like Christmas ornaments.
I close my eyes and follow the sapphic breeze.

My bronze feet bounce through the mossy sea.
Feeling giddy in this faerie paradise.
I dosado amidst lichen...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY…

                           I

If ever I...

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ahh...auspicious shake of good fortune.
the soil so red, smells so rich.
the allure of an ancient burial box.
my eyes, like pyres of greed.

admiring thieves have no appetency for my pillage.
the cold stone shovel carelessly careens
showers of...

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to proclaim your love
in the morning
and your faithfulness
at night
to the music of
the ten-stringed lyre
and the melody
of the harp 
                ...

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SIGN OF THE TIMES

Stones will be thrown down. The temple succumbs like Lazarus.
  Inconceivable evil hurled inside and outside satan’s circle.
Good perceived as bad and the reverse a similar fact.
  Noah’s days before...

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The smell of cherries, stem and all, sours the quiescence of the room.
An ethereal tongue midair, lilting with laughter, daunting and petty.
Crushed, he turns the opposite of robust red - this poisonous groom,
Realizing he’s released...

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, one of my favorite films, hauntingly irresistible in black and white.  The sun neither rises nor sets as the words stir in the tide. Like fabric, I touch and...

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap
but by the seeds that you plant.
—Robert Louis Stevenson

A HANDFUL OF SEEDS-RLS

Plenipotentiary plea,
A handful of seeds; on bent knee.
Tilling the soil of the deceased,
As the sun rises...

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SUMMER’S END

staying cool, in the pool,
where children are cruel,
on a very hot day—
Summer’s officially over.

from submarine fool,
fishy bubbling school,
plenipotentiary fuel—
a payload parade.

when the ping-pong jewels
surface - whirlpool
of fleeing ridicule.
afraid of riveting stool—
a flotsam snicker’s bar.

The...

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planning to plummet into the night?
wear your hat, ma’am!
wear your gloves, sir!

cover your skin with a moonlit coat.
no one, should get frostbitten,
somewhere in the deep south.

a place, where one glides, under the sun.
lover’s hands smooth...

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SNOW IN SPRING

the cherry blossoms in preakness pink,
         a swaff of butterflies,
      gliding in otherworldly space,
fluttering like snow in Spring.

Cherry Lane in...

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I hate beginnings, plenipotentiary prattle, use-
less sedimentary-sounds. A preface and first chap-
ter betwixt the suc-
culent kiss, the marvelous mystery unfolding.

wash your hands, bobbleheaded-yes.
that was the third part. typhoid
mary, not important to this quiz,
yet she opened...

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PLENIPOTENTIARY EVE

Shrinking violet ~rise~
Stay not in ultraviolet haze

Lovely ~lavender~ destress
Unfurl your coltish legs

Adopt Eve’s consanguineous power
Release your adamantine eyes 
Prisoners of those timid lashes

Stimulate the dulcet of your fluted voice
Those chords of human praise

Train your...

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Embellished scarecrows set up on the square.
Black-caped crows peck away at October’s fare.

Prodigious pumpkin, a prop on a hay pile.
A kindergartner with a jack-o-lantern smile.

Dentists polish their tools as candy corn is on the loose.
The...

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