Long Read between the line Poems

Oi be nowt but an auld country hick,
we a liddle bit of gall, an a lotta stick.
Oi baint niver afeared to speak me mind,
nor critizise folks harshly iffen Oi find
zummit I don’t loik.  Tis...

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An infinite door of midnight blue;
glowing peephole that is the moon.
Dare I look before turned to dust?
Yes, dear friend, I surely must.

In the midst, a city of finest gold,
large as the earth; immense and bold.
Quoins...

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An entire world at my fingertips searching for a crack
so it can flow through it and cast a new face
on the world we live in today
Where does it lead, none may know
take my hand, let's...

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“Pop, hold on to me.” The son said with a smile as he opened the passenger side door…and I was instantly transported to a time 24 years before.

Our son, Bryan, was getting his drivers license...

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You went off the screen 
Never to be seen 
Can’t find you on google
You don’t even tweet
Like Tweet 
I feel like smoking cigarettes 
No, I’d rather scream
But who will hear me 
Because it makes a...

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This poem is a condensed version of my crown of sonnets

This style is called a compound English sonnet. it is written in couplets. The rhyme  is 
aabbaabbccddccddeeffeeffgggg. It can be read 3 ways.You can...

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I knew her name
And her email address
And I knew she was a poet
But that was all I guess
From her writing I divined a little more
She was clearly a Christian 
And seemed to be an optimist
But...

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I chance upon
This rare book find;
Brown yet beyond
The pages sign.


For days and days,
I sift new thought;
Old wisdom says
Align bold plots.


The author writes
In words said plain;
The reader cites
A fragrant stain.


Each chapter tells
In clear detail;
Each message dwells
How...

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Everyone worried about ISIS, weren't we just at war with al qaeda?
Look where that's left us, do you really not see the hidden agenda?
We're the the real terrorists, how many have died for the sake...

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Matt the librarian loved to own thousands of rare books 
and displayed them on shelves keeping an eye on crooks;
one could find the music sheets of young Beethoven;
Jenna loved his classical music and played it...

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Please be my lady, now and forever.
This love for you, I'll not sever.
I'll take you in my arms at night,
We'll hold each till it turns daylight.
You are so lovely and so clever,
Our love will brave...

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the poet is the ship's Captain
the story is about the sea sailed upon
a tale beneath in the cargo hold
at times the most tranquil of waters
filled with benign waves
become walks along Elysian paths
or a tempest, red...

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My Inspiration,                         My Only Beloved,      ...

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My final line


The sky is black, the curtains have been closed.
I have lost all the love in the world; so empty; so alone.
The lights are turned out, the heating is off.
It was once so bright...

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In this life,one has to choose the best we need not the best he wants. He needs to read between the line and walk with time. Like they said,"A very moment is a chance." Truely,life...

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My Little Detective

 
I saw and first heard
It roared like T-rex and whistled like bird
Underneath the wooden stand shall appear
A finely built little boy wearing a crew cut hair
 
Far away to the place I...

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i've had to allow the truth somehow to sink into my brain whilst in a world seemingly insane through attitudes so vain that they can all seem the same but upon reflection when put into...

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Angelyn is my name, you know 
that already
Beside my looks and what you 
hear and see
Do you really know who I am and 
what I wanted to be?
Perhaps not... so don't judge me 
easily!

Outwardly, I...

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If my eyes should never see another setting sun
If I went to sleep tonight, knowing my days were done

If I should never hear the sound of children at play
If I knew without a doubt, this...

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Let’s talk about time, no moment lasts,
the start of this poem’s already in the past 
as you read these words I’ve written each word you read is the last word I’ve written,
the second you say...

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THE BOGS
You can here her faint voice in the brisk mornin breeze
sure she sings for her lover, down under the trees,
and all Ireland can hear every word she will sing,
when the bogs are dressed out...

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If I leave my words behind will you look for me
I’ve been gone long I had to be free
So I wrote my heart in a song
My thoughts written with a pen this is no caper
Everything...

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I WONDER ABOUT A WONDROUS WOMAN

How could the woman know me so well?
How can the woman be so wise?
The lady knows she is Heaven and I am Hell
yet we've never looked in each others eyes

she...

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DO YOU THINK THIS REALLY EVER HAPPENED VS. EARLY RELEASE?

As if jail and then prison wasn’t un-seemly enough
You took pleasure in making things exponentially rough
Each day you’d awake me with a start
Rattling my cage and...

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Time
Stone-faced clock with big black hands
Circling the face time and time again
The second-hand rolls by a recurring space
Never touching the clock with the concrete face
Twenty-four hours slowly slide by
Not to be changed regardless of tries
A...

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