Long Shelly Poems

My Clone Got No Soul

My clone, it seems, came out with no soul,
I guess it got lost, in the petri dish bowl.
In the mirror, a face like me would come through,
But that’s where it ended,
He...

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(1.)
We Were So Blessed, When Our Love Was New

Nevermore softest touch of loving hand
 nevermore, will we together stand!
Forevermore, our sad souls shall deny
 forevermore, lost halls echo our cry!
 
You were my angel, I...

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As they began the long ride to the ranch,
his father asked,”Are you all done with that stuff?
’Cause there’s problems at home, even for a man
setting things right is gonna’ be tough."

Luther just nodded to show...

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Secured into my compartment, power nullified
I stand no longer needed, my files deleted
void are my eyes, no energy in my circuits
tomorrow to be scrapped.  My Master has gone.

She was my mother
created me and my...

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On a bitter cold snowy, snowy day
She entered the world her own way
My sweet courageous daughter 'Shelly
Beautiful blue eyes and a Fire in her belly

Bubble gum stuck in her curly blonde hair
With a heart full...

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Beard looks weird,
that's a lyrical genius to be feared,
you wrote a 6 year song and got the facts wrong,
fired with the hair and safety still on,
I guess that scope's just a tele,
with sights and hopes...

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Part 1

Once upon a time,
And very long ago.
Lived a rabbit and a tortoise,
Or so the story goes.
And if you have the time
Take a seat, pull up a stool,
And I'll tell you of the day
Tortoise took...

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I do not like your perfect rhyme,
I find it boring all the time.
It wasn't good in Shakespeare's hands,
No rhyming poet understands,
No Keats or Shelly, Byron, Pope,
Could find the poetry to cope
With wonders of the universe,
For...

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Shelly thought all those heartfelt feelings of love and oneness was lost
She had not heard from her first love, Thomas, for six weeks, since winter’s frost
They were seventeen, and had fallen soulfully and fully in...

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It doesn’t matter how hard I try to hide the tears
One keeps coming every minute your apart from me
Heaven is supposed to take your beloved away
Maybe we’re just to not love anyone so they can...

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An Angel, Fairy or Nymph Now In Human Form Collaboration with Keith O.J. Hunt

An Angel, Fairy Or Nymph Now In Human Form


Her exhilarating breath so quickened my heart,
her poise, I stood transfixed in overwhelming awe.
Gasping...

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You can smell jazz, if you got hip to the sound, like on   “Camera Three” a  TV program in the 50s/ a 1956 episode featuring The Gerry Mulligan Quartet in black -N-...

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An Angel, Fairy Or Nymph Now In Human Form


Her exhilarating breath so quickened my heart,
her poise, I stood transfixed in overwhelming awe.
Gasping for air, as one does when lovers depart
begging that, "dear lover please return...

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I have learned to grab life and hold it tight for you may never tell the future. Please I pray 
hold on to each day as if it your last.

I have experianced life death illness...

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A NEW YEAR SURPRISE  
1.There is a one
   Who has deleted you.
   Not at a random
   But a name after name!
   You will know him
 ...

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One cold red stripe 
Gi mi a white rum with a twist of lime 
Wi celebrating Jamaica at 55
Miss Matti pass the jerk chicken and festival don't forget to put the ackee and saltfish pan...

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She (For Whom the Snake Coils)

Does danger dance to flutes played by your breath, 
emerge from basket’s depths to haunting tunes? 
It’s superstitious myth that weaving snake
can hypnotize and freezes victim’s feet
when cobra rises writhing...

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We may not have the ability to find words
that match the intensity of being in love ~
the overwhelming happiness and emotion
that most of us long for, and dream of.

Sage poets of old wrote in their...

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The wind it seems is staying on the ocean whipping up the sea
The waves tumbling to a smart chop on a shelly  sea urchin shore 
As there is no wind from the mainland but...

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?HOOKED UP WITH FANTASIZING LOVE?

Turbulences in my mind,
Tossing you up and never been so kind.
Louder my soul speaks whereas your lips
Dripping juice of seductive lime.
An impulsive urge to make you mine
Your muscular body reflects the...

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Sweet are the verses in rhymes that are sung
that genius the mind in history does crown
Blank white pages with divinity and splendor
Stoned face, haunting or dark and yet tender.

With celestial visions charmed as they be
Will...

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Dear Carnsworth,

I have been dreaming that we will become an “us” since the first day of school.
You are friendly, and funny, and handsome, and you simply make me drool.
We need a date to give this...

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 The Fountains mingle with the river
and the river with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With sweet emotion.
Nothing in this world is single;
All things by law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle,
Why not...

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   Cliff hanger story - 
   Freshly shorn scrawny
   Steady assembly ruptured
   Atop rocky bluff rugged
   Shivering survival questionable 
   Seceder’s dream quenchable

...

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The Sacred Band

To those wearied warriors under the white and orange flame
here is a tale that you should listen
of a Sacred Band of men whose ground in blood they did christen—

One hundred and fifty pairs...

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