Long Slopping Poems

"You really wanna know? Cause I'll tell ya if you really wanna know. You'll be thinkin' I'm crazy before I'm done, but I'll tell ya... ifn' you really wanna know."

The day started like any other,...

Read More

Forge on ever foolish
Cucumbers in your relish
Black Smiths and Peasants 
get into the darkness, out of the Parish


The Red Horse gallops, polls, bearers, of holes
Get out of its way, as the
rumors gather Communist ships
 ...

Read More

Resting In These Tennessee Hills

Lazy mornings in these Tennessee hills
Horned owl in tree behind house hoots all night
Sometimes annoys but often gifts a thrill
As country-fired moon sends us brighter light!

Mellow breeze, waltz morn rays with...

Read More

This was inspired by Georgette Johnson’s poem “Savouring Another Day”
***

One cold day whilst I was out in the snow 
I went into a cafe for a Joe
I slipped across floor 
And got an encore
Me and...

Read More

Full of sunlight 
dipped out from a spring named hope by a mountain foot 
in the jar that we bought after a long period of hesitation
at a time of making a new home
is slopping from...

Read More

Things are getting a little shaky the way 
                    they’re opening the border walls.
  ...

Read More

When I was a child along with my cousins we listen to heroic tales about our ancestors and in someway the mill was always mentioned. So we went to discover these EPIC Historic site. A...

Read More

I talk within the frame of my thought, I eat within frame of my ability, I 
go to school within the call of education

The language in the streets enshroud me to the shoulder of a...

Read More

The art of saying what cannot be

………………………………………..for Harriet Monroe
… said
………………or need not be

What's the difference if you call tinnitus or l'acouphène  a 'tintement, a 'buzzing', a 'chuintement', a 'whistling', or pure sounds of music...

Read More

I cannot breathe -scuffled


                               ...

Read More

Most of life is spent in
hope for better things yet
expectation of what is to come
or anticipation of what could be
and while this is good, even necessary...
Focusing on the few
more “memorable” moments
misses out on much
of the...

Read More

THE MOST PAINFUL WORD

Words in voices, words in noises,
Words of silence, waiting for choices,
Still I’m searching for words…..

A word to speak out the language of pain,
A word to reveal the tears hidden in rain,
A word...

Read More

Billy Sanders

1917-1933

Freddie Moore and David Hilberg were brothers to me,

Freddie, a stalwart boy from Hoover Street,

And David, a quiet and congenial lad,

From nearby Dorland Street.

Both fellas were smarter than me,

Both, with muscles on legs and...

Read More

I cannot sleep. There is no more chicken noodle soup.
My breathing treatment worked two seconds.
I am carrying around an aqua gallon bucket for a spit cup 
and it is slopping over.
Not of anything clear, but...

Read More

Daybreak in Georgia
Heavy dark gray clouds
On the horizon first light
Streaked with light thulian pink

Yard light still shines
No stars, no moon
Surroundings that could gloom
But quietness penetrates pushes away

Roosters alert me to day light
They're in command in...

Read More

The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Four

A chill-marrow scowling wind rushed up abysms of the South
Rumpled Lady Lake’s sparse dripping tresses splashing up Her mouth
Gushing fountain raced down the waterfall crumpling eye-lashes
And slurped the...

Read More

I insisted the jubilee amiability
to stir up with twilight-ed spirit
zeal of desires aroused 
as the silverly rays crowned me
to pour out the gilded spirit.
Earstwhile crimson years
With some bichrome days
My glazed tumbler seems to reflect
those moments
as...

Read More

the Priest sucked in his Four Star Brandy
hoping that a drunken release
would help him with his conflict
in an alcoholic sleep of peace
the alky swigged his cider
vintage cheap and strong
the crutch to his addiction
making existence crawl...

Read More

Teddy Bears on holiday.

The Teddy Bears marched one and all
Smartly through the Hotel Hall.
With Ted in front Freddy last
They raised a smile from all they passed.

“Look lively now” was Lionel’s cry
And moving quicker they did...

Read More

As spring is born it bursts forth it's green,
as the living woods look so fresh and clean.
I sit by myself and I close my eyes,
listening to the birds as I breathe in a deep sigh.
The...

Read More

Welcome to the f*** it bucket 
With digital pigs 
Slopping thru the binary trough 
Choking it all down with a cough
Yum yum yum 
How boring and glum 
Safe and easy to be dumb 
Can’t be...

Read More

CHRISTMAS IN THE DESERT

The north is frozen over; it’s far too cold for me
The sun is hibernating and it’s much too dark to see
I’m glad I am at Orangewood; such a warm and festive mood
Stretching...

Read More

My Grandma once told me about the Good Ole Days.
How they had to do things - about the many ways.
Having to wake up at the crack of dawn.
Just thinking about it - makes me want...

Read More

This morning I went shopping
Tripped over, started hopping
My milk bottle it went slopping
The store cleaner began mopping

I hobbled out of the store
Got caught in the sliding door
Lost my wallet and now I’m poor
I really can’t...

Read More

The water was dark and still as I watched the ragged sail ripple slightly from the smooth breeze. 
This cloth that will be a part of my fate. The piece I allowed to completely demolish...

Read More