Long Thieved Poems

"Cocoon"

They say...
a New World 
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind 

the old unaware, 
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect 
strings of silk 
in the air

glistening diamond nets
slick and sticky...

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Down in the white famed plains of Western Kentucky in the 19th century, Alpha Omega Latham was born. Days after his father was shot on the porch, was the beginning of being, and the pass...

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One of many, a new world order, each day my minds eye sees another shade colder. The stars and the stripes mean a lot in my heart, the founding fathers message, why’d it have to...

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Some are seated in the East
But their minds are in the south,
When you talk, they hardly hear
Because their minds have travelled wide
Beyond the surface of their present state of mind;
On their own they are fighting...

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I would listen to your problem,
But I don't have time.
So, I will give a statement,
In the form of a rhyme.
Up the political ladder, I did climb.
I raised every dime,
But how I did it
Should be considered...

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He sat alone in a dark self-made cell
Only a crack of light revealed him there
His face a shadow of a good life once
Now a torture show to the uncivilized
Ghostlike features masked his lean face
You could...

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she read Shakespeare without the
words, relying on the actions
only---
words after all had brought her 
nothing but grief in her short life &
she found honesty to reveal itself
much more true in what it was that
people
did,
as opposed...

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Spring:

Genesis shod the tapestry splendour
  wrapped global in the skin of creation,
derma-terraformed rock and flora,
  beauteous beast, tempered landscape foundation.
Stirrings in the forge of tropics,
  in sea of saline and deep blue...

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When we turned eleven
our schooldays turned to memories.
The descent into the clanking dark
commenced as chalk-dust abandoned our nostrils.
Reborn as the men o’ the black seam
when we turned eleven.

I cried myself to sleep at night,
bones stiffened...

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** What’s Torn **

What’s been torn off or away may be
a recurring theme — of dreams or memory —
that nags, popping up unexpectedly
to recall or, for dear losses, again grieve…

The things thieved 
from life —...

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He's above the earth, far away from my touch
Hanging in her arms of the sky
-Staring at me
A dream of eternal shone in our eyes 
My love, unheard as a whisper 
The vast horizon lave in...

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Strangers

I once met a very old man, his name it does not matter.
He taught me many important things, among them,  "Listen, do not chatter".

I once met a colorful clown, who made everyone always smile.
But...

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So no more shall his traitors hate;
For death's veils have made it late
To slight any soul time has called
To dine and wine in the city of gold.

And his tombstone does eerily stand
Above the grass on...

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Was’ trough reddest rose fog,
Within these asphalt vines,
That his brush froze up my knee

An’ as plumage erased,
Was thieved from hearts pace,
And left anchored, within, his see

“Apologies” I said,
“I was counting my rings,”
 A little stumped,...

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Between Fear and Mirth sat Falsehood and Truth,
Who made away in a kissing-booth.
They snagged each-other in prickl'd vine,
Lit the scene in wax and wine.

As evening faded clear to dawn,
In her heart kind Truth true mourn'd.
For...

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Sometimes, I wonder why I loved you.
Why couldn't I see it?
With your eyes so full of hatred,
I was beaten, bruised, torn, and bloodied.
Gongs a ding dong.
I made love to you, out of fear,
I scrubbed and...

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My sunroom opens wide in three directions.
I feel as though I am in the midst of nature
in all seasons of the year, but I am enclosed 
safely in my little quiet room.  In the...

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Granting no reprieve for myself,
I continue this journey.

This madness began moons ago
I let you have what you so willingly took;
My power.  My self-worth. My sanity 

As of this very moment, I rescind my yesterday
As...

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It's been broke to the core
Like so many times before 
Why does this happen to me?
Hopeful, Stong I try to be
Yet my heart still does bleed
Love is all you need,
Is what the song writes
But still...

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Spring arrived with life anew,
Fledglings hatched - then away they flew,
Bees gathered nectar from flowers of blue,
Morning grass glistened with sparkling dew!

Summer brought in the warmth of the sun,
Toasted marshmallows - went for a run,
Melted...

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Expelling breath, pursed softly love,
My sibilant tongue expounds the phrase,
Of Eden found and feathered words,
Flown weather thieved. Carried on
A nomad breeze, perhaps to die
Unheeded upon the lake shore
Mud flats. Or picked apart by
Cormorant beaks and...

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New Orleans thieved my heart at the start of spring, 
my stomach dropped along the bayou 
across to Mobile on train.
She stopped long enough to sing
in keeping with the rain. 
Atlanta's pink sky roaring, 
sore...

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O lover of fates
were the fates to love
would maiden hold
loft your bonzéd hair
or mother gaze at
roots and watered iris fair?
In longing passion
whence crone became,
that jealous fire
which yields one insane,
were Alexandria to hold
all jewéled and beguiled...

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