Long Unpicked Poems

"Heart"  

Deep fissures formed
in the cracks of 
the nowhere place
where time leeched
bleeding claret 
through the green 
veined blues

protean bit by bit
the flesh disappears
prematurely 6ft under
mulch for rebirth
the subcontinent
conscientious conscience 
inward reaching

the divine central tableau...

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POTD 5th Feb 18

Dedicated to Ken, a good friend of mine who had to give up a brilliant ballet, ballroom dancing and stage career when he was injured after a fall while performing a complicated...

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In the night when the moon shakes its silver over waves of dreams,
A woman opens the gate to her heart, feeling too much, too deeply,
In the trance of words that turn into butterflies of light...

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My soul crys out for the love denied and  secrets untold,
Awaiting in solitude these chains of loneliness in bondage they hold,
My heart great how it aches in a constant agony, 
Regretted yesterdays still haunt...

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Awakened by the creaking of the dying trees 
In this barren land devoid of a breeze
Imprisoned dreams in a land of unpicked seams
Endless chasms of regrets in which no sunlight beams

Broken chords strumming tunelessly in...

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My husband and I, we are not the jealous sort.
But once in a while a green-eyed monster peeks in.
He comes lurking about to diminish our joy.
Not enough to destroy, but too often to toy.

Hubby is...

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WOMAN YOU ARE INFERTILE
what a mess
she can guess how poor old sarah felt before the angel relented and
implanted isaac
DONT WORRY DEAR he said WHAT'S FORTY YEARS OF PAIN?
YOU'RE ALL GOD'S CHILDREN

if she must be big...

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A pretty flower solitary in an abandoned field of endless weeds
-unpicked by a weed lover, who is unfaithful.
A long zigzagging crack on a ruined wall
containing pockets of moss green moss,
glistening, and glossy
-harboring a colorblind emerald...

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You look at me and see a northeast highway after winter
Cracked, worn, roughened by conditions not meant to be endured.
I was once the most beautiful cobblestone pathway through a garden of ripe, unpicked fruit.
I was...

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Snow falls silently. Each flake a feather
of pristine white fast-merging in flurries
blanketing steep banks of hardy heather
smothering its scent and bushes buries.
Skin of unpicked pears turn hard as leather.
See, an insomniac squirrel scurries
away home to...

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The messiahs of my mind are savages,
Yet refined and noble, they withstand
The furnace of passing time that ravages
To carry news of global consequence.

With spears of destiny wrought electron blue
Their piercing travel sought focus eclectic,
Stimulating arcs...

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No one followed her as she ran away
fleeing from the altar on her wedding day

She’d been jilted by Jed her handsome groom
so locked herself away in an unused attic room

The bride’s father went after Jed...

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(A Salute to Robert Frost)

A fence of hand-hewn rock spans miles
of wind-swept road through fields of grain.
Uneven edge of rock, worn smooth
by storm’s hard breath of gust and rain

withstands the force which seeks to bend
or...

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Heart As A Rose.

My heart was once like a blooming Fragrant rose
Beautiful unpicked
With delicate 
Soft petals and folds
But very soon
Cruel hearts 
That pretended to care for me
Took my delicate petals away
 One by one
Until all...

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Our winter love ruins; I was once scolded by the hand that taught me
but now it leaves me cold and,
although our brief candle has nearly burnt itself out, I love you too much, 
and it...

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To tango with a mango;
now that would be sublime;
much sweeter than the bitterness of lime.

With a sticky passion fruit 
I did try to make it merry;
and, once, the innocence of unpicked cherry.

A banana in Havana
I...

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Just a day
The day is partly overcast, shadows and light
chase each other up and down a hillside,
where I came from nature is hardening
and there is already snow in the air.

Tiny lilac flowers grow under- don`t...

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If I could see your heart smile once again 
Colors would return 
to my life in pen 
Sanction my karma as patina 
to the Golden Hen 
And join nature’s orchestra 
as its fife in the...

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Mist strolled down the causeway
like a woman in white, 
reaching into the darkness with
gloved fingers of frost
lighting the swamp lamps with her very radiance. 
Her breath hung in the air like smoke
voice ringing out in...

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Take care of yesterday 
Packed in suitcases
As brick by brick 
Simultaneously the world rises and falls 
I'm all unpacked
Picking over bits 
Locks unpicked 
Heaviness stripped out
As comparison drives a devil through 
Screeching incomprehensible sentences ending...

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Squirrels are gathering; nuts to bury
Eagerly digging, for warm earth is soft
Painted, a sky in hues that are many
This golden glister is scattered aloft 

Even autumnal, as thin sun rides low
Men strut in T-shirts, ignoring...

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My regrets lie hidden below the murky surface
of my emotional seascape,
threatening to pull me down,
like wet woollen wet weather gear
drowns a sailor who falls overboard in a storm.

For regrets are arcane debts never to be...

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Corn stalks glistening
Row on row.
A killing frost,
So heavy,
It appeared as snow.

Frost covered pumpkins
Beyond the corn was seen.
Left in the field,
Unpicked,
From Halloween.

I saw morning glories,
Vines askew.
But not for a drop in Celsius,
This could have been,
Just dew.

A...

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I always thought if
I could tell you the truth.
But somehow,
The words were never spoken.
Went through them again and again
But could hardly speak them.
So they were wasted.
Unspoken words.
Unheard words. 

I always thought if
You could pick the...

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This rope that strangled me so mercilessly, 
Frayed ends unpicked now, twisted into twine, 
My Judas noose made into tapestry. 
Make fruit of these dreaded labours of mine. 

I could hang pallidly but now instead,...

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