Long Unwelcoming Poems

Over the next two evenings after the Council had recessed, Seileach visited each of the Councilman who had voted to release Dyndoeth in an effort to assess their feelings about whether they were inclined to...

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What Kind of People Are We

In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the question I shall
discuss in this narrative. Rather, I shall consider...

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The old fart (alter cocker) shuffle

as one fairly long run on sentence
unwittingly made locally famous 
courtesy residents here at 
Highland Manor Apartments
as first one foot and then the other
painstakingly, and agonizingly dragged 
across the cement...

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To Stray Into A Dream

So much of things were left undone
So much of things if even to have remembered
Did I recall or if I am to be truly the one?
To bring peace to an ever-last...

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For the war to end between Gods, its humans they turn to rely
How ironic it can be for in my World, its Gods we chose to defy
And why all the irregular mishap to have to...

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The most awaited result got announced, but 
Internet hadn't landed the soil of my country then.
Televisions were tabled in few pocketed places,
Still they worked, minute and achromatic.

With huge audience circled, signal was word alien,
Viewers would...

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The most awaited result got publicized, but
Internet hadn't landed the soil of my country.
Televisions were tabled in few pocketed places,
Still they worked, minute and achromatic.

With huge audience circling, signal was word alien,
Viewers would holler in...

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Family Ties



Brothers should I leave you
And travel life for years without you
And should I never return to our home
Remember it was I who journeyed alone

And should the time in passing
Bring me memories of regret
Should the...

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a tsunami catapulted cruising skiff
skyward landing with quiet thud
across undulating infinite granular waves
formerly solid state rocks and minerals

optimism vibrant upon initial unforeseen
crash asper for test dummies
foundered as undertow fostered diminishing hope
initial faith for survival quickly...

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LOVE FOR GREAT OR SMALL

Many eons ago, in minds far superior to ours
from a past Man never knew the earth became habitable 
before the savage became Homo-sapiens
visitors had come from unknown worlds scouting earth for...

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4/24/24


I've played plenty
On my conscious life weighed heavy
I have to stay ready
Then aim steady
Obstacles I will face many
Can't give ground or let them take any
These snakes pesky
Often they petty
Life can get way deadly
One big crazy...

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A Democracy forged in the fire of human discontent
and molded into an enduring symbol of freedom.
A Republic founded on the highest of human ideals
to aggressively defend against tyranny and oppression 
that may come from within...

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A future world rule by Trillionaires and Billionaires
Each country with segments of puppet regime governments,
With exceptions of course,
The drug lords the cartel those with the power
And the glory to hold what they consider theirs,
They will...

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Honoring Master Poe, Darkened Verses That Saddest Of Truths Reveals

The infinite black, oozing forth relentlessly unholy and unmerciful dread
with infinite sad cries from those once innocent and now long since dead
Only evil, and its many...

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SMILING FOR SMART

Arrogance of your silence, stinking attitude
Rotten breath from your mouth, saliva with virus
Beauty painted in ugliness of your expression
Your niceness is enveloped by naughtiness
If you could only smile your inner beauty will shine...

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Not enough 
or 
to many drinks
and 
to many cigarettes

For so many demons to exorcise

With only 1 set of lungs

And only 1 liver

To leech the poison 
from my past

Until i ever so succinctly countless times recite...

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Its been a long fight, as we near the end
Years have passed, and I crack
My heart begins to leak
It no longer pumps at its peak
In a way its grown weak
I stand yet I must fall...

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They hang like a beaded curtain
in a fortune teller’s parlor,
each buoy a bauble 
from the sea’s own trove—
sun-faded, 
barnacle-bitten, 
unstrung from nets 
that once strained tides for omens.
Now they sway in the wind, 
rattling secrets...

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A single seed was carried far from home,
When taken by the wind one fateful day.
She knew not where she'd land, how far she'd roam,
Nor what she might endure along the way.

She tumbled and she soared...

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A lost monopoly game
Williams fright, bridge, faith
and urban blight, Williamsburg.

Soot gray and brick red
the buildings stand
slumped, shrouded
death in the abundance
of vacant buildings.

Waste strewn sea
of asphalt, concrete, and urban dreams.
Cracks housing cigarette butts
form paper chains at...

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Your quest for life was an abbreviated forty-eight years.
You served our nation honorably -
In a war – On The Ho-Chi-Minh Trail.
Then,--------Then, returned home for an unwelcoming!!

In a time I can’t remember, in a war: you...

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Bright days of autumn have arrived 
Leaving the unforgotten summer sunshine behind

Sneaking in shorter days with less time to play
Early nightfall chill under breath warm peaceful sleep 

Suspended gray hue fog between sky and earth
Clouds...

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She was rough, gravelly, sharp, brash, unwelcoming, unfriendly.
The fence she had built around herself was unbreakable, stiff, metallic,
Wire screened with burlap.
Scratchy. Harsh. Stark. Unforgiving. 
Many were fearful of getting close, not understanding 
This much-needed barrier...

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I scrub and scrub,
trying to erase stains gravelled upon my face.

Age has defined its mark,
solidified a presence in folds and furrows
raked over a once-smooth fabric now heralding me as old.

These seams line my skin,
years claimed...

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It's not my fault
 I'm just trying to breathe 
Devil's in the air 
corvid doesn't care
 is it China's fault 
A Political joust
 I must have
And does it comes to the elderly first
It is...

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