Melville Poems - Poems about Melville

'Forward Brave Souls' Victims of Ambition's Merciless Will

...“Up men to your posts! Don’t forget today that you are from old Virginia.” 
– General George Pickett

Beneath Gettysburg's sun a merciless blaze
Stood Pickett with his face etched...

Some Pro's and Con's of Being Connected To Virtual Reality

...Some pro's and con's of being connected to virtual reality

Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery
or any other contemporary dwarf man
regarding countless less well known dwarves
(that never got a c...

Toothache

...Violate everything.
Upset all order.
re-stack the cards,
deal me to a world
where my id rules,
rid me of what cares
about right, wrong 
or you.

Or it's gonna kill me.

I'm Ahab.  
Says S...

Clerihew Melville

...Herman Melville once a cabin boy
his fiction/poetry gives such.joy
As a customs mn he spent his time
writing materpieces in rhyme...

Some Pro's and Con's of Being Virtually Connected To Reality Poetic Verses

...Some Pro's and Con's of being Virtually Connected to Reality poetic verses

Dune not be bashful, grumpy, leery
or any other contemporary dwarf man
even countless less well known dwarves
(that ne...

What We Value

...At the family Christmas dinner I asked my nephews, all smart and educated lads, about NFT's and cryptocurrency.  They agreed that NFT's are just a fad, soon to be worthless, but hedged on bitcoin. So...

The S S Edmund Fitzgerald

...“Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early” – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Balladeer,
from The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald

A song by Gordon Lightfoot I ...

Pluto

...*Image of Pluto & Solar System provided by Pixabay.

Pluto

Plain as e'er, my founder's pewt'rish *heart region face Charon, echo coins gauge cross
Logging midway regions ...

Queequeg

...~ In memory of Herman Melville, who lived a similar darkness to my own ~

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The day star hisses,
          Kissing the cold Bering Sea
               As the sky blush...

Moby Dick: Retribution, Be It Man Or Beast

...Moby Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Haw...

Unoriginal Sin

...Did you flavor it with Hemingway,
or season it with Thoreau

Did you structure it like Eliot,
or was Melville more your go

The rocks you choose to stand upon,
supports to look beyond

As yo...

''Because of Poetry''

..."in placid hours, well-pleased we dream . . . "
Herman Melville (1819-1891) poem, Art, First Line
__________________

I write of dreams and dreams and of life's fight-
Writing to me is l...

My Pen To Flow

...I’ve forever written 
  as myself

Few influences will 
  show

Neither Hemingway nor 
  Faulkner

 Not Melville or 
  Thoreau

But as one who saw through 
  all of that

With so much ...

A Voice On Loan

...Be it Melville or Tolstoy
  or a Pen still to burn

Know the words are just borrowed
  —until silence returns

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)...

Some Pros and Cons of Being Virtually Connected To Reality 2nd Byte

...who felt incorporeal storied power 
   of Herman Melville as zen unseen aid 
instructing hypothetic rich kid to drop out of school 
   before his/her first grade
coz of all the money he/she made
...

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