Moaned Poems

Ferryman's Pole, Part 2

...We crossed the streams where the fool's gold gleams as we joked and told our stories
And each man spoke of his love and home when work's all done this Fall
When the work's all done this Fall

We ...

Her Sigh

...A sigh passed from her soft lips, 
like ice cracking over the pond. 
It was not for fear I trembled, 
but for passion freed from its bonds. 

A glance entreated from her bright eyes, 
like a hu...

In Wait

...She still smiled,
even when she knew,
life looped over her, 
like a hangman’s noose.
Imagined it was a melody she heard,
in the rising cadence of a dirge.

But…in her laughter was the echo...

3rd Degree

...We were twelve,
gathered at Daksa Island,
in the Adriatic’s haunted breath.
The sea moaned like a choir of the forgotten,
as shadows clothed themselves in black robes.

In the silence, a blade ...

restless hands

...I look at my old hand
Blotches of liver spots, slow-running blood vessels
Delivering old blood so I can fold my hands
Once they caressed a woman`s body, who moaned
And my hands were firm
Women u...

The Hunt

...The hunt for quails had begun.

Two old men sat on a bench on the main street.
A shot rang out of the stillness of the countryside. 
Below one old man, weak-sighted but the sound of hearing, 
ra...

Planche de Chair Cuite

...She was not invited

She was arranged

They never wanted Jasmine 
not the woman who brought basil-clean hands
and pomegranate soap 
who harmonized soliloquies into pastries 
while th...

Global Warming 2100

...The mountains wept.
The skies moaned.
The soil trembled.
The trees whispered their last green prayers—
"Man has destroyed us... alone."

He who adds no value
takes all,
then leaves nothing—
...

After, the Cemetery

... 

I travelled hours, hours and hours.
The rusty ornate gate groaned,
a path hued green moaned to me,
as the trees whispered and wept.
Then, I stood at that cold grave,
of my loved...

that's the sell

...(a series of micro vignettes)

Chella and I are reading our analysis assignments together because that’s how we link and build.
We read out loud too, because how else can you judge the fl...

Stranger Things for Strangers

...
Play staged, they came, 
mostly strangers to the stage,
as first time viewers,
to watch the play -
'Stranger Things: The First Shadow'.
Noisiest crowd I ever heard, 
au naturale, to boot.
Th...

Celibate Sinner

...I scrubbed the shame from under my fingernails,
as if guilt could be washed like dirt.
Cold showers never baptized the ache; 
just gave it discipline,
a neat little collar for the beast inside.
...

Elixir

...Canto 1: Elixir 
In days of eld
When moonlight danced on dew,
There’s Otin, a wondrous soul,
Did stroll from town to town, 
With laughter's role, and gourd, and tapping rod.
His wine, 
 —a swe...

Hiding In Silence

...

Following night's tenebrous sheen
on this aging lake-
humped seashells drifted on aimlessly;
I Iaid  forlorn by an old palm tree 
needing to connect with anyone, anyone
until turbulent waves...

The Pope’s Forbidden Tunnel

...The Vatican hides many books, but some stories bleed through stone.



He was Pope Fourteen, God's chosen hand,
A shepherd cloaked in crimson and command.
But beneath the weight of holy crowns,...

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