Mortars Poems - Poems about Mortars

Make War, With Love

...It’s 2022, we’re in the final battle for the soul of the world.
There is no Indo-European root for soul,
the Greek and Germanic roots mean quick-moving, fleeting, mercurial.
I’d add evanescent, im...

I AM TIRED OF BEING NICE

...

I am tired. 
Usually in a “life has sapped itself out” 
But that isn’t what this is about. 

I. Am. Tired. 
Of my stupid styrofoam smile
Squeaking under pressure all the while. 
 
I am ti...

Environmental Concerns

...
Ponder the old pestles and mortars
used at times in apothecaries,
older drug emporium quarters.

Some of the porous surface was shared
by grinding both mortar and pestle
ending up in medicine...

The Love Song of Frederick Usher

...Haunted towers and fallen houses,
Tell tales with bricks and mortars:
Of scions spun by sprouts of spouses,
Slogging limbs for quarters.

Each day is spent in catalepsy,
Metabolized days in sec...

First Kiss

...A big warm hug, a strong embrace 
I brush the hair from off your face
Then look you deep into your eyes
So deep I find I'm lost inside

With both my hands, one on each cheek
I slowly bring your...

Freedom On the ballot 2024

...I wish these were different times,
when I could write about pollen
and bee, when I could write about
silvery moons, and adventurous
pathways on uncharted romantic
sea -- 

But all I can write ...

Bricks

...Brick by brick, I built this home,
each piece with purpose, in which it owns.
It was the hardest task I ever did face,
As I made sure everything was in its right place.
Yet, suddenly, my house co...

France II

...Let hope rely upon your Maginot
for swift retort has choked your Gallic might.
It crushed your will beneath its undertow
as diligence receded in the fight.
Your flailing forces teeter on defeat
...

Consciousness Correction

...Consciousness Correction – 11-20-23
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Consciousness Correction

Envy sneaks in unseen
A thief robbing light from my house of ...

Blue Moons

...Blistering and scorching sands
  Land of the hushed and crushed hands
Up the creepy furs clasping 'round
  Ebbing scraped sand of ants' mound

Mortars of the deep and steamy skies
  O'er peals ...

Lament For Ukraine

...They suddenly barged in their tanks and trucks
Covered in various armaments of war.
Their vehicles droned, piercing the silence,
Cutting deep wounds in that fertile land,
And desecrating the once...

Home, Where Heart Finds Its Ease

...O to have endless stretch ‘pon earth to roam,
Return to rest, to roost, to my sweet home.

Sweet home, forever a mighty magnet
To go back to an ever open gate,

Its awe and allure never once on...

Roads

...Roads

Roads of concretes
Roads of tar and mortars takes
Us all around...

Twelve Days of a Modern Christmas

...On the first day if Christmas not much of a yield
A false sense of peace over a normally killing field
On the second day of Christmas each peace patrol
Went back and forth from billets in its appo...

Ode To Peace

...I wake up with the sound of a cannonball 
on the third month in the season of fall,
finding courage to brave this storm, 
while its fierce wind blows my home.  

I look above and make the call 
...

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