Oarsman Poems

Starts With O and Ends With N

...The other day I read a Facebook post,
where they asked this silly question again.
Find a word that starts with the letter O,
but that word must end with the letter N.

Of course, I know it’s jus...

The Paradox

...
"The Paradox" 

When we had crossed Styx
like a slow game of knuckles
we were thrown for a six 
it was like the party 
had kick started 
way ahead of time
without us

...

Stars and Bloody Stripes

...Raise your gaze and mind to the flag,
And there see all that we bear to this land –
A looking glass it is of our hopes and deeds.
Stars and stripes are all I ever see:
Stars that make my heart ho...

Strokin' - Part One and Part Two

...STROKIN’ – A QUARTET ABOUT AGING GRACEFULLY(?)
Strokin’: Hauling ass and working at it!

STROKIN’: PART ONE
THE SPRINTER

The aging Olympian ran a swift anchor leg
burning the first turn, stri...

Persephone's Finger

...Persephone’s Finger
By Sy Roth


It wormed its way to the surface.
Pointy finger tested the air, 
Wriggled in a sensuous Fatima dance 
Etch-a-Sketching the crepuscular sky above,
Shaming the ...

A Refugee

...he woke up early so as
to play with the mates on the beach
as he did the previous evening
alas! no one' there to 
accompany him

he walked from one hut to another
but there're no signs of his ...

Take Me Home

...Oh! oarsman
Take me home
Yonder lies 
My cuddled dreams
My sweatheart and everything

I have been away
Too long
Eons and scores sway
Too small  to hum their song....

Cant bear the ripples...

The Mine That Has No Gold

...A true creator of words
puts everything he's got
in poems that aren't songs;
if only music could bring them to light,
the mine that has no gold
would be found in each written word!

Some leave...

Come By the Sword Die By the Sword

...The Bard of the Norseman
A warrior’s fame and for glory all Norseman live worthy of life
Worthy the Norseman with warring axe to victory and spilt Saxon blood
For spoils of the serpent’s lair lie acr...

Limerick Crochet: the Saga of Sea Anne-Anne

...Limerick crochet: The Saga of Sea Anne-Anne

Once the Captain of the good ship Anne-Anne
Took to the waves to conquer the main.
Slept round the clock mid-ship
Towed his women aft-ship:
Yet wome...

Moments

...Moments upon the loom of time woven
Eternally imprinted 'pon the print
Memories cling, never spent, now frozen
Operate the loom, change design's intent

Reverse the hands of time memories change
...

So It Shall Be

...
“ So It Shall Be ”

Aye... then so it shall be...
as faire lass doth so request now o'me.
A'holler so 'twas that o'which she'd asked...
In a where and a how thus thrice deftly masked.

'Tis ...

Silence

...SILENCE

You must expose your inner self again,
Must codify in words your pleasure or pain:
This poem will extract a part of your life,
Will cut experience free like a  knife.
No past, no futur...

On the Death of Richard Holbrooke

...Rough seas, brimmed with foam, shall rage in silent shadows now
Inconsolable love, the great oarsman is no more 
Corridors of power heed this dying! void's the bow;
Helmsman gone, gone suddenly th...

One In a Million

...One in a million, gazillion, bazillion
Worth more than gold dollars a trillion or a billion –
You are my beacon, a Christian, love driven.
No heathen, no herdsman, no huntsman or felon.
No elfin,...

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