Ode Poems

Awakening from "Slavery in Egypt"
I head downstairs to check my e - mail 
and eat a free breakfast 
My stomach satisfied 
I pick up a pen and write an ode 
Poetry grows on the fabled Lower East Side 
Where my...Read More

“Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam 
                Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.”

John Keats Ode to a Nightingale

“Strange to find a sea captain...Read More

There is a solace in his silence, a servant of his solitudes,
As he comforts in compliance, a jester to the multitudes…
He stands alone a neophyte, struggling within his confines,
Actions that do excite, impugnable inhibition when he signs.

Master of the satirical...Read More

This river has fallen since the beginning of time
Giving life to the Fern, the Laurel and the Pine
The rocks and the rapids share a fast dance
Over Rainbow Trout twirled in Spring's romance
The river bellows its mighty roar
Calling high above where...Read More

A tale of two poets who fell madly in love,
it had to end because the path of love was too tough.

*+*+*+*+*

It's worth loving however long it lasts,
for love is what creates wonderful pasts . . .

Once upon a time on...Read More

The splayed light of an obliging red sunset
lays upon the darkening meadow
of windswept grass

Slow-moving fingers in a visible dance
wrap in quiet space
when moonlight, silhouettes our hands
as they bond

A falling star etches the night sky
burning its canvas like a struck match
vanishing...Read More

There's three greenbacks in my pocket
Most I have had was ten
This cowboy's life don't make you rich
The green is pretty thin

Now I could take my three dollars -
An' that's the whole dang pot -
Then ride to town and have a...Read More

Mastering Poetry 

Meaningful and
Embracing an
Artist   
Nourishing my
Intelligence 
Newness of
Glistening sounds
Forever
Unique 
Lights these

Poetry memories
Overwhelming
Excitement
This
Respectfully is 
You

Verse:

Meaningful and embracing an artist nourishing my intelligence
Newness of glistening sounds forever unique, lights these
Poetry memories, this respectfully is you

Contest: Writing Challenge 2, November-Poem...Read More

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
                   ...Read More

Felines

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
                   ...Read More

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
                   ...Read More

Vague words lead poets to heady heights far yonder
If we, like Wordsworth,   seek a path to’ wander.’
But words there are whose power is less prolific,
Dwindling  fast the more they are specific. 
Sententious and meaningful are rhymes
Which great...Read More

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
                   ...Read More

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
                   ...Read More

          
                Ode to My Great Guru




On a silent,spotless teak deck in Lake Tahoe,
a guru stood...Read More

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
                   ...Read More

Thinly lined eyelids seal the window to his soul.
His cheeks sink in, countenance concealed and dull.
His still lips wrinkle down to a frown, without tone.
With undoing infirmity, his breath has turned to stone.
Feeble flesh has overtaken the strength that he...Read More

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
                   ...Read More

a made thing
      this verbal construct
an event
   in language
                 makers many
of fabrications
things of art
   ...Read More

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
                             my heart)i am...Read More

"i carry your heart with me( i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere I go you go..."  
                ...Read More

~*~

Ode to a Spring Garden

Primrose will thrive in the shade of a tree,
bluebell will happily rise through the foliage of bleeding hearts;
and blooming tulips will grow between clumps of lilies in the sun,
in a garden of pleasure extravagant and fragrant.

Painted...Read More

Steaming citruses bathe the air in soft crystals
Cares vaporize, floating away ~ a word mystic
enters an enchanted realm in a whispered ode
New breath quivers as refreshing mints on skin
Tantalizing shivers radiate in an expectant wait
Elemental, the touch, comes, in needles...Read More

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
                   ...Read More

April 12, 2013


An ode to LIFE (AGBON)



The yesterdays,
The todays and even the uncertain morrows
In accordance to the law of nature
Are in a state of a perpetual flux.

The many stages 
We have Experienced
Thus far,
Buttress and assert the karmic theory
Which states that...Read More

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