Outlay Poems

Dangle A Backdrop

...Fountains sprinkle summer city rising steam spiral, 
wet dispersed and raucous shrieks from children,
pavements, streets. lanes, byways imbued,
with that June to September jubilance,
jovial spiri...

Quaint Pavement Shop

...I rushed through the door  on electric impulse initiated,
for the sunlight within taunting sunlight without a test
feeling forceful inner cry with supreme  yen today especially though,
but of the ...

Dear reflection

...Dear reflection, 

As you are still, you seem so far away, 
hollowed eyes with an abundance of nothingness to say, 
Yet power lifting as if you are sun-flooded with strength,  
The voices you he...

Winter Magic

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Written: January 08, 2024 For Tania Kitchin Contest
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A storm swirls, hurling hail and snow,
In the bosom of winter, icy storm...

Far Beyond Hereafter Part Three

...The other members of the group would tease Lambent Shroud.
They’d speak in groans n puns too.
You’d sense lambent was a little uncomfortable with it all.
The other members of this amazing group we...

Dream Date Scenario

...My dream date would be calm and upbeat.
There will be no expensive dinner or outlay.
A pizza and movie night seems aped replete.
I merely desire to walk down the pathway.

We laugh, ...

Let God Have His Way

...When...through it all, we trust Him!


To verily, Let God Have His Way…
Is much more than words… we say
It’s choosing to stand …and survey
Rather than to bend things our way
It is calling on o...

All In the Name of Progress

...All In The Name Of "Progress"

The wrecking ball long since
demolished boyhood house zen
located at 324 Level Road,
a once nonagricultural,
pastoral, rural residence,
which soulful yen
I call...

Deconstruction

...Away from the areas of complete ad nauseam
As political cases grasp a zenith of their corium
To utterly saturate the airwaves with information
Each other's obnoxious and feeble desc...

Bewildering Nature

...Two profound faint clouds approach the skyline.
Not close as seethed by the others close by.
The two siblings quarrel and risk the whine.

Out of a meek pace to a haunting tone.
T...

Mchenry's Horse

...Ballaraat’s known for its bounty of gold,
and the days of Eureka Stockade,
plus winning horses, on racing courses,
where flanks of the horses are flayed.

And the offer of prize is a bountiful o...

Winding Down

...
Winding Down
Tom’s Early Morning Thoughts
November 18, 2020

We began winding down, when it became apparent that our best days were in our rear view mirror. When it became no longer imp...

Feast of Beauty

...FEAST OF BEAUTY

I thought humans don't eat humans
and bands don't break bands

But your beauty is eating me up - Cannibalism. 
Sheer barbarism and "taboolism",
Not empathic and absolutely no ...

Bring Back the Horse and Buggy

...Automobile prohibitive maintenance costs
pitches me pitifully begging for alms
lamenting dog forsaken
melon collie unpleasant circumstances
pleading with outstretched palms
disgraced to beg, per...

3rd World Hustler

...Steps his foot out of the door with granny’s anointed words
if blessings were edible, he’d have been fatter than North America
faces the day’s task with immunity to the heat of the sun
dines with ...

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